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BEN
HEASMAN
"Asylum - the Last Commission" was broadcast late one night on television six years ago, now only a vague "inter-textual" memory as the film awaits further distribution. Spaces in East London were depicted, abandoned, that's about all I remember, along with some tears. No one knew what was lost, a woman tried to find it with a microphone, faith, walking. Exactly at this time, the East London Space of "The Residence" was abandoned by a curtain maker. As the residence prepares to leave, it foresees asylum - the last commission. -Ben
Heasman
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12 Dec. - 17 Dec. THE GALLERY
WILL BE TAKEN OVER FOR 1 WEEK* BY THE WINNING PROPOSAL TO OUR CALL FOR
THE CONQUEST... For over the past year Director Ingrid Z and her crew have endured a heart racing rush of weekly exhibitions and events. As we come to the close of 2006, it's time to turn the tables before our next move. During this week we join you the spectator on the other side of the looking glass to experience...
THE
MARMITE PRIZE
The Marmite
Prize is an open submission painting exhibition, judged by a distinguished
panel of artists and curators: The
Prize The first Marmite Prize is dedicated to Georg Baselitz.
The
Curators Previously
they have done this by making a large-scale floor painting and using
coloured lights (in 'The Circus Show', 2006, Three Colts Gallery); turning
the floor into a giant pink and turquoise chess board (in 'Through the
Large Glass', 2006, Three Colts Gallery) to bring together disparate
works; or having artists work on pictures whilst the show is running
('We Can Work It Out', 2004, Three Colts Gallery). Contact:
DR.
YOUNGSUN PARK 5
December - 10 December 2006 Our World in Your World is a video installation about two different people's story of finding each other's inner-feelings. They go through a process of understanding each other's inner-feelings to form their own world. "I want to show that even if they want their own world they are in a society with many other people. We can think about the relationship with other people and society. We can think about our position in our society. I challenge the audience to think about the following questions by showing two people's story: Do we have our own world but avoid society? Do you feel that you are a member of the society and happy with them? You want to be with other people but do they avoid you? Can you identify our existence with our position in society?" -----------------------------------------------------
LINES
ON THE LAND New
paintings, drawings and etching 21
November - 26 November (extended! to
3rd of December) This show brings together a collection of recent works inspired by a journey from Berlin to Eastern Europe earlier this year. Kate Brigden and Lucy Farley spent time studying the changing landscapes. They both found that their work was dramatically influenced by an area steeped in history. The countryside forms a backdrop for stories to emerge using imagery borrowed from different places and times. Both artists' approach traditional subject matter with a new element by combining different methods and procedures of mark making, not usually associated with each other. -----------------------------------------------------------------
DUNMORE-CUEVAS 14
Nov. - 19 Nov. "Fruits d'Amour" represents Anglo-Chilean artist team Dunmore-Cuevas first show in London. Currently based in Bristol, and previously in Santiago de Chile, Dunmore-Cuevas will be showing work created especially for the show featuring new bold paintings about the omnipresence of love and other musings by Joseph Dunmore and new, fresh and funky sculptures that emanate love by Vivi Cuevas. --------------------------------------------------
COLLECTIVE PARTICULARS Kazushige
Aoshima (Japan) 7
Nov. - 12 Nov. Collective Particulars is an exhibition of four international artists dealing with the aesthetics of identity and the place of the individual within society. This exhibition brings together four artists from four different continents, each endeavouring, through the exploration of the descriptive qualities of their chosen mediums, to frame an aspect of the common subject. Each approach is different, yet together they combine to form a multi-faceted response to the politics of representation. Combined, they are a testimonial to the shared experiences of seemingly disparate individuals in the age of globalisation and cultural homogenisation. ---------------------------------------------
STEPHEN
CLIFTON 24
Oct. - 5 Nov. 'My
work is a response to, and an exploration of, the Stephen
is a graduate of the Kent Institute of Art and 'When
the swirling dust of destruction settles, When
the soil of centuries covers the rubble, -----------------------------------------------------
DAVID
JOHN BEESLEY 10 Oct. - 22 Oct. In these playful new figurative paintings we are presented with a mythological approach to criticise the current state of humanity. Beesley has titled his exhibition "Men Kill Dragons Because They Had Beds of Gold" to indicate "humans have put their social status and material greed above their imagination." Beesley is an active member of the Stuckist movement arguing for an "Art that speaks to its people." He is also working on "theories of artistic ideals in the phiolosophy of critical realism." -------------------------------------------------------------------
