Tuesday March 27th - TONIGHT!

Bearspace, Jonathan Purday, 6-9pm, info: www.thebear.tv/bearspace

Wednesday 28th March

Sadie Coles, Daniel Sinsel, 6-8pm, info: www.sadiecoles.com

Thursday 29th March

Hauser and Wirth, Piccadilly, Lee Lozano, 6-8pm, info:

www.hauserwirth.com

Associates, Tom Gidley, 'Now We Are Here', 6-9pm, info:www.associatesgallery.co.uk

Victoria Miro, Ian Hamilton Finlay, 6-8pm, info: www.victoria-miro.com

Dicksmith, Leonor Antunes, 6-8pm, info www.dicksmithgallery.co.uk

Bartletts, Snow/Smoke, Aron Greenwood, Didi Baldwin, 6-9pm, info:www.bartlettsgallery.co.uk

Parasol Unit, Poetry Reading, 6:30pm, Lyn Hejinian & Barrett Watten,info: www.parasol-unit.org

Nunnery, Space and Violence, 6.30-9.00pm, www.thenunnery.org

Jack Too Jack, (Mark Leckey) at the German bar (Peles), 9pm, For knees up round Joannah. Peles Empire, 33a shacklewell street, e2 7eg, london, top end of brick lane, across bethnal green road, first right, infowww.myspace.com/jacktoojack

Jaguarshoes, Mudwig Dans, launch, more info:www.jaguarshoes.com

Friday 30th March

Ravage Me Savagely, 6.30 -2.00am, info:www.myspace.com/ravagemesavagelynights

Saturday 31st March

Rendezvous Club, Lucy Harrison, launch of Canvey guidebook and audio guide, loads of stuff going on and evening launch party, info:www.canveyguides.com

Sunday April 1st

Milika Muritu: Queensway Streams, 5.30pm - 9.00pm, Quantock, Queensway Estate, Chichester Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 5A1, info:

www.queenswaystreams.org.uk/index.html

Tuesday 20th

Eleven, Cedric Christie, Hollywood Philosophy, 6-8pm, info:www.elevenfineart.com

Rachmaninoffs, Charles Ellis, recent photographs, 6.30-8.30pm, info:www.rachmaninoffs.com

Wednesday March 21st

ICA, Secret Public, 7-9pm, info:www.ica.org.uk/The+Secret+Public+13096.twl

Indo, launch of The Newpaper, 7pm onwards, info: www.thenewpaper.co.uk

Thursday March 22nd

MOT, Simon Bedwell, 6.30-9.00pm, info:www.motinternational.org/current-show.html

VINEspace, Simon Morse and Kevin Wright, Light Reflecting Booster Technology, 6.30 - 8.30pm, info: www.vinespace.net

Primo Alonso, Rui Matsunaga, 6-9pm, info: www.primoalonso.com

White Cube, Mason's Yard, Andreas Gursky, 6-8pm, info: www.whitecube.com

Aqffin, Max Hymes, Black Diamond, 55 Commercial St, E1, 6-9pm info:www.aqffin.com

Vegas Gallery, 'Yeehaw' group show, 6-9pm, info: www.vegasgallery.co.uk

National Maritime Museum, Lawrence Weiner in conversation with David Batchelor, more info: www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conEvent.1628

The Old Sweet Shop, Oona Culley Artist talk, 7.15 - 7.45 ish…info:www.theoldsweetshop.org

Friday March 23rd

Keith Talent, Adam Gillam, Art is a Cupboard, 6.30 - late, info:www.keithtalent.com

Fleapit, Georgie Porgie: Daniel Baker, Infinity Bunce, Kim Noble, Craig Wilson, 7-10pm, info: www.thefleapit.com

Transition,The Craft, Emma Talbot and Cathie Pilkington, 6.30-9pm, info:www.transitiongallery.co.uk

Fortescue Avenue, Der Ficker, group show, 6.30-9pm, info:www.fortescueavenue.com

Herald Street, Cary Kwok, 6.30 - 8.30pm, info: www.heraldst.com

Monday March 26th

Riflemaker, Chosil Kil - Living With Andis, 6-8pm, info:www.riflemaker.org

Big Thanks to Russell Herron

23 March - 5 May 2007 PV March 22nd

White Cube Mason's Yard is pleased to present the work of Andreas Gursky in his first major solo exhibition with the gallery. Renowned for his large-format colour photographs charting themes of globalised society at work and play, Gursky's new production employs the latest digital technology to capture and refine an astounding compilation of detail on an epic scale.

