British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
16 February - 17 April 2011
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| © Wolfgang Tillmans
Freischwimmer 155, 2010
Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley, London |
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BRITISH ART SHOW 7: IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET
16 February - 17 April, 2011
Through paintings, sculpture, installations, video, film, performance
and all points in between, British Art Show 7 explores the ways in which
contemporary British art conjures histories - distant or near,
longingly imagined or all too real - to illuminate our present moment.
Subtitled In the Days of the Comet, British Art Show 7 takes as its
motif the idea of the comet as a harbinger of change, a measure of time
and a marker of historical recurrence. Besides reflecting these and
other cosmological concepts, the works propose alternative ways of
thinking about the 'here and now'. Many of the 39 artists and artists'
groups included in British Art Show 7 have made works especially for the
exhibition.
Touring to four cities in the UK, British Art Show 7 is an exhibition
that unfolds in time as well as space. At London's Hayward Gallery,
where - uniquely - the exhibition will be seen under one roof, there
will be a number of premieres, including new films by Anja Kirschner and
David Panos, and by Elizabeth Price, as well as new works by Christian
Marclay, Steve Claydon, Charles Avery and Tris Vonna-Michell.
Reflecting the exhibition's orbit, Tris Vonna-Michell presents a spoken
word piece written on a road trip between the locations where the
exhibition comes to land, and Gail Pickering broadcasts a beguiling
large-scale performance live from her studio.
Widely recognised as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of
contemporary British art, British Art Show is organised by the Hayward
Gallery and has taken place every five years since 1979. Curated by Lisa
Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, British Art Show 7 opened in Nottingham.
Following its London showing at the Hayward Gallery, it travels on to
venues in Glasgow and Plymouth.
Artists include; Charles Avery / Karla Black / Becky Beasley / Juliette
Blightman / Duncan Campbell / Varda Caivano / Spartacus Chetwynd /
Steven Claydon / Cullinan Richards / Matthew Darbyshire / Milena
Dragicevic / Luke Fowler / Michael Fullerton / Alasdair Gray / Brian
Griffiths / Roger Hiorns / Ian Kiaer / Anja Kirschner & David Panos /
Sarah Lucas / Christian Marclay / Simon Martin / Nathaniel Mellors /
Haroon Mirza / David Noonan / The Otolith Group / Mick Peter / Gail
Pickering / Olivia Plender / Elizabeth Price / Karin Ruggaber / Edgar
Schmitz / Maaike Schoorel / George Shaw / Wolfgang Tillmans / Sue
Tompkins / Phoebe Unwin / Tris Vonna-Michell / Emily Wardill / Keith
Wilson
www.hayward.org.uk
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