March Newsletter

March News Eric Bainbridge Potholes Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art 30 January - 2 April 2016    Eric Bainbridge, Made In Hong Kong, 1986, Ink on paper,    Eric Bainbridge Alumni - 170 Years of Leeds College of Art Vernon Street Gallery, Leeds, UK 16 March - 20 April 2016   Eric Bainbridge, Untitled, 2009, Collage on paper, 21 x 28 cm   Catherine Bertola Je,./I,./Ich,... Innsbruck International Biennial of the Arts 10 March - 20 March 2016 Catherine Bertola Unseen By All But Me Alone, 2013, Gold Thread, Dimensions Variable.   Cath Campbell Canary yellow with royal blue  DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery,  23 January - 31 March 2016 Cath Campbell, When I'm not sleeping, 2016, HD video, 9:03 mins, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK   Hugo Canoilas Transitory materials - works from the PLMJ Foundation curated by João Silvério SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal 4 February  - 23 March 2016 Hugo Canoilas, O Estrangeiro, 2007, Cartão, pigmented plastic, iron, and enamel, 64 x 32 x 32 cm, Courtesy PLMJ Collection, Portugal   Hugo Canoilas I'll devour your eyes Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria 10 March  - 30 April 2016     Hugo Canoilas, The black mass for hipsters club, 2016, silicone and paint on found objects, 70 x 700 x 1300 cm, Photo: Stephan Lux, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Andreas Huber     Jacob Dahlgren Luftslottet Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden curated by Johanna Uddén 13 March – 28 August 2016     Jacob Dahlgren, From Art to Life to Art, 2009, Foodcans and steel, 640 × 150 × 150 cm, photo: Carl Kleiner, (Installation Galleri Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm)     Laura Lancaster The New Art Gallery Walsall Walsall, UK 29 January - 8 May 2016   Laura Lancaster, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Photo: David Rowan     Mike Pratt Potluck 1 X Bank, Amsterdam, Nl 24 February  - 27 March 2016     Mike Pratt, Her Jazz, 2015, wax, resin, and rope, 35 - 77 cm     Mike Pratt Jumanji Soft Focus Institute, Ghent, Belgium 31 January  - 10 April 2016   Mike Pratt, Ear, 2015, oil, wax, resin, silicone, styrofoam. approx 120 - 90 - 40 cm     Matt Stokes Je,./I,./Ich,... Innsbruck International Biennial of the Arts 10 March - 20 March 2016     Matt Stokes Cantata Profana, 2010, Six-channel HD video and audio transferred to synced hard-drives, Duration 06:48 minutes, looped     Matt Stokes Your Ad Here Lagos, Nigeria Sept 2015 - March 2016   Commissioned by Create and Whitespace funded by the British Council   Reviews Adrian Searle: 'From Marx to Brexit: Tyneside's AV festival paints the whole world red' The Guardian Workplace Gateshead: Hugo Canoilas We live in terrible times: straight off the street and plunged into a very dark room in Gateshead. Maybe I've been kidnapped without noticing. It is black as a coal-hole in here. Snagging my trousers on a busted wooden clothes airer, colliding with an oil drum, mangling my knee on the hulk of an old television lying screen-down among unnameable junk, almost tripping on a clutter of stuff on the floor. All this wreckage, as well as the floors and walls, are covered in tarry black paint. The only visible light is spilling through little holes in a painted drape sagging above my head...(read more)   Caroline Douglas: Friday Dispatch Workplace London: Richard Rigg I've been having a lot of conversations, these last few weeks, about how to negotiate a world that seems dominated by event-driven enthusiasm for art fairs, versus the old fashioned gallerist's 'craft' of nurturing a stable of artists and presenting considered, coherent gallery exhibitions that introduce bodies of new work. It's a business decision: where do you invest?  In bricks and mortar and the hope of people walking through the door; developing substantial relationships with collectors?  Or in the flimsy plywood walls of a booth at a far-flung, glittering art fair attracting international collectors in flocks of private jets? Consider then the chutzpah of Gateshead-based Workplace Gallery, newly established in Mayfair...(read more) Robert Clark: The Guardian Laura Lancaster: The New Art Gallery Walsall Laura Lancaster's paintings are as exuberant as they are melancholic. Working from old family photographs and home movies collected in junk shops and on eBay, she achieves a distinctive expressive resonance. Many of these recent works are diptych pairings, setting images sourced from the first and last frames of washed-out Super 8 films to hint at swiftly fading memories. Lancaster is so flamboyant and persuasive a painter that her smears suggest existential shifts and her drips come across as painterly weepings. Nevertheless, she never falls off into sentimentality. Instead, she transforms the typical grins of family snaps into rictus cringes and mask-like grimaces. Just occasionally, there are echoes of James Ensor; you can hardly get a much higher recommendation than that. Vincenzo Estremo: 'Hugo Canoilas: The prey learns to hunt and be devoured' Droste Effect Hugo Canoilas: Galerie Andreas Huber I might write the history of my meetings with Hugo Canoilas just by recalling what we ate each time we were together. I don't know why, but every time I met Hugo we ended up in front of tasty food, and often Hugo was the one who'd cooked those delicious dishes. For some reason, I perceive Hugo's art practice as almost familiar, maybe because we share a lot of interests and we have a lot in common. For instance, we are both from the south of Europe, we both are football lovers, we like wines. Lastly ( but not marginally), we share a common idea of what art should be...(read more)   Art Fairs Art Basel Hong Kong Joel Kyack Booth 1C48 Discoveries Section Public days: 24 - 26 March 2016 www.artbasel.com Dallas Art Fair Various artists Fashion Industry Gallery 1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas 15 - 17 April 2016 www.dallasartfair.com     Granpalazzo Marcus Coates Palazzo Rospigliosi Zagarolo, Italy 28 - 29 May 2016 www.granpalazzo.org   Currently at WORKPLACE Workplace Gateshead Hugo Canoilas Meanwhile, what about Socialism?    Curated by AV Festival 2016 as part of a group of exhibitions across nine venues in Newcastle and Gateshead. This new installation by Hugo Canoilas creates a tension between the past and present, making it contemporary 'like a knife with two blades'. It brings together his ongoing concerns around social discrepancy with readings on capitalism and Marxism including George Orwell, Pierre Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Misery, Plato's Allegory of the Cave and more recently The Manifesto Against Labour by Group Krisis. Canoilas's paintings are acts of suspension and confrontation, layers of diagrammatic symbols, signs and texts between the abstract and the figurative...(read more) Workplace London Marcus Coates In Consultation   In place of a conventional exhibition at the gallery, over the last few weeks Marcus has been meeting invited guests to engage in a 3 stage consultation process. Marcus Coates believes we should both ask more questions and expect more answers from ourselves. Asking more questions requires a certain amount of vulnerability, not always conducive in a culture that demands solutions and fast decision making. Coates seeks to confront the culture of questioning and answering with a process using the extremes of non-rational and rational understanding.

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