Norwegian artist Børre Sæthre’s clean universe is slightly disturbing. His elegant Space Odyssey-like scenography are inhabited by unlikely creatures: a dead Roe Dee, menacing crows, lusty rabbits or a staring white Unicorn.
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The Monstrous Tales show at APT Gallery opens in August

MONSTROUS TALES Aug 10 - Oct 20, 2006 Thursday-Sunday,
1-6pm Private view Thursday 10th August 6 - 8pm

Artists:Oreet Ashery, Yason Banal, Teodora Buba, Gary Colclough, Christina Corfield, Sarah Doyle, Joe Duggan, Lisa Finnegan-Smith, Angela Cockayne, Craig Fisher, Nick Hornby, Gabrielle O’Connor, Anita Mudaliar.

‘Monstrous Tales’ brings together an exciting mix of artists who employ humour, absurdity and spectacle to investigate and portray the monstrous, the bizarre, and the shocking.
Through the use of satirical humour Monstrous Tales will question, reveal and expose the monsters that we have become accustomed to within the media, film, and the everyday, allowing the viewer to confront the unfamiliar within the familiar.
These monsters are not only the hairy, drooling, sharp teethed creatures that live under children’s beds, they are stars of reality TV, plastic surgery freaks, countries who rage war, stories in children’s books, or celebrities whose life’s are lived out through trashy magazines.
On the evening of the private view Nick Hornby will be performing a sound piece that involves brining a car in to the gallery space, Oreet Ashery and Stephen Wilson will perform ‘Three Sons’.

APT Gallery Harold Works 6 CreeksideSE8 4SAmap
Deptford (via London Bridge / Deptford Bridge DLR)

http://www.aptstudios.org
http://www.monstrous-tales.co.uk/

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Controversial Danish shock artist bleeds for his work via The Peninsula

Danish shock artist Uwe Max Jensen has courted controversy for years, using his unorthodox and provocative work — some of which make use of his own blood and excrement — to test the outer limits of art appreciation.
In a soft voice and with an almost juvenile expression, the 34-year-old father of three insists he is not “a lunatic, not a provocateur.”
“People do not like the natural materials that I use in my work: blood, urine and excrement…. They prefer oil on canvas!” “It’s free of charge, and we all have it in our bodies,” Jensen adds.
His latest installation is no exception to the irreverent style: every morning and evening in the last week of July, Jensen walked his dog Rocky on the lawn of the Aarhus gallery, the last word in cutting-edge art, leaving “messages” from his pet on the grass.
“It’s a gift for the museum because they do not have to pay for the exhibit,” explains Jansen.

The gallery is no stranger to Jensen’s pranks.
In January 2005, he relieved himself on the “Waterfalls” sculpture by Danish-Icelandic sculptor Olafur Eliasson. “I have not improved the work,” he said at the time. “I have merely added a little local art, which is sadly lacking in this museum.”
Some simply consider him a vandal, while others see genius in his work, pushing the limits of conceptual art.

An exhibit displayed in Stockholm in 2002 featured his own mother, a washing machine, a tumble-dryer and an iron, entitled “Mother’s Laundry”. Members of the public were encouraged to leave their dirty washing at the exhibit and collect it, freshly washed and pressed, as they left, “thus liberating visitors from their domestic tasks and mundane daily routines to allow them to focus on art.”

He shocked the art world again last March with a live performance at an Aarhus museum where he made a sausage from his own blood. His 11-year-old daughter then passed the sausage around to onlookers to taste.
Jensen admires other artists who have made use of bodily functions, such as Frenchman Marcel Duchamp for his “Fountain”, a urinal, and the Italian Piero Manzoni’s creation “Artist’s Shit.”
He has also attracted the attention of maverick Danish film director Lars von Trier, who invited Jensen to celebrate his 50th birthday in May at a provocation-suprise-absurdity-themed party.

“On Saturday night, art attacked! Sprawled out on the floor of the Gladstone Hotel with paint, markers, chalk, crayons, and whatever other colourful tools they could get their hands on, artists first covered their kraft paper canvasses before heading out en masse to beautify the community. ” read more
via Jerrold

Monday 31st July -
Art East: Recent Paintings by Katie Solluhub - 6-8pm, Shoreditch Gallery, Hoxton Market, N1.

Tuesday 1st August -
Art Central: 1) ICA Opening, invite only, huge show ‘Surprise Surprise’ 6-9pm
2) James Hyman Fine Art, 6 Masons Yard, Duke St, SW1 6-8pm

Wednesday 2nd August -
Art West: Italian Arcadia, Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Richmond, TW1 3DJ - 2.30 - 5.30PM (afternoon free food and wine)
Art Centralish: PV for Chelsea College Postgrad, 16 John Islip Street, Millbank, next to Tate Britain

Thursday 3rd August -

Art East: Pv at nomoregrey, Redchurch Street, 6-10pm

Saturday 5th August -

Art Central: Sketch, 31 Conduit St, 12.30-2.30pm, afternoon film and wine.
Art East: The Art Pavillion, Mile End Park, art, jazz and picnic (bring your own food)

Art outside London (for it does exist): Longshore Drift, Brighton Beach - 1pm to Sunset (7pm or later) on the beach directly opposite the concorde2 bar on madeira drive - live art and artists celebration

Sprinkleman by Mr McElwaine
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via PSFK