Art Map London: March 2014

SATURDAY 1 MARCH

Breese Little, 3-4:30pm lecture Adrian Searle 'Beyond Criticism'

Admission to the event is FREE but BOOKING is required http://eshop.lse.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=237&prodid=1146
Venue - The Wolfson Theatre, The New Academic Building, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ.
At a time when criticism fragments into a mosaic of the theoretical and the anaemic, into promotion, obscurantism and flim-flam, the extinction of the broadsheet critic looms ever closer. Yet there has never been more writing about art, and more of a readership for it. Nor has art ever had such a large audience. As mega-galleries rise, and auctions and art fairs parade a vulgar carnival of wealth and consumption, Searle asks who needs critics, who listens, why look, and why write and read.
This event forms part of LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2014, taking place from Monday 24
February - Saturday 1 March 2014, with the theme Reflections.

Ancient&Modern, 6-8pm reading party at Audrey Reynolds 'Thirteenth'

Closing party for Audrey Reynolds' exhibition 'Thirteenth' with poetry readings by Megan Watkins and Audrey Reynolds, and David Lillington reading from Nathalie Sarraute's first book Tropisms (1939).
Readings start at 6.30pm.

SUNDAY 2 MARCH

Encounter Fine Art, 8:15pm reception of Sungfeel Yun showcase hosted by Sketch

Encounter Fine Art is delighted to announce a showcase exhibition of the critically acclaimed Korean artist Sungfeel Yun at Sketch, Mayfair. The exhibition marks the engaging meeting of an internationally renowned contemporary venue with an equally inspiring practitioner. Sungfeel Yun’s installation series, Looking at the Real World from Within the Real World, signifies a complex meditation on the cosmos, the rhythms of the universe and our relation to them.

IMT, 6-9pm talk 'Art after You Tube'

The visual languages of popular web platforms, tools and technologies are having a profound effect on new generations of contemporary artists and audiences. To coincide with United We/I Stand Etc., IMT Gallery are hosting a discussion on the influence and use of image-based web technologies on creative practice. The panel will include Steven Ball, Rachel Falconer and Morgan Quaintance, and be chaired by Mark Jackson, the curator at IMT Gallery.

Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, How to Get Somewhere, 2012

TUESDAY 4 MARCH

noshowspace, 7pm artist's talk Daniel Sturgis in conversation with John Chilver

Daniel Sturgis will talk to artist John Chilver about his recent paintings in And then again.

Daniel Sturgis, 'And then again' installation view, noshowspace, London, 2014

WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH

Studio 1.1, private view 'Project LALO: Hello LA' group show

Artists: Monte Vista Projects, TopiaGould, Cindy Rehm, Allison Behrstock, Juliette Bellocq, Monique Prieto, Finishing School, Nancy Popp, Stacy Elaine Dacheux, Tyler Calkin plus 26 more artists

Serpentine Gallery, 8pm public talk Martino Gamper and Haim Steinbach in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn (£5/4)

Join Martino Gamper, Haim Steinbach and design critic Alice Rawsthorn in a conversation about display, exhibition-making and design.
Tickets: £5/4 available from the Gallery Lobby Desk or http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/talk-martino-gamper-haim-steinbach-alice-rawsthorn-tickets/103245

THURSDAY 6 MARCH

Raven Row, 5-9pm first thursday Control Stephen Willats. Work 1962–69

Stephen Willats was introduced to art as a teenage gallery assistant in 1958. By 1962 he was identifying himself as an artist, and producing drawings which embraced the vibrancy, idealism, and transdisciplinarity of sixties culture. Willats juggled the roles of social scientist, engineer and artist. He was especially interested in studying social interaction, using models derived from cybernetics, the hybrid post-war science of communication.

Carroll/Fletcher, 6:30-8:30pm private view John Akomfrah, Phoebe Boswell, Rashaad Newsome group show

Carroll / Fletcher is pleased to present a group exhibition that brings together the distinct but interconnected practices of John Akomfrah, Phoebe Boswell and Rashaad Newsome. Through media ranging from film, animation, performance, collage and sculpture, the three artists seek to explore the cultural frameworks and politics associated with identity. The exhibition considers the effects that our historical and cultural origins have both on a personal level and on the fabric of contemporary society.

Rashaad Newsome, King of Arms Tabard, 2013, leather and jewellery, 819 x 940 x 601 mm

The Graffiti Life Gallery, 6:30-8pm private view Kid Acne 'Adaptations'

Adaptations is a solo exhibition by UK Street Art stalwart and modern-day renaissance man, Kid Acne.
A celebration in printmaking and illustration, this exhibition explores the notions of sampling and remixing and aims to highlight the distinction between 'loving homage' and 'plagiarism' - arguably a
grey area within the art world today.

