Liverpool Biennial with Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre present Encounters
Encounter interactive sculptures, film and immersive soundscapes by international artists at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre from spring 2017.
The exhibition is part of the Liverpool Biennial touring programme, which brings artworks by international artists presented at the 2016 festival of contemporary art to six arts organisations in the North of England. Find out more at biennial.com/tour
Supported by Arts Council England
Encounters at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre
Featuring interactive sculptures, film and immersive soundscapes, 'Encounters' brought together works by leading international artists presented at Liverpool Biennial 2016 to Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre in Greater Manchester in 2017.
Mark Leckey's 'Dream English Kid 1964 – 1999 AD' is the artist's attempt to retrace the significant events of his life through archival footage on the internet. In the Sculpture Centre, visitors discovered sculptural and sound 'portals' by Céline Condorelli, an artwork by Audrey Cottin waiting to be activated through collaboration, and Rita McBride's sculptural memories of buildings consumed by time.
Part of the Liverpool Biennial touring programme, which brings artworks by international artists presents at the 2016 Biennial to six art organisations in the North of England.
biennial.com/tour
Film by Carl Davies, FACT Video Production Services
Bury Art Gallery And Museum
A short promo video of Bury Art Gallery and Museum. One of the first videos we made as Magic Minion Media. Another vid trying to show off what Bury has to offer!
New Narrative and Reader
Introducing New Narrative and Reader artists. Check out the exhibition in Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre 6.6.–29.8.2015 and Salo Art Museum 17.10.2015–17.1.2016. Video by Matti Virtanen, artist photos by Amanda Aho.
A major exhibition of Finnish contemporary art launched in England in the summer 2015. New Narrative and Reader features contemporary art in many different forms and its concept is inspired by the Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre building’s history. Partly sited within a former library, “New Narrative and Reader” contribute to the ongoing act of collecting stories within space. Equally extensive exhibitions about Finnish art have not been seen previously in England.
Read more about the exhibition from finnishartagency.com/new-narrative-and-reader
The Museum of London- Roman London - Gallery Full Tour. History of London. Barbican, London.
The Museum of London tells the history of England’s capital city and includes a fascinating Roman Gallery crammed with artefacts describing what life was like in Roman London. My film takes you on a complete tour around the Roman Gallery. The museum is free and open daily 10am – 6pm.
Ever asked what did the Romans ever do for London? Or wondered what life was actually like in the capital during the Roman period? Then this museum is a must see place to visit. The Romans created Londinium on the banks of the river Thames after the invasion of Britain in AD43? From around AD 50 – 410 Londinium was the largest city in Britannia and a thriving international port.
What can you see?
• Exquisite sculptures and artefacts from the Temple of Mithras.
• Recreated Roman rooms.
• The Bucklesbury mosaic.
• The first inscription bearing the name London.
• Sculptures and carvings from Roman soldiers’ tombs.
• Objects detailing everyday life in Roman London.
• Recreation of Roman London Bridge.
The museum is light, spacious and family friendly and offers a mix of permanent and changing displays, talks, workshops and events. The museum also features:
• Medieval London.
• War, Plague and Fire.
• Victorian walk.
• Modern London.
• People’s City.
• World City.
The museum also has 2 cafes and a family friendly restaurant.
The museum is located at 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN. Nearest tube stations are: Barbican, St Paul’s and Moorgate.
Love history, innterested in Roman Britain or the history of London, then The Museum of London is well worth a visit.
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Canonbury Antiques - Potters Bar / 25 Mins North Of London
Canonbury Antiques - Large showroom open to the public. Please call for an appointment - 01707 644717
Dining furniture, English and continental antiques, art deco, bronzes, interiors, porcelain and architectural antiques.
canonburyantiques.com
The Sculpture of David Smith (1906-1965), Part 1
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art.
David Smith (1906–1965) is arguably America’s greatest sculptor of the 20th century. His art enlarged the vocabulary of sculpture by employing welding and industrial processes and materials, laying the groundwork for the directness of minimalism and the realization that sculpture could be anything the artist desired. Smith’s oeuvre is a logical outgrowth of earlier 20th-century sculptural trends in cubism, constructivism, and surrealism. However, his work also represents a new paradigm for the language of modern sculpture that reflects the dynamic growth and industrial prowess of the United States after the Second World War. Smith’s confrontation with the process of creation broke the rules and expanded the possibilities of his art form. In part one of this lecture, presented at the National Gallery of Art on March 7, 2019, senior lecturer David Gariff explores Smith’s revolutionary art through a discussion of some of his most important and innovative works, including the Agricola, Tanktotem, Sentinel, Zig, Voltri, and Cubi series.
