Tasting Hastings : The Seaside Comes To Shoreditch : YCN

Throughout February, a collection of Hastings-based artists and designers will be offering their wares for sale in the YCN Shop & Library at 72 Rivington Street.

YCN curator Lucy Kenyon says: “We visited Hastings last year as a team, and were dazzled by the output of its artists and designers. Hastings is one of the most curious and charming of England’s seaside towns. It’s an honour to host this group, and we hope to please as many people as possible with their products ”.

All products can be seen and bought in the YCN Shop & Library at 72 Rivington Street from 6th to 29th February. Open weekdays from 10am to 6pm, weekends 11am to 4pm. 

The work on show and for sale is from: Sophie Azimont, Josephine Doolan, Leigh Dyer, Rockville, Susan Elliott, Claire Fletcher, Sue Harrison, Valerie May, Danny Mooney, Philip Oakley, Plenty Provisions, Peter Quinnell , Bruce Robbins, Judith Rowe, Visionary Soap and Zeroh.

International PARK(ing) day, London 16th September 2011

Tomorrow is international PARK(ing) day.

"PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event, where the public, artists and activists collaborate to transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces - temporary parks for the public good and enhancement of the urban built environment. A quintessentially “open source” project, PARK(ing) Day has been adapted and remixed to address a variety of social issues in diverse urban contexts around the world."

The aim of PARK(ing) Day is to attract attention to the need of more urban open spaces, to generate debate about how public space is handled and improve the quality of the urban human habitat.

The event will conicide with the start of this year's London Fashion Week and London Design Week. Sounds like a great project, and well worth a look if you're in the South Bank area tomorrow.

Falling Short, a collaborative exhibition from the RCA

Falling Short is an exhibition from a group of designers from the Royal College of Art.

The exhibition is a series of unique investigations into the multiple social, cultural, political, and philosophical scopes of reality. Seen through the eyes of visual communicators, all seeking new perspectives and enlightening interpretations of our world.

The Private View is held on the 16th September 2011 7pm - 9pm

Open Daily
17th - 25th September 2011
11am - 6pm

During the London Design Festival
Location: Her House Gallery, 26 Drysdale Street, London N1 6LS

Antony Gormley : Critical Mass at the De La Warr

I've just been to visit the De La Warr Pavilion back in Bexhill and had a quick look around Antony Gormley's Critical Mass exhibition on the roof top terrace. The exhibition is running there until the 31st August 2010 and is free of charge.

The arrival of Critical Mass at the De La War is the first ever sculpture installation on the roof top terrace. Critical Mass is one of Antony Gormley's most known works, made up of sixty life size cast iron body forms. All of the haunting bodies were cast from molds of Gormley's body.

I'd seen the exhibition previously but had not realized the original concept for the casts. The literature at the exhibition explains, "...The first impression is of some kind of trauma, perhaps an act of violence perpertrated towards the masses such as terrorism or genocide (The work was originally made for a huge railway terminus in Austria, thus consciously connecting it to the victims of the Jewish holocaust."

Another great exhibition at the De La Warr! If you're in the area, its definitely worth taking a look.

Goldsmiths Design Show 2010

This is a nice little promo for the up and coming design show from the Goldsmiths postgraduate design course. I think some kind of sneaky trickery with peanut butter is at play here!

The exhibition is part of the London Design Festival which is held between 18th - 26th September 2010. For more information please visit MakingBelieve.co.uk

Life in 2050 London Exhibition

[Poster by Transmission]























Graham Carter






















MVM – Magnus Voll Mathiassen























Panda Yoghurt























Emiliano Granado























Tom Gallant

Graphic design studio Transmission have set the dial 40 years from now and commissioned 22 leading and emerging contemporary artists from around the world to create an original piece of work depicting their vision of what life will be like in 2050.

The eclectic mix of contributors include Universal Everything, Alex Trochut, Mario Hugo, Tom Muller, Dan McPharlin and Tom Gallant. For a full list of artists take a look at the website Lifein2050.com

LIFE IN 2050

22nd April – 4th May.
Monday to Sunday, 11 – 7.
Admission is free.

Proud Central Gallery
32 John Adam Street, London, WC2A 6BP
Nearest Tube: Charing Cross
Lifein2050.com

thisistransmission.com
sci-fi-london.com

Whitechapel Gallery reopens

Whitechapel gallery, East London, has finally re-opened it's doors to the public after a costly make over (£13.5m!). There is a buzz over the new gallery space which has seen it's first new coat of paint for a few years. The curators have many events planned to keep the hype in motion. The first exhibition opens on Sunday (5th April), entitled: Isa Genzken: Open, Sesame!
Here's what the Whitechapel Gallery website has to say about the exhibition,

"In her remarkable pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, German sculptor Isa Genzken immersed visitors in a series of environments on the theme of ‘Oil’. Like a three dimensional collage the pavilion presented a poetic culmination of the major themes in her work: the psychedelic qualities of industrial materials, architectural form, the loss of the natural world, the properties of colour, and the energy and violence of western culture.

This is the first retrospective of a major European artist whose fusion of photography, paint, architecture and found objects into the realm of sculpture has influenced generations of younger artists. The show commences with early floor works from the 1970s and continues with a sequence of windows, rooms and buildings cast from plaster and concrete in the 1980s. Living and working in Germany and in New York, Genzken’s column structures of the 1990s draw on the vertiginous, reflective forms of Manhattan skyscrapers, adapted in 2000 into proposals for improvements to the architecture of Berlin.

The exhibition also features elements from more recent installations such as Oil, 2007 and Ground Zero, 2008. They are created with toys, souvenirs, furniture, building materials — the stuff of consumer culture, arranged in associative scenarios that are in turn funny, poetic and disturbing."

Other exciting events coming up are:
Gallery Talk: William Mann
Michael Craig-Martin in Conversation with Andrea Tarsia
Mother Foucault with Will Self
England: A play by Tim Crouch
Sigmund Freud's Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity & Jay Street Film Project