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“You’d want to slit your own throat if you started to make paintings like Tuymans …………will someone buy him some colours and a ruler”
Damien Hirst in an interview with Turps Banana. March 2005.

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Turps Banana is a revolutionary new art magazine. This full colour magazine concentrates exclusively on painting and is written predominantly by practicing painters. Uniquely the editorial remit carries a no advertising policy so there is no distraction from the ranging debate about contemporary painting.

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In this issue:
Andrew Child revisits George Baselitz hero paintings of the 60’s through US author Thomas Pynchon’s seminal novel Gravity’s Rainbow

British Pop legend Tom Phillips creates a biography of his latest painting in an intimate
diarised feature.

Established Scottish figurative painter Jock McFadyen discusses the work of the Boyle Family in the light of Mark Boyle’s contentious statement that he saw the constructions as ‘paintings‘

Mathew Weir fathoms the violence in bad girl painter Dawn Mellor’s recent London show.

New Yorker Ellen Altfest interviews pioneering ninety year old Sylvia Sleigh about the reversal of the male gaze in her portraits of men whilst Annabel Thomas explores Walter Sickert’s Camden
Town nudes.

Leigh Clarke uncovers unexpected Hogarth murals in St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.

Geraint Evans introduces the solitude of Covadonga Valdes landscapes and Jeffrey Dennis explores the topography of Brian Sayers table top still lives.

David Humphrey exposes his one-way collaboration with Dwight Eisenhower in ‘Ike and Me’
Contributing editor David Leeson examines the work of Carol Rhodes at her show at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art.

Chantal Joffe describes her own relationship to the paintings of Alice Neel.

Reviews include: Live Undead at Transmission in Glasgow, Hypersurface at Rod Barton Invites, London, Tipping Point at Purdy Hicks Gallery and Joseph Wright of Derby at the Walker Art
Gallery Liverpool.

In previous issues:
In George Condo’s Elite Pathology by Nigel Cooke, the New York painter insisted that the only way Nigel Cooke could complete an unfinished painting, was by the inclusion of an owl “with an arrow piercing it’s eyeball”.

Colin Smith interviews American master Wayne Thiebaud in ‘The Difference Between a Wolf and a Dog’. In turn Wayne Thiebaud writes about his life long admiration for Georgio Morandi.

Also in a ranging interview with Damien Hirst about the artist’s recent figurative paintings, he describes how ’weirdly’ George Baselitz recently bought one of his ‘spin paintings’ and his continuing dismay at the Luc Tuymans influence on painting.

Turps Banana, 45 Coronet Street, London N1 6HD | Editors Marcus Harvey and Peter Jones

Chisenhale Gallery

ANTHEA HAMILTON: GYMNASIUM
29 MAY - 13 JULY 2008

OPENING TIMES
WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY, 1:00 - 6:00PM
THURSDAYS 5 JUNE AND 3 JULY, 1:00 - 9:00PM
ADMISSION FREE

http://www.chisenhale.org.uk

In her first public solo commission in London, Anthea Hamilton uses the history of the gymnasium as a conceptual framework in which to situate her work.

The word gymnasium, originally meaning ‘place to be naked’, was first used in ancient Greece to describe a site for both physical and intellectual education. For the ancient Greeks gymnasia were designated places for exercise (usually performed naked), bathing and studies, founded on the belief that physical education and cognitive learning were of equal importance. Hamilton’s exhibition develops from her interest in this ancient arena of physical prowess, aesthetic appreciation of the body and intellectual pursuits, as well as from contemporary gym culture.

Hamilton’s eclectic formal vocabulary intersperses a diverse array of found objects with fragmented elements of figurative sculpture created by means of her characteristic ‘cut-out’ technique. Silhouettes of legs and arms – Hamilton’s own in many cases – populate her immersive installations imbuing them with a performative potentiality. As these figurative proxies assume the role of protagonists, the assembled objects become props in abstract narrative scenarios. The physical appeal of the work’s materials and construction leads the viewer into a vividly realised but unstable psychological territory through Hamilton’s use of humour, eroticism, deft substitutions and juxtapositions.

In Gymnasium, Hamilton develops several motifs particular to her practice. Her recurrent use of the ‘cut out’ is brought to bear on Chisenhale’s architecture, particularly on the entrance which has been transformed into a monumental cut-out which frames the space beyond and dramatises visitors’ passage into the gallery. Alternative and unusual vantage points are also provided by means of an exaggerated podium-like construction which functions simultaneously as an obstacle and a potential means to gain an elevated overview of the exhibition. The careful juxtaposition of objects is articulated through choreographing contrasting surfaces – hard against soft, natural against synthetic – creating a tension which binds together Gymnasium’s seemingly wayward panoply of objects. The final form and arrangement of her installation attempts to create an ongoing sense of contingency and surprise whereby everything could change and nothing appears settled.