The perspective in many of Gursky's photographs is drawn from an elevated vantage point. This position enables the viewer to encounter scenes, encompassing both centre and periphery, which are ordinarily beyond reach. For the Pyongyang series (2007), Gursky travelled to the Arirang Festival, held annually in North Korea in honour of the late Communist leader Kim Il Sung. The festival's mass games include more than 50,000 participants performing tightly choreographed acrobatics, against a backdrop of 30,000 schoolchildren holding coloured flip-cards that produce an ever-changing mosaic of patterns and images. Gursky's photographs describe, in panoramic dimensions, the incongruity of the brilliant colours and smiling faces of the performers within the controlled, totalitarian nature of the event.

A chamber designed to detect the smallest known particles in the universe is the subject of Kamiokande (2007). The actual scale of the neutrino observatory in the Mozumi mine, deep below the town of Kamioka-cho in Japan, is at first glance ambiguous. Containing 50,000 tons of purified water, surrounded by thousands of photomultiplier tubes protected by metallic spheres, its immensity becomes clear as two small boats float into view at the bottom of the image, each containing a figure gazing up at the vast architecture that engulfs them.

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20-30 March

PREVIEW - TUESDAY 20 March, 2007 6-8pm

The Best of Contemporary European Art'

European Commission

8 Storey's Gate, London SW1P 3AT.

Exciting new works by the following artists will be shown -

Maria Mulas
Antoni Tapies
Martina Schumacher
Bernard Lavier
Thomas Reinhold
Paul Marks
Jens Reulecke
Christoph Schmidberger *
Tobias Pils *
William Mitchell
Axel Staudinger
Duncan

INFO

Curated By Infinity Bunce and Daniel Baker The Flea Pit Gallery, 49 Columbia Road, Shoreditch, London. E2 7RG

Present: Daniel Baker - Infinity Bunce - Kim Noble - Craig Wilson - Calum F Kerr.

Private view : Friday 23 March 2007 7-10pm

The first show - Georgie Porgie presents works that hinge around themes of masculinity, desire, and individual identity. The catalyst for the show was Kim Noble's awe-inspiring paintings. She is an artist with D.I.D (originally named multiple personality disorder), and has a number of 'alters', twelve of whom are artists. Many of her alters are unaware that they share a body with others, and each of these artists has a unique personality, and a different style and approach to painting. The curators have worked with Kim to select six of her alters to show in the exhibition. The work is powerful, and varied, challenging many cultural boundaries around concepts of selfhood, individuality, memory, and artistic expression. Kim is currently the subject of a year-long documentary, which will encompass the exhibition. www.kimnoble.com

Alongside Kim Noble's work will be Craig Wilson's seductive, lustful images of working class men. Craig is a young Middlesbrough-based artist who has already achieved national and international acclaim. His sheer energy, dexterity, and enthusiasm for creativity pours out into a variety of works. He is equally comfortable and prolific working in animation, screenprinting, sculpture and painting. Much of his already substantial body of work centres on the themes of desire, class, and the 'chav': "My work aims to fuse mundane everyday life with fantasy and lust….I obsess over stereotypical forms of masculinity and heterosexuality." www.myspace.com/craigwilson9

Daniel Baker will be showing large drawings in which multiple varieties of monster, demon and nightmarish creature are engaged in battles, struggles and murderous deeds as many tiny narratives are played out across these map-like surfaces. The works seem at first to be simply imagination running riot, but the figures and stories represented form a kind of personal universe for Baker, and even the simplest forms, or most grotesque creatures, carry emotional and biographical significance, as they multiply and re-emerge within his other works, and across mediums and genres.