Part retrospective, Adaptations showcases selected artworks from the Kid Acne archives, which pay dividends to seminal moments in popular culture, such as his re-imagined versions of Wizbit, The Beastmaster, Paul's Boutique and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - many of which are being shown in London for the very first time. Alongside such pieces are new and exclusive works made specifically for the show. Expect a heady mix of 80's flashback and B-Boy decadence.

Richard Saltoun, 6-8pm private view Viennese Season: Part 1 - Actionism

Austin Desmond Fine Art, 6-8pm private view Viennese Season: Part 1 - Actionism

Artists: Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
Austin / Desmond Fine Art and Richard Saltoun Gallery announce a two-part series of Viennese art: Actionism and Feminism.
The season begins with Actionism, examining this sensational movement borne out of expressive action painting in Vienna in the late 1950s. The second, Feminism, will present the work of Valie EXPORT and Friedl Kubelka-Bondy, two artists using their body and the action of documentary photograph to subvert the traditional notion of the “great male artist”. As Actionists chose to challenge the mythology of traditional art mediums such as painting and sculpture so these two Feminist artists chose to challenge the hierarchy of the art establishment.
This is the first major survey of Viennese Actionism in the UK. The exhibition will present the work of Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Virtually over by 1970, the radical movement was short-lived but rich and dense in each artist’s output. Performance works - aktions - were at the heart of their work, extending the use and meaning of painting. Blood, animal carcasses, razor blades, and ropes were all used as implements to create these aktions.
The exhibition will include vintage photographs of performances by all four artists as well as one of the original surviving stretchers used by Nitsch, rare in its survival and that he only ever performed six aktions.

Günter Brus, Kopfbemalung, Aktion, Wien, 1964. Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery.

Boxpark, 6-9pm private view Chris Brock "Saints and Sinners" or "Heaven and Hell"

Known as an inspirational editorial and advertising photographer Chris Brock takes photography to another level. His vision of the world is unique and disquietingly raw which has lead him to work
with some of the world's biggest brands and publications.
The images are drawn from two different projects; "A Swelter of Saints" and "You Should Get Out More". The former is a study based on the baroque images of saints that can be found in cathedrals, churches and museums around the world but brought into a modern context and depicts a series of patron saints of everything from late sleepers, to artists, poulterers and rocket scientists.
The latter is a series of images of people who should literally get out more. Criminals in custody, serial killers, clairvoyants and model makers, people whose obsessions and practices keep them indoors, in basements and away from the prying eyes of the world. Together the projects present two counterbalances visual ideas: The holy and the hidden, those up above and those down below. Two different perspectives in two simple portrait formats.

The Nunnery, 6-9pm exhibition tour & late opening with Matthew Krishanu

7pm - exhibition tour
Another Country is an exhibition of new paintings by Matthew Krishanu and Cara Nahaul that explore contrasting notions of familiarity and strangeness.
Join artist Matthew Krishanu and Gallery Manager Karen Le Roy Harris on a guided tour of the show where they’ll present two different approaches to painting that look at themes of travel, dislocation and memory. A unique insight and journey into the paintings. Visitors will also have the opportunity to ask questions about the work on show.

Limoncello, 6:30-8:30pm private view 'Seeing, or thinking in the first place' group show

Artists: Vanessa Billy, Santo Tolone and Yonatan Vinitsky
…I think about how (and how much) materials have been processed before reaching me... I'm fascinated by how a refinery process can alter a substance extracted from the earth. Vaseline (for example) is a petroleum by-product, and we commonly use it in an intimate way; we smear it on our lips and skin, and in so doing (somewhat paradoxically) – the toxic becomes soothing, hydrating, protective...
…the piece takes me slowly to the right material to use. Sometimes, slowly, too slowly... and I often make more than one version of a work in different materials. I would say that materials are always a big challenge for me.
… I have an attraction to transparent materials such as glassine paper, glass, clear polyester film (melinex) and also finishes that similar in the effect, such as; gloss paint, gloss photograph finish, gloss lamination…

Gallery SO, 6-9pm private view Hans Stofer 'String Theory'

Gallery S O is pleased to present String Theory, an exhibition of new work by Hans Stofer. In this series of three-dimensional collages, the tension and balance between string and objects creates narratives from the miscellany of the everyday.
In String Theory’s three-dimensional collages, string takes on the same role. It is the physical manifestation of thought in the act of making. For each sculpture, a single length of string is used to bind together its disparate objects, but the expected order of construction is inverted: the string starts from the top – the head – and is worked downwards in a symbiotic intertwining of gravity’s pull and the grounding of airy idea in function. Fundamental to the form of Hans Stofer’s practice is this union of concept and material, improvisation and knowledge, intuition and learned skills. Creativity is
germinated in the mind but achieved in the act, filled with quixotic inventiveness and motile energy but also directed and connective.

