16.07.08 - 13.09.08 TONIGHT FORGET ABOUT YOUR HOUSES AND CARS
A UNION summer group show co-curated by Katie Kitamura.
Artists exhibiting include: Ahmed Alsoudani, Dan Colen, Tobias Collier, Christoph Draeger / Reynold Reynolds, Doug Fishbone, Neil Hamon, Shinichi Hara, Justin Lieberman, Bernhard Martin, Ivan Navarro, Matt O’Dell, Christoph Schmidberger and Guy Richards Smit.
This exhibition will examine our enduring vision of the end of the world and its increasing prominence within our collective consciousness. Exhibited works will discuss the fate of the planet against the current climate of man-made and natural disaster and consider the constant state of dread in which we already exist, endorsed by the media’s drip-feed of apocalyptic imagery.
WELCOME
UNION was founded in September 2003. The gallery operates across two gallery branches located in London’s South East and in the vibrant East End. The main offices and administration are based at UNION Ewer Street (London SE1), close to the Thames River and Tate Modern. This gallery covers approximately 4,000 square feet, including three large exhibition spaces. Situated under characteristic railway arches, they lend themselves to presenting a wide array of media including large installations and projections. While UNION Ewer Street acts as the main headquarter, the second gallery - UNION Teesdale Street – is dedicated to discovering and supporting young UK and international talents spread over five small-scale exhibitions per year. This second branch opened in Bethnal Green (London E2) in September 2006 and is located in a former warehouse.
The Ewer Street Gallery opening hours are 10am-6pm Monday to Friday and 12-5pm Saturday. UNION is closed Sundays.
Teesdale Street is open 10am-6pm Monday to Friday and 12-5pm Saturday. When at Teesdale please ring the bell and call 020 7928 3388 to gain entrance.
Coming up soon
RUT BLEES LUXEMBURG / TERMINAL 4 HEATHROW
From June 2007
Heathrow Terminal4 Tube Station Ticket Hall
PICCADILLY'S PECCADILLOES
tfl.gov.uk/pfa
Platform for Art, the art programme for the London Underground (LU) has announced a set of 12 new photographs commissioned specially for Heathrow Terminal 4 Tube station ticket hall. The works are part of Thin Cities - a series of artworks celebrating 100 years of the Piccadilly line.
Piccadilly’s Peccadilloes is a new series of images produced by Rut Blees Luxemburg. The images are details of the front of 12 of the classic stations designed by Charles Holden. Each image focuses on the underground’s iconic Johnston font reflected in glossy-wet pavement surfaces. The subtle changes in surface and architectural structure that frame the fragmented texts allow the visitor to absorb the essence of Holden’s designs.
Rut Blees Luxemberg’s photographs are well known. Towering Inferno, depicting a lit up council block, was used as the cover art for The Streets’ debut album Original Pirate Material. She also contributed A Modern Project for use as the cover of Bloc Party’s second album, A Weekend in the City.
The images follow Blees Luxemburg’s distinctive style, presenting a hauntingly beautiful impression of some of London’s most familiar landmarks. The densely detailed, richly textured glimpses of the buildings will be displayed in a complete circuit around the LU ticket hall at Heathrow Terminal 4 station, establishing a gateway through which to enter and leave the city.
SCOTT MCFARLAND & RUT BLEES LUXEMBURG / VITAMIN Ph
October, 2006
VITAMIN PH: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
The definitive book on contemporary photography, featuring 121 emerging and established international artists.
Published: Phaidon Press
Introduction: TJ Demos
Price: £39.95, €69.95, $69.95
Vitamin Ph is a global, up-to-the-minute survey of the newest developments in contemporary photography. It features the work of 121 artists and photographers who have made a fresh and innovative contribution to international art photography in the last five years. The nominators are influential critics, curators and artists from around the world including Donna De Salvo, Hou Hanru, Yuko Hasegawa, Matthew Higgs, Jens Hoffmann, Martin Parr and Vicente Todoli. The A-Z survey showcases over 500 illustrations depicting the incredible richness and variety of the medium.
Vitamin Ph features an introduction by TJ Demos, Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London. A member of Art Journal's editorial board, he writes widely on modern and contemporary art. His essay is a critical account of the recent evolution and role of photography in the art world, mass media and global cultures.
Each artist’s work is accompanied by a 500-word text by a leading critic, curator, art historian or creative writer—including Mark Godfrey, Jessica Morgan, Barry Schwabsky, Brian Sholis and Roxana Marcoci.