NOW
OR NEVERLAND *Please
note the exhibition incorporates the remnants of the former Future
First History Last exhibition
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FUTURE FIRST / HISTORY LAST THE RESIDENCE'S 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2nd
Sept - 17th Sept Featuring work exclusively by artists who have shown in the gallery since its birth, FUTURE FIRST presents a floating exhibition of the future. Each artist's work is encapsulated in a helium balloon that will slowly sink to eye level, shrink, and plummet to the ground through the passing of time. HISTORY LAST presents itself in the newly refurbished interactive blackboards of The Residence's Black in Back Room. Here you will find a revised history of art proposed by a survey of public opinion. Through a process of osmosis where historical information is filtered by media, culture, class, rumour, education and personal preference, we reveal the more hidden impacts of art history and the significance of its relationship to the outside world. Featuring: Claire Anderson, Jane Anderson, Imelda Apps, Matt Ashdown, Nori B, Claire Brewster, Penny Broadhurst, Jubal Brown (Canada), Blair Butterfield, Rachel Cattle, Lee Cavaliere, Annabelle Dalby, Ralph Lyndon Dorey, Richard Forbes-Hamilton, Lisa Freeman, Ella Golt, Elizabeth Gossling, Daedalus, Danielle Drainey, Dawn Hannah, Clare Hansford, Dan Holliday, Darren Jones, Oggy Jordan, David Kasdorf (USA), Calum F. Kerr, Emilie Lindsten, Lucinda Luvaas (USA), Lucy May, Gina Melosi, Nick Morley, Ella Nordström, Nina Ogden, Michael Pybus, Declan Rooney, Steve Rosenthal, Carla Scott, Kirsten Rae Simonsen (USA), Scott Groeniger (USA), Caroline Thomson, John Vincent, Elizia Volkmann, Richard Yates, Mio Izawa, Ingrid Z and MORE!
AFTER
PARTY
at TATE MOSS
JOHN VINCENT July 19 - 30 In a dream, time and space become distorted, images, objects and people are not always what they appear. In a nightmare, this is driven to a terrifying extreme. Moments in time are reconstructed so that its malevolent cause might be brought under control. The exhibition "O HAVE YOU SEEN THE DEVLE" uses these concepts as its basis. Blending a mixture of fact and painterly fiction, the work looks in to the exploits of one nefarious individual from London's dark past, one who casts a long shadow within the popular imagination. In an existence far removed from his own time, the reconstruction is in the present form. In an attempt to reveal the identity, a suspect is dragged from the dim gas lit streets of yesteryear to a world where it should be impossible to hide under unforgiving halogen lamps with activities pursued by the encompassing video eye. The fragments that remain from this journey are collected, reconstructed and an alternative reality is generated. With the information gathered and the investigation begun, you are invited to bear witness. -------------------------------------------------
CURIOUS NATURE 11th
- 16th of July Featuring Richard Yates, Anna Mizera and Libby Murphy Polish
Artist Anna Mizera has been working and exhibiting in London
for the past 4yrs. Mizera's work focuses on geological formations and
the processes of fossilization. Emulating the visual imprint left by
a living creature, the paintings she creates resonate with a sense of
the familiar and the alien, forms half realised and then lost to us. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
CARLY ABBOTT
& NANDA KHAORAPAPONG 4th
- 9th of July
English artist Abbotts' photographs fall under contemporary documentary focusing on areas that are to be built upon by the 2012 Olympics. Working closely with the developing maps for the Olympics, the sites have been photographed, and titled what they will be. These urban landscapes look at the fact people viewing the pictures may not be aware of where construction is going to take place. Do you know? Is this your area? Maps will also be exhibited. Chinese artist Khaorapapongs' photographs relate to the way in which people are situated within city space. Compositionally the images capture people and the space around them from various points in the city. The Residence gallery itself is situated at the heart of Victoria Park Village in London's East End. Victoria Park Village was built in 1842 making it the oldest public park in the United Kingdom. -----------------------------------------
NICK POTTER
(USA) June
28 - July 2 Simulations of utopia, of desire. The unobtainable artificial. Fantasies and nightmares that represent our need to wish for a reality unlike our own. Like the opening scenes in Hollywood disaster movies: On the surface, everything is calm. Nice furniture. Neat, polished floors. Like the catalogue. Like the dream. But there's a vibration beneath the surface. There's a mask emerging from the wall. Humidity. Memory. The sense of something more, the way we know there's life beyond the image of the world prescribed by television but we can't quite find it. Production is dead, long live reproduction. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