String Theory No.9, 2013, Mixed Media, 45 x 30 x 25cm

Transition Gallery, 6-9pm private view 'Head Grammar' group show

Artists: Jay Erker, John Mills, James Irwin, Lisa Penny, Bern Roche Farrelly
Head Grammar is the first of two collaborative exhibitions between Transition Gallery, London and Weekend, Los Angeles (Project LALO). Each show is co-curated by the galleries and includes both LA and London based artists. Head Grammar explores linguistic tropes in art that transform, diffuse, layer, and expand notions of identity and consciousness. Using painting, sculpture, video, installation and performance, Head Grammar offers a revelatory and complex collection of works that construct a perceptual prism through which to see the world.

Art Below, 6-9pm private view 'Stations of the Cross' group show

Artists: Johan Andersson, Harry Cardross, Ricardo Cinalli, Chris Clack, Mat Collishaw, Hugo Dalton, Zavier Ellis, Nanacy Fouts, Paul Fryer, Alex Gene Morrison, Sebastian Horsley, Alison Jackson, Wolfe Lenkiewicz, Mc Llamas, Antony Micallef, Ben Moore, Gavin Nolan, Viktor Schroeder, Bran Symondson, James Vaulkhard

Art Below presents an exhibition of 20 artists representations of the Passion of Christ in London's St.Marylebone's Parish Church for 40 days, in support of the Missing Tom Fund. The works will also be on display to the public on billboard space across major London Underground Stations.

Berloni Gallery, 6-9pm private view Steve Sabella 'Fragments'

Hubertus Von Amelunxen, writer of Sabella’s upcoming monograph to be published by Hatje Cantz and the Academy of the Arts (Sept 2014), cites how his collages, “form a dazzling tableau of possible transitions and detachment processes between world and image, image and world. Sabella uses photography as an artistic language of existential exile. His relationship with the medium is penetrating.”Sabella came to terms with his exile preferring to remain in transition. As Vilém Flusser writes, “Emigres become free, not when they deny their lost homeland, but when they come to terms with it”. In his works, In Exile, he gives form to the symptoms or side effects of exile, where as in Cecile Elise Sabella, photographs of his daughter’s clothing are stitched to canvas mirroring the duality of exile––a simultaneous presence and absence. But, in Metamorphosis, he confronts the core components that shaped his feeling of alienation. As he writes, “The hard work was finding how to allow for a new transformation, while accepting that my DNA will always stay the same.” It was through the investigation of his state of exile, a process of self-interrogation and introspection, that Sabella was able to dig deeper into the relationship between images and the reality they create.

Sweet Art Collective, 6pm-late private view Sweet Art Collective 'Visions of Dr. H'

Following the success of their winter show ‘Freeze’, quirky art collective Sweet
‘Art are back with their next hotly anticipated show. Sweet'Art is a non-profit arts collective based in London, dedicated to the promotion of upcoming and established artists through exciting pop up art
events with a difference. This time they have teamed up with the popular bar and gallery venue Juno in
the heart of Shoreditch to host this one of a kind exhibition. ‘Visions of Dr H’ will be an exhibition dedicated entirely to portraiture of Dr. Huxtable. “Dr. Huxtable of the popular 80’s sitcom The Cosby Show?” I hear you ask. Well yes, we say, the very same! 15 Sweet ‘Art artists will be tackling the subject with the enthusiasm it deserves with portraits in varying styles, purely because it will just be awesome! There even promises to be a Dr. H interactive installation that mustn’t be missed.

Lazarides Gallery, private view Brett Amory 'Twenty-Four in London'

Lazarides is pleased to present Twenty-Four in London, a continuation of the critically acclaimed ‘Waiting’ series by American contemporary artist Brett Amory. Following his 2012 and 2013 exhibitions, Twenty-Four in San Francisco and Twenty-Four in New York, respectively, Amory’s first solo exhibition at Lazarides Rathbone will present twenty-four paintings of London's most iconic locations, including The National Museum, Abbey Road and The Blind Beggar alongside multimedia installations in their flagship gallery on Rathbone Place.
Amory’s creative process to this particular series involved over a month of research and observation, taking in the length and breadth of the nation’s capital by bicycle and documenting over forty locations with more than fifty hours of video and hundreds of photos at each place. From Kensington and Wimbledon to Hackney and Brixton, each painting portrays a localised arena featuring a diverse demographic of the city dwellers including night clubbers, commuters, school children and traders all going about their daily routine. Each unique setting is quietly and calmly depicted through the artist’s distinctive painterly brushstrokes and scenic anticipation.

Marlborough Fine Art, 6-8pm private view Cathie Pilkington 'Thing Soul'

Cathie Pilkington’s Siren calls to the viewer. Part shop-counter mannequin, part Odalisque in pantyhose, Siren is a queasily seductive object, soliciting the viewer’s desire for her to be alive. But her face has the mute indifference, the horrible forgetfulness, of a dummy…
Building on the success of her recent exhibition in the V&A’s Museum of Childhood, ‘Soul – Thing’ develops Pilkington’s use of dolls, toys, and other figurative objects.

