Concrete in Drawing
Adam Art Gallery, Wednesday, 12pm-1pm Join Simon Twose, architect and Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington for a lunchtime talk discussing the use of concrete as an architectural drawing medium.
Supplied Blood in My Milk is one of three featured works in Berlin-based artist Marianna Simnett s exhibition CREATURE. Exhibitions
City Gallery, Until July 11, free Horror meets fairy tale in Berlin-based artist Mariana Simnett’s first New Zealand show. Visceral and theatrical, her large-scale video and sculptural works tell wicked tales of transformation with a cast of children and mutant beasts.
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Wolverhampton will now host British Art Show 9 (BAS9) in January 2022 after new dates for the touring exhibition were announced by organisers after consultation with the partner cities.
The event – which is the biggest touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK – will take place in the city between 22 January and 10 April 2022.
Wolverhampton was due to host the opening of the exhibition in March 2021 however, due to the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions, the dates and order of the tour have been rescheduled. British Art Show 9 will now open in Aberdeen in July 2021.
In Wolverhampton, British Art Show 9 will take place at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the University of Wolverhampton School of Art.
British Art Show 9 Announce New Opening and Tour Dates / /
The long-awaited opening of British Art Show 9 has been announced by Hayward Gallery Touring. Aberdeen will be the first stop then touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth.
The artists presented in the exhibition respond in critical ways to this complex context
British Art Show 9, will now be opening in Aberdeen, Scotland on 10 July 2021 and touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth. The British Art Show is the biggest touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK and it is widely acknowledged as the most important recurrent exhibition of contemporary art produced in this country, unrivalled in its ambition, scope and national reach. The exhibition will be presented across numerous galleries and exhibition spaces in each city, resulting in an ambitious and wide-ranging programme that explores new tendencies in artistic practice.
Simnett doesn’t shrink from her material’s grisly nature;
The Needle and the Larynx is an extended shot in slow-motion of the artist receiving a Botox injection into her larynx. Similarly, her work grapples with the macabre;
Faint With Light is a sculptural installation inspired by her grandfather’s experience of fainting during a Holocaust execution, which saved his life. It features a 6 metre LED sculpture which pulses in time with the sound of Simnett hyperventilating, which was produced by repeatedly inducing her own unconsciousness.
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The work of Berlin-based artist Marianna Simnett ranges from the macabre to whimsical, ensuring a strong reaction from audiences.
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Worst Gift (video still, 2017). Courtesy the artist and Matt s Gallery.
Five years ago, Marianna Simnett was sitting in a doctor’s office with a syringe an inch away from her throat. A surgeon was about to insert a dose of Botox into her neck to lower her voice a painful procedure, she told me in her Berlin studio last month, that would affect her speech for about three months as part of an artwork titled