Vitamin Ph is both a reference book for the art world and an accessible guide for those with an interest in photography at all levels. The artists and photographers come from over 40 countries, including Mexico, China, Palestine, Vietnam, Singapore, Brazil, Turkey, Albania and Poland. The book is similar in concept, scope and structure to Phaidon's Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (2002, essay Barry Schwabsky), and Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (2005, essay Emma Dexter).
ANDERS KRISÁR / 21C MUSEUM KENTUCKY
February – June 2008
700 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202
USA
www.21cmuseum.org/museum/exhibits/tangled.aspx
A Group show including work by Anders Krisár takes place at the 21C Museum in Kentucky. 'TANGLED UP IN YOU' explores themes of relationships and their emotional impacts. Other artists including Louise Bourgeois and Guerra de la Paz incorporate a variety of mediums including video and printmaking. Anders Krisár's sculpture installation 'One as Two' 2005 courtesy of UNION gallery explores a darker commentary on these family ties.
MATTHEW STONE / CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS LONDON
17th - 21st June, 2008
Camberwell College of Art
Peckham Road
London, SE5 8UP
LET US BE YOUR GUIDE
Matthew Stone Tour: Friday 20th June, 6-9pm
Booking essential: T 0207 512 6302
E enquiries@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Union is pleased to promote a specially commissioned guided tour of Camberwell College of Arts Summer Show led by artist, Matthew Stone, as part of a programme of tours led by artists and curators spanning the duration of the show. Stone's tour will incorporate elements of Shamanic ritual with the aim of bring the participants into a new and intensified dialogue with the works. Following a short and participatory shamanic journeying session the group will be guided around the show and encouraged to contribute, recognise and discuss the images they 'saw' on their journey in relation to the artworks in the show.
Stone's multidisciplinary practice often sees him assuming the role of art shaman, staging performances, photographs and films. The tour will thus give one a unique experience of the show and an opportunity to gain an insight into the artists work. In this sense one may gain a better understanding of the artist's strong interest in his surrounding environment and the society of which he is a part; his practice and his way of looking.
MATTHEW STONE / ALMA ENTERPRISES LONDON
5th - 6th July, 2008
Alma Enterprises
1 Vyner Street
London, E2 9DG
THE OPPOSITION ASPECT
http://www.almaenterprises.com/current_show.html
Dilated in time throughout the weekend between the 5th and 6th of July, Matthew Stone will occupy the gallery.
The programme is to include an 11am Disco and an art salon. Stone's performance will be the inhabitation of the space with a stage as an architectural device allowing different situations to take place. In the end, it will be a re-enactment of what the space states for itself, with the scene it is part of - becoming its own sceneography. The traditional play transforms into a playful experimenting of performing and being, it allows for a broader grasp on the subject of production and reproduction of an event, its results open to chance.
The main concern of this project is to identify and blur the expectations of real, the fictional and the performative event via time displacement, specifically questioning how the interweaving of action and re-enactment can influence the formation and authenticity of a community.
MATTHEW STONE / HANNAH BARRY GALLERY LONDON
14th - 20th July, 2008
Hannah Barry Gallery
Warehouse 9i
Entrance on 133 Copeland Road
London, SE15 3SN
BOLD TENDENCIES II: OUTDOOR MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE
www.hannahbarry.com
This July sees the second Bold Tendencies group show hosted by the Hannah Barry Gallery with new work by Oliver Griffin, Bobby Dowler, James Balmforth, James Capper, Matthew Stone, Nicholas Jeffrey, Thomas Brock, Robin Shepherd, Shaun McDowell, Christopher Green, Michael Allen, Tom Barnett and Edward Wallace.
The eleven artists will make site-specific sculpture for the roof of a disused multi-story car park on Peckham’s Rye Lane.
This exhibition is thus dedicated entirely to the study and practice of making outdoor sculpture in response to its environment and is committed to showing ambitious monumental sculpture by young artists.
Bold Tendencies II is scheduled to coincide with the 'I Love Peckham' Festival, 14th – 20th July. Prompted by the strength of the exhibition’s concept and by the festival's initiative Hannah Barry Gallery has founded The New London Sculpture School which will curate a participatory programme parallel to the show.
Running a series of workshops from the gallery The New London Sculpture School will provide daily, free hour-long practical classes conducted by the artists in making sculpture in wood, paper, steel, stone and found material. At the culmination of the sculpture workshop series the works will be displayed in the gallery.
The initiative will endeavor to create a vital situation in which children and young people from the community can develop new creative skills and experience working with young and ambitious artists.