‘Forever Young’ by Nickie Divine

Private View
THURSDAY 6TH DECEMBER, 6.30pm - Late

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“The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes”.
John Ford

A preview show by the photographer Nickie Divine - a selection of eight works taken from a five year period that feature select artists that captures the inherent youthfulness of their attitude and spirit. Divine’s own attitude initiates the image, striping away the aura of these musicians and showing their character in an honest and intimate way.

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Mick Jones, Bobby Gillespie, Graham Coxon, Iggy Pop, Jenny Lewis, Fuji Rock, Pete Doherty (Babyshambles)

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Presented by WHISPER
in association with WHITENOISE & MEN Gallery

Thursday 10th November 2011
- Saturday 3rd December

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UNFAIR Part 1 is the first of a two-part survey of the works of artists EINE, WILLIAM BLANCHARD, NOKI and MARK ELEY (ELEY KISHIMOTO).

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Against a brooding sky of political, social and financial uncertainty UNFAIR gathers together recent works by four disparate talents, EINE, William Blanchard, NOKI and Mark Eley; four artists who exemplify our Island Kingdom’s rich tradition of POP Art as surely as Brighton connotes Rock.

William Blanchard’s series ‘UNFAIR’ builds on his recent works such as ‘I Just Don’t Care Anymore’ and ‘Protest Flag’ that suggest a simmering anger that bubbles beneath the surface of our (alleged) non-society ‘gone bad’. Taking the quintessentially English theme of the Fairground as his target, Blanchard’s new series seeks to pull back the gaudy curtain of our dark Carnival culture and in doing so reveal the ‘fix’ that guarantees the ‘no win scenario’ of a culture weaned on Game Show emotions, rigged ‘Talent’ contests and the Dark Arts of Political corruption and Media manipulation. Blanchard has made thirty four-colour screen prints that have been individually ‘finished’ in acrylics by the artist. A limited edition of ‘I Just Don’t Care Anymore’ in ‘diamond dust’ will also be available on the night.

EINE’s work is a familiar sight on the shop fronts and streets of our once fair land his precisely rendered fonts and typefaces lifting the mundane thoroughfares of tawdry commercialization to new heights of beauty. In May 2010 Ben Eine painted a complete alphabet on Middlesex Street in East London, which was re-christened Alphabet Street by the residents and described by The Times as “a street now internationally recognized as a living piece of art with direct links to The White House.” (In July 2010, President Barack Obama was presented with a painting by Eine, Twenty First Century City, as an official gift from the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.) His work recently featured in the most comprehensive review of street art to date “Art in the Streets” at MOCA, Los Angeles (April 2011).

For this show EINE will be delivering two unique paintings along with two new edition of prints – one of which is a collaboration with Mark Eley – that have been created exclusively for this show.

One time EINE collaborator, NOKI, brings the spirit of Allen Jones to life through his erotically charged and detailed sketches of thumbs. Amputated from their hands these swollen digits assume a new, autonomous context: H.R. Giger’s Alien channeled through the numb limbs of Hans Bellmer. Familiar but other, Noki’s almost sculptural pollex are shrouded totems ‘thumbing’ their noses at the world of commodity fetishism. A series of one colour screen-prints taken from NOKI’s original pencil drawings will also be complimented by an edition of his works re-worked by Mark Eley.

Playfully aggressive, NOKI’s agenda is much aligned to the writer and founder of Culture Jam and Adbusters magazine, Kalle Lasn, who he cites as a major influence on his world- view and work, as a positive critique on world globalisation.

Mark Eley’s distinctive patterns and prints have elevated Eley Kishimoto (the fashion house founded with his creative partner, Wakako Kishimoto) to a position of worldwide recognition. A weaver by training, Eley sees the world of products as the canvas for his aspirations to ‘pattern the world’ – bringing POP Art full circle (pace Warhol) by re-appropriating the physical elements of consumer society for his ‘beautifying of the planet’. His recent collaborations include works with BMW, Eastpak and Duvel. For this show Eley will collaborate with EINE and NOKI to create unique collaborative works for the show and to further his aim ‘to conquer all the surfaces of the world’.

UNFAIR Part 2: “Something Wicked This Way Comes” will be presented 2012 at WHISPER.

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WHISPER

Whisper is a new gallery focused on making art accessible to everyone, by producing and promoting fine art original prints, Whisper strives to support the process of printmaking in its truest form. Printmaking is one of the oldest artistic mediums, originating in China after paper was invented around AD 105, and although it has today advanced into an array of techniques and modern processes it remains an invaluable tool for producing innovative and evocative artwork. Whisper exhibits a program of contemporary artists working across print mediums to highlight the diverse methods involved.