Mud flood/subterranea investigative walkabout: Chichester, Tower street, museum and Roman excavation
NOVIUM Museum features an exhibition: excavation of Roman Bath, situated 6 feet below external street level while museum is surrounded with basements and underground car parks far lower than base level of excavation.
For Your perusal.
Link to article: Understanding water table and basements:
Highlighting myriad of difficulties dealing with 'perched water table' and 'natural water table': drainage of back filled cavaties, materials, soil types and compression and load bearing: refers relatively to new and old constructions: very interesting read for any astute mud flood researcher.
Videographic study around and about the buildings streets and houses of Chichester city centre and surrounding area to collate footage in support of a notion: Chichester city centre and surrounding area have been subject to a raise in ground level around and about the buildings streets and houses evidenced by subterranean rooms doors and Windows apertures submerged, protruding at varying heights to existing street level pavement. In many cases a motte is dug to expose doors and windows that were previously submerged in mud.
Chichester is an old historic city situated on flood plane very close to Sea and very low to water table.
Andy Goldsworthy Striding Arches - Nithsdale - Wild Camp March 2016
The Striding Arches are a series of three massive stone sandstone arches built on the hilltops around Cairnhead, near Moniaive. Built by renowned sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, the arches are complemented by another springing from an old byre at the foot of the valley.
Thursday 24nd March we wildcamped under the arch on Benbrack, it was a memorable camp, we awoke on Good Friday to a lovely morning which just improved as the day went on. #garnforaratch #WildCamping
Art Deco Bronze Lamp Figurine Odaline
Art Deco Bronze Lamp Figurine Odaline
Identity Art Gallery presents - Equilibrium
Identity Art Gallery presents:
Equilibrium by Terry Batt
August 01 - September 08, 2012
A painter or sculptor? An artist or an academic? Explore all the worlds of Australian artist Terry Batt. Carefully balancing all facets of his disciplines and overlapping identities, Batt's upcoming show, Equilibrium, features a mixture of paintings from his recent exhibition in Australia as well as newer bronze sculptures, which are often 3D incarnations of his painted figures. Filled with humor, intrigue, personal coding and memories, Batt's delightful twinned imagery tell how even the absurd can stand next to one another, blend and reconcile.
A working artist, a world traveler, an associate professor at the School of Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology as well as program leader for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in fine art at the Hong Kong Art School, Batt's artistic life straddles many worlds, viewpoints and interests. His curious tableaux and sculptures, informed by a global lineage of art making and inspired by his rich collection of curious objects, channels his own take on the order and rationality surrounding the worlds he lives in.
About Identity Art Gallery
Art is Long, Life is Short. Identity Art Gallery brings together visionary art identities who respect art as a lifelong, enduring creative endeavour existing outside the realms of fads and fashion. We discover and promote artists from all four corners of the world, whose strong inner visions foster, seduce, confront and bolster our identities across a diverse range of media, in unusual, direct and lasting manners. Beauty and colors are our mutual interest; simplicity and integrity our common language. Forging links and synergy among like-minded artists, collectors, galleries and curators through solo exhibits and group collaborations, our ultimate vision is to cultivate an environment where creativity and identities may further flourish.
Opening Reception: August 01, 2012 from 7:00-9:00pm
Address
Identity Art Gallery
53 Tung Street
Sheung Wan
Hong Kong
香港上環東街53號
Opening Hours
Tuesday -- Saturday 11.00am to 7.00pm
For further information please contact the gallery at
info@identityartgallery.com
+852 2540 5353
or visit identityartgallery.com
MATTHEW ANTHONY STOKES : CAMOUFLAGE
A new Film by Eric Minh Swenson.
