Perry on Taste 2

This is the second post on Grayson Perry's Tapestries
Part 1 on the working class is here
http://printaustralia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/perry-on-taste-1.html

Part 2 Middle Class Tunbridge Wells


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The Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close



The Annunciation of the Virgin Deal

Perry on Taste 1

The first of three posts on Grayson Perry's Tapestries

"The Vanity of Small Differences, a series of six exuberant tapestries by Grayson Perry have been bought by the Arts Council Collection and British Council.

Bursting with colour, cultural references and Perry’s trademark wit, the six monumental works narrate the story of social mobility and cultural taste across the classes in contemporary British society. Created alongside the popular Channel 4 series All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, the artist took his inspiration from Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress.

The tapestries chart the ‘class journey’ made by young Tim Rakewell and include many of the characters, incidents and objects Grayson Perry encountered on journeys through Sunderland, Tunbridge Wells and The Cotswolds for the series.

The medium on which these tableaus of British taste have been captured is of course very apt; Perry has literally woven the threads of society into his vivid and humorous vision of the ‘rich tapestry of life’."

http://www.artfund.org/news/2012/11/30/grayson-perry-tapestries-secured-for-the-nation

Grayson Perry explains The Vanity of Small Differences, the series of six tapestries he's created alongside the television series. Here

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Part 1: Working Class Sunderland




The Adoration of the Cage Fighters 2012




The Agony in the Car Park 2012

David Bailey

More on Bailey






'The 60s have never ended'
Uploaded on 8 Apr 2010

Whether it was John Lennon, Michael Caine or Andy Warhol, David Bailey's photographs of 1960s celebrities defined the decade. As a retrospective of his most famous images goes on show at Bonhams, he talks to Sarfraz Manzoor about Picasso, body language and his dread of photographing modern celebrities


"I saw Picasso's paintings and that changed my life ... there was no rules and I liked that"

Louise Bourgeois: Edinburgh

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art –
Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets,
Modern One, 26 October 2013 – 18 May 2014




The National Galleries of Scotland is proud to announce a major presentation of works by the great French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in an exhibition entitled Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Highlighting her late work, the exhibition is a first showing of an outstanding collection of works by Louise Bourgeois now on loan to the national ARTIST ROOMS programme, including Poids (1993), Couple I (1996), Cell XIV (Portrait) (2000), Eyes (2001-2005), and two late masterpieces, the cycle of 16 monumental drawings A L'Infini (2008-2009) and the artist’s final vitrine, Untitled (2010). These works will be augmented by important loans from Tate, The Easton Foundation and private collections. This exhibition will reveal how Bourgeois, working in a variety of materials and scales, explores the mystery and beauty of human emotions.

website

Highlights

Events

Future Bourgeois: A Symposium and Workshop for new work on Louise Bourgeois
Friday 7 February 2014
more info


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Fruitmarket Gallery



Louise Bourgeois is one of the greatest and most influential artists of our time. In a career spanning seven decades, from the 1940s until her death in 2010, she produced some of contemporary art’s most enduring images, making sculptures, installations, writings and drawings which, in mining her own psyche, have entered the collective unconscious.

Bourgeois’s work is personal yet universal, rooted in the details of her own life, but reaching out to touch the lives of others. This exhibition of work on paper presents some of her most intimate work, both drawing and writing.

The exhibition begins with a labyrinthine presentation of Bourgeois’s Insomnia Drawings, a remarkable suite of 220 drawings and writings made between November 1994 and June 1995. Created in the suspended state between sleeping and waking, The Insomnia Drawings contain all the major themes of Bourgeois’s work and reveal the close link between drawing and writing that is such a key part of her practice. Also in the exhibition are two suites of large-scale works on paper, When Did This Happen? from 2007, and I Give Everything Away, made right at the end of the artist’s life in 2010. A mix of writing, drawing and printmaking, these large works are both haunted and haunting.

website http://fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/current/

Book - Louise Borgeois Catalogue
Has the day invaded the night or the night invaded the day?
Insomnia in the work of Louise Bourgeois £15 (special exhibition price)

Published by The Fruitmarket Gallery to accompany the exhibition, this book focuses on the themes and ideas in the exhibition. The book is illustrated with a selection of Bourgeois’s Insomnia Drawings and of her writings, and also includes new texts by Frances Morris and Philip Larratt-Smith.



