March 2012
18 posts
Shadow Land: Photographs by Roger Ballen 1983-2011
at Manchester Art Gallery - Mosley Street, Manchester, UK
Mar 30, 2012 - May 13, 2012
Shadow Land is a major exhibition of work by internationally-acclaimed photographer Roger Ballen whose work offers a powerful social critique and an extreme, uncanny beauty. The exhibition explores three decades of Ballen’s career, charting the evolution of his unique photographic style and demonstrating...
Gillian Wearing
at Whitechapel Art Gallery - 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, UK
Mar 28, 2012 - Jun 17, 2012
Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing’s photographs and films explore the public and private lives of ordinary people. Fascinated by how people present themselves in front of the camera in fly-on-the-wall documentaries and reality TV, she explores ideas of personal identity through...
George Shaw and Michael Landy: Edgelands
at Fitzwilliam Museum - Trumpington Street, Cambridge, UK
Mar 27, 2012 - Sep 23, 2012
Prints by George Shaw and Michael Landy ‘Edgelands’ has been defined as that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside, lingering on the urban edge. George Shaw’s series, Twelve Short Walks, 2005, is drawn from revisited scenes of his childhood on the Tile Hill council...
Sweethearts: Artist Couples
at Pippy Houldsworth - 6 Heddon Street, London, UK
Mar 21, 2012 - Apr 21, 2012
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Sweethearts at its new London space in Heddon Street, London W1 from 21 March to 22 April 2012. The exhibition provides a platform for a number of the world’s most important artist couples to collaborate on a piece of work. Sweethearts will explore how couples...
Transformation and Revelation: Gormley to Gaga. UK...
at Victoria and Albert Museum
Mar 17, 2012 - Sep 30, 2012
Exploring the theme of transformation, this display will reveal contemporary designs for performance by over 30 British Theatre Designers. It will provide an intriguing insight into the designers’ creative process and will include costumes, set models, photographs, drawings, sound productions and lighting designs. Designs include...
WatchArt on the Underground presents yet another brilliant initiative to enhance the daily journey of London’s commuters. Installing one of the city’s largest projection screens at Canary Wharf station, the London Underground has collaborated with four of the UK’s leading film organisations such as the British Film Institute (BFI) to present specially commissioned films exploring how...
Gilbert & George : London Pictures
at White Cube, Mason’s Yard - 25-26 Mason's Yard, London, UK
Mar 9, 2012 - May 12, 2012
White Cube is proud to present the ‘LONDON PICTURES’ by Gilbert & George. This monumental body of 292 pictures is the largest series yet created by the artists. 72 works will be exhibited across the galleries in Bermondsey, Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard. This is the first...
Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude
at The National Gallery, London - Trafalgar Square, London, UK
Mar 14, 2012 - Jun 5, 2012
Turner created a revolution in painting at the beginning of the 19th century, responding to a modern industrial landscape with a freer style and new approaches to composition. Yet a lasting dialogue with the 17th century painter Claude lay at the heart of these developments. This exhibition offers the...
ArtsBeat: Convicted Art Forger Says More of His... →
Wolfgang Beltracchi, who pulled off the largest art fraud in Germany since World War II, told the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel that he had forged the work of about 50 different artists.
Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed
at Freud Museum - 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, UK
Mar 7, 2012 - May 27, 2012
The Freud Museum London is delighted to announce an exhibition by the late artist Louise Bourgeois. This exhibition will focus on recently discovered writings by the artist on her own psychoanalysis, accompanied by paintings and sculptures, some not previously shown in the UK. The show features selected works from...
Hijacked III: Contemporary Photography from...
at The Quad at Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby, UK
Mar 3, 2012 - May 6, 2012
Major survey exhibition and publication featuring the best photographic talents from or within Australia and the United Kingdom. Known for halting the status quo, arresting the scene and exploding a new perspective on the practices of contemporary photography, this third edition of the biennale Hijacked series...
Jean Dubuffet: Late Paintings by Jean Dubuffet...
at Waddington Galleries - 11 Cork Street, London, UK
Mar 7, 2012 - Apr 14, 2012
In March 2012, Waddington Custot Galleries will be holding an exhibition of works from the last decade of Jean Dubuffet’s life, some of which have never been exhibited before. The exhibition has been organised with the help of the Dubuffet Foundation; it reveals the conclusive shift in style and technique that...
Sean Scully:Change and Horizontals
at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - Centre Square, Middlesbrough, UK
Mar 2, 2012 - Jul 13, 2012
This exhibition will present drawings and paintings by Irish born internationally-renowned artist Sean Scully. For over a quarter of a century, Scully has developed and refined his own instantly recognisable style of geometric abstraction. His paintings typically involve tough architectural...
Nick Pound Landscape Photographer Exhibition
Location: University Campus, Bath Spa Gallery (Loxton Road, Weston-super-Mare)
Nick Pound`s photographic work is now on show at Bath Spa Gallery in Weston Super Mare.
The exhibition looks at the artist’s connection with the environment and how the uniqueness of the Somerset countryside and seascapes have inspired him throughout his lifetime and artistic career.
His work encapsulates the...
FOOL'S GOLD @ CULTIVATE VYNER STREET
March 29 at 6:00pm until April 11 at 6:00pm
(APRIL) FOOL’S GOLD, a two week long group show at Cultivate Vyner Street The show will open on Thursday evening 29th March, we shall have a second late night opening on Thursday April 5th, that’s April First Thursday (and everything that involves on Vyner Street, London E2). The show will run for two weeks and will be open for what we expect to...
WatchThis video documents the unveiling of the Fourth Plinth statue Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. On February 23, 2012, the British actress Joanna Lumley unveiled the new temporary artwork for the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. Conceived by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, the work is a 4,1 meters high golden bronze sculpture that portrays a...
Lines of Thought at Parasol Unit
Feb 29, 2012 - May 13, 2012 - 14 Wharf Road, London, UK
The exhibition Lines of Thought explores the work of 15 contemporary artists, whose practice has focused in particular on using line in creatively challenging ways. With works representing different generations, it is remarkable to observe how the meaning and use of line varies from one artist to another. Simply the running on of a...
Michael Raedecker: Volume
at Hauser & Wirth, London, Savile Row
Feb 23, 2012 - Apr 5, 2012
Hauser & Wirth are delighted to present an exhibition of new works by Michael Raedecker in the North Gallery of Savile Row. Best known for his subtle and unsettling, enigmatic works combining muted tones of paint and embroidery, Raedecker’s paintings explore and push the boundaries of his medium. He goes beyond...
