dear colleages, liebe kollegINNen
although the libations of both last friday's private view and, spiritual
ones only, of the saturday talk have now taken place, i nevertheless take
the liberty of attaching below details of this most interesting drawing
show ("proper art"!) in our delightful BLUECOAT arts centre, on course for
major redevelopment by 2008. this is the third cologne show hosted by the
bluecoat, like the second minus the wriggling worms of show 1!
while visiting the world heritage sight of our waterfront, do also take in
the german show at the TATE, which, like most tate liverpool shows, will
NOT also be on at either 'wen' venue... on until 22 august, RHINEGOLD - ART
FROM COLOGNE, features major conceptual 'new' artists from the city, and is
rather different from british conceptual art. this show follows, as it
were, the tate liverpool exposures we've had over the years to good but
more established post WWII german artists. crafted and demanding work.
**********************
something very different are the (BIRKENHEAD) WILLIAMSON ART GALLERY's 3
ASPECTS OF LANDSCAPE exhibitions, all on until 5 september. there is a
retrospective of the distinguished wirral artist GEORGE THOMPSON's work in
oil, pastel and notably watercolour - clearly but variedly in the english
tradition - and good! then there are startling landscapes based on his
current domicile the conwy valley by the RA painter MAURICE COCKRILL, " 'en
plein air' Conway Valley paintings", really exciting recent work. plus far
from negligible landscape/gardens-inspired
work by pupils from a wirral school.
the smaller municipal galleries are insufficiently lauded, run with great
devotion on limited resources. and they contain wonderful things, whether
they be in the permanent collection or in temporary shows: some of the
williamson's watercolours have just been to I-ravenna, at ravenna's
request, and are currently at gainsborough's house, sudbury, suffolk,
before returning hither to be shown. i think also of the atkinson in
southport and the turnpike in leigh, lancs, as worthwhile smaller spaces
near liverpool.
and finally, for filmgoers, the LIVERPOOL ARABIC ARTS FESTIVAL also
included some films, including the incomparable 'Battle of Algiers' but
also a notable recent moroccan film, A THOUSAND MONTHS, (2003) (124"),
which treated with tact, depth, some humour, and restrained sureness of
touch the social, economic and political nexus in which a young boy and his
relatives and acquaintances find themselves, with as backdrop an
unrelievedly ungreen part of the atlas (mountains); time: 1981. if you
haven't seen it yet, don't miss it. last FACT showing tomorrow thursday.
sorry to have gone on but it's something for the weekend...
gruße/greetings
mike r.
--On 22 July 2004 12:26 +0100 Bryan Biggs <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> Bluecoat's next private view this Friday, 6-8pm.
>
> Join some of the ZK exhibition artists this Saturday at 2pm in the
> gallery as they discuss their work with Jürgen Kisters, art critic,
> writer and one of the instigators of the Eight Days A Week cultural
> exchange between Liverpool and Cologne.
>
>
>
> ZK
>
>
> KATJA DAVAR * TRIXI GROISS * SVENJA KREH * SILKE SCHATZ * VINCENT TAVENNE
> * HEIKE WEBER * JOSEPH ZEHRER
>
> Bluecoat Gallery
> 24 July -- 4 September 2004
> Private View 6 - 8pm Friday 23 July
>
> Bluecoat's upcoming exhibition forms part of the cultural links between
> the twin cities of Cologne and Liverpool. Opening 24 July, it follows on
> from Bluecoat's last exhibition of Cologne artists in 2000 and its
> involvement in the ongoing Eight Days A Week exchange programme between
> artists and venues in both cities.
>
> Liverpool's longest established twin city, Cologne, is one of the most
> vibrant and dynamic European cities for contemporary art. Rather than
> attempt to give an overview of its enormously varied art scene, this
> exhibition instead focuses on a particularly rich and potent area of
> artistic practice -- drawing - and presents a varied selection of works
> from seven Cologne artists, including a specially commissioned
> site-specific work by Heike Weber. The artists use drawing not as a
> preparatory exercise for other works of art, but as a medium in its own
> right - direct, sensitive and powerful. Drawing finds a fresh impetus
> here through an engaging diversity of graphic approaches, materials and
> subject matter.
>
> Katja Davar has created a pair of intensively worked, painstakingly
> reproduced images of the astonishingly seductive vapour trails and clouds
> that resulted from the explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle. In
> these very large works on paper, the materially insubstantial appears to
> have transformed into a solid sculptural substance, reinforcing the
> iconic nature of the original source of these images.
>
> Trixi Groiss presents a selection of six works from her series, One
> Hundred Naked Men -- in which the subjects are neither all naked, nor all
> men. Reminiscent of an anthropological exercise, a collection of examples
> of exotic species, the creatures depicted are in fact, invented hybrid
> beings. The drawings of tattooed men are a weird combination of their
> unsettling direct gaze and the ornamental decorations on their bodies --
> drawings within drawings.
>
> Svenja Kreh draws her imagery from quotations from everyday popular
> cultural forms -- newspapers, comic strips, science fiction films and
> stories and graffiti. In the surreal flow of images, traces can be
> discerned, of strange beings, part angel, part android, in an opulent
> decorative setting.
>
> Silke Schatz draws initially from her own personal experiences to explore
> wider socio-political ideals, using the structures of design and
> architecture to express her ideas. In this exhibition, her large-scale
> drawings from memory depict the elephant house at the Cologne Zoo, which
> the artist sometimes visits with her young daughter. Built in 1864 in the
> 'oriental' style, the elephant house represents the exotic, but also the
> colonialism of western society. It is also both a delightful place to
> visit as well as one of sadness, poignant with the beauty of the
> creatures living in man-made confinement.
>
> Heike Weber has created a special site-specific drawing in the curved
> alcove space of Bluecoat's gallery 2. Working with materials such as pins
> and thread, she creates line drawings in space, that are not only
> drawings, but three-dimensional sculptural interventions into the
> architecture of buildings. Here she also shows works from her recent
> series of ink drawings of firework displays.
>
> The exhibition also includes a combined landscape and self-portrait as a
> child, made in 64 separate pieces by Vincent Tavenne, and drawings in
> lacquer by Joseph Zehrer from his "Brechtleser" (Brecht reader) series.
>
> SPECIAL EVENTS
> On Saturday 24 July at 2pm, there will be an informal gallery discussion
> with the artists and Cologne art critic and writer Jürgen Kisters. Free
>
> There will also be a children's art workshop on Friday 20 August, 2--4pm.
> This is a free drawing workshop for
> children aged 7 to 11 years old and will be led by artist Claire Weetman.
> Materials will be provided. Places are limited and BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL.
> Please call Call 0151 709 5689.
>
> Bluecoat Gallery, Bluecoat Arts Centre, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX
> Open Tuesday -- Saturday 10.30am -- 5pm (closed Sunday and Monday)
>
> For more information, please call Andrew Winder, Marketing Manager on
> 0151 709 5297
>
>
groeten
Michael Rigelsford
(Nederlands/Dutch - Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Liverpool)
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