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Ian Wallace

Centrik Isler — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:15:05 +0100

A poet of images, Ian Wallace explores the interplay between form and content, using photography as a vehicle for developing an avant-garde art that weds the strategies of conceptualism with the pictorial tropes of painting. In doing so since the late '60s, he became the pioneer of a photoconceptualism that fundamentally influenced and reconfigured contemporary art practice in Vancouver, not least through his teaching such artists as Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Stan Douglas.

Exhibition

21 November 2008 - 20 December 2008

Y.Z. Kami - Endless Prayers

Centrik Isler — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:02:34 +0100

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is pleased to present the first UK solo exhibition of paintings, collages and photographs by the Persian born artist Y.Z. Kami. This diverse group of works has been created over a period of ten years and will be shown for the first time in this country.

The most striking works in this exhibition are undoubtedly Y.Z. Kami's large and frontal painted portraits of ordinary people, each of whom entirely fills the canvas, often measuring three metres by two metres.

Exhibition

21 November 2008 - 11 February 2009

Graham Little

Centrik Isler — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:05:43 +0100

Alison Jacques Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings and a large floor - based sculpture by the British artist Graham Little.

Graham Little's work reveals an obsession with beauty and detail. In his recent drawings the artist has worked from his own photographs of carefully composed tableaux vivants. Among these works is a triptych in gouache and coloured pencil representing the three stages of his wife's pregnancy.

Exhibition

21 November 2008 - 19 December 2008

Vicky Wright & Audrey Reynolds - The Antique Wardrobe

Centrik Isler — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:57:01 +0100

"That was the period when Simone developed a mania for breaking eggs with her behind." - Story Of The Eye, Georges Bataille, 1928.

As we stand on the brink of financial ruin and potential world calamity, one may recall the writing of Georges Bataille, who poised at the gateway of Europe's last major collapse into tyranny, penned his most visceral and climatic work. Plundering the depths of MOT's own exhibition history, two artists have surfaced whose work is reminiscent of Bataille's rendering of the human condition.

Exhibition

15 November 2008 - 19 December 2008

Edward Fornieles - My Voice Will Go With You

Centrik Isler — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:27:07 +0100

Paradise Row proudly presents "My Voice Will Go With You", the first major solo show by Edward Fornieles. Employing the full spectrum of expressive possibilities afforded by the mediums of installation, sculpture, film, performance, collage and painting, Fornieles engages with consumer culture. In contrast with the pseudo-political critique that typically characterizes contemporary art's engagement with capitalism and commodity culture, his work seeks to intensify the latent characteristics within commodities and the ideological structures that surround them, towards the idealisation of perfection, beauty and thought-annihilating orgasmic experience.

Exhibition

7 November 2008 - 19 December 2008

Florian Hecker - Pentaphonic Dark Energy

Centrik Isler — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:29:16 +0200

For Florian Hecker's first show at Sadie Coles HQ he presents "Pentaphonic Dark Energy". Superimposed onto the existing gallery structure, "Pentaphonic Dark Energy" creates an environment in which body and architecture intersect. Across five loudspeakers sonic sequences combine to create the impression that space is being sculpted. As the piece develops, it builds into a series of opposites and contradictions: stable and uneven, fast and slow, loud and quiet. The title of the piece comes from physical cosmology in which 'dark energy' is a hypothetical form of energy that is found in space and responsible for the expansion of the universe.

Exhibition

14 October 2008 - 22 November 2008