Events

Curator’s Talk
Wednesday 15 January 2014, 6.30pm. Free.
Exhibition curator Frances Morris (Tate) considers the work in the exhibition in light of the artist’s larger practice in conversation with Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery.

Future Bourgeois: Panel Discussion
Friday 7 February 2014, 6pm. £5/£3 conc. (or free if attending symposium). Refreshments provided.
The artist Phyllida Barlow, the writer Elisabeth Lebovici (EHESS, Paris) and Professor Mignon Nixon (Courtauld, London) consider the current state of research on Louise Bourgeois in this panel discussion. The event brings to a close a collaborative one-day student symposium organised by the ARTIST ROOMS RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP, The Fruitmarket Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland (and held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One) that showcases new research on the artist.

Kabuki Prints: NMS

Kabuki
Japanese Theatre Prints
4 October 2013 – 2 February 2014
NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND

Come face to face with Kabuki theatre’s most famous warriors, villains, heroes and heroines through 61 of the finest Japanese woodblock prints from the Museum’s collection. Meet the larger-than-life characters of Kabuki theatre to find out why these rare and beautiful prints became a cultural phenomenon in 19th century Japan.
Open daily 10:00–17:00



Website
http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/kabuki.aspx

CATALOGUE here

GOOGLE IMAGES OF KABUKI PRINTS

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About the exhibition

These striking designs present vivid depictions of Kabuki, the popular form of traditional, all-male, Japanese theatre which combines drama, music, dance and acrobatics in convoluted plots concerning dramatic emotional conflicts and feats of derring-do.

Much like magazines and posters today, these woodblock prints were a cheap and colourful medium of entertainment. Their visual style will be familiar to fans of Manga comics, Japanese cinema and even Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. Publishing houses commissioned designs from the very greatest artists of the era, but the prints were affordable to the average person on the street.

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view these beautiful images and to learn more about a fascinating cultural and social period in Japanese history.

Pictures of the Exhibition
http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/national_museum/exhibitions/kabuki/inside_the_exhibition.aspx

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events

Moku Hanga: Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Printing
Date: Fri 22 November
Time: 12:30 (3hrs)
Cost: £5
Take inspiration from our exhibition, Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints, to make your own woodblock print with artist and printmaker, Elspeth Lamb. Moku Hanga is the unique Japanese art-form of printing blocks with water-based pigments, known for its intense application of colour. One of the beauties of this technique is that it does not require solvents or a printing press – so the technique can be applied at home without expensive equipment. All materials will be supplied but please bring along a simple line drawing to work from.
more info

Grayson Perry: Reith Lectures

The Reith Lectures 

John Reith maintained that broadcasting should be a public service which enriches the intellectual and cultural life of the nation. It is in this spirit that the BBC each year invites a leading figure to deliver a series of lectures on radio. The aim is to advance public understanding and debate about significant issues of contemporary interest.

Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9

Live Blog
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03969vt/live

Grayson Perry on Bellebyrd
http://printaustralia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/grayson-perry-speaks.html

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Lecture One: Democracy Has Bad Taste

In the first of four lectures, recorded in front of an audience at Tate Modern in London, the artist Grayson Perry reflects on the idea of quality and examines who and what defines what we see and value as art. He argues that there is no empirical way to judge quality in art. Instead the validation of quality rests in the hands of a tightknit group of people at the heart of the art world including curators, dealers, collectors and critics who decide in the end what ends up in galleries and museums. Often the last to have a say are the public.
Perry examines the words and language that have developed around art critique, including what he sees as the growing tendency to over-intellectualise the response to art. He analyses the art market and quotes - with some irony - an insider who says that certain colours sell better than others. He queries whether familiarity makes us like certain artworks more, and encourages the public to learn to appreciate different forms of art through exploration and open-mindedness.
Perry was awarded the Turner Prize in 2003, and is known for his ceramic works, printmaking, drawing, sculpture and tapestry as well as for his cross-dressing and alter-ego, Claire.