Anthea Hamilton (1978) lives and works in London. She was recently included in the exhibitions Strange Solution, Tate Britain, London and Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London (both 2008). Gymnasium is a joint commission with Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany and will be presented in Freiburg from 23 January to 15 March, 2009.

EVENTS:
Thursday 19 June: Artists’ film and video screening
Thursday 3 July: Anthea Hamilton in conversation with curator Francesco Manacorda

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La Galerie,
Contemporary Art Centre

Christian Frosi
Ricostruzione approssimativa di un
esperimento di levitazione elettrostatica (detail), 2005
Site-specific installation;
aluminium, wood, balsa, copper and monitor,
300 x 200 x 200 cm
Photo: Agostino Osio
Collection Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo, Italy
Courtesy ZERO…, Milan

Fables du doute /
Tales of Disbelief

Athanasios Argianas, Ulla von Brandenburg, Kit Craig, Christian Frosi, João Maria Gusmão +
Pedro Paiva, Nick Laessing, Goshka Macuga

Guest curator in residence:
Simone Menegoi

24 May - 26 July 2008

Residency for foreign curators

Wishing to contribute to the opening-up the French art scene to professionals from abroad, La Galerie, a Contemporary Art Centre located in the suburbs of Paris, hosts each year a foreign curator in residence for a period of three months. First organised in 2006, the aim of the residency is to put on an exhibition at La Galerie within the context of a French art centre, and to meet artists and professionals working in the contemporary art field in France.

Selected via a call for exhibition projects, Simone Menegoi (born 1970 in Verona, lives between Verona and Milan, Italy) has been working in Noisy-le-Sec on a group exhibition entitled “Fables du doute / Tales of Disbelief” that is currently been held at La Galerie.

This exhibition explores the connections between science, art and irrational beliefs – spiritualism, magic, etc. – in the 19th and part of the 20th centuries. The artists confront this aspect of cultural history from a complex, ambiguous standpoint whose critical detachment does not exclude the appeal of the past and the mysterious. The works offer the viewer a dual relationship with their content: on the one hand they invite us to an awareness of the historical distance that separates us from certain beliefs and cultural attitudes; and on the other they demonstrate their enduring charm as a contemporary response to the need for the irrational.

La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre

La Galerie is one of the forty six Contemporary Art Centres in France. It is publicly funded by the City of Noisy-le-Sec, the Seine-Saint-Denis departement, the DRAC Ile-de-France –Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ile-de-France region.

Founded in 1999, La Galerie offers a programme based on the notion of art as a sensory experience and a reflection of our relation to the world through a conceptual approach. Four exhibitions a year (two monographic, two thematic) offer hitherto unseen works by internationally recognized artists together with those of emerging French artists.

The centre’s main activities are to produce art works, publish bilingual reference publications, host artists and curators in residence and develop educational activities in relation to the artistic programme.

2005 / 2008 programme:

• Group exhibitions: “Makings of the Sublime” (James Ireland, Friedrich Kunath, Christopher Orr, Evariste Richer); “Cosmogonies” (Isabelle Arthuis, Soyoung Chung, Julien Discrit, Attila Csörgö, Vidya Gastaldon, Jean-Michel Wicker); “Expeditions” (Dove Allouche, Simon Boudvin, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Joachim Koester, Abraham Poincheval & Laurent Tixador, Daniel Roth, Hans Schabus), “Night Visions” (Dominique Blais, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Jason Dodge, Spencer Finch, Francesco Gennari, Anne-Laure Sacriste, Niels Trannois).
• Guest curator’s exhibitions: “Object Apart” (Ryan Gander, Alexander Gutke, Maria M. Loboda, Kirsten Pieroth, Wilhelm Sasnal, Albrecht Schäfer, Florian Slotawa, Simon Starling – curator in residence: Bettina Klein), “A History of One’s Own” (Victor Alimpiev, Marie Andersson, Karlotta Blondäl, Aurélien Froment, Graham Gussin, Martin Karlsson, Guillaume Leblon – curator in résidence: Anna Johansson).
• Solo shows: Laurent Montaron, Olivier Nottellet, Myriam Mechita, Evariste Richer, Adam Adach.

Upcoming exhibitions:

• “Landscape’s matter” with Lara Almarcegui, Katinka Bock, Detanico/Lain… in the framework of the 9th Seine-Saint-Denis biennial of contemporary art, Art Grandeur Nature “Shared Urban Zones” (20 September – 23 November)
• Bertrand Lamarche solo show (6 December 2008 – 7 February 2009)

La Galerie is a member of:
tram, Paris/Île-de-France contemporary art network: http://www.tram-idf.fr
d.c.a, French association for the Development of Art Centres: http://www.dca-art.com

Application deadline for the next curator’s residency: January 2009

La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre
1 rue Jean-Jaurès
F- 93130 Noisy-le-Sec
Tel: +33 1 49 42 67 17