For press enquiries and interview requests contact;
KATIE SCOTT on katie@wcommunications.co.uk

For further information, RSVP, invitation to private view and high resolution images for publication please contact;
RUTH WILKINSON on ruth@whisperfineart.co.uk

WHISPER
27/28 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DH
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7268 9858
Opening Times: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm or by appointment
INVITATION ONLY Private View THURSDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2011
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WhiteNoise

WhiteNoise is both agency and shop-window for both established and emerging artists’. Founded by David Dorrell in 2011 its first show was John Giorno’s STAR 69: DIAL-A-POEM-RELICS at the 54th Biennale in Venice.

‘DISFIGURINES’ by Claire Parsons

Private View
THURSDAY 7TH APRIL, 6.30pm - 10pm

Show runs from FRIDAY 8TH APRIL
to SATURDAY 30TH APRIL 2011

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Mass produced and often crudely manufactured ceramic figures have long jostled for space on tabletops and mantles in homes the length and breadth of Britain. ‘Disfigurines’ are Claire’s manipulated end product of such ceramics. Figures are subverted to satirise and pervert the traditional cloying and romanticized life portrayed in there traditional figures. Victorian idyllic scenes of a by-gone genteel age, where ladies take tea, couples play cards and young lovers steal kisses, are re-appropriated to portray the desperateness and humor of everyday life. They are often angry and sexual depicting a counter reality of drug abuse, sexual perversion, suicide, murder, darkness of mind and other modern malaise. What makes Claire’s work distinct is that the figures have been cleansed for the most part of surface decoration and pattern so they immediately lose the superficiality of charm and appeal. Model poses are re-appropriated and situations re-configured, to construct a new Hogarthian representation of life in porcelain.

Claire was born in London and works and plays there too. Studied at Goldsmiths, St Martins and The Royal Academy  – graduating at some point. She has worked throughout her career in a variety of mediums and techniques.

Broken Hearts Requiem (Still)
Signed Edition of 10
C-Type Hand Print
Price: £150 unframed | £250 framed

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BROKEN HEARTS REQUIEM by Phoebe Collings-James

Private View
THURSDAY 24TH MARCH, 6.30pm - 10pm

Show runs from FRIDAY 25TH MARCH
to THURSDAY 31ST MARCH, 2011

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Broken Hearts Requiem is a 16 screen video installation displaying an ode to the lonely. It is a look at the ways in which humans communicate sorrow in public and private and how emotions are universally translated into songs for everyone to attach their woes to.

The piece takes its direction from the sorrowful act of wailing which led the artist to youtube where she probed into public, commercial and ritualistic displays of this act.

The love song recited by both men and women, but most frequently wailed by the female has a poignant role when it comes to public and commercial wailing. It asks and often expects the audience to be able to tap into their own memory bank of past love. Pulling on the listener’s heart-strings, the pitch and melody resonate in a very basic and immediate way.

What is it to perform emotion? It is almost like a re-enactment, in many religions preaching and repetitive chanting are used as a way to drive people into an almost ecstatic state of wailing, whipping congregations into an emotional frenzy. Similar scenes can be witnessed at a concert with both singer and their “congregation” in a heightened state of emotion led by the lyrics over melodical weeping and screaming of empathy.

As with all of her work, Collings-James does not attempt to condemn or point fingers as to what is or isn’t a valid form of communication. She is interested in what both the viewer and performer get out of a process that seems almost cathartic at times. To sing a broken heart might help towards mending it?

The exhibition itself will be an experience. As you enter the darkened, enclosed space, the 16 faces of prominent female singers will slowly be revealed building to a crescendo of sound, and floor to ceiling visuals that will leave the viewer overwhelmed and the passer by fascinated.

Location: MEN Gallery – 30a Redchurch Street, London E2 7DP
Opening: Thurs 24th March 2011 / 6-9pm
Dates: Fri 25th March – Thurs 31st March 2011
Times: Daily noon – 6pm
Curated by: Lauren Jones (Art Barter)
Contact: lauren@artbarter.co.uk

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Phoebe Collings-James graduated with a first in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in 2009. Since then she has participated in group shows in London, Glasgow, Lisbon, Berlin and Beirut. Phoebe uses a range of mediums including illustration, video, photography, performance and installations. Often using found images from youtube and the internet her work is instantly engaging and can be subtly erotic and disturbing. She has been described as raw and intense as well as “a breath of fresh air in today’s mopey (art) scene of obsessive, passive introspectives.” (Dean Mayo Davies)

Phoebe was born in East London in 1987 where she continues to live and work.

www.phoebecollingsjames.com

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AVAILABLE WORK

To coincide with the exhibition, the artist has produced a photographic print edition as a memento to the show.

