Title: Anthony Burill
Location: Kemistry gallery
Description: \’exploration of industrial processes and materials with large scale laser-cut perspex pieces…\’
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-07-23

Title: Secret Blisters
Location: Print Club London, Dalston
Description: An exhibition of 35 illustrators. 35 edition and hand signed prints with works by Eine, Anthony Burrill, Kate Moross etc
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-06-26

Title: Trespassers of the World Unite
Location: 9 Kingsland Road, London E2
Description: collaboration artworks from Dicy, Paris, Butch, Late, Bomb, Ekoe, Zime, Crackrock, Influenza, space3, Mr Jago, Will Barrass, Erosie, Phet15 and Rabodiga.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-05-28

Title: United Visual Artists
Location: The Smithfield Gallery
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-06-02

First solo exhibition for UVA: series of photographic light-boxes, based on visits to post-industrial sites around the UK

The Smithfield Gallery
16 West Smithfield
London EC1A 9HY

www.thesmithfieldgallery.com

Title: P A U S E AND E J E C T A show by Goldsmiths MFA students
Location: The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ
Description: w w w . p a u s e a n d e j e c t . c o m

Dror Al Kuwaity / Maria Jose Argenzio / Nicole Bachmann / Ruth Beale / Erik Bendix / David Charlesworth / Amir Chasson / ChunTeng Chu / Elena Damiani / Birgit Deubner / Noam Enbar / Rowena Harris / Haroun Haward / Joey Holder / Thomas Johnson / Una Knox / Iva Kontic / Vera Kox / Hye Young Ku / Xinyi Liu / Matthew McQuillan / Alexis Milne / Jasiek Mischke / Jin Hee Park / Eun Jung Park / Laure Prouvost / Mali Purkayastha / Sandra Setzkorn / Ki Woun Shin / Nicolas Vass / Clara Wolverton / Burcu Yagcioglu
Date: 2009-05-08

Title: TF002- an installation by TextFields
Location: The Corridor
Description: TF002 is a physical manifestation of the ongoing investigation between text and space by the multidisciplinary design group TextFields.

07.05.09 - 24.05.09
Sa + Su 12:00 - 18:00 or by appointment
private view 07.05.09

closing auction party 24.05.09

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-05-07
End Time: 21:00

TF002 _The Corridor
TextFields has been commissioned to create a site-specific installation; TF002 by the Shoreditch based art space, ‘The Corridor’ from the 7th–24th May 2009 and is the first within an ongoing series to generate fields of text.

TF002 investigates the dialectical relationship between the centre and circumference, where the text of the corridor and the corridor suspend themselves into a shifted, ruptured and dislocated but an immersive environment.

Works by TextFields ; Amita Kulkarni, Jerome Rigaud, Rajat Sodhi and Vikrant Tike
www.textfields.net
info@textfields.net

The Corridor
www.thecorridor.co.uk
Unit 2, 410, Hackney Road, E2 7AP

Title: Figures of Speech /Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano
Location: Hollybush Gardens - London E2 9QP: www.hollybushgardens.co.uk
Description: Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano

Exhibition 22 April - 7 June

Private View 21 April 7 - 9 pm. There will be a performance during the
opening at 7.45 pm.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-04-21

Falke Pisano is immersed in both the written and spoken word. In her practice ideas and concepts, proposed through language, are juxtaposed with abstract objects. A dialogue of affect and effect is initiated between object and concept - one affecting the other - forming the potential of a third proposition, in a continuous process of production. Pisano’s works can be perceived as bringing together concerns of abstract modernism and conceptual art. Figures of Speech is an umbrella title that refers not only to this exhibition but to a larger body of works that includes Pisano’s recent and forthcoming oeuvre. Like a series of proposals, the scheme for this show is set out in diagrammatic drawings that show four ‘speaking’ positions. It’s core consists of the text-based performance Figures of Speech 1, 2008, which originates from three earlier works; The Complex Object, Object and Disintegration: The Object of Three and O Eu e O Tu / The I and the You. Here Pisano considers different possibilities for agency within an artistic practice, questioning how agency can be structurally transferred from the artist and into the artwork. The performance will take place during the exhibition opening. In material terms the ‘speaking’ positions will become hanging wall based works - part costume, part wall sculpture and part collected sculptural elements. By referring to these sculptures as ‘them’ and ‘what they can do’ Pisano suggests we perceive these sculptures as acting subjects and authors of meaning. The structure of the hanging sculptures/costumes will be flexible so that they can be expanded/taken apart and constructed into one sculpture or be worn and de-constructed. These works are in a constant state of potential, where they may evolve into or be used to form a performance situation, which would also involve the central table piece in the show. Each of the positions emerge from previous works within the Figures of Speech series. Interested in how meaning is produced and to what extent it is ‘contained’ within the artwork, Pisano experiments with placing works in different contexts and relational compositions. Suggesting that mean- ing is not fixed Pisano often returns to older works to re-consider them, testing whether they can pose new questions in different situations. One concept can be used to give form to multiple objects. ‘Old’ forms can re-appear in new contexts - as if time and experience had given these objects self-awareness, they appear to be questioning their own meaning. The hanging sculptures are held in a tension between their past existence and their potential future. The imagination of - or the actual activation - of these sculptures opens up a situation of interaction in which these ‘speaking’ positions meet on equal terms. This method of engaging and activating old forms breaks a sense of linear progress. Rather than critiquing the old in search of the new Pisano suggests a different approach to criticality. Pisano’s works can be seen as constantly becoming - holding the potential of proposing new voices when activated in new relational situations. Falke Pisano (B.1978, The Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin. Forthcoming exhibitions include: Talkshow, ICA, London, May, Making Worlds curated by Daniel Birnbaum for the 53rd Venice Biennale, Modernologies and The Malady of Writing, both at MACBA, Barcelona September and October. Previous Exhibitions include: Organon on The Wave, with Benoît Maire, at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2009, Show me, don’t tell me, Brussels Biennale, Brussels, 2008, Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2008, Principle of Hope / Matter of Fact, Manifesta 7, Italy, 2008.

Title: Birds, Willem de Rooij
Location: CUBITT Gallery and Studios 8 Angel Mews London N1 9HH
Description: Throughout March 2009, Cubitt Gallery welcomes a specially commissioned installation by renowned Dutch artist Willem de Rooij (1969), entitled Birds. De Rooij\’s eloquent research on the cultural resonance of artifacts and the afterlife of visual mass-distribution have lead to successful solo projects and collaborations (as part of artist-duo DeRijkeDeRooij), along with acclaimed exhibitions at international institutions, such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, K21 Düsseldorf and MAMBo museum for Modern Art, Bologna.
Date: Sunday 1 March to Sunday 29 March 2009
Private View: Sat 28 Feb 2009, 5:00PM to 7:00PM

Title: Przemek Matecki
Location: Hollybush Garden
Description: Przemek