Stour Space Gallery, 7-11pm private view 'Half Cut' group show

Artists: Victoria Browne, Umberto Giovannini, Nick Morley, Heidi Plant, Peter Rapp, Sean Starwars, Euan G. Stewart, Mark Andrew Webber
Half Cut - An exhibition of linocut and woodcut prints curated by Nick Morley (Linocut boy).
Bringing together artists from the UK, USA and Italy, Half Cut is a showcase of contemporary woodcut and linocut prints. The apparently simple technique of carving and printing a block of wood or linoleum gives rise to a multitude of possibilities.
The artists in the exhibition have been selected for their innovative and diverse approaches to the medium. Each artist’s hand is apparent in the printed images they produce; concept and method are intertwined.

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Vitrine, 6:30-8:30pm private view Wil Murray 'Please Boss Remember Me'

Canadian artist Wil Murray’s first UK solo exhibition. Spanning the past two years of his multi-faceted practise, the exhibition will include his large-scale three-dimensional planar paintings, multiple exposure collages, and recent hand coloured photographic works.

IMT Gallery, 12-9pm one day retrospective Filmarmalade presents Beth Fox 'My First Retrospective'

Filmarmalade are proud to present the first major retrospective of the self-seminized conceptual sculptor, film maker and general l’enfant terrible Beth Fox.
“Beth Fox’s work espouses a complex form of reflexive post-modern humour with influences as diverse as Kierkegaard and Woody Allen. Through the medium of sculpture and text, new variations are synthesised from both opaque and transparent meanings and what starts out as contemplation soon becomes manipulated into a hegemony of defeat, leaving only a sense of unreality and the unlikelihood of a new order.” August DeWitt (writer, intellectual, art critic, feminist, political activist and gender theorist)

Drawing Room, 7-8:30pm Richard Deacon in Conversation (£9.88)

Artist, and curator of Drawing Room exhibition Abstract Drawing, Richard Deacon in conversation with Drawing Room co-director, Kate Macfarlane. They will discuss Deacon's relationship to drawing in his own practice and his approach to curating Abstract Drawing.

Book ticket here http://goo.gl/7YpPxK

FRIDAY 7 MARCH

Danielle Arnaud Gallery, 6-9pm private view 'Enclosure' group show

Enclosure speaks of containment and control. It is the physical or conceptual creation of a bounded territory or zone. Physical or pictorial acts of enclosure imply an extreme selectivity, where what is out of the frame is separated by a void space, implying a hermetically sealed microcosm free from outside influence or interference. Ideas of separation and entrapment are mirrored by fantasies of sanctuary and escape – the suspect enchantment of a snow-dome, the utopian dreams engendered by a map taken as reality, the encapsulation of a romantic ideal within the impenetrable bounds of a picture, a package, a glass box, a screen.

Marion Coutts Everglade 2003

Union Gallery, 6-9pm private view Shane Bradford 'Meant to Be'

Union Gallery is pleased to announce ‘Meant To Be’, a solo show by gallery artist Shane Bradford. The exhibition features two of Bradford’s ‘Chime’ pieces alongside performance and text written by the artsists personal collaborator Neville Johnson.
In December 1910, Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, demonstrated the neon sign at the Paris Motor Show*. On that day he set in motion a series of events: he launched an industry, coined a new aesthetic for the 20th Century, and eventually enabled the creation of Linton Signs London Ltd which, one hundred years later, led Shane Bradford to Essex looking for neon tube off-cuts that were, somehow, meant to be.

Parasol Unit, 7pm Bodyscape: Screenings and Performance (£6/5)

Activating the gallery space in a performative way, this evening exploring the relationship of the body to its environment will showcase JocJonJosch's new performance and video installation from their ‘Head to Head’ series; site-specific and interactive performance of ‘Prosthetic Aesthetics’ by Lawrence Lek; and screening and performance from Ilona Sagar’s series ‘Human Factors’.

Project/Number, 6-9pm private view 'Project LALO: P/N/16' group show

Artists: Courtney Arwin, Marie D’Elbée, Roni Feldman, Kio Griffith, Max Presneill, Jonny JJ Winter, Light box commission L/B/10 by Giorgio Sadotti

Campbell Works, 8-10pm private view 'Project LALO: To Klingon or not to Klignon' group show

Artists: Ichiro Irie, Susanne Melanie Berry, Max Presneill, Lena Wolek, Aaron Dadacay, Dallas Seitz, Mimei Thompson
“To Klingon Or Not To Klingon: Artists From Los Angeles, London and Other Parts of the Universe”, is about aliens. Not space aliens, but earth aliens. The show attempts to deconstruct this very notion of city and national identity, and suggest that we are in some respects, all aliens to each other, and in this age of globalization and advanced communications, on the other hand, we are perhaps not very foreign to each other after all.

