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founding member of Tomorrow’s Past. Tracey Rowley www.traceyrowledge.co.uk Tomorrow’s Past at www.outofbinding.com More information is available at www.gustavsbergskonsthall.se COMMUNICATE & CIRCULATE: AN EXHIBITION OF PRINTED MATTER Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, UK Until 11th December An exhibition dedicated to print and publishing in the independent arts. On show and for sale are a collection of zines, posters and original works made newly available from self-publishers and small press producers from around the world. Featuring works from Booklet Press (JAP), Bongoût (GER), Cafe Royal (UK), Catalogue Library (UK), Club Muscles (CAN), Pete Willis / Dead Trees and Dye (UK), Jess Wilson / Duke Press (UK), Bartolome Sanson (FRA), Lachllan Rattray (UK), Malcy Duff (UK), Mike Perry (USA), Museums Press (UK), Nieves (CH), N.S.E.W (NOR), Smalltime Books (AUS), Superclub (UK), Fiona Allison / Tropical Waste (UK), Theo Simpson / Various Points (UK), Victor & Hester (UK) Good Press Gallery, 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, UK Good Press is open Monday to Saturday, from 11am to 7pm www.goodpressgallery.co.uk Marinus van Dijke A walk, a hundred years, a reconstruction De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, The Netherlands Until 11 December, 2011 Inspired by an article by F. Bins, published in Buiten magazine in 1911, about a walk he took straight through the dunes of Schouwen-Duiveland in 1910, Marinus van Dijke decided to take the same walk one hundred years later. In connection with these walks, Marinus van Dijke was invited by the editors of the Slibreeks series to design the 137th volume. This chapbook has three parts with a map in each one and is entitled een wandeling honderd jaar een reconstructie (‘a walk a hundred years a reconstruction’). The Johan Deumens Gallery in Haarlem also has artist’s books by Marinus van Dijke available for viewing. De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal Zusterstraat 7, Middelburg, The Netherlands Open Tuesday to Sunday, 1 pm – 5 pm Admission free. http://vleeshal.nl/en/ SCOTT McCARNEY VisualBooks An exhibition of new works at Light Work Until 16th December 2011 The show is in conjunction with the “Photography + Publishing Photography Conference” (November 3-5), a joint effort of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of SPE (Society of Photographic Education). McCarney has also put together Contact Sheet, Light Work’s awardwinning publication which serves as a catalogue/ Pa g e 5 w w w .b o o k a r t s.u w e .a c.u k monograph for artists exhibiting in the main gallery. A special conference edition is published in a run of 250 which includes an original work of art. Light Work gallery, The Robert B. Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, USA. http://www.lightwork.org Keith Smith: Book by Book Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 W. 24th Street, NYC Until January 7, 2012 This is a rare opportunity to see a collection of Keith’s oneof-a-kind work and small editions. http://www.brucesilverstein.com Les vitrines de l’artothèque en résonance in conjunction with the Biennale d’art contemporaine de Lyon present: Tout Va Mieu - Eric Watier & Gil J Wolman Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu Until 31st December 2011 bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, la Part-Dieu 30 boulevard Vivier-Merle 69003 Lyon, France http://cdla.info/fr www.lara-vincy.com www.ericwatier.info www.monotonepress.net LINEAR B - A memorial project responding to the works in the collection of artist Nikos Alexiou The Stephen Lawrence gallery, London, UK Until 6th January 2012 Nikos Alexiou’s avant-garde idea to bring together works of modern and international contemporary art cannot simply be regarded as a mere collection of artwork by other fellow artists, since the compilation process is in itself one of the artist – collector’s personal and ongoing artistic projects. The Stephen Lawrence gallery, University of Greenwich, Queen Ann Court, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS. http://alexioulinearb.wordpress.com Emblem - Deconstructed And Destroyed: A Homage To John Latham Public Project by Christina Mitrentse Trinity, Greenwich, London, UK Until 31st January 2012 Emblem - Deconstructed And Destroyed, is a new public Billboard installation by Christina Mitrentse commissioned for the site viewable 24/7. Mitrentse’s work reflects the legacy of the renowned British conceptual artist John Latham (1921 - 2006). The work forms part of Mitrentse’s acclaimed ongoing project Add To My Library, recently exhibited at Art Work Space. In response to John Latham’s book-relief sculpture which penetrates the main window fronting Flat Time House in Peckham, Mitrentse’s work takes the form of a large-scale screen printed ‘Book Flag’, addressing the Trinity building’s edifice, paying devoted tribute to this highly important post-war artist.
