that's disappointing - a bit like the one at the ICA a few years ago;
perhaps visual art curators have a limited viewpoint ?
Tilla
On 3 Nov 2011, at 08:02, GILES GOODLAND wrote:
> It wasn't very good--unless you want an exhibition of terrible and
> unthought-out ways of combining text and art.
>
> There were two old Bob Cobbing pieces, tucked away and small.
>
> Giles
>
>
> From: Tilla Brading <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, 22 October 2011, 8:09
> Subject: Re: Invitation to PRIVATE VIEW at Art Jericho Sunday 30
> October 2-4pm to clebrate QWERTY - Text Art exhibition. Enjoy the work
> of four + artists - and a glass of wine!
>
> ...give us feedback if you go!
> Tilla
>
> On 20 Oct 2011, at 07:43, GILES GOODLAND wrote:
>
> > This looks interesting--has some Cobbing etc
> >
> > Giles
> >
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> > Sent: Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 15:16
> > Subject: FW: Invitation to PRIVATE VIEW at Art Jericho Sunday 30
> October 2-4pm to clebrate QWERTY - Text Art exhibition. Enjoy the work
> of four + artists - and a glass of wine!
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Patricia Baker-Cassidy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 19 October 2011 15:15
> > Subject: Invitation to PRIVATE VIEW at Art Jericho Sunday 30 October
> 2-4pm to clebrate QWERTY - Text Art exhibition. Enjoy the work of four
> + artists - and a glass of wine!
> >
> >
> > QWERTY 27 October- 19 November 2011 at Art Jericho
> > Opening party Sunday 30 October 2-4pm - bring a friend!
> >
> > There is a long tradition of artists exploring the visual power of
> text and print, so
> > this exhibition of contemporary text art has distinguished
> antecedents. From the
> > beauty of medieval illuminated manuscripts, to Lewis Carroll's
> Mouse's Tale in
> > Alice In Wonderland the energies of words combined with imagery have
> > attracted many artists.
> >
> > In the 20thc avant garde artists enlisted the potency of text art,
> bringing the poetry
> > of imagery into the forms of text. As well as the four main artists,
> the show offers
> > examples of Bob Cobbings' Typestracts from the 60s, and an account
> of a reconstruction
> > of William Blake's techniques of relief etching -revealed in a dream
> -for his poems of
> > Innocence & Experience, and others.
> >
> > Hellmut Preiss from Tuttlingen, Germany, extracts classic literature
> to create visual
> > patterns that build strong blocks, else scatter and swirl fragments
> of Milton, Shakespeare,
> > Emily Bronte, Lewis Carroll and others.
> > Alastair Hogg, from Oxford, created slogan pieces, that inherit the
> media and polemic
> > strands of text art, so highly developed through the 20thc.
> > Alison Gunn combines text & images, woven together & reinforcing
> each other to create
> > strongly emotional pieces. From Milton Keynes, Alison now studies &
> curates in Manchester.
> > DRC is a well-known Oxford artist, with a totally unknown body of
> new work...
> >
> > EVENTS – current & 2012 ...
> >
> > COLLATERAL DAMAGE- video installation by Doke Ostle running with
> QWERTY
> >
> > 18 November – the Jericho Poets return – an evening of words & wine.
> FREE event.
> >
> > 24 Nov – 22 Dec HALCYON – beautiful paintings to bring us to the end
> of the year.
> >
> > Coming in 2012:
> > January About Town: Photography – Group show Oxford photographers
> > April 2012 Susan Avery 70 x 70 x 70 New Water Colours, 70 at £70
> each...
> > May- June 2012 ANDREW LANYON Photographs & other art works from the
> Cornish artist
> > June-July CERI RICHARDS Lithographs - original prints from the great
> 20thc Welsh artist
> > September Society of Wood Engravers Annual National Exhibition
> > December 2012 Norman McBeath Black & White Photography
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