Transcript: Lecture One Download
Download Audio http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/reith/reith_20131015-1023c.mp3


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Lecture Two : Beating the Bounds

The award-winning artist Grayson Perry asks whether it is really true that anything can be art. We live in an age when many contemporary artists follow the example of Marcel Duchamp, who famously declared that a urinal was a work of art. It sometimes seems that anything qualifies, from a pile of sweets on a gallery floor to an Oscar-winning actress asleep in a box. How does the ordinary art lover decide?
In a lecture delivered amidst the Victorian splendour of St. George's Hall in Liverpool, Perry analyses with characteristic wit the common tests - from commercial worth to public popularity to aesthetic value. He admits the inadequacies of such yardsticks, especially when applied to much conceptual and performance art. And he concludes that in his opinion, the quality most valued in the art world is seriousness.

Transcript, Lecture two Download
Download Audio http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/reith/reith_20131022-0940a.mp3

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Lecture Three (to come)


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Lecture Four (to come)


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Video clips
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03969vt/clips

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• Grayson Perry’s Reith Lectures: Who decides what makes art good? (www.ft.com)
• Grayson Perry: 'To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit' (www.theguardian.com)
• Grayson Perry says Damien Hirst's art work is "hackneyed" and "tatty" (www.radiotimes.com)
• Grayson Perry shows us how the art world works – as a formidable cartel (www.theguardian.com)
• 'Most modern art is rubbish' (www.independent.co.uk)
• 'I find drawing in front of the telly very therapeutic.' (www.timeout.com)

Grayson Perry Speaks

Grayson Perry a self confessed "transvestite potter" who has "come out as a craftsman". Currently delivering the Reith Lectures at the Tate. This collection of videos presents a background to the lectures. There are two slide lectures by the artist about his work, one in Sydney and one on his home turf in London, separated by several years and the work produced in that time. An interview hosted by the Guardian where he answers audience questions. Most telling perhaps is the "In confidence" interview which goes beyond the artist-performer persona and provides glimpses of the man beneath the dress. There are repetitions of ideas, explanations and examples and you are left wondering how much of this is the man and how much is the therapy.

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Published on 23 Sep 2013
Grayson Perry in Confidence



In Confidence is a British television series presented by Laurie Taylor and executive produced by Victor Lewis-Smith, in which a one-on-one in depth interview with a public figure takes place over the course of about an hour. The object of the interview is to try to get to the bottom of who the subject really is and how they think. The show airs on Sky Arts in the UK. wiki

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Published on 13 Apr 2012

Grayson Perry in conversation with Decca Aitkenhead at the Guardian Open Weekend. The Turner prize-winning artist took to the stage to answer readers' searching -- and often surprising -- questions about his life and work



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Published on 11 Aug 2013

Recorded by the University of Western Sydney
Grayson Perry Live at the MCA 2005 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney)



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Uploaded on 13 Jan 2010

A talk at Central Saint Martins by the artist known for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. The talk was entitled 'My Civilisation' and took place on Monday 16th November 2009 in the Cochrane Theatre.

part one



part two



part three question time


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Grayson Perry Wiki

at Saatchi see more info articles etc
http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/grayson_perry.htm

Scottish Printmaking: lecture

Lecture by Murdo Macdonald
'Printmaking and the Scottish Gàidhealtac'

Filmed on 25 October 2012 at Edinburgh Printmakers

"Printmaking which refers to the culture of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd has been at the heart of Scottish art since the pioneering 'Ossian' etchings by Alexander Runciman in the late 18th Century. I'll explore this tradition up to the present, not least through the prints made in 2002 for An Leabhar Mòr / The Great Book of Gaelic, by artists such as Norman Shaw and Frances Walker.

Murdo Macdonald is Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee. He is a former editor of Edinburgh Review. He is author of Scottish Art in Thames and Hudson's World of Art series. His recent research has explored the art of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd, the cultural milieu of Patrick Geddes, and Robert Burns and visual thinking. He is an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy."

