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Spike Island

Spike Island presents:
Mark Lewis
Howlin’ Wolf

Mahali O’Hare
Kindling Wood

INTER Exchange:
Helsinki to Bristol and back again
Olli Keränen, Terhi Heino, Tanja Koistila, Karen Di Franco, Toby Huddlestone, John Lawrence & Lisa Scantlebury
April 06 – May 27, 2007

Spike Island: centre for the production and exhibition of contemporary visual art. A national flagship project, a £2.25m refurbishment designed with architects Caruso St John, has just been completed.

From April 06 – May 27 2007 Spike Island presents three exhibitions by Mark Lewis, Mahali O’Hare and seven artists who have set up an exchange between Spike Island and Finland.

In 2007 the Residency Programme will host: Ruth Claxton (UK), Can Alte (Turkey), Andre Sousa (Portugal), Sonia Boyce (UK), David Blandy (UK), Becky Shaw (UK).

Mark Lewis’ films are remarkable not only for their rich and highly seductive qualities, but also for their ability to undermine those characteristics that define mainstream and avant-garde cinema. The title of this exhibition, Howlin’ Wolf, is perfectly suggestive of a set for a horror movie. Lewis plays with this sense of anticipation, perhaps in a tribute to Hitchcock, a tendency which is evident in his other film works where something, somewhere, is almost certainly happening in the background. Spike Island is delighted to be showing a series of works by Mark Lewis that include Rear Projection (Molly Parker) and Rear Projection (Golden Rod), commissioned by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in partnership with the British Film Institute and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo. These works were funded by Film London through the London Artists’ Film and Video Awards and Arts Council England. Other works have been made available courtesy of the artist and th
e Arts Council Collection.

Mahali O’Hare presents a series of new paintings in Kindling Wood. Her paintings are small. Their size that makes every minute detail vitally important, from the depth of the stretcher, to the edge and fold of the canvas. The way in which they are hung in the space does not instruct a narrative but implies connections between images, images that seem to have been painted somewhere beneath the surface of the paint. O’Hare is sparing with her information yet we know that each work has emerged from photography, not a large glamorous silky image but the slightly dog eared photograph that might be found in the pages of an old book. O’Hare’s paintings depict a certain way that we might remember things, distant yet intimate. Kindling Wood is a Spike Island commission and Mahali O’Hare is the first recipient of the Rootstein Hopkins Award.

INTER Exchange – Helsinki to Bristol and back again, brings together the work of three artists from Helsinki and four artists from Bristol: Olli Keränen - Terhi Heino -Tanja Koistila - Karen Di Franco - Toby Huddlestone - John Lawrence - Lisa Scantlebury. After completing a research trip to Helsinki in February 2006, artist Toby Huddlestone worked with Karen Di Franco to develop this exchange initiative. The Finnish artists traveled to Bristol in March to develop a series of new works for exhibition through a period of residency. In May, the British group will travel to Finland where they will work in the Cable Factory in Helsinki and at Galleria Huuto. Throughout the process the artists will develop a programme of events, screenings and talks that will take place in various venues in each city. This project has been made possible through funding and support from FRAME, HIAP, Spike Island, STATION and Arts Council South West.

From May 04-07 2007 Spike Island presents the annual Open Weekend which gives the public access to over seventy studios accommodating a wide range of artists, including Eamon O’Kane, Mariele Neudecker, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Andrew Mania and many others.

Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road
Bristol BS1 6UX, UK
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk

For more information go to: http://www.spikeisland.org.uk

DADDY

DADDY
Number 1, 96 pages

http://www.daddythemagazine.com

Javier Peres is very pleased to present the inaugural issue of DADDY, a quarterly journal of art published in an edition of 2000.

DADDY is an image-based publication made just for you.

DADDY is available at Peres Projects Los Angeles (969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, California, US); Peres Projects Berlin (Schlesische Str. 26, 10997 Berlin, Germany); Art Metropole, Toronto; The MOCA Store, Los Angeles; Printed Matter, Inc., NY; PRO QM, Berlin, Germany.

For further information or reproductions please contact Kathy Garcia at tel. (213) 617-1100 or daddy@daddythemagazine.com

For more information go to: http://www.daddythemagazine.com

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore

Out Now: Contemporary Art in Singapore

Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and
Eugene Tan
ISBN 978-981-05-6461-2
23cm x 28cm

For enquiries / mail order, call +65 6340 9102
or email icas@lasalle.edu.sg

LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) is pleased to inform you of the launch of Contemporary Art in Singapore, a book that seeks to introduce the general audience to the development of contemporary art in Singapore from the 1970’s till the present day.

Curated and written by Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and Eugene Tan, Contemporary Art in Singapore features works by established and emerging artists who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary art practice including Cheo Chai-Hiang, Heman Chong, Chua Ek Kay, Amanda Heng, Jeremy Hiah, Ho Tzu Nyen, Salleh Japar, Khiew Huey Chian, Kill Your Television (KYTV), Koh Nguang How, Zai Kuning, kAI Lam/Zulkifle Mahmod/Pink Ark, Jane Lee, Luis Lee, Lee Wen, Vincent Leow, Jason Lim, Lim Shing Ee, Susie Lingham, Francis Ng, Matthew Ngui, Donna Ong, Ana Prvacki, Milenko Prvacki, Rizman Putra, Colin G Reaney, Jeremy Sharma, Shirley Soh, Tan Kai Syng, Margaret Tan, Michael Tan, The Artists Village (TAV), Suzann Victor, Ian Woo, Woon Tien Wei, Juliana Yasin and Ye Shufang.

With incisive explanatory texts on each artist’s seminal works, methodologies, critical positions, key biographical points and significant exhibitions alongside visual essays, the book is an insightful overview of the burgeoning contemporary art practice in Singapore and its relationship with the international art world over the last three decades.

While there has been a considerable level of critical discussion and analysis of contemporary art in Singapore over this period, Contemporary Art in Singapore is one of the few systematic attempts to theoretically and historically contextualise it.

Contemporary Art in Singapore is published by LASALLE’s Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, with support from the National Arts Council (NAC) of Singapore, in conjunction with the Singapore Art Show.

PUBLICATION INFO
Contemporary Art in Singapore
Gunalan Nadarajan, Russell Storer and Eugene Tan
ISBN 978-981-05-6461-2
23cm x 28cm

For enquiries / mail order, call +65 6340 9102 or email icas@lasalle.edu.sg

Note on the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore

Since its formation in 2004 as a division of LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Singapore has positioned itself at the forefront of research, creation, interpretation and exhibition of international and Asian contemporary visual arts, media arts and design.

Through research, conferences, publications and exhibitions, ICA Singapore seeks to forge a network of relationships with artists, curators, researchers and institutions both in Asia and internationally, and be a catalyst for their creative expression and active engagement with their respective audiences.

For more information go to: http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/secondary.html