(Los Angeles, CA) - DENK is pleased to announce the opening of Camouflage, the gallery's first solo exhibition of recent works by English-born, Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Anthony Stokes. A self-taught abstract painter, Stokes has cultivated his aesthetic through a unique multi-disciplinary background in performance, corporeal dramaturgy, dance, sculpture, assemblage, film, photography, and poetry. His monochromatic compositions are executed in India ink, vinyl paint, charcoal, and chalk, on raw, unprimed canvas and convey rather than conceal something of the physicality of their materials and application. Seemingly effortless in the ease and concision of their rendering, the works draw from the spontaneity of nature, referencing its landscapes and shifting animate forms.
Stokes was a co-founding member of MAQUETTE (1989-1998), an experimental theater and performance art company based initially in Kent, England and later Brussels, Belgium. In collaboration with artists Robert Bennett, Dirk Hendrikx, Guillaume Panneau and Ulrike Koennecke, Stokes cultivated a unique and physically embodied approach to image production and the staging of tableaux, using MAQUETTE as a platform for the activation of ephemeral performative sculpture. The three-dimensional relics of these unveilings - objects, costumes, sets, and masks - were all created by the collective and animated through their performances. As inhabitable sculptures and worthy artworks in and of themselves, the objects and environments were brought to life through fleeting periods of physical tenancy. The resulting performances, at times live, were documented through 16 mm or 35 mm film, photographs, and video.
Haunting and psychologically evocative, MAQUETTE's penchant for escapist poetics tapped into an alternative reality, one of embodied deliberateness and temporal arrest: a surreal and timeless plane. It also shared something of other art historical and cultural antecedents, like the mythic dramatizations of Joseph Beuys, the sculptural combines of Robert Rauschenberg, and the free association and anti-establishment ethos of DADA and DIY punk. The company, despite its critical acclaim, defected in 1998, at which time Stokes and Hendrikx decided to bury the company's sculptural props and costumes in the Belgian countryside, planning to exhume them in 2020. The symbolic burial and subterranean pause became a fitting physical bookend to MAQUETTE's sculptural and performative oeuvre. Disentombed, their artifacts, films, and photographs will be collectively revisited in the not so distant future.
Camouflage will include photographic stills from MAQUETTE's archive, which, when viewed alongside Stokes' paintings, reveal an aesthetic continuity shared by both projects, despite their independence. A material rawness in the current works, evident in the tactility and lived in textures of their surfaces, contributes to the feeling of gestural imminence and physical latency; the body is never far from these works. Often painting out of doors, Stokes encourages the traces of nature and time to remain, allowing sediment and dust, for instance, to stay trapped within the paint. Stokes' approach to painting is led by an unfeigned intuitive immersion, offering an avowal of his presence as its maker rather than its disguise. This disarming immediacy evinces something of the performative sculptural legacy of MAQUETTE.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1
Instagram : @ericminhswenson
Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts :
Tribute to The Woman international contemporary art exhibition at ROA Gallery - London
Tribute to The Woman international contemporary art exhibition, curated by Zina Bercovici, took place at the ROA gallery (Royal Opera Arcade) in London on 1 - 7 March. It showcased paintings, bronze and glass sculpture, installations, handmade jewellery and digital art by 27 established artists from 18 countries in one of the best contemporary art spaces in central London.
The Opening Night with live music on saxophone and clarinet by Oleg Lapidus took place on 2 March.
The show celebrated the 8th March - International Women's Day. Female face and body in the paintings and sculptures reflects a variety of cultures, nationalities and art techniques. Sometime the woman is symbolized by shapes of round lines and soft colors.
Participating artists included: Elena Abessinova, Anara Abzhanova, Valeria Bartolini, Paloma Bernaldo, Rosemarie Bolzer, Alessia Carrara, Orly Coffler, Roger de Tanios, Michelle Ditrich, Hagay Emmanuel, Lisbeth Haljesgard, Marie Hertzberg, Meli Huszar, Kostas Korovilas, Elena Kozhevnikova, Klara Krenzia, Charlotte Lisboa, Filip Lundberg, Soli Madsen, Susie McKay Krieser, Raul Rajangu, Zelmira Peralta Ramos, Monika Lucretia Taffet, Ferdinando Valentini, Emel Vardar, Mikaela von Glehn Lindquist and Zoëv. Their works are part of private collections and museums around the world. They have participated in various international art exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia.
Artists came from Norway, Italy, Mexico, Austria, Switzerland, Israel, Sweden, Greece, Lebanon, Russia, USA, Denmark, Argentina, Estonia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium.