Title: Broken Hearts Requiem (Still)
Date: March 2011
Artist: Phoebe Collings-James
Description: C-Type Hand Print
Signed Edition of 10
Price: £150 unframed | £250 framed

‘Relic’ by Gavin Bennett
Show runs from THURSDAY 3RD MARCH
to THURSDAY 17TH MARCH, 2011

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12 ASSEMBLAGES ON THEMES OF LOVE, WAR, NATURE, MORTALITY, ART, CONSUMERISM AND THE POLITICS OF BEING, EACH WITH A UNIQUE, SPECIFIC ACCOMPANYING POETIC MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK.

Gavin Bennett, Royal College Of Art, 1972 describes himself as “the old master, known but not wanted, non-narrative multi-screen film maker, ghetto grotto installation performance artist, musesickall wordsmith, street clown, barely human stink bomb, gatherer and disperser of crowds, the loud hoarse whisper or garrulent rantor”.

GAVIN BENNETT (a.k.a Fegooish Ennym)
In a posterior era of eco mass Bennett’s messianal prayers to contemptorealities holy rubbish beat on to garbage like a dead heart or a flea from a heaith rug bugged to err rants. Visual + verbal phononyms big it up in outsiders’ neologisms + abound in a bun dance sounding off as symbols clash in Ali’s chemical cash clamour for glamour’s gash in it beggars belief, almost comical, the debtwriteus well to the left unenamoured off Brick Lane in the square mile of pretense of win doze pain.

Can good sensé preveil on Redchurch St., with chav angels again above lost leaders + the plod gods’ own goaled love of data’s conned trolls out of control below? The madam in the poet’s mind @ moz fears the slums. Can a normal I hear it to see it go so?

Like a ghost aghast gormless given form passed over in a choiceless voice, or a now disgusted, disguised geyser on fool’s fire extingwished iré in an east end boozer. Cool as hot can not get insighed, like insight’s bard code pissing on its own goat skin shoes in the barber shops of desire.

Bennett’s nuts are monk keys to the shape of the emperor’s bones to atone for the joy of his misery + genderus in the mute banality of neuter in between feather + fur their bricks kick ass some wear else, anon now + how like poise on extreme is equilibrium. Like a relic’s ease to seemen gone. Rock on!

I Love You featuring Anna Korzun (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £8,000.00
Edition of 2

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I Want To Fuck You featuring Anna Korzun (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £8,000.00
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Graitification in white #1 featuring Justine (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £5,000.00
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Graitification in red #1 featuring Justine (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £5,000.00
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night-moves closer #1 featuring Jude (2010)
Lenticular Framed
360mm x 480mm
Price: £7,000.00
Edition of 1

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Suki, fill me up featuring Suki (2010)
Lenticular Framed
360mm x 480mm
Price: £5,000.00
Edition of 3

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Daisy Don’t Stop The Dance featuring Daisy (2010)
Lenticular Framed
360mm x 480mm
Price: £9,000.00
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Blue &gold featuring Flossie (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £4,500.00
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‘I WANT TO FUCK YOU BY DERRICK SANTINI’

Private View
THURSDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2010, 6.30pm - 10pm
RSVP bakul@planb.uk.com

Show runs from FRIDAY 10TH DECEMBER
to SATURDAY 29TH JANUARY, 2010, 12 - 8PM

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‘Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price’.
Jean Baudrillard

The exhibition is a filmic, playful and voyeuristic series of works that are provocative with an innocence aesthetic, but with the ability to shock and become a confrontational statement (depending on the viewers sentiment). The artworks are various frames in length of lenticular photographic sequences, an extension to Santini’s considerable filmic photographic work. The show comprises of 8 lenticular artworks: 3ft x 4ft which are on display at The MEN Gallery, whilst others are being displayed in various locations around London (full details revealed December 1st).

Santini’s lenticular series of pole dancers Red Pole and White Pole is steeped in ‘sex’ - pole dancing being the staple for strip clubs and gentlemen’s clubs, however, captured as a constant visual sequence with no beginning or end, rather than itillate or ‘shock’ they produce a discordant harmony that engages the viewer as an unwitting voyeur, without consent.

I Want To Fuck You and I Love You, illuminated, work in unison as direct spoken pieces with the viewer - the subject of the work mouthing the constant  invitation and declaration, to entice, which then questions - what is ‘love’ - cutting through sentiments of love and sex, blurring the emotions for the viewer as they receive the dialogue as innocent passers-by.

