NEWS
Artists for Democracy celebrated in Chile
15 January–30 March 2014
Cecilia Vicuña’s exhibition, Artists for Democracy: The Archive of Cecilia Vicuña is to be held at two venues in Santiago, Chile. The archive section will be on display at the Museo de la Memoria (MMDH) and the exhibition’s other section is to be held at the Museo de Bellas Artes (MNBA), where John Dugger’s huge banner Chile Vencera will be displayed in the grand 19th-century main exhibition hall as a major feature of this celebration of the mid-1970s organization formed to support democracy in Chile after the death of Allende, Artists for Democracy.
Harald Smykla: It’s About Time
1 November–21 December 2013
Harald Smykla is featured in It’s About Time at the ASC Gallery, London. Curated by Christina Niederberger and Paul Carey-Kent, the 14 international artists in this exhibition explore the nature of time and how different timescales can function simultaneously in an artwork.
New work by Tina Keane in the London Film Festival
October 2013
Tina Keane’s new short film, Beauty in Motion, will be screened for the first time at the London Film Festival on 12 October in the programme Contained Movement.
Clay Perry’s portrait photographs of Mira Schendel
25 September 2013–19 January 2014
Clay Perry’s photographs of artist Mira Schendel in 1966 are featured in the catalogue and at the entrance to the exhibition Mira Schendel at Tate Modern.
Two gallery artists in The First Cut, Southampton
11 October 2013–12 January 2014
Chris Kenny and Georgia Russell are both included in the touring exhibition The First Cut which is now at The Pavilion in SeaCity Museum, Southampton. The exhibition tour began at Manchester City Art Galleries in October 2012, and features works by 30 international contemporary artists who radically rethink the possibilities of working with paper.
Chris Kenny: Telling Stories in Kent
27 September–15 November 2013
Chris Kenny is included in the first part of the exhibition Telling Stories at the Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery in Kent. Telling Stories considers the role of artist as storyteller and addresses ideas of communication and mis-communication.
Cecilia Vicuña: Artists from Latin America in London at the David Roberts Art Foundation
7 June – 3 August 2013
Cecilia Vicuña is one of the artists included in the exhibition curated by Pablo Léon de la Barra and Carmen Juliá at the David Roberts Art Foundation, London: Curators’ Series #6. Friends of London. Artists from Latin America in London from 196X – 197X.
John Dugger and Guy Brett on Participatory Art
2 April 2013
An event complementing the Keywords exhibition at INIVA, London: John Dugger will discuss Participatory Art with art historian and curator Guy Brett on Tuesday 2 April.
Two gallery artists in Mappamundi, Toulon
16 March–12 May 2013
Jason Wallis-Johnson and Chris Kenny are each represented by several works in the exhibition Mappamundi: Art et Cartographie. Held at the Hotel des Arts, Centre D’Art du Conseil General du Var, Toulon, the exhibition is curated by Guillaume Monsaignon as part of the programme for Marseilles, 2013 European Capital of Culture. Artists include Joseph Kosuth, Vic Muniz, Alighiero e Boetti and Guillermo Kuitca.
John Dugger: Keywords at INIVA and Tate Liverpool
13 March 2013–1 June 2014
John Dugger’s Sports Banner (1980) is in Keywords, an exhibition curated by Gavin Delahunty and Grant Watson and presented in London by INIVA (the Institute of International Visual Arts) London, and in 2014, at Tate Liverpool. Keywords is based on Raymond Williams’ 1976 book, Keywords – a vocabulary of culture and society. The exhibition has three parts: a display at INIVA; a lecture series; and an exhibition at Tate Liverpool of artworks from 1976 to the present, with an emphasis on the 1980s, drawing on iconic works from Tate’s collection.