Master Editions : Print Exhibition

Master Editions
Halcyon Gallery, London
19 Sep 2013 - 10 Nov 2013

http://www.halcyongallery.com/exhibitions/master-editions

"Ranging from the Old Masters, with works by Rembrandt, the Impressionists, and Modern Masters including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Joan Miró; the exhibition features leading artists from Europe and America. Exceptional pieces by Andy Warhol are also on show, as well as other contemporaneous artists including Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Haring."

Catalogues
Volume I
Volume II

Howard Hodgkin

Andrew Graham-Dixon talks to Howard Hodgkin at Modern art Oxford




Hodgkin website: http://www.howard-hodgkin.com/

more interviews
http://www.howard-hodgkin.com/interviews

David Bailey:Andy Warhol

In the early 1970s, David Bailey, a renowned photographer began to work in film and began making high-profile documentaries for ATV. His reputation allowed him unprecedented access to some amazing people and places one of which was Andy Warhol and his followers. Exploring his art work and work in film, this documentary features candid discussions revolving around sexuality, Warhol’s life at The Factory and his experience of being shot. It was initially banned for being ‘offensive’, that ban was later overturned.




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"In bed with Warhol
In 1973 David Bailey got into bed with Andy Warhol. One was making a film about the other, but not the way around you’d expect. The film was due to be screened on TV but was pulled hours before broadcast, declared “offensive and indecent”. Well naturally.

Filmed as part of a triptych of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the iconic photographer David Bailey interviewed Warhol, the film director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard) and the photographer Cecil Beaton. Bailey met Warhol before he was famous, even had tea with his mother. The bed scenario? “It was sort of a joke. Andy being camp.” Screened at Hamptons International Film Festival on Friday, the documentary reveals more about the artist than most attempts – there’s no secrets between the sheets. Working hard to project his art as nothing much in particular, nothing beyond its surface, and himself in the same way, Warhol is one of the most intriguing, beguiling characters in art history. But here he is in bed, with Bailey.

Last week, i-D Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Terry Jones met Bailey at Frieze and got talking about the documentary. Given the subject matter, Interview-style seemed fitting…

TJ: Look at the camera.
Bailey: I can see this blowing in the wind.
TJ: Have you heard that whole story about your dad sleeping with Andy?
Sacha Bailey: Warhol? Yeah sort of…
Bailey: It was for my art.
TJ: Art. Do people know the whole story?
Bailey: I doubt it. You want me to tell it now? I love the way he [Terry] thinks he’s getting around. It was sinful, Andy said I won’t do a film with you unless you go to bed with me so I said great, we can do the interview in bed together.
TJ: Did you keep your pants on?
Bailey: Oh I don’t remember. He wouldn’t show his scars, his Dior stitches. He always said, “I’m never naked because I look like a Dior dress, too many stitches.”
TJ: But that was the one where you were getting close in conversation with him?
Bailey: I think in all modesty, it’s the film where Warhol speaks the most out of all the films he’s ever done. He never really said anything. I had a bit of an advantage because I knew him ten years before he made the film, I knew him ten years before he got famous. It’s always easier if you know them before.
TJ: Was his mother around?
Bailey: Yeah, I had tea with her.
TJ: Why did he only want to do the interview in bed?
Bailey: It was sort of a joke, Andy being camp.
TJ: How long is the film?
Bailey: A television hour, 52 minutes, might have been an hour then. The film they’ve got left now is not a complete film, it has been cut about and chopped about, it’s still alright, in a way it gives it more of a history when it’s not the original, things have been taken out for censors and put back in the wrong place. It’s a bit of a hodge-podge but I quite like that.
TJ: What did you film it on?
Bailey: 16MM. "


source: http://i-donline.com/2011/10/in-bed-with-warhol/

The Trouble with Curating: Conference

From the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
Uploaded on 20 Dec 2010

The verb to 'curate' is a recent addition to the lexicon of the art world. How has the role of the curator developed and, as the boundaries are increasingly blurred between the artist and the curator, is there a fundamental difference of position between artist and curator? Curator and writer Andrew Renton chairs the discussion with the Director of The Showroom Emily Pethick, Tate Britain Director Penelope Curtis, artist Steven Claydon and lecturer, writer and artist Pavel Buchler.

