NEWS
Anne Bean on ‘Being – Human’
22 September–2 October 2016
Performance/installation artist Anne Bean has just completed a residency with the Sidney Nolan Trust at The Rodd in Powys, Wales, as part of a programme supported by the Arts Council.
Chris Kenny solo exhibition at Musée Hébert, Grenoble
15 September 2016–15 March 2017
Au milieu de nulle part, a solo exhibition of Chris Kenny’s three-dimensional ‘drawings’ and collage constructions, opens this week at Musée Hebert in Grenoble, France.
Eduardo Kac’s ‘futurespective’ opens in Berlin
14 September–31 October 2016
Eduardo Kac: From the Pink Miniskirt to the Green Bunny opens at La Plaque Tournante in Berlin on 14 September. Curated by Frédéric Acquaviva, it is subtitled “A futurespective solo exhibition”. The opening event will feature a performance by the Eduardo Kac, the launch of the LP vinyl record Pornéia and the launch of the artist’s book, Biopoetry. The exhibition is part of this year’s Berlin Art Week.
Neo Naturist activities
7 July–28 August 2016
Wilma Johnson and Jennifer Binnie were founder members of the 1980s Neo Naturist movement and featured in England & Co’s Neo Naturists exhibition in 2007. Currently, their work is included in The Neo Naturists at Studio Voltaire, London.
Friedrich Nagler: Wunderkammer at Pallant House
30 June–16 October 2016
Friedrich Nagler: Wunderkammer is an installation of a myriad of small sculptures by Vienna-born émigré artist Friedrich Nagler at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Jane England, who curated a survey exhibition of the artist’s work in 2013 at England & Co, contributed an essay about the artist to the issue of the Pallant House Gallery Magazine which accompanies their current exhibition programme.
Cecilia Vicuña in A Kingdom of Hours
23 June–4 September 2016
In the early 1970s, the poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago de Chile) made a series of paintings “that critically explore the patriarchal iconography of international socialism and reinterpret Andean cultural symbols.” One of these early paintings is included in the current exhibition at Gasworks, A Kingdom of Hours, co-curated by Robert Leckie (curator, Gasworks) and Miguel A. López (chief curator, TEOR/éTica).
Cecilia Vicuña: Art Actions Collective, Madrid
12 April–13 September 2016
Cecilia Vicuña is one of the artists included in the exhibition Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), 1979-1985, curated by Francisco Godoy Vega, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Two artists on the Electronic Superhighway
29 January–15 May 2016
England & Co has lent works Eduardo Kac and Roy Ascott to the exhibition Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, in which key moments in the history of art and the internet emerge as the exhibition travels back in time.
Eduardo Kac’s two Minitel animated poems in the exhibition date from 1985 and ’86. Kac was a pioneer of telecommunications art in the 1980s and he continues to investigate the philosophical and political dimensions of communication processes, bringing together the biological and the digital. He has recently been the subject of a paper in Art in America, entitled ‘Transgressive Bodies’ by Zanna Gilbert.
Also on loan to Electronic Highway is Change Painting by Roy Ascott from 1968. Ascott is an influential British artist and teacher who has been a practitioner of interactive computer art, electronic art, cybernetic art and telematic art since the Sixties.
Vale, Maliheh Afnan (1935–2016)
11 January 2016
England & Co is sad to announce the death of Maliheh Afnan, the distinguished Middle-Eastern artist who in recent years has been based in London. Born in Palestine in 1935 of Persian parents, educated in Beirut and Washington, her work addressed contemporary themes of displacement and exile.
We are proud to have worked with her on two solo exhibitions at the gallery, several group shows and to have sold a major work to the British Museum.
Agitprop! John Dugger and Cecilia Vicuña in Brooklyn
11 December 2015–7 August 2016
John Dugger’s maquette for his Chile Vencera banner – first hung in Trafalgar Square, London, in 1974 – is on show in the exhibition Agitprop! at the Elizabeth A. Sackler gallery of the Brooklyn Museum, New York (until 7 August 2016). Works by Cecilia Vicuña are also included in the exhibition. Dugger and Vicuña were both co-founders (with David Medalla and Guy Brett) of Artists for Democracy, an artists’ organisation formed in London in solidarity with Chile.