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Alison Jacques Gallery is delighted to present a new interpretation of the work of acclaimed and controversialAmerican artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Bringing together a range of works in a variety of media, includingrarely seen collages as well as photography, the exhibition focuses on the hitherto neglected roles of religiousthemes and imagery that informed much of Mapplethorpeʼs prac...
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Opening:
October 13th
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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I turn each painting round and round like a catherine wheel til it yields - Lucy Stein Feminisms happy ending enables young, strong, empowered women to have breast implants, have casual sex and join the guys watching strippers in the bar. But is this the happy ending we want? Crafting a new language to discuss female sexuality, pleasure and aspiration, Lucy Stein challenges the pervasive visual...
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In October 1440 the Breton Knight Gilles de Rais was hung in Nantes for murdering up to two hundred youngsters at his various stately homes around north-western France. In the early 1960s Niki de Saint Phalles shooting works helped to resuscitate her from serious nervous breakdown. Her Le Chateau de Gilles de Rais (1962) is a monstrous shooting piece made from clusterings of wide-eyed dolls in a...
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Shiraz Bayjoo: Workforce
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts)
shoreditch
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA, United Kingdom
+44 20 7729 9616
http://www.iniva.org
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September 17th - November 21st
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closing today
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Artist Shiraz Bayjoo transforms Rivington Place's Education Space into a temporary artist run factory this autumn. It becomes the setting for a new workforce in response to exhibitions by NS Harsha and Chen Chieh-jen.
A communal flag will be manufactured and fill the expanse of the gallery, representing the identity of the workforce and contributing to the history of industry's alliances.
Workforce...
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Iniva presents NS Harsha’s grand-scale installation Nations at Rivington Place, exhibited for the first time in the UK. Taking over the interior architecture, it questions international politics and globalisation with elegance and wit. 192 sewing machines are overlaid with calico painted flags signifying the countries that make up the United Nations.
NS Harsha has exhibited internationally, and works in a r...
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Overview
In 2003 Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen invited workers to return to the Lien Fu garment factory which had been closed down 7 years earlier. His emotive film is set within the context of manufacturing moving abroad in search of cheaper labour and unscrupulous owners refusing to pay retirement pensions and severance. Silently Chen Chieh-jen explores the ‘transplantation’ of product...
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Mummery + Schnelle is pleased to announce the first exhibition in London of the paintings of Robert Bordo. Bordo makes works that are object lessons in how to look at a painting. Viewing his paintings becomes a meditation on the experience of making and looking. A painting has the unique capacity to present the vi...
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Opening:
October 13th
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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‘Artists Anonymous is an art group. We make no distinction between art and life.’ Artists Anonymous "We knew each other as artists around Berlin, started to work together in 2001 when we were variously coming out of relationships and giving up drugs. After a while our work became known and we needed a way for people to refer to us. Anonymity means we sacrifice our own names as artists, but...
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Opening:
September 21st
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Ritter/Zamet presents British artist Dolly Thompsett's latest series of paintings accompanied by a short text by Roger Luckhurst, author of recent publications on the Victorian Gothic, Sci Fi and Contemporary Culture.Dolly Thompsett creates intricate, tablet-like paintings by building up layers of paint interspersed with glassy resin laminates that allow the image to weave through the surface. Her d...
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