Lena Wolek, Dummies 2014

Bearspace Gallery, 6-9pm private view 'Post-net: Bad Romance'

Artists:Harry Meadows, Calum Crawford, Chris Day, Nicolas Sassoon
At a stage when the jump between online and IRL is so hazy and indefinable it seems apt that artists are working around themes which flicker between the two with ease. The rise of terms such as Post-Internet have brought with it an inherent critique and scrutinised vision on how the Internet has become embedded within art practices. Once a destination in and of itself, the web has become slowly engrained into our lives such to the point where wearable tech and empathetic objects[1]are becoming the next hyper leap into an all connected, Internet drenched world. Within this system artists have become the leaders in a producer-consumer space feeding off the distributions networks, waterfall feeds of image reverie and snowballing networks. In an age where image consumption has now taken the place of eating habits as our premium vice, the effect mutates into art objects as 'Internet aware' products, on the thinning knife-edge of on/offline, where influence from an online aesthetic has trickled back into reality like some endless narcissistic loop. Now that image hierarchies have essentially been flattened artists lie in the precarious state to filter, remix and repurpose imagery, whilst also inherently working the game of networked image distribution whereby their work naturally flows into torrent of image streams.

SATURDAY 8 MARCH

Institute of Jamais Vu, 6-10pm private view 'Project LALO: Tip the Wink' group show

Artists: Shiva Aliabadi, The Black Dogs, Helen Cahng, Phil Chang, Michelle Chong, Ginny Cook, Greg Curtis, Drew Dunlap, Rashell George, Amanda Katz, Allison Peck, Joshua Rickards, Kim Schoen, Stephaine Taylor

Serpentine Gallery, 3pm Saturday talks Rebecca Lewin on Martino Gamper 'Design is a state of mind'

Exhibitions Curator Rebecca Lewin leads a tour of Martino Gamper: design is a state of mind, at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.

TUESDAY 11 MARCH

Parasol Unit, 7pm performance Canan Tolon 'Listen'

Current and alumni composers from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama respond to the Canan Tolon exhibition. Six new pieces will be performed live for the first time, offering visitors a chance to experience an evening of striking musical responses that explore Tolon's works. The pieces will be performed by musicians from the Guildhall School.

Zeitgeist Arts Projects, 6-8:30pm private view 'The Distance Between' group show

Artists: Katrina Blannin, Rosalind Davis, Jonny Green, Mandy Hudson, Evy Jokhova, Simon Leahy-Clark, Srinivas Surti & Annabel Tilley
Six months on from The Zeitgeist Open 2013, artists and curators, Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley are curating a new show: The Distance Between. Annabel Tilley says: The Distance Between explores just that: the distance between - and the individual tensions and connections found within - eight artists and their works.’ Rosalind Davis adds: ‘ What resonates is each artist’s careful and considered execution, only made possible by their involved and critical engagement with their subject matters.’

WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH

GRAD Gallery, 6-8pm Dziga Vetrov Night (£5/3)

Join us for an evening celebrating the life and work of Soviet film pioneer Dziga Vertov, and the opportunity to view some of his personal effects. More details coming soon. The talk will be followed by drinks in the gallery.

THURSDAY 13 MARCH

Anise Gallery, 6-9pm private view Thom Gorst 'Open and Shut'

Ruination and the Maritime preside over Thom Gorst’s latest collection of work as he returns to Anise Gallery this March. The two themes are especially apposite today, as major exhibitions currently address them both. At Tate Britain ‘Ruin Lust’ is a transhistorical exhibition that covers our interest in ruin from its roots in the 18th Century up to contemporary artists who, like Thom, situate beauty in the remains of modernity: in the Edgelands that Farley and Symmons Roberts wrote about; in the derelict London that John Savage photographed, in the abandoned mental hospitals and factories that urban explorers photograph and, in the recently abandoned ships that he now paints.

Artangel, 6:30-8:30pm book launch & conversation Susan Phillipsz (£7/5)

To celebrate the publication of You Are Not Alone, Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz will be in conversation with Steven Connor, contributing author and Professor of English at University of Cambridge. The book showcases ten works by the Glasgow-born sound artist that have been presented around the world, including her 2010 Artangel project, Surround Me. A Song Cycle for the City of London.

Ceri Hand Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm private view Eleanor Moreton 'Tales of Love and Darkness'

If one of Bluebeard’s eight wives had trusted the old murderer and left the bloody chamber well alone, would the couple have lived into comfortable old age? If Psyche had not doubted the love of Cupid, shining light on him as he slept, would the potential of their love have remained unrealised? Both stories address the issues of love, trust and darkness with very different consequences.

Maria Stenfors, 6-8pm private view Astred Svangren solo show

Maria Stenfors is delighted to present Astrid Svangren’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Astrid Svangren was born in Sweden in 1972 and lives and works in Copenhagen. She graduated from Malmö Art Academy in 1998.

