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Roger Hiorns
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Artists for Ikon
This exhibition catalogue celebrates the culmination of Ikon's 50th anniversary. Artists for Ikon shows work generously donated by of some of today's most important artists, all of whom have exhibited at Ikon or are included in future projects. Artists include: Fiona Banner, David Batchelor, Martin Creed, Ian Davenport, Richard Deacon, Matias Faldbakken, Ryan Gander, Antony Gormley, Carmen Herrera, Roger Hiorns, Dennis Oppenheim, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, and Giuseppe Penone among others. The exhibition is followed by a major art auction at Sotheby's, London, in July 2015. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artists for Ikon at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 24 April - 4 May 2015.
Northerners
The word 'northern' conjures plenty of stereotypical images; men in flat caps, cobbled streets, pies and rain. But beyond the clichés lies a region rich in its diversity, devilish in its humour and fertile in its culture, and it is these characteristics that iconic photographer Sefton Samuels has captured faithfully over four decades, and are compiled here in Northerners. Described by the Guardian as 'the photographic equivalent of Ken Loach', Samuels shot legendary figures of northern life, from Alan Bennett to Morrissey, LS Lowry to George Best and Sir Ben Kingsley, but most famously and vividly he captured the realities of everyday life across the north. With snatched shots of children cheekily mugging to his camera, pictures of the more grandiose members of society at the local hunt, photos of the bleaker side of life with the riots in Moss Side, and snaps of the young and fashionable posing as they hang around with nothing to do, Northerners reveals a photographer at one with his subject; and a region whose open character was meant to be captured through a lens.
Self Evident
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At Home with Vanley Burke
Vanley Burke, born in Jamaica in 1951, resident in Birmingham since 1965, is renowned as a photographer concerned especially with black culture in Britain.Burke has had numerous exhibitions surveying his career as an artist, and these have sometimes included material from his archive, a vast collection including printed material (posters, flyers, publications), clothes, records, ornaments and countless other items that provide invaluable insights into Britain's African and Caribbean communities. The religious and political beliefs of black people at home here, their artistic activities, fashions and leisure pursuits, food, health issues and many other aspects of everyday life are all equally...
Claustrophobia
Exhibition artists: Arkley, Howard, 1951-; Barth, Uta, 1958-; Bennett, Mark, 1956-; Casebere, James, 1953-; Collishaw, Mat, 1966-; Eskdale, Carolyn, 1963-; Friend, Melanie, 1957-; Hatoum, Mona, 1952-; Kaur, Permindar, 1965-; Müller, Matthias, 1961-; Salcedo, Doris, 1958-; Saunders, Nina, 1958-; Temin, Kathy, 1968-; Vaisman, Meyer, 1960-; Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953-; Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-
Victor Man
Ikon presents the first UK museum exhibition, the largest to date, of acclaimed Romanian artist Victor Man. Born in Transylvania, Man's work brings together disparate references to his birthplace with its 'folk' traditional and myths, as well as allusions to more recent Eastern European history.This exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Centre international d'art et du paysage de l' ile de Vassiviere, comprises new painting and sculpture. Richly evocative, dark in both palette and imagery, to suggest a voyeuristic gaze, Man's works signify an alternative world beyond familiar experience. This is enhanced by the artist's technique of using a 'black' mirror, a device which distances the act of visualisation for both himself and us. Images of women, wolves and gloves recur across several pieces, sometimes eroticised; notions of the unconscious, a surreal nether-world where new codes exist are conveyed."
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain
In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in response to the question 'How do we want to live now?' it was England's first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative n...
Stacked Hotel Room
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Bedwyr Williams
My Bad is Bedwyr Williams' largest solo exhibition to date and this accompanying catalogue presents the most comprehensive survey of his work.Williams observes the world with a sharp eye and wry humour. His work includes a wide range of media, including performance, sculpture, painting and photography.Drawing on his own personal narratives and family histories – from school days in a North Wales farming community to his experiences as an artist-in-residence – Williams has become known for sculpture and performance work reflecting on rural life, loss, memory and the folly of ambition.My Bad draws its title from an American vernacular phrase for admitting fault. The exhibition is comprised largely of newly commissioned installation and sculptural pieces, marking a departure from the artist's previous concerns with Wales and 'Welshness'.Published to accompany the exhibition Bedwyr Williams: My Bad at Ikon Gallery (16 May – 8 July 2012) and touring to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea in partnership with Mission Gallery, Swansea (17 November 2012 – 6 January 2013).
