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Isokon Dreams To celebrate the launch a walking trail has been produced which uncovers Camden's local history as well as its more unusual green spaces. The trail starts on Regents Park Bridge where visitors can pick up their free guides. Peter Darley, director of Camden Railway Heritage Trust will be giving an afternoon talk at 3pm. With live music performed throughout the day. evening drinks 7pm - 10pm |
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Sinta
Tantra Play to Win second performance Play to Win (parts one and two) are collaborative site specific works
produced by installation artist Sinta Tantra and choreographer The first part will be performed and exhibited at The Parlour Studios & Project Space, North London and then developed for Canary Wharf’s Public Art exhibition of Sculpture in the Workplace, curated by Ann Elliot. With dancers Victoria Hammond and Wesley Pritchard also featuring photography by Francois Mendis The Parlour Studios & Project Space The Parlour Studios & Project Space is a new initiative from Mapalim, extending thier existing programme in arts and development and community activities. Within the space, the studios provide working space for a collective of artists including photographers and dancers. If you would like to join the mailing list, or book the space for a cultural event, rehearsal or workshop facilitation please contact the cultural coodinator parlour@mapalim.com | 020 7284 3215 |
Sinta
Tantra Play to Win Part One Play to Win (parts one and two) are collaborative site specific works produced by installation artist Sinta Tantra and choreographer Katie Green. Both individual winners of the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award in Fine Art and Contemporary Dance, the pieces aim to explore the cross over of art and dance whilst discovering the energetic impulse to experiment, play and create. The first part will be performed and exhibited at The Parlour Studios & Project Space, North London. The second will be part of Canary Wharf’s Public Art exhibition of Sculpture in the Workplace, curated by Ann Elliot. Sinta Tantra’s installation Play to Win Part One consists of a painted pink room layered with silhouettes of arching palm trees, dancing figures and towering skyscrapers. As the viewer moves through and across the space of her work, the bright colours and alluring imagery create a true celebration of visual delight. A delight which although appears light hearted and frivolous from the first, is in fact grounded in something more complex. Isolate an element for inspection and you will discover a plurality of influences where imagery fluctuates from being part of a utopian vision to a dystopian one. From the tropical vistas of her native Bali to the theatricality of a camp Hollywood, the work shifts from being seductive, happy and celebratory to apprehensive with undertones of anxiety as well as uncertainty. The trophy-like figures brings to mind ideas of triumph, success and idealisms. Yet they also remind us of the public statues of communist regimes and dictatorship led societies. The black high rise buildings on the other hand reflect a capitalist world - fast growing and booming with cities powered by fossil fuels, ambition and the greed of its workers. The result is a dynamic but also unstable art, with patterns balanced precariously between different passions, in flux capable of collapsing in on themselves at any moment. Layered carefully on and around each other, the parts equate to a powerful sum, bursting with life, faith and possibility. The Parlour Studios & Project Space Mapalim, 181-185 Queen’s Crescent, London NW5 4DS Exhibition dates: Sunday 22 April - 13 May 2007 Gallery opening times: Sundays 1pm - 6pm www.mapalim.com | info@mapalim.com | 0207 284 3215 Play to Win Part Two part of Sculpture in the Workplace curated by Ann Elliot Opening Performance & private view: Monday 2 July tbc, 6pm - 8pm 1 Canada Square, London E14 5AB Exhibition dates: 25 June - 31 August Opening times: 6am - midnight www.sintatantra.com
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15th – 17th February, Royal Academy of Arts, 6 Burlington Gardens, W1 As part of the
On|Off exhibition for London Fashion Week, Sinta Tantra, has exclusively
produced a monumental wall installation that includes a complex layering
of intricate handmade vinyl cut-outs, painted shapes and delicately
drawn motifs. The resulting effect is a decadent and vibrant fusion
of plundered imagery influenced by her Balinese roots, American childhood
and London upbringing. Emporia can be viewed from balcony level at
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Boo Hoo Hoo! Ha Ha Ha!
(I'm in between a laugh and a cry!)
Ada Street
2a Ada Street, (off Broadwaymarket)
London, E8 4QU
Bethnal Green tube
Opening times: 14.09.05 – 18.09.05
12pm – 6pm
Private View: 13.09.05
6pm – 9pm
The exhibition brings together the works of three young London-based artists
that share their roots in painting but have challenged this language through
the exploration of the three-dimensional. This unique project space, Ada
Street (a former toothbrush factory), is therefore the ideal venue for such
a show. Here the artists can uninhibitedly produce an assortment of witty
creations that playfully interact with the walls and the floor of the
gallery.
