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Three artists with the best and most recent of their paintings and drawings from Devon. Keiron Leach, Creydi Nevill, Ed Crumpton. The first London exhibition of this unusual and diverse collaborative touring group. Visit www.onshow.org.uk for more information. Acquire Arts Gallery, 155 Battersea Park Road, London. SW8 4BU

Two Private Views: Sun 8th and Sat 14th. 5-10pm.

The Blue Bell Hangar Project is an experimental, large scale sculpture resulting from a collaboration between 7 artists of the Cardiff based group New British Art.
 
Taking its form from the experimental tetrahedral kites of historical innovator Alexander Graham Bell, the sculpture draws its meaning from a historic context strongly associated with the birth of man-powered flight and the spirit of experimentation ushered in at the beginning of the 20th Century.

The original kite was made and flown at a moment in history when mechanical and scientific experimentation was producing a new world aesthetic: functional form was infiltrating the visual arts and modernism was seeded. Bell’s Cygnet resembles a modernist sculpture. A great dark mass which, from a distance, seems to float impossibly above the ground and forces the viewer to question their experience of the physical world and the imagined interior of this object.

Visit http://newbritishart.org for more details

PRIVATE VIEW Friday 12th Feb

Torsten Lauschmann, David Birkin & Benjamin de Burca

Hotshoe Gallery supports experimentation within photographic art, film, video and installation. This exhibition will pay particular attention to the concept of ‘exposure’, introducing new work by Torsten Lauschmann, David Birkin and Benjamin de Burca. Exposure refers both to the photographic technique of exposing light and to the idea of exposing the mind of the photographer and his subject.

Read more at the Hotshoe Gallery

PRIVATE VIEW
Private view: Thursday 11th february 6 pm - 9 pm

Featuring:

• Andreas Waldén
• Jarkko Räsänen
• Linda Reif
• Matt Packer
• Olivier Lemort
• Jaakko Karhunen
• Lotta Ingman
• Arvid Hedin
• Emma Holmes
• Lukas Hoffman
• Hanne Granberg
• Sarah Gerats

This will be a first London showing for the majority of the participating artists. This exhibition is not a thematic exposition of a curatorial agenda. What brings the artists together is the fact that they have all been involved at one time or another with New International School (NIS) during the past 5 years. Their individual artistic concerns may not necessarily coincide and for the moment that is not our (NIS) concern, nevertheless they together with their works constitute a part of a community contributing to an emergent discourse.

This will be an attempt at delineation and separation and the question of “to what end?” will always be present; to what end and for whom? The work of art projects a hypothetical community of shared interests. The direction of the hypothesis is determined first in school then studio and exhibition respectively. The purpose of this exhibition is not to bestow ‘legitimacy’ before the event but to see what is possible. To that end the backdrop is of crucial importance. NIS will provide the backdrop against which the artists and their works are the actors and generators of an emergent community. NIS is school studio and exhibition. It is works, collection and factory. It is film studio, archive and library. It is regeneration plan and architecture from the ground up. It is a collective of individuals who will have had nothing in common with each other and reserve the right to change their minds as often as necessary.

Further details at the Elevator Gallery web site.