Stable States
17th Feb 2012 - 22nd Feb 2012
Six contemporary artists. A diversity of disciplines. A range of media. Taking place at Cultivate, Vyner Street, an artist run gallery built on a diy collective framework that evolves and revolves around the local art scene, Stable States is an exciting arrangement of deviating and differential pieces of work. A mix of drawing, sculpture, architecture, engraving and print, this is a genre defying exhibition.
Yasmina Chami’s work is inspiring not solely from an artistic point of view, but for the face of hope it shows to the world. An architect whose work with war damaged buildings from her native Lebanon, she attempts to reconstruct new uses for them by erecting transformative temporary structures. For Stable States she has designed a circus out of the ruins of the countries past. There’s a moral in there.
Very much of its time is the cultural critique of Sadie Hennessey, English eccentricies and absurdities. Working with objects rooted in Blighty’s cultural framework she creates a feeling of both familiarity and disorientation as she explores ‘faux nostalgia’ – the dreams and lure of a time that simply never existed.
Very much en vogue is the practice of removing crafts and arts from their silos and blurring the lines between disciplines, and Elaine Johnson does this to great effect with her fabric and thread installations which loop in drawing and crafting. A detailed, labour intensive and somewhat labour intensive working process borders on that of the traditional fabric industry, but the introduction of human hair and audience perception ensures things are kept suitably challenging.
I’m particularly looking forward to seeing the work of Anna Howard whose simple and sparse drawings of friends and family immersed in activity, cafe scenes and daily life are executed in the rather underappreciated medium of black and blue biro pens. Like holiday snaps executed via a camera of ink, these snapshots of reality are remarkable in their humility.
Quite frankly, Mark Rose sounds a little odd. A fascination with fractal patterns and the relationship between the macro and micro structures that underpin the world has resulted n “Tinnitus Tetrahedron”, an idealized mathematical form that has been remade using cotton buds which he has obsessively accumulated over several years through a ritualized daily routine.
As avid readers of Who’s Jack you will of course already be familiar with Ben Gooding, whom we had a chat with back in December. Swathes of meticulously engraved lines build up on aluminium sheets to create pieces which to oscillate between two and three dimensional, the consciously habitual and the essential psyche, the industrial and the homespun. Being able to move around the gallery and see multiple images as the distance between oneself and the painting and the depth of light varies will be one of the highlights of the exhibition.
Currently unable to decipher any discernable theme, it is this promise of such variety which will lure me over the East side come February.
Find more art here.
Follow us on Twitter here
Previous EventLucian Freud Portraits
Next EventYayoi Kusama Retrospective
Upcoming Events
-
Museums At Night 2012
Museums At Night 2012
During May London’s major museums and galleries will be opening late at night to give everyone a chance to come and see what they have on show. The late openings have proved really fun and successful in past years and18th May 2012 - 20th May 2012 -
Lucian Freud Portraits
Lucian Freud Portraits
National Portrait Gallery, London
Following his death last year a new exhibition of Lucian Freud’s portraits are going on display at The National Portrait Gallery this month. One of the most important and influential artists of a generation this exhibition will celebrate his paintings9th Feb 2012 - 27th May 2012 -
Contemporary Print Making
Contemporary Print Making
Store Street Gallery, London
Contemporary Print Making at Store Street Gallery celebrates print art all the way from Andy Warhol to the emerging generation. This is the second ‘edition’ of the Contemporary Printmaking exhibition, promoting printmaking as an art form and celebrating the importance of the13th May 2012 - 18th May 2012 -
Marilyn at Getty Images Gallery
Marilyn at Getty Images Gallery
As this summer marks the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death. The first retrospective we have come across is this photography exhibition by Getty starting next week. This years Cannes poster is dedicated to the blonde bombshell as will, no9th Mar 2012 - 23rd May 2012 -
Eva & Franco Mattes, Stolen Art
Eva & Franco Mattes, Stolen Art
Carroll / Fletcher Gallery, London
Put on by Eva and Franco Mattes this new exhibition features fragments of works byAndy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons and Marcel Duchamp’s infamous work Fountain. The bits of art work including chips, shavings and threads of works were collected during a two-year13th Apr 2012 - 18th May 2012 -
Clerkenwell Design Week
Clerkenwell Design Week
Clerkenwell Design Week returns later this month bringing with it a programme busting with exhibitions, talks, parties and events which bring together the best of London’s design talent. Running between 22nd – 24th May the event with be home to22nd May 2012 - 24th May 2012 -
Dinner For A Fiver
Dinner For A Fiver
Not got much money at the moment but still enjoy eating out? Well here’s how you can have a slap up meal for just £5 and what’s even better is that it’s all for charity. Delicious is a new pop-up16th May 2012 - 19th May 2012 -
Stella’s Cannes Cinema Club
Stella’s Cannes Cinema Club
The Queen's Head, London
To celebrate the fact that they’re sponsoring the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival Stella Artois have teamed up with Picturehouse Cinemas to host screenings of 90s classic Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction itself is an iconic Cannes Film Festival movie having21st May 2012 - 31st May 2012 -
Wild Food Kitchen
Wild Food Kitchen
The Wild Food Kitchen comes to E8 with a first class dining experience that looks set to be second to none. All the foods are wild authentic foods hand picked and poached from the British Isles hence the name. The17th May 2012 - 20th May 2012 -
The Enlightenment Cafe
The Enlightenment Cafe
Old Vic Tunnels, London
The Enlightenment Café comes to the Old Vic Tunnels this Bank Holiday (May 31st) for anyone with a thirst for knowledge and an interest in the intriguing. The cafe is a unique theatrical project combining the beauty of science with the31st May 2012 - 1st Jun 2012 -
Dinner With The Curator
Dinner With The Curator
Design Museum, London
The Design Museum are offering a guided tour of the Christian Louboutin show followed by a special dinner at the Blueprint Café restaurant with exhibition curator Donna Loveday. Over dinner Donna will speak about her methods of curation and motivations behind this landmark show.29th May 2012 -
Soho Flea Market
Soho Flea Market
London’s up and coming creative talent including artisans, artists, fashion designers, jewellery designers, filmmakers and musicians are taking part in this market event. The whole of Dean Street will be closed to traffic and ‘creative market stalls’ will exhibit and27th May 2012 -
Urban Nerds 5th Birthday Party
Urban Nerds 5th Birthday Party
Scala, London
Has it really been that long? Indeed it has, it’s time for Urban Nerds to celebrate their 5th anniversary and they’ll be doing it at Scala in Kings Cross. It will be five years this May that Urban Nerds has26th May 2012 -
CA$HBACK At The Lock Tavern
CA$HBACK At The Lock Tavern
The Lock Tavern, Camden
Ca$hback comes to the Lock Tavern in Camden for a line up that includes Loverproof playing live and DJs Jalfrezi, Fun Bobby and Didz Hammond. The night starts from 8pm and will promise a good crowd as the Lock Tavern25th May 2012 -
Confession In Water By Dio Lau
Confession In Water By Dio Lau
The Book Club, London
Confession In Water is an exhibition at The Book Club by artist Dio Lau, a visual artist and graphic designer who studied Book Arts at Camberwell College of Arts. His work visualises an inner state of mind. The exhibition has been curated24th May 2012 - 7th Jul 2012