This is a show of what seems like simple actions and sentiments, however, it carries deeper thoughts, dialogues and dilemmas; with questions that arise from the artists basic sequencing of his subjects that commandeer the viewer to be privy to what are very private and personal moments.

www.derricksantini.com

‘MICK ROCK: The ZIPPO Rehearsal Rooms’
THURSDAY 11TH - 18TH NOVEMBER 2010, 12 - 8PM

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‘Whats brown and sits on the stage? Show Business’.
Proverb

Mick Rock: Rock Music’ in association with Zippo @ Idea Generation Gallery
Mick Rock shoots live performance on Thursday 11th November 12pm onwards

Zippo has always had a long standing affiliation with music and by partnering with ‘Rock:Music’ Zippo showcases its rich heritage in music - essential is the bespoke Zippo Rehearsal Rooms @ The (MEN) Gallery. The Zippo Rehearsal Rooms will showcase emerging banhttp://neugalleries.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpds giving them the opportunity to raise their profile by rehearsing for free and being documented for their future failure/success. Live feeds will be streamed from rehearsals with highlights available as podcasts and downloads.

Mick Rock

Rock launched his career in 1972 with his portrait of an unknown David Bowie and spent the next four decades capturing the most fascinating  characters in rock music, he is celebrated as ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s’, with his images defining Rock’n’Roll. This outstanding exhibition coincides with the publication of Rock’s new book ‘Exposed:The Faces of Rock’n’Roll’ which includes previously unseen and unpublished ihttp://neugalleries.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpmages as well as rare portraits.

Mick Rock’s images are gritty and sexy which capture extreme performances from defiant artists, his portraits encapsulate the dawning of an era with the knack of then recreating the zeitgeist for succeeding decades; through his work with the underground musicians of the 80s, 90s and into the new millennium.

This retrospective exhibition @ Idea Generation is a journey through an exceptional career as well as musical history. He lived the life as well as documenteing it, always in the right place at the right time, Rock’s Terrible Trio photograph, the “party snap” as he calls it, captured David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed, and set him on the road to success. He became Bowie’s official photographer on tour and with access that no other photographer had at the time was able to document the creation of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust persona - “I got the pictures. Thank God I got them! There could have been other photographers, but there weren’t any!” - Mick Rock referring to capturing the first images of David Bowie.

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www.ideageneration.co.uk

‘MINI BARTER’
Mat Collishaw, Charlotte Dualé, Wolfgang Ganter, Isabelle Graeff, Phoebe Collings-James, Sarah Lederman, Polly Morgan, Boo Saville, Volker Sieben, and Tim Noble & Sue Webster
FRIDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2010, 6pm - 11pm
SATURDAY 16TH OCTOBER 2010, 11am - Late

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The Platform for Exchange Between Artists and the Public.

To coincide with Frieze art fair Art Barter are bringing you their very first MINI BARTER! East London’s Neu Gallery will be host to 10 artists selected from previous shows as well as two newcomers. Artists will include Mat Collishaw, Polly Morgan and Tim & Sue and you have just one night and one day to try your luck at bartering for their work, without the use of money!

Following the successful launch of Art Barter in London last November, which featured artists such as Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Gavin Turk; Art Barter held it’s second show in Berlin in June showing works by artists such as Saâdane Afif and Uwe Henneken. The next major show will be held in New York City, with a show at Envoy Enterprises from 9-12th December but just before that the second mini barter will take place in Miami to coincide with Basel art fair.

The Art Barter events revolves around the idea that artwork will be acquired by individuals through alternative means to money. Artists have always been familiar with the use of barter, from Picasso exchanging sketches for his meals, to hotels accepting art as payment for rent. However, the art barter event is unique in its promotion of such a form of exchanging in the current art market, and in the lasting working relationships that are being born out of it. Some of the previous exchanges include; 3 months of psychotherapy; website design; a gallop on a beautiful horse on the white sands of St. Andrews; designer Jewelry; and an all expense paid trip for two to the Bahamas. Please visit our website (artbarter.co.uk) for further examples.

There is a catch at Art Barter where you will not know which artwork belongs to which artist until after the show’s end. This creates a gamble for the public and will make people value the art for what it really is. Art Barter allows art to become available to a more diverse crowd rather than just those with disposable income and it is a fun and interactive way to become involved. Having to barter also entices the viewer to think about what they have that is unique to offer the artist. So whether you have a special talent or skill to offer or something that may be desirable to others, or if you just wish to view a great exhibition and try your luck with bartering, come down and become part of the first ever Mini Barter!

The way it works…
Each artist’s work is displayed in the exhibition with a unique number next to it. Viewers are invited to fill out barter forms with their offers on any work that they desire. These offers are then displayed for the duration of the show on a pin board creating bidding wars. At the end of the show the artists will choose from all the offers made on their work and will decide which (if any) offer they would like to exchange their work for.

PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR ITEMS FOR EXCHANGE TO THE SHOW! If the artist is interested in your offer we will be in contact for more information, pictures etc.

www.artbarter.co.uk

For more information please contact:
Lauren Jones: lauren@artbarter.co.uk
Alix Janta: alix@artbarter.co.uk