David Hockney: Interview

Inside New York's Art World: David Hockney, 1982

Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive in the Duke University Libraries: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dsva/

Peter Doig

Peter Doig was born in 1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland, moved to Trinidad, West Indies in 1962, and then to Canada in 1966. In 1979 he moved to London to attend the Wimbledon School of Art. He received his Bachelor of Arts from St. Martin's School of Art in 1983, and earned his Master of Arts degree from the Chelsea School of Art in 1990.

Tate Shot July 2008



"Peter Doig's retrospective at Tate Britain was called 'the most enthralling show in town'. He took us behind the scenes as he finalised the hang just before it opened, and showed us his private collection of photographs that provide the starting point for his mesmerising paintings.
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Peter Doig / MATRIX 183 (March 2009)

link: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/183

Download the exhibition brochure (PDF) .



"Kicking off a yearlong series of public programs celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of MATRIX was this conversation between artist Peter Doig, who was featured in the MATRIX program in 2000, and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, MATRIX curator from 1999 through 2005.

Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is currently based in Trinidad, West Indies. MATRIX 183 Echo-Lake was his first one-person museum exhibition in the United States. "

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A selection of works



Peter Doig at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NYC (Jan 2009)



Peter Doig New Paintings at GAVIN BROWN'S ENTERPRISE
Opening Night from James Kalm



Peter Doig at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
From Vernissage TV

" The Peter Doig retrospective at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, offers a comprehensive overview of the artists’s work. On display are 50 paintings, a group of works on paper, and about 130 painted film posters. The show spans 20 years, from Peter Doig’s Hitch Hiker (1989-90) to his Man Dressed as Bat (2007). This video provides you with an exhibition walk-through, and Dorothea Apovnik (head of press at Schirn) gives an introduction to the show. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. October 10, 2008."



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Artist Peter Doig speaks about his work, as seen in the exhibition Peter Doig No Foreign Lands at the Scottish National Gallery from 3rd August to 3rd November 2013. (Published on 9 Aug 2013)

John Lennon, Yoko Ono; Interview

John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono were guests on the Dick Cavett show on 11th September 1971. This was Lennon's first interview after the Beatles had split. The Lennon's discuss their artistic collaboration, with reference to Yoko's work. It contains some footage of their film work and previews the release of Imagine. There's some warm up chit chat at the beginning that may be skipped.

John described Yoko as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kXCnKfdGOY

The first interview continues here



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ6WFtdceCU


second interview

The Lennons appear at approximately 27 mins into the video.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31qVGN1gKOE


more info
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-dick-cavett-show-john-yoko-collection-mw0001054126

Yoko Ono on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono

Joseph Loughborough

Anno Domini Gallery presents...
Deciphering the Ash of Effigies
Joseph Loughborough (UK) solo exhibition
Exhibition dates: March 1–April 13, 2013

Anno Domini Gallery
366 So. First Street. map
San Jose, CA 95113

Exhibition Website



Joseph Loughborough (b. 1981/UK) spent his formative years exploring the derelict boatyards and creeks of Portsmouth, on the south coast of the UK. After graduating from Portsmouth University he pursued interests in art, philosophy and skateboarding culture, living in London, Paris and currently Berlin. Deciphering the Ash of Effigies is Loughborough's debut U.S. solo exhibition.

Full article and exhibition images here

Interview

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Artist's website
http://www.josephloughborough.co.uk/

Portfolio images
http://www.josephloughborough.co.uk/#!__portfolio

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Interview

At Future Tense

PRINTFEST UK

PRINTFEST was set up in 2001 by printmakers Judy Evans and Ronkey Bullard and takes place over the early May Bank Holiday weekend. It is based in the friendly market town of Ulverston, Cumbria, on the edge of the Lake District, where the Coronation Hall which provides a beautiful and relaxed setting for the display of artwork from throughout the UK and further afield.

