04.09.10 - 25.09.10 Shane Bradford
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UNION TEESDALE STREET welcomes SHANE BRADFORD
The Side-Real Voyage
04/09 - 25/09 2010
Private View: Friday 3 September, 6-9 pm
Shane Bradford (b. 1971) is synonymous with the application of paint via his ‘dipping’ method, in which various objects, most pervasively books, are subjected to submersion in multi-coloured emulsions. The resulting patterns perform a narrative and conceptual duet with the objects original meaning, rendering the object defunct whilst simultaneously bringing renewal. Bradfords’s work bridges the gap between concept and aesthetics.
A certain expansion of this inherent personal duality persists throughout the rest of his practice, which broadens to include large-scale painting, sculpture, and project work. An irredeemable elegance in his abilities as a maker belies an often-challenging socio-political commentary. Typically tracing a path from the personal to the political, Bradford’s work campaigns for the liberation of objects and subjects from their associated fixed meaning and, perhaps comically, the liberation of art from itself.
The title Side-Real Voyage is a lifted from a chapter in Jean Baudrillard’s ‘Radical Alterity’ in which the late philosopher/writer explores the possibility of finding the exotic in a globalised world. In fact, the correct title is The Sidereal Voyage but having mispronounced it for a while as ‘side real’, it is hard to go back. The transition from sidereal (si⋅de⋅re⋅al), meaning ‘of or pertaining to the stars’, to side-real, expresses a natural common human error and a small amount of wishful thinking. Side-real describes a certain parallel reality running along side things, almost tangible but allusive; a peripheral vision. From the shadows of Plato’s cave to the current monumental cosmological upheavals, The Side-Real Voyage hints at an ‘otherness’, instinctively known but rarely visualised.
Coming up soon
UNION / KIAF artfair / Seoul
KIAF2010 (2010 Korea International Art Fair)
9/9 (Thur) - 9/13 (Mon) 5 days
Venue : 1F Hall A&B, COEX, Seoul
Vernissage: 9/8 (Wed) 5PM
(Entrance of Hall A, COEX)
Hours: 9/9 (Thur) – 9/12 (Sun) 11AM- 8PM
The guest country for KIAF2010 is the UK, a country that led Pop Art in the 1950s. In the 1990s, the Young British Artists (YBAs) surprised the world with their shocking artworks. Since then, Britain has been performing a leading role in contemporary art. A total of 14 galleries from the UK will take part in KIAF2010 to showcase various aspects of British contemporary art. The participating galleries range from those with a rich tradition of 40 years to newly emerging galleries. The galleries are offering a wide variety of programs that strengthen the experimental spirit of young artists. An academic program is also planned to take a look at the present of British art and the art market as
Rose Wylie / TWENTY8TWELVE / London
Twenty8Twelve
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s.miller
Friends of the National Museum of Woman in the Arts, UK
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ROSE WYLIE & SAVANNAH MILLER
IN CONVERSATION
2 SEPTEMBER 2010
6 PM - 7PM
WESTBOURNE GROVE CHURCH
LEDBURY ROAD
W11
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TWENTY8TWELVE WESTBOURNE GROVE STORE
TO PRESENT ARTIST OF THE SEASON INSTALLATION
An exhibition of two paintings and ten recent collage works on paper, including work from her current series Film Notes.
Private View: 2nd of September 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Venue: Twenty8Twelve by s.miller
172 Westbourne Grove
Notting Hill
London
W11 2RU
T. 0207 221 9287
Rose Wylie, born 1934, is the UK finalist in Woman to Watch 2010, a biennal exhibition featuring woman artists whose work highlights compelling trends in contemporary art at NMWA in Washington, DC.
Savannah Miller, designer, born 1978, is the designer of fashion line Twenty8Twelve, which annually collaborates with a UK artist in its Artist of the Season programme.
To Book places for the talk please email: rsvp@nmwa-uk.org