Music: Oleg Lapidus on saxophone
Dance moves from: curator Zina Bercovici, artists: Elena Abessinova, Orly Coffler, Charlotte Lisboa and Roger de Tanios, and exhibition visitor Niina Golovina.
Enjoy art to Fausto Papetti music: Paradise theme, Love Letters in the Sand and Dicitencello Vuie.
Video: Eugenie Absalom
Old Waterfront & The Hepworth
The Hepworth Wakefield is now open.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sundays, Bank holiday and school holiday Mondays 11am - 5pm
one of the largest and finest exhibition spaces outside London.
Designed by award winning architect David Chipperfield, it will exhibit works from the National collection of British modern and contemporary art and will show for the first time a unique collection of works by Wakefield born sculptor Barbara Hepworth.
In addition, The Chantry Chapel is open all Bank holiday Mondays
And Wednesday afternoons in June July and Augusta 2011
I first approached the Hepworth in 2008 and was given permission to make a photographic record of the development of the site and the construction of the building from that time to the present day.
Being the longest project I have undertaken so far, my intention is to continue my work until the building of The Hepworth is complete and ready for its opening to the public.
Mark-ing (UK)
UK-Japan Design Exhibition Mark-ing
29 Oct - 3 June 2011
Presented by the British Council, E&Y co.,ltd
Site: DESIGNTIDE TOKYO 2011
Mark-ing, an exhibition featuring the design from both Japan and the UK, took place co-hosted by the British Council and E&Y.
8 designers known for their experimental approaches, were chosen from Japan and the UK to exhibit their works along with a fragment to show the characters of each designer.
The aim was to extract personal influences or ideas, from the backgrounds of each designer, along with the social and educational differences, cultural and design variance of the two countries.
JP:
Makoto Orisaki
Koichi Okamoto
Jo Nagasaka
Ryuji Nakamura
Risa Fukui
Koichi Futatsumata
Yuri Suzuki
Maiko Kurogouchi
UK:
Moritz Waldemeyer
Ismini Samanidou
Paul Cocksedge
Max Lamb
Geoffrey Mann
Helen Amy Murray
Hannah Martin
Benjamin Hubert
Organised by the British Council / E&Y co.,ltd
Curation: Tsuyoshi Matsuzawa / Max Fraser
Art Direction & Design: Fumikazu Ohara
Exhibition coordination: Taku Sato
Project coordination: Chika Sudo (the British Council)
Planning: Manami Yuasa (the British Council)
Tsuyoshi Matsuzawa (E&Y co.,ltd)
MAIWAND LION Forbury Gardens Reading Berkshire
This vid was taken by my last week during Easter Break. Below is additional info off the net about this amazing monument
The Maiwand Lion is named after small village in Afganistan, where 328 men from the 66th regiment died on 27th July 1880.
This 31 Foot tall Sculpture was designed by George Blackall Simonds (1843-1929) and unveiled in 1886, however the Simonds failed to notice the way lions walk, and sculptured this iron lion with legs in such manner that a real lion would fall over if he ever tried to walk this way.
Urban legend has it that when the sculptor realized this very basic error, he committed suicide. In fact, he lived for another 43 years, enjoying his work.
We Are Where We Are: Presented by Liverpool Biennial with BALTIC
A point, a period, or a step in a process, We Are Where We Are is a dark place for moving forward. Works will be in, underneath and between treated walls.
This exhibition at BALTIC 39, Newcastle upon Tyne showcases new and existing works by Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists, 11 artists from the North of England. The show and programme are the culmination of a three-year initiative by Liverpool Biennial, in partnership with Independent Curators International, New York and CACTUS, Liverpool.
Artists:
Simeon Barclay / Jacqueline Bebb / Lindsey Bull / Robert Carter / Lauren Velvick / Nina Chua / Matthew Crawley / Frances Disley / Daniel Fogarty / Harry Meadley / Stephen Sheehan
Curated by Joe Fletcher Orr, Founder and Director, CACTUS, Liverpool and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
The Maiwand Lion at Forbury Gardens, Reading.
The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in the Forbury Gardens, a public park in the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was erected in 1886 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot during the campaign in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880. It is sometimes known locally as the Forbury Lion.