www.danielbaker.org

www.donkeyhead.org

Infinity Bunce's 'Bling Boys' works will complete the exhibition. Like Craig Wilson, Infinity fuses the mundane and the exotic in her work. These images are of 'urban youth', and explore complexities of race, 'Britishness', masculinity and 'youth culture'. They evoke and describe the aspirations of marginalised groups, who are attempting to forge individual identities through methods of display and performance. Infinity's gaze is at once voyeuristic, desiring, and empathetic, and raises questions around cultural voyeurism itself and the middle-class romanticisation of particular demographic groups.www.infinitybunce.com http:// www.myspace.com/infinitybunce

Calum F. Kerr has performed and exhibited extensively both internationally and in the UK. For further links to his work see www.myspace.com/calumfkerr . Kerr will be addressing this multi-identity crisis on the opening night with the performance ‘Frank E. Pank E. Pudding & Pie’ - A giant clown boy with pudding & pie eyes will regale the crowds with harmonica soaked sounds. Each breath will reveal the complex battle of wills between Good Frank E. and Bad Frank E.

Which side will you fall?

Tres Tiempos | 27 color photographs, 50 x 60 cm each one | 2007
Repeated Action on February 20th, 21st and 22nd at 16:00 hours in Rosas Moreno Street number 77.

Galería Hilario Galguera presents, Mexican artist, Gustavo Artigas' solo show, Accidentes, Documentos y Ejecuciones Recientes, from March 17 to April 20, 2007.

Born in Mexico City, Gustavo Artigas (1970), studied Visual Arts at the UNAM's National School of Plastic Arts between 1991 and 1995. In 1996, Artigas won the II Installation Competition organized by the Ex-Teresa Arte Actual gallery and in 2001 he performed a resident Project at Johannesburg, South Africa. Gustavo Artigas is currently one of the most representative Mexican artists known at international level. Structuring his work, since the nineties, around the notion of “the unavoidable essence”, “the surprise”, and the possibilities of playing games within a social context, and producing confusing responses before preconceived actions.

Artigas' has widely exhibited internationally. Collective exhibitions include: Faites vos jeux! Art and Game Since Dada. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Liechtenstein / Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany (2005); Hit and Run Platform Garanti and Smart Project, Istanbul, Turkey (2004), No lo llames performance, Museo del Barrio, New York (2004); among others. He has also exhibited individually: Unexpected, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (2006); Galería Dels Angels, Barcelona (2004); The Rules of the Game, A Space, Toronto, Canada (2003); Emergency Exit, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México (2002).  more info (more…)

Gustav Metzger. Works of 1995–2007
Zacheta National Gallery of Art
http://www.zacheta.art.pl

More info

The Zacheta exhibition presents only a fragment of the rich oeuvre of Gustav Metzger, whose personal history is as fascinating and dramatic as History to which he refers in his works. Born in Nuremberg in 1926 to an Orthodox Jewish family, its roots in Poland, he was sent in 1939 to Great Britain as part of the Refugee Children’s Movement, thanks to which he was saved from the Holocaust. He has never accepted any citizenship and lives as a stateless person. Lives and works chiefly in London.

The exhibition in Zacheta National Gallery of Art presents Metzger’s works from the 90 – the cycle Historic Photographs, which take up the problem of greatest catastrophies, as well as the newest ones, sculptures-installations In Memoriam and Eichmann and the Angel, referring to the tragedy of Holocaust.

The exhibition is divided between four galleries, each of which constitutes a chapter in the narrative. The first of those is called The Killing Fields. Entering the gallery, the viewer has to pass through a corridor on the wall of which there hangs a huge, rastered-out (but still recognisable) photograph of Hungarian Jews undergoing selection on the Auschwitz ramp in 1942. The room presents objects from the Historic Photographs series, referring to the various turning-point events and bloody conflicts of the 20th century: the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the napalm air raids against civilian targets in Vietnam in 1972, events from the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or an ecological disaster – the construction of the Twyford Down highway in the UK. The pictures are almost always covered, their visibility is limited or access to them is hindered, as if the artist was referring to certain clichés, the mediated images of those tragedies present in the collective consciousness and memory. Sometimes the viewer is allowed to act. For instance, he can raise a huge curtain and crawl under it to try, from so close a perspective, to examine a huge photo on the floor (To Crawl Into). But instead of really seeing it, he will be able only to guess, to work out, fragments of the image he knows is there: a representation of Viennese Jews forced to clean the sidewalks on their knees following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

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