New gallery openings and shows
CONTEMPORARY:
Scream | London
The team behind Scream are opening a new gallery on Eastcastle Street. With their Mayfair venue proving a popular venue with the high art crowds and super glam, the Eastcastle street version will surely maintain its rock n roll reputation, starting with a show by Chinese artist, Ye Hongxing. Recently selected as one of China’s top 20 rising artists by the curator of the Asian Art Museum in California and the director of Art Cologne, she says that her work is “a reaction to the swift change of China’s social system.” The title of the exhibition references the 1905 novel A Modern Utopia by H.G Wells and is suggestive of the artist’s investigation into society and modern life. Hongxing creates jewel-like mosaics of a hybrid reality using a collage of stickers on canvas, and imagery inspired by mainstream media.
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A Modern Utopia runs 13th September – 20th October 2012.
Scream, 27-28 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DH
URBAN AND STREET:
King of Paint | Bath
Offering a new gallery in Bath, second to it’s already established Bristol home ground, King Of Paint has helped put many a street artist on the map. The Bath gallery is situated in the new Southgate area and will emulate it’s forerunner by maintaining an open-minded, forthright and innovative approach to street and urban-contemporary art. Expect works by Banksy, Stik, China Mike, David Walker and Bradley MacMath (whose work is pictured) to be on the walls for it’s first few weeks. The first show offers a private view, for which tickets are available, on 6th September 2012.
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King Of Paint
Little Southgate, Bath.
DIGITAL AND INTERACTIVE:
theSpace.org
BBC and Arts Council England have provided a digital service to screen all manner of short films within the Arts. Whether Visual Arts and Media, Dance, Performance and Festival, Literature and Spoken Word, Music, Theater or Film that floats your creative boat, theSpace.org is a fantastic insight in to some of the most up and coming talents around today. We’re big fans.
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