SPRAY TAN SUN BLOCK Picnic/Screening
Event When it's the weather for leisure, STAY OUT OF THE SUNSHINE! Join us this Sunday for a casual picnic & screening social at The Residence. Break out the gingham blankets, sangria and egg sandwiches for a playful encounter with the real sexiness of summer. Beach dress optional. Bring picnic nibbles to share! Featuring fabulous video shorts by Nicky Magiulo, Blue MacAskill, Gail Olding, Magali Reus and Antonio Gianasi. +PLUS+ From the amazing collection of PATRICK WOLF's charity shop treasures, Patrick shares with us a major inspiration for his forthcoming album "The Magic Position"… VOILÀ
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IMELDA APPS June
7 - 24 This new collection of pictures carries forward a theme Imelda first portrayed in a series called Silent Rooms. With these works Imelda not only depicts an emotionally charged scene but also investigates the relationship between viewer and subject. Each picture is a story in itself but not a story that is familiar or even completed. They are not like paintings in the tradition of Renaissance art; pictures from the Bible depicting well known heroic or tragic moments, the death of a Saint, or a Greek myth, or the Nativity. Rather they are actions frozen in a moment of time. And the figures carrying them out are not famous or familiar characters but people we know and recognise through our common humanity. And because they have not yet completed the actions, they remain full of potential. Something has gone on before and something will go on again when we cease to look - that is their narrative power. It is left to the viewer to interpret what they are seeing and in that process they become more than a mere spectator. They become a witness. We are interrupting something but what? "The subjects gaze out at the viewer or just over our shoulder or inward looking absorbed in their own world - distant and remote"
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MATTHEW
BLANEY 4th of June, 7pm-10pm A private view. -----------------------------------
JIRI HAUSCHKA (Czech Republic) May
24 - June 4 Prague Stuckist Jiri Hauschka presents a series of paintings created while residing in the UK this past year. They reflect experiences from his life in Brighton while working at the local rest home and from trips to London. The work presents Hauschka's signature style of painting on the border of abstraction and realism, expressive charge, strong lines, and broad balanced surfaces of vibrant colour. This work from his series entitled The Emotional Landscapes, departs from the border of abstraction/realism toward "realistic location". It is here where Hauschka exploits his painting style in which objects reach seemingly fluid form, feel dynamic, and in a convincing way contribute to the illusion of catching the moment.
See the May/June issue of CEN Magazine for feature "Emotional Landscapes of Jiri Hauschka" by Rukhsana Yasmin ------------------------------------------
Sunday
Monthly Screenings: Nick Goulis / Martine Dempsey / Toine Klaassen / Lisa Vinebaum/ Clare Gasson / Ann-Marie James / Yu-Chen Wang / Sheena Macrae/ Andro Semeiko / Laura White / Mathilde Hemmes /Simon Raven
BasementArtProject.com is pleased to present a screening event at The Residence. Basement Screen will feature experimental films, performances and computer animation by 12 international artists. Nick Goulis' animation work is a journey across time and space, inspired by the ancient Greek poem and remixed soundtrack of an 80's video game by Martin Galway. Martine Dempsey, Ann-Marie James and Sheena Macrae widely use footage from film and television as a readymade. Dempsey and James' video works questions how 'the screen' separates us directly from the events of real space and real time, whereas Macrae's fast-forwarded epic drama and multi-layered popular TV series explore the new dynamics of Hollywood clichés. Toine Klaassen,
Clare Gasson and Lisa Vinebaum involve themselves by taking part in
their work. The performative engagement has extended throughout physical
interaction, role-play and inner voices of specific individuals. As
a former midwife, Mathilde Hemmes' artistic practice deals with the
question of life and death extensively by using dead animals as a visual
language expending the enforcement of gazing at the fragility and powerlessness
to the viewers. Yu-Chen Wang, Andro Semeiko and Laura White's work explores
our perception at large of the different context of regeneration, of
everyday objects and of dislocation. For more images of the event visit http://www.basementartproject.com/picturegallery/ BasementArtProject.com is a contemporary visual arts network run by London- based artist, Yu-Chen Wang, with international collaborations. It facilitates the development of web-focused work by artists and offers creative opportunities for international audiences on the internet. Parallel to the on-line space, BasementArtProject.com organises events and exhibitions in various venues across Europe. For more
information
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LUCY MAY May.
3 - 14
The subconscious narratives of memory and its fluctuating and fallible nature provide endless combinations of images and associations. The forms in May's work are Proustian outpourings of such material; an imaginative distillation of personal experience and memory. The language of memorialisation informs the work. We ritually compensate for loss, death and the passage of time by using symbolic surrogates for our emotion. The work hints at the futility of this and acknowledges the fetishisation of the commemorative object. Tension in the work often results from the embodiment of the seemingly opposed: dead/alive, sinister/benign, abject/seductive, human/animal, personal/collective, remembered/constructed. "My work often utilises the latent psychological content of children's book illustration, toys, museum artefacts and mythological characters. These entities, like the figures trapped in the margins of a book, the dreadful creatures inhabiting uncharted space on an old map, or the grotesques condemned to the service of architecture, are allowed to emerge autonomously in the work. Their emotive power eclipses their original function as they are liberated into a landscape of the imagination." ----------------------------------------------
ROBERT HAWKINS April
19 - 30 "Robert Hawkins has executed 5 large (5x6 ft) graphite drawings of Famous Haunted English Ruins for a new gallery in London. I haven't seen these drawings, but I'm sure they're great. Everything Robert Hawkins produces, with a few exceptions (see: "Tales of Ovid posed by the Hawkins Goldfish", 1979) is great, since he is the greatest living artist. Now leave me alone!" -Rene Ricard, Chelsea Hotel, 2006
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COMPOSITIONS April 7 - 16 Max Taylor’s portraits investigate the relationship between people and places; in one series a saxophonist’s performance transforms the dark and shadowy space under a bridge, providing a safe passage through it. Daniel Todd shows a simplistic beauty in decaying objects and surfaces. Similarly, Dean Kissick finds a derelict formalism in crumbling walls and dirty spaces. Featuring: Jack Bevan, Max Taylor, Daniel Todd, Dean Kissick ----------------------
LEE CAVALIERE March
22 - April 2 Video artist
and photographer Lee Cavaliere has recently returned from a six week
mobile residency in The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, in North
West China. --------------------
INGRID
Z Feb
3 - March 19 BLACK
HOLE DAD, NO DAUGHTER OF MINE, This
exhibition is the result of a month long exercise in which The Residence
founder Ingrid Z brought her studio into the gallery, constructing a
personal space within which to introduce the story of her life. Born
in Toronto, Canada, and now living in London, this is her first solo
exhibition in the UK.
The absence of Ingrid’s unknown father is perceived as a black hole within her psychic cosmos, a mysterious void into which people and memories are consumed and lost, and a powerful force that transforms everything around it. Likewise, the terrible recurrence of family tragedies on the island of Bermuda, and the subsequent sense of enduring loss and the transience of life, is suggestive of the destructive void of the Bermuda Triangle; an unknown place where people disappear completely, an empty space that must be filled with love.
Visitors are welcomed into an immediate and spontaneous installation in which art and life collide, exploding like a supernova; the show is the fallout, the spectacle of the self exploded. -------------------------------------------------------------
PLAYGROUND
07 Jan
30 - 1 Feb Playground 07 is a collective of 7 budding illustrators wanting to make art in collaboration with the public. The project is delivered from the notion that making mess is a freedom we all enjoy as children and lose as we mature. This event presents an opportunity to regress to that spontaneity. "We are bringing people to a familiar space, surreally transformed but still recognizable where they can let go." It all starts with a white room symbolizing a space in a house (such as a living room), which will be filled with things to suggest occupancy. Everything is a blank live canvas to begin with. Upon entrance, participants will be armed with an apron, water balloons and coloured paint to make their mark in our space. Participants are invited to fill the floor, walls, furniture and accessories with colour. Essentially, the room will become a three-dimensional page from a colouring book. Featuring:
Nori Bujang, Etsuko Kondo, Luisa Bacelar,
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SOFT WARM PLACES CALLED HOME Jan.
13 - 28 In 'Soft Warm Places Called Home', Paul Barritt, Lisa Freeman and Stephen Walter share their interpretations of home through drawing, painting and photography. Through nostalgic drawings of found photographs (on found paper), Paul Barritt emphasises the timelessness of the family unit, and how all too often this is bound by gran who is just a little bit strange and wonderful. On the facing wall Lisa Freeman's painting 'Somebody's Daughter' smiles a vacuous smile in her prettiest bridesmaid dress, while Stephen Walter presents a collage of photographs and drawings constructing the image of a suburban landscape finding itself in between personal visions of beauty and the reality of its environment. 'Soft Warm Places Called Home' paints an infinitely diverse picture of home; from a place of intimacy and affection, to the place you know you will never escape.
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