Cell Project Space, 6-8pm private view 'Pre-Owned: Looks Good Man' curated by Morgan Quaintance

Artists: Kathleen Daniel, Gary Eastwood, JGM1138, Tony Law, John Lawrence, Eva & Franco Mattes, Sheldon Nadelman, Aura Satz, Michael Smith
Pre Owned: Looks Good Man is a group exhibition inspired by temporary networks of association and meaning that are produced when culturally aware web surfers visit disparate websites, or drift through the internet. It seeks to use the characteristics of this browsing, specifically drawing on recurrent themes of search that seem to direct such activity, as a curatorial model informing the selection criteria for artworks on display.

Gazelli Art House, 6-8pm private view 'Red Tape and Window Project'

Artists: Stanley Casselman, Hyo Myoung Kim
From 14th March Gazelli Art House will present a diverse outlook on the crossover between classical fine art and new media. The exhibition titled Red Tape will present new works by New York based artist Stanley Casselman (America) and London based artist Hyo Myoung Kim (South Korea), drawing on the cyclical nature of creative input and output. By referencing the predecessors, the exhibition questions how far can contemporary techniques overtake and outweigh that which was created and explored in the past - is it all a matter of conceptual strength backing a familiar image, or do we require a complete break away from tradition and the mundane?

Kate MacGarry Gallery, 6-8pm private view Francis Upitchard soloshow

Kate MacGarry is delighted to announce Francis Upritchard's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Since her first exhibition in 2003, Traveller’s Collection, Upritchard has experimented with the theme of display, evident in her sensitive and considered arrangements of figures, glasswork, textiles and ceramics.
Upritchard's new, larger-scale figures occupy a world that is at once medieval and futuristic. These painted sculptures, or, perhaps, sculpted paintings, draw on the gothic tradition of Erasmus Grasser and Lucas Cranach as much as contemporary folk and psychedelia. They are slanted archetypes such as the withered fool or the haute couture blind man. They are silent and meditative, familiar yet distant. Despite their elusiveness, they abound in presence.

Francis Upritchard, Mandrake, 2013

Dalla Rosa Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm private view Benjamin Bridges 'Pythagoras Adrift'

dalla Rosa is delighted to present Pythagoras Adrift, Benjamin Bridges first solo exhibition at the gallery. Working on canvas, board, and paper the artist has created a new body of work that focuses on compositional balance, pairings of colours, line and application of paint. Bridges’ recent paintings – especially the ones on canvas – explore ways of creating texture, using paint in a much looser manner to reveal his layering technique in a less controlled way. Structures defined by neat lines are counterbalanced by washed-down backgrounds that emphasize the perception of liquid drift.

Drawing Room, 1:30-6pm Abstract Drawing Seminar (£35/28)

An afternoon of presentations and in conversations exploring ideas presented in Abstract Drawing. Including contributions from Richard Deacon, Anna Lovatt, David Batchelor, Emma McNally, Michelle Cotton, David Austen and Alison Wilding.
Book tickets here http://goo.gl/nPxWfT

FRIDAY 14 MARCH

Rowing Projects, 6-9pm private view 'A Speculum That Shines' group show

Artists: Alastair MacKinven, Dawn Mellor, John Russell, Paul Sharits, Jim Shaw, Cathy Wilkes
This quotation suggests a dualism, a divine visionary union with god and an illuminated instrument for dilating and peering inside bodily orifices. In turn, these two readings evoke some of the well worn dichotomies that underpin the history of religion and thought: body and spirit, physical and metaphysical, sacred and profane, subject and object.

Paul Sharits, Rapture, 1987, courtesy The Artist's Estate and LUX, London

FOLD Gallery, 6-9pm private view 'Enantiodromia' group show

Artists: Simon Callery, Lawrence Carroll, Angela de la Cruz, Onya McCausland
This exhibition of paintings considers material as a cue for perceiving the world in an age of extreme image saturation. The emphasis on material over image is a counterpoint to the tyranny of the screen that realigns the visceral properties of matter as new potent narrative ‘actants’ for the 21st century.

Parasol Unit, 7pm discussion panel 'Personal Archeology' (£5/6)

Family history is a rich source for artists, and the poets Sue Rose, Anna Robinson and Hannah Lowe all mine this seam to produce powerful narratives. Join them in a discussion exploring how they use memory and archive to turn private reminiscence into public statement. The event is hosted by Hercules Editions, publishers of Sue Rose's Heart Archives, and chaired by poet and Hercules Editions publisher Tamar Yoseloff.

Chandelier, 6:30-9pm private view 'London Dust'

Artists: Rut Blees Luxemburg and Keef Winter
This exhibition investigates the building site's boundaries and the relationship to the computer-generated visualisations that wallpapers them. Through a series of photographs and a film, Rut Blees Luxemburg examines the seduction of these images and their connections to the dusty entropy of the building materials and urban scenes that frame them. Keef Winter, referencing the contrasting qualities of this matter, responds to the urban materiality of the city, creating a viewing structure for Luxemburg's film and a unique sculpture simultaneously.