The inscription on the plinth reads as follows:
This monument records the names and commemorates the valour and devotion of XI (11) officers and CCCXVIII (318) non-commissioned officers and men of the LXVI (66th) Berkshire Regiment who gave their lives for their country at Girishk Maiwand and Kandahar and during the Afghan Campaign MDCCCLXXIX (1879) - MDCCCLXXX (1880).
History does not afford any grander or finer instance of gallantry and devotion to Queen and country than that displayed by the LXVI Regiment at the Battle of Maiwand on the XXVII (27th) July MDCCCLXXX (1880).
Despatch of General Primrose.
The regiment lost approximately 258 men out of 500 (reports of the number vary) at the battle of Maiwand, having faced an Afghan army ten times larger than the British contingent. Eleven of the men, protecting the colours, made such a brave stand before their deaths that the Afghans who fought them reported it with great respect. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his character Doctor Watson on the regiment's Medical officer, Surgeon Major A F Preston who was injured in battle.
The sculptor was George Blackall Simonds, a member of a Reading brewing family from Simonds' Brewery. The sculpture took two years to design and complete, and the lion is one of the world's largest cast iron statues. Rumours persist that Simonds committed suicide on learning that the lion's gait was incorrectly that of a domestic cat. In fact, he made careful observations on lions and the stance was anatomically correct despite various African ex-pats disagreeing. He also lived for another 43 years, enjoying continuing success as a sculptor going on to create a statue of Queen Victoria (1887) and a statue of George Palmer (1891). He retired from sculpting in 1903 and worked in the family business eventually becoming its chairman in 1910. In 1922 he temporarily came out of retirement to build the Bradfield war memorial which commemorated the deaths in the First World War of those in the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers which included his son.
The Maiwand Lion features on the front page of one of the local newspapers, the Reading Post, and also on the Reading Football Club crest.
The statue is made of cast iron, weighing 16 tons, cast by H. Young & Co. of Pimlico in 1886. It is supported on a terracotta pedestal. The rectangular pilastered plinth carries tablets recording the names of the dead, together with inscription above. The whole is listed grade II by English Heritage.
James A. Michener Art Museum - Doylestown, PA
Michener Art Museum features regional artists and Impressionists. Site was an 1884 Bucks County prison with Warden's house designed by Addison Hutton. Massive stone walls are a backdrop to outdoor sculptures; sculpture garden is in the original prison yard. Named after the author who promoted and funded the museum.
George Tsutakawa 1970 Fountain -- Seven Flowers
Artist: Tsutakawa, George, 1910-1997, sculptor. Uchida, Jack, engineer.
Title: Fountain, (sculpture).
Other Titles: (Pacific First Federal Fountain), (sculpture).
Dates: 1970.
Medium: Fountain: bronze, concrete and light; Basin: concrete and brick.
Dimensions: Fountain: approx. H. 4 ft. 2 1/2 in. x W. 7 ft. 6 in. x Diam. 4 ft. 6 in.; Basin: approx. H. 1 ft. 2 in. x W. 7 ft. 6 in. x Diam. 4 ft. 1 1/2 in.
Inscription: (On metal ring from which fountain elements emerge, raised letters:) 1970/G. TSUTAKAWA SCULPTOR J. UCHIDA ENGR. signed
Description: A fountain consisting of seven abstract forms, each of which has a small, flower-like shape in the center of a larger oval form. Water flows from each of the flowers. The abstract forms are mounted on posts of uneven heights and placed on a metal ring in the center of a concrete circular basin with a brick rim. In the middle of the circle of abstract forms are three spot-lights.
Subject: Abstract -- Geometric
Object Type: Outdoor Sculpture -- Washington -- Bellevue
Fountain
Sculpture
Owner: Washington Mutual Savings Bank, 10550 NE 8th Street, Bellevue, Washington 98004
Provenance: Formerly a Pacific First Federal Savings Bank branch.
Remarks: IAS files contain related article from Martha Kingsbury's George Tsutakawa, Bellevue, WA: Bellevue Art Museum, 1990, pg. 97. For related information see Kenneth Mark Levine's video, Northwest Visionaries, Seattle: Iris Films, 1979. Washington Mutual Savings Bank was formerly known as Pacific First Federal Savings Bank.
Condition: Surveyed 1994 October. Well maintained.
References: Save Outdoor Sculpture, Washington survey, 1994.
Note: The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository: Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number: IAS WA000279