Find out more about the work of four of our international artists-in-residence Marianna Christofides (Cyprus), Youngmi Chun (South Korea), Marcius Galan (Brazil) and Shreyas Karle (India).

The artists place their work in context and discuss the projects they are pursuing whilst at Gasworks.

TALK: Residency Artists

BROKEN ROMANCE is the first solo exhibition by the artist Martin Mannig in the Berlin gallery Gebr. Lehmann.
The canvases of the Dresden based artist are heady image spaces that are opening up to visual chaos. In a colour intensive mash up, elements of German and Japanese folk art are being mixed with those of American comic and Japanese manga and are put in their own visual context. Figures taken from TV series, dolls and toys become models of Martin Manning’s figure cabinet.
Prior the figures are being developed as drafts. In a variety of variations the artist gets from figure studies to results, which then move on to the stock of his figure cosmos and thus receive their right to exist in his paintings.
Within a time consuming work process the artist combines several of those figures on canvas. The bodies and heads of his characters are matched up in a bizarre fashion and seem like painted collages. The figures are alienated and break out of their former contexts and thus mutate to some extent. In various layers the figures have to assert themselves within the composition – they are over painted, replaced and over layered by other figures and image elements. Thus a visual density develops within which the mutated monsters and comic characters drop into a narrative context via the various layers of the image and tell stories. Thereby the virtual romance or the innocence of the figures is overstressed and breaks.
The reason for the occupation with Japanese popular culture as a central topic in the artist’s new works are stays and journeys to Japan – especially in the year 2011, shortly after the Tsunami and after the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima. There the artist was directly confronted with the destructive effects of the natural catastrophe and the radioactive danger from Fukushima but also with the social and political belittlement of those problems.
For further information or images please contact us at berlin@galerie-gebr-lehmann.de Opening hours: tue – sat, 11 am – 6 pm

Martin Mannig – BROKEN ROMANCE

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Ricky Swallow

Alex ANGI – KICCO – Renzo NUCARA – Carlo RIZZETTI – Omar RONDA – William SWEETLOVE – Marco VERONESE

Les Indestructibles

Drawing from a vast library of online birth videos, Helen Knowles appropriates imagery of women in the transcendental state of birth. Using an innovative printing technique, Knowles creates a group of striking images that oscillate between the figurative and abstraction, challenging the separation between women as mothers and women as sexual entities. Check GV Art gallery, London website for exhibition related events.

Private View: Public Birth

Dear Artist,

GV Art is planning a new exhibition, Nature Reserves, conceived and curated by Tom Jeffreys. The exhibition looks to examine our understanding of the natural environment, and the ways in which this is influenced by different methods of constructing meaning – across literature, science and the arts – with specific reference to thinking around the archive. Of particular interest is the two-way relationship between knowledge storage and knowledge creation and the tangled effect this has on our changing conceptions of the natural world.

We would like to invite you to send us a brief proposal of ideas for work (whether existing or yet to be realised) to be included in this exhibition, addressing the themes stated above. Please send us low res images (no more than 3MB) and no more than a side of A4. Links and PDFs are accepted, and we will call you if we need any more information. Any form of artwork is viable, from drawings to performances, sculptures and films, we would love to hear your responses and ideas (please do bear in mind we thus far have no budget, so any costly media or technology cannot be provided by GV Art.)

Deadline for proposals – Friday 7 June 2013. Please email them to info@gvart.co.uk only.

Selection decisions will be made by the curator no later than 10 June 2013.

Many thanks,

GV Art.

Call to Artists

Galerie Michael Janssen is pleased to present its first exhibition by Indonesian artist Titarubi entitled Burning Boundaries parallel to her participation at the 55th Venice Biennale. Titarubi is one of five artists representing Indonesia at this year’s Biennale.

Rubiati Puspitasari (b. 1968), who goes by the name of Titarubi, is one of Indonesia’s leading female artists. She graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology with a fine arts degree and although she trained as a ceramist, she has expanded her skills to include large-scale sculptures and installations. Her artworks have been widely exhibited in both Asia and Europe in venues such as the Singapore Biennale, the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Australia.

Titarubi’s practice reflects a passionate concern over problems of society through various mediums. Her works are often inspired by social, political and historical connotations. Focusing on the human body, her oeuvre addresses the evolution of female self-perception. She first attracted public attention with an installation of ceramic children‘s heads with Arabic inscriptions. In other former works she has also addressed the issue of in-vitro fertilization and its potential for social oppression and has challenged stereotypes and cultural constructions by exploring the position of men and women in society.

The exhibition highlights the link between Sakti – an Indonesian term that indicates magic, the divine and sacred – and education; knowledge being considered by the artist as the basis for civilization. The installation comprises of school benches made of charcoal-like burnt wood that represent the long learning process individuals endure throughout their lifetime. Oversized blank books lay on each bench, as if inviting viewers to fill them with their own personal stories. A massive charcoal drawing of a forest functions as the backdrop of the installation, in reference to Indonesia’s tropical forests, the many fires that periodically destroy them, and the burnt wood of the benches.

Titarubi – “Burning Boundaries”

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Once Upon A Time/Paola Pivi-Carla Accardi

A series of Pecha Kucha talks by a selection of the designers in the exhibition After Hours. These talks are intended to give an insight into their ideas, inspirations and ways of working and will be followed by a Q&A with the speakers and other contributors to the exhibition. This event will be introduced and hosted by After Hours curator Nick Eagleton.

Participants include: Michael Johnson, Phil Carter, Jim Sutherland, Jack Renwick, Robert Ball, Steve Royle, Craig Oldham, Myounghee Jo, Katie Edelsten and Annie Hazelwood.

All events are free but must be booked in advance. For more information or to book a place, please contact Jerwood Visual Arts.

Telephone: 020 7654 0179
Email: jva@jerwoodspace.co.uk

After Hours: Pecha Kucha Evening

Adrian Shaughnessy, graphic designer, writer and senior tutor at the Royal College of Art, discusses the main curatorial theme of the exhibition After Hours.

Shaughnessy is a graphic designer and writer based in London. In 1989 he co-founded the design company Intro. Today he runs ShaughnessyWorks, a consultancy combining design and editorial direction. He is a founding partner in Unit Editions, a publishing company producing books on design and visual culture. Shaughnessy has written and art directed numerous books on design including How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul which has sold over 80,000 copies to date. A new edition appeared in 2010. His latest book is Ken Garland: Structure & Substance (Unit Editions). He writes for Eye, Creative Review and Design Observer, and is an occasional contributor to avant-garde music magazine The Wire. From 2006 until 2009, Shaughnessy was editor of Varoom, a publication devoted to the critical appraisal of illustration. Shaughnessy has been interviewed frequently on television and radio and lectures extensively around the world. He hosts a radio show called Graphic Design on the Radio on Resonance FM.

All events are free but must be booked in advance. For more information or to book a place, please contact Jerwood Visual Arts. Telephone: 020 7654 0179 Email: jva@jerwoodspace.co.uk

After Hours: A Talk by Adrian Shaughnessy