JONATHAN HOROWITZ - FREE STORE

In Jonathan Horowitz’s third show at Sadie Coles HQ, 'Free Store', everything is recycled. A new video titled Apocalypto Now is made entirely from found documentary footage and fragments of TV shows and films. Scenes from classic movies are interspersed with obscure bits of media detritus, forming pointed critical connections between disparate fictional and historical accounts. Out of this montage approach, Horowitz constructs incisive new narratives which powerfully reflect on important and topical cultural and political issues. The star of the piece is Mel Gibson, a figure whose avowed Catholic faith is at apparent odds with his public relation catastrophes. The presentation of the film is carbon neutral, with a solar panel just outside the gallery space harnessing energy to fuel the piece. The second work in the show is a modular sculpture titled ‘Free Store'. The piece consists of a series of pedestals built out of recycled plastic planks, which when turned upside down become bins.

source: Sadie Coles HQ
30 April 2009 - 30 May 2009
9 Balfour Mews, London W1

Dan Graham at Lisson Gallery, London (until 09/05/09)

Model for Pavillion Influenced by Moon, 1988 Two-way mirror and glass, aluminium 51.5 x 73.5 x 74 cm


Lisson Gallery presents a major survey exhibition of work by American artist Dan Graham. Theatre brings together works that illustrate Graham's diverse practice throughout his career; from the early performances to photography and the influential pavilions, including his architectural drawings and models.

The exhibition presents photographic, video and audio documentation of seminal early performances such as Like, 1969, Lax / Relax, 1969-1995, and Past Future Split Attention, 1972. Theatre also features architectural drawings and photographs that, across decades, have documented American vernacular suburban architecture. Architectural drawings and photographs accompany four of Graham's models for pavilions, visionary works that bridge his interest and understanding of architecture, pop sculpture and visitor interaction and experience within the exhibition space. Two of the models on show were never realised, but maintain their visionary charge, conceptual clarity and sculptural beauty: Model for Swimming Pool/Fish Pond, 1997 and Model for Portal, 1997. Model for Ying Yang Pavilion, 1991 and a new model for the Novartis Campus Pavilion, 2009, are accompanied by videos documenting the pavilions, installed in public settings.

source: art rabbitt and lisson gallery

lisson gallery
52-54 Bell Street London, NW1 5DA - 020 7724 2739
Open Weekdays 9:30am-6pm; Sat 11am-5pm

G20 Protest, Climate Camp Police Charge

1 April 2009, 21.30. Bank of England, London.

1 April 2009, 21.46. Bishopsgate, London. 

1 April 2009, 22.50. Bishopsgate, London. Police charge pacific protesters.

I forgot to tell you something

It happened in London one morning. 

Looking east

Rodchenko & Popova, Defining Constructivism at the Tate Modern Shah 'Abbas, The remaking of Iran and Babylon, Mith and Reality at the British Museum, About Byzantium 330–1453 at the Royal Academy of Arts and Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi Gallery.

Five exhibitions on now in London offer an insight into Asian cultures.

Probably it is just a coincidence, but it is still a good opportunity to better understand or discover cultures apparently so far from us.

I wonder how people would have been positive about engaging a war against a country if they only had known a bit more about it.

This makes me think of Abidin Travels, installation made by Iraqi artist Adel Abidin for the Venice Biennale 2007, and about how much of the great cultural history of Iraq remains now.

Barton Hargreaves @ Jerwood Space

Jerwood Space New Public Art Commision

4.30-8pm, 10 march 2009

Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN

Barton Hargreaves has been selected for a new public artwork commission. the new work, titled "In Situ", will be on show from March 2009 on the frontage of the biulding. Life size figures will appear to be jumping, climbing and interacting with the architecture whilst subtly emerging from the brickwork.

The artwork will only be available to view in natural light so please go early.

Blinking Ears presents Electroacoustic Performances

Blinking Ears presents Electroacoustic Performances by Leafcutter John, Peter Cusack, Derek Holzer, Joel Cahen, Lina Lapelyte, DJ Alex Czinczel


Friday 20 March 2009
Performances begin at 8.30pm, until 1am
Upstairs Loft @ E:vent

£4 advance booking

£5 on door

E:vent is delighted to welcome this great lineup of experimental music makers to celebrate Spring and to help us mark the launch of the Victorian Garden programme, running throughout the coming Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

more info on the website

Last Chance to see Superflex : Flooded McDonald's @ SLG London

The South London Gallery presents a new film work by Danish collective Superflex entitled 'Flooded McDonald's'. Despite their international track record over the past 15 years, this will be their first solo show in London. From large-scale installations, through to long-term process-based projects and, more recently, films, Superflex’s work is founded in economic and political awareness. They create works inspired by the points where definitions and possibilities of art become blurred.

The exhibition is open from 16.01.09 to 01.03.09

more info on the website

ART SWAP @ August art gallery, London

August art Gallery is organising an experiment on the value of art, and all (artists and non-) are invited to participate. The experiment is a part of the London EAST Festival, a collaboration of key cultural institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery.

gallery website

article In the Independent newspaper