The event has grown significantly in recent years, with a steady increase in visitor numbers and in the value of artwork sold.

Homepage

http://www.printfest.org.uk/index.html

Exhibiting Artists

http://www.printfest.org.uk/exhibiting_artists.html

exhibiting artists archive: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 

PRINTFEST 2013 will be held at The Coronation Hall, Ulverston on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 May 2013 between 10am and 5pm.
Entrance £4, children and students free

Friday 3 May
7pm - 9pm Private View

Where:
Coronation Hall, County Square, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 7LZ.

Look out for the signs on the A590 for Printfest 2013.

Download an Printfest e-flyer here

London Original Print Fair

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House,
Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Thursday 25 – Sunday 28 April 2013

The London Original Print Fair, the longest-running specialist print fair in the world, will again show in the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy this April. In its 28th year, LOPF will feature 50 prominent galleries, dealers and print studios from the across the UK as well as Finland, France, Germany, Ireland and Italy.

Works on sale range from £100 to over £100,000 and showcase the broadest scope of art history. From Renaissance engravings to etchings by Picasso and prints by a wide range of contemporary artists like David Hockney RA, Tracey Emin RA, Gilbert & George and many more – the variety at LOPF is paramount.

www.londonprintfair.com

list of exhibitors

Download the 2013 Catalogue (58Mb)

previous years

London Original Print Fair - Year 27 - 2012
London Original Print Fair - Year 26 - 2011
London Original Print Fair - Year 25 - 2010
London Original Print Fair - Year 24 - 2009
London Original Print Fair - Year 23 - 2008
London Original Print Fair - Year 22 - 2007
London Original Print Fair - Year 21 - 2006
London Original Print Fair - Year 20 - 2005
London Original Print Fair - Year 19 - 2004
London Original Print Fair - Year 18 - 2003
London Original Print Fair - Year 17 - 2002
London Original Print Fair - Year 16 - 2001

Rosemarie Trockel

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos
13 February - 7 April 2013
Serpentine Gallery

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/rosemarie_trockel_a_cosmos.html

This exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke and organised by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.

A Cosmos reflects the artist's interest in creating a space for ideas to exist between different disciplines, past and present. Many of the objects and artworks, selected by Trockel in dialogue with curator Lynne Cooke, produce a context for the artist's work within other fields of inquiry, such as the natural sciences and natural history. Watercolours painted by the pioneering botanist Maria Sibylla Merian sit alongside intricate models of marine invertebrates crafted by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, initially used as research tools by naturalists who had no access to living specimens.

Listen to an audio introduction to Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, written by Dominic Eichler

Berlin-based writer and musician Dominic Eichler has written a free, downloadable, audio introduction for Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos. Recorded in the style of a radio play for four female voices, this audio work reflects upon the exhibition in the context of Trockel's wider oeuvre, while also discussing several of the objects and artworks in the Serpentine Gallery show. This audio introduction is designed to be enjoyed on visitors' own mobile devices whilst in the Gallery or at home.

About

at Gladstone Gallery
http://gladstonegallery.com/trockel.asp

at Sprueth Magers
http://spruethmagers.net/artists/rosemarie_trockel

on youtube

on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Trockel

Impact 8

28th August – 1st September 2013

Print Festival Scotland


Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference:
A celebration of interdisciplinarity and exploration through the medium of print.

The eighth Impact international conference will be hosted in Dundee as a central element to the inaugural Print Festival Scotland – an event which aims to confirm the cultural diversity, historical significance and future potential of print.

Foregrounding the inherent experimental and interdisciplinary nature of print practices Impact 8 will provide a critical and interactive platform for the varied interests that make print such a unique discipline.  From its hybrid roots in industry and scholarship, through traditional design applications and fine art practices to it’s consistent significance within emerging technologies and theoretical debate – print continues to play a crucial role in the exploration of borders and crossings – be they geographical, ideological, cultural, theoretical or practical.


 http://www.conf.dundee.ac.uk/impact8/home/