SATURDAY 15 MARCH

Serpentine Galleries, 3pm Saturday Talks Emma Enderby on Haim Steinbach 'Once again the world is flat'

Assistant Curator Emma Enderby leads a tour of the exhibition Haim Steinbach: once again the world is flat., focusing on the artist's process in the preparation of the exhibition.

TUESDAY 18 MARCH

Breese Little, 6-9pm private view Robert Nicol 'The shadow of a God'

The Shadows of a God is a presentation of Robert Nicol’s disorientating paintings and ceramics in which polite genres are rattled in his appropriation of small-scale media.

WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH

Ancient&Modern, 6-8pm private view Salome Ghazanfari 'Off the Wall'

Ancient & Modern is proud to present 'Off the wall' an solo exhibition by Berlin based artist Salome Ghazanfari showing wallpapers and sculptures together with a performance during the opening.

Drawing Room, 6:30-8pm Reading Group: Abstract Drawing (£5)

An informal session providing an opportunity to discuss themes and issues raised in our current exhibition AbstractDrawing, using short extracts from contemporary art theory texts as a starting point for the discussion.

Book tickets here http://goo.gl/eifHUS

P21 Gallery, 6:45-8pm reading group The World and the World

Contemporary Iranian Drama Quartet: A Journey North, by Amir Reza Koohestani and Mahin Sadri with Nina Mima and Bita Mafizadeh.

Carl Freedman Gallery, 6-8pm private view Sebastian Stohrer solo show

THURSDAY 20 MARCH

Pace Gallery, 6-8pm private view Liang Yuanwei solo show

Pace London is pleased to present Liang Yuanwei’s first solo exhibition with the gallery at 6-10 Lexington Street from 21 March to 26 April 2014. The Tension between a Bow and an Elephant will include eleven of Liang Yuanwei’s recent oil paintings that deepen both her formal and conceptual investigations of process and perception.

Work Gallery, 6-8pm private view Phil Bergerson 'American Artifacts'

Both documentary photography and cultural documentary, Bergerson's portrait of a chaotic urban landscape reveals the scattered remnants of the American dream.
Since 1995, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has made numerous extended road-trips throughout the United States, criss-crossing the continent in search of the scattered remnants of the ‘American Dream’.
American Artifacts presents an extract from this sweeping topographical survey. Bergerson’s photographs unearth liminal spaces inscribed with the residue of human behaviour and surplus cultural production: places where detritus, disappointments and desires collide in shop window displays, hand-painted mural and crudely made signs. Operating as both documentary photographer and cultural commentator, Bergerson draws on the American social landscape tradition to assemble a complex and poetic photographic portrait of a nation in transition.

Pocatello, Idaho, 2007 Courtesy of the artist.

Rosenfeld Porcini gallery, 8pm Cord-Cell-Cube performance by Bongsu Park (£15)

CORD – CELL – CUBE is a new performance piece by Korean artist Bongsu Park featuring live music and dance – in collaboration with choreographer Yoomi Ahn. This new piece forms part of the series of previous video works that include CUBE and CORD. Park collaborates with choreographers to create intricate compositions where movement is narrated through space, sound and image. However this exploration is given an added complexity by using sculpture within the performance. This unique concept of merging dance and installation derives from her need to comment on the perennial tension that is at the core of all human relationships, the need for union but also solitude. Her works manage to be both extremely contemporary yet also timeless. The performance begins at 8:00pm and will last 60 minutes with intermission.

Alison Jacques Gallery, 6-8pm private view Tomory Dodge solo show

Tomory Dodge (b. Denver, CO, 1974) trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, and the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
Recent exhibitions include To Live and Paint in LA, Torrance Art Museum, California (2012)Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2010); a solo presentation at Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2010); and Directions to a Dirty Place, with Denyse Thomasos, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina (2013). Dodge will be participating in a new solo exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery in March 2014 and Painters’ Painters at Saatchi Gallery, London in mid-2014.

IMT Gallery, 5-9pm AAS | The Cult of Possible Elements

All Everywhere All The Time, AAS creates itself through chance. AAS are SAGE ASH AND COPPER FIRE, bringers of the drone, extra-human changelings, scourge of the future.
The Cult of Possible Elements:
The voice intones, a hand inscribes symbols on the body, the eye witnesses and enjoys the pain. “They’re Dogon eggs,” says Félix, holding his testicles in his hand. “Just hold them in your hand and you’ll get to the Body without Organs.”
It’s by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Thanks,
The eternal spirit of AAS

AAS, Syringe Drone (sacred dose) ritual, 2012

Kristin Jellegjerde Gallery, 6:30-9pm private view 'Trade Roots'

Artists: Dawit Abebe, Faig Ahmed, Phoebe Boswell
Trade Roots (21 March – 20 April) explores the ways in which cultures meld, adapt, and fuse together, through charcoal drawings, paintings and textile works. The artists examine the impact of new technologies, the deconstruction and reconstruction of tradition, and the evolution of ritual – and how these all blend with various cultural influencers to create new, unique, vibrant forms.