For information on purchasing limited editions prints - part of the Billboard please contact Trinity on: T +44 (0) 7960 991 550 aligntrinity@gmail.com http://trinityaligned.wordpress.com Trinity, 310 Creek Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9SW, UK Thurs - Sun, 1 - 6pm, Last Fridays Of The Month: 1 - 9pm Also by appointment. Site-Specific Work can be viewed daily, 24 hours. Mapping the Surface Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY, USA Until 15th January 2012 We are accustomed to looking at maps in attempts to find direction, our relationship to a physical interpretation of the land. But that land can be more than a city or country, it can help us to navigate our bodies, to understand our environment beyond its physicality into the realm of cultural space, and to grasp an understanding though the visceral. Cartographers can tell us more than just the routes from one point to another, they can map terrains of landscape or psychological space, that amorphous state that adds up to a sense of a place beyond mere cataloging. They can also reduce all to the basic, the pure essence of line and plane. We may glide across the surface but there always seems to be a rumble below it, roaming around a skin that is, as skin is, porous and organic. The altered, eroded, sliced and diced work of Doug Beube challenges us to read geography in the third dimension. Jeff Woodbury plays with our idea of mapping both physically with the malleability of rubber maps and metaphorically as we follow a path along a tree branch. Christina Mitrentse folds, assembles and hides travel maps, subverting their original intent, presenting us with an unreadable atlas as Heidi Neilson utilises a traditional idea of cartography and conceptualises it into an impossibility of a re-configured world. The collaged artist’s book of Robin Price extends beyond the 43rd parallel into a personal numerology. Cindy Kane maps individuals we think we know in her writers series and explores regions through their particularity of senses; Dannielle Tegeder goes one step further and plots a highly abstracted place in multi-dimensional space. Haptic Lab, blankets a neighborhood, delineating boundaries through the texture of materials with *Paula Scher graphically interpreting regions, this one guiding us through India. Alastair Noble takes cyanotypes, the blueprints of architects, to emphasise the blueprint of an environment sculpted by nature. Lilla LoCurto & Bill Outcault have long used their own bodies and now others to extend and flatten skin into a topographical journey. Sabra Booth provides an animated excursion of the gulf coast, mapping her experience of mapping the environmental disaster, while Public Laboratories photographs the spill from a bird’s eye view, allowing us our own interpretations. The projects of Smudge Studio (Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth) evoke a time and place through the variety of consciously created elements of documentation as Robbin Ami Silverberg creates a sense of New York neighbourhoods through accumulation of particular elements that brings the amorphous into the more concrete. Central to Barbara Siegel’s sculptural piece is a boulder that began a controversy over geographic ownership. For another take on the complications of history, Elena Costellian finds herself in a space haunted by the act of its own past circling around, and documents the process of her process of capturing it through a linear retracing. However perceived, a map guides us to more than one destination. Art & Science talk 15 January 6-10pm Central Booking 111 Front Street, Suite 210, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA www.centralbookingnyc.com Known, Unknown, Anonymous, and On Death Row Qbox gallery, Greece Until January 14, 2012 Qbox gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition under the title Known, Unknown, Anonymous and On Death Row. The show combines artists who have been widely recognized and engaged in the art scene with artists who have not yet been known or they will never be as they were not part of the art market. Since in our society the constant demonstration of biographical “databases” has been increased and the formation of a positive reputation becomes a lifetime struggle, it is mostly common that looking at someone’s name in an art exhibition could affect our judgment upon the actual work. Despite the nature of the art-piece a name carries all sorts of information and holds a dynamic by-itself, which is something that artists like Marcel Duchamp (pseudonym Rrose Selavy 1921), Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg (Erased de Kooning, 1953) have dealt with different ways in the past. Among the known and unknown artists in the exhibition are: Giuseppe Caccavale, Ellie Coates, Sileia Daskopoulou, David Gates, Louise Lawler, Alekos Lorentis, Apostolos Michailides, David Mathis, Adrian Piper, Ugo Rondinone, Malick Sidibé, Tabakopoulos and Foundoulis, Rosemarie Trockel, Karen Yasinski. A number of works by anonymous artists are also included in the show. Qbox Gallery, Armodiou 10, Varvakeios agora, Athens. www.qbox.gr Pa g e 6 t h i s n ews l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s.u w e .a c.u k/b a n l i s t s.h t m
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