Boo Hoo Hoo! Ha Ha Ha! (I’m In Between A Laugh And A Cry) is taken from
a
1930’s musical song title by Hollywood film composer Harry Warren. A
love
song filled with all the usual clichés and strong sentiments –
it wallows in
its own sea of melancholic loss and loneliness. The song refers to the range
of emotions experienced when adoration, infatuation and over-indulgence is
realised to the extreme.
Amelia Power plunders images from a variety of sources. From observant
sketches made from what she sees around her; to her eclectic collection of
found imagery that range from old photographs, costume design and children’s
stories; she applies the paint in an clumsy, yet effortlessly graceful
manner. By overlaying together these narratives, histories and places, she
finds a quirky theatrics in the banality of the everyday. Whether on paper
or bits of abandoned wood that she salvages from the streets; she puts
together these paintings to form a fragmented storyboard on the wall for the
viewer to unveil.
Sinta Tantra creates wall installations that are made up of a collage of
intricate hand cut-outs, painted shapes and sometimes protruding wooden
constructions. The work explores the idea of celebration within the
glamorous – full of human optimism but with an underlying tone of crudeness
within such excess. Inspired by her Balinese roots, American childhood and
London upbringing, she presents to us a world full of colour, decoration and
multiplicity within the age of mass consumerism. Using ready-made surfaces
such as plastic vinyl, industrial sprays and pre-fabricated paints, she is
unashamedly indulgent in the use of such materials.
Lawrence Williams stages strange environments that both unnerve and attract
the viewer. Influenced by the psychedelic and the surreal quality of
children’s programmes, such as the Magic Roundabout, Williams creates
his
very own creatures made up of Styrofoam, wood, and vinyl. Their
sophisticated yet child-like constructions are reminiscent of our play
school years, when simple pleasures where found in cutting, gluing and
sticking. Behind his sculptures, Williams sets a theatrical backdrop in the
form of his very own wallpaper. Black and white photocopies of diamond
shapes and emblems of deer-like mammals cover the walls of the gallery to
produce bizarre, optical effects.
see the exibition on http://www.lawrencewilliams.co.uk/paris.htm
Espace BrochageExpress
146 Bd de Charonne
75020 Paris
Au fond de la Cour á droite
+33 6 11 20 10 94
Opening times: 12–6pm
Baroquerocks
Eight London artists in Paris
Espace Brochage Express
25.8.05–31.08.05
Private View: 24.8.05
The cutting-edge of London's art scene comes to Paris this August with a showcase
of work by eight of the city's finest emerging artists.
The group has been selected for the show around a common theme. Each of the
artists, in different ways, celebrate surface and decorative excess in their
work. Whether through paint, sculpture or installation, each embraces art
that entices the eye and imagination of the viewer – at times playful,
at times melancholy, always unashamed to be seductive. This contemporary spirit
has a distant echo in the boldness of the Baroque period of art, a relationship
acknowledged in the title of the exhibition.
The paintings and objects of Nicholas Byrne play with forms of geometric and
symbolic purity, from crystals to kaleidoscopic circles, challenging their
established value.
Katarina Foss creates luminous paintings that freeze-frame a fleeting moment,
often inspired by the nostalgia and narratives of cinema.
Rochelle Fry works with a variety of materials, including fallen trees, luxurious
silks and plush feathers, combining and treating them to produce alluring
new creations.
Using broadsheet newspapers as her canvas Jessica Holmes paints delicate compositions,
her marks coalescing with the text and texture of the newsprint.
Veronica Smirnoff plunders images from a variety of sources for her vibrant
panel paintings, from the myth and folklore of Russia, her native land, to
the superficial London fashion scene.
Sinta Tantra creates installations that explore celebration, glamour and human
optimism. Using shiny materials with faux surfaces, she exposes a seductive
eclecticism within our throw away consumerist society.
The sculptor Amy Woolley injects simple forms with wit and thrill, using unconventional
materials to produce elaborate decorative effects.
Lawrence Williams stages strange environments that both unnerve and attract
the viewer, setting his surreal plastic sculptures in front of hand-drawn
wallpaper backgrounds.