FRIDAY 21 MARCH

Ben Oakley Gallery, 6:30-9:30pm private view Barry Bish 'Home Ward Bound'

A self taught artist, Bish has been working in oil for over 20 years, his work is made up of colourful dabs of paint squeezed directly from the tube onto the canvas, building the image up layer by layer creating rich and heavily textured paintings that have a naive and nostalgic feel about them. They reflect his own experiences and style with the warmth of the Californian sun where Bish resided and exhibited for a number of years.

SUNDAY 23 MARCH

Zabludowicz Collection, 3pm guest spot ELF & Martina Mullaney - Artist/Mother/Practice

For this Guest Spot, East London Fawcett group (ELF) have invited artist Martina Mullaney to lead a discussion, Artist/Mother/Practice, that explores impediments to art practice for the artist with children. This workshop aims to identify and explore forms of everyday sociality that make the woman artist with children invisible. Does the art and cultural world now feel closed to you because you are the primary or sole care giver? Do you feel intellectually deprived since becoming a mother? Is this because intellectually orientated events do not welcome the presence of your small child? Would you like to study an exhibition without your small child? Would you like the option to? Would you like to attend a curator’s gallery talk, (for mothers and babies) during gallery opening times? Are you afraid to tell your gallerist that you are thinking of having a baby? Have you been dropped by your gallery since having your baby?

TUESDAY 25 MARCH

Chisenhale Gallery, 7pm presentation by Sabel Gavaldon 'Museum of Gesture'

A presentation by curator Sabel Gavaldon on his exhibition and ongoing research project, exploring the potential of gesture and style as forms of semiotic resistance, adopted by subordinate groups and political minorities. Gavaldon will talk about the impact of the moving image on the scientific representation of gesture, as well as its relation to the colonial economies of modernity. He will also present the work of artists who excavate political histories and cultural struggles that traverse the different languages of gesture, style and bodily attitudes, including Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Mark Leckey, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, and Ultra-red, focusing on their engagement with social practices such as the House/Ballroom scene.

WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH

Hus Gallery, 6-8pm private view 'The Back of Beyond' group show

Hus Gallery is pleased to announce The Back of Beyond, an exhibition of new and recent works by Adam Bainbridge, Sam Irons and Neil Raitt. Through the diverse mediums of drawing, photography and painting, the exhibited artists explore the possibility of a reality beyond what is readily seen. This frequently involves the mutation, reconstitution and repetition of an image or object in order to alienate it from its origin, thus allowing for a new order of visual association to take place.

THURSDAY 27 MARCH

Charlie Smith London, 6:30-8:30pm private view Sam Jackson 'Colossal Youth'

‘Colossal Youth (Part 2)’ represents the second phase of a body of work that takes as its starting point the topography of youth sub-culture, with the first phase being Jackson’s recent solo presentation at Volta New York. Influenced by both contemporary and historical high and low culture, Jackson draws here on the iconic photography of Derek Ridgers. Documenting street and club culture in the 1970’s and 80’s, Ridgers surveyed the vanguard of punk, skinheads and new romantics. The raw urgency and do-it-yourself attitudes embedded within these movements are mirrored in Jackson’s instinctively guttural paintings, where his portraits and figures are hewn with text that recalls rough, homemade tattoos and graffiti. The text represents a cognitive statement and a definitive point of reference while the subjects themselves project a sense of contemplative melancholy.

Standpoint Gallery, 6-8:30pm private view 'Vorkurs' group show

Artists: Adam Burton, Paul Bailey, Edward Cotterill, Ruth Ewan, Georgie Manly, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Adam J B Walker & Carla Wright
This project brings together work from artists for whom education and learning are subjects of investigation. Through the processes and methodologies of art-making, workshops and participatory discussions, traditional and alternative ideas of education are explored. The exhibition is comprised of sculpture, print, performance and text.
Vorkurs is the name of the preliminary course undertaken by every student at the Bauhaus, the educational philosophies that informed the course have had an impact on the way we think about knowledge and learning both in the arts and wider society. Methods used on the Vorkurs course, seen as radical at the time are now incorporated into mainstream art education*. Similarly, the tension between open, experimental learning approaches and the standardisation and assessed outcomes of a curriculum remain relevant.

Richard Saltoun, 7pm Screening of Gunter Brus videos

Zabludowicz Collection, 7-9pm Eternal City: an event with artist John Timberlake

A live event in response to Infinite City by artist John Timberlake exploring the city and its relationship to time.
Booking recommended.

FRIDAY 28 MARCH

Anise Gallery, 7pm artist tour 'Open and Shut' by Thom Gorst

Join the artist Thom Gorst on a tour of the Anise gallery exhibition of his most recent works.

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