Thursday, April 19, 2012

Paul Merrick: "Malerei: Painting As Object" New Bridge Space, Newcastle, UK

Paul Merrick: "Malerei: Painting As Object" New Bridge Space, Newcastle, UK
Image: Flag 2011 Fluorescent Strip Lights and Fittings, 121 x 243 x 13cm. courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK. (photo: Thierry Bal)


Malerei: Painting As Object

Helen Baker, Phyllida Barlow, Virginia Bodman, Sarah Bowker-Jones, Sean Edwards, Alexis Harding, Gabriel Hartley, Natalie Gale, Paul Merrick, Rudolf Polanszky and Sarah Kate Wilson

NewBridge Space
18 New Bridge Street West
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8AW
Sat 21 April - Sat 26 May
12:00-1800 Mon- Sat
PV: Fri 20 April 2012, 18:00-21:00
www.thenewbridgeproject.com


"If destiny will grant me enough time I shall discover an international language which will endure forever and which will continue to enrich itself… its name will be Malerei painting."
Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin,  Kandinsky (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979), p13.

Malerei: Painting As Object investigates painting as a process, its guises and paint as a substance. Each artist shares a love of material and the qualities of their 'thing-ness', whether it's colour, oozing oil paint, balloons, cellophane or jesmonite. The artists however do not remain slavish to the visceral but also embody and appropriate particular areas of Paintings' history in their multidisciplinary practices. Artists will reveal a painterly investigation of the Modernist concern 'objecthood', Postmodern eclecticism and the Post-production - trend of continuous re-working.

malereiexhibition.blogspot.co.uk

Curated by Sarah Bowker-Jones, Natalie Gale and Sarah Kate Wilson
   

Friday, April 13, 2012

Workplace Gallery at New Contemporaries, Art Cologne 2012: Solo Presentation by Wolfgang Weileder


Image: Wolfgang Weileder Piazza San Marco, Venice. Slice 2118 (Parents take snaphots of children in Venetian masks while a group of Chinese men mimic T'ai Chi moves for their holiday photos), 2011 Archival ink on mat archival cotton paper, 151 x 240.6 cm, 59 1/2 x 94 3/4 in (WW0091) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery

Workplace Gallery is pleased to present a solo stand of new work by


Wolfgang Weileder

Stand-no B-053
Hall 11.3
New Contemporaries
Art Cologne 2012

18th - 22nd April 2012
http://www.artcologne.com
Cologne, Germany

for a preview of available works please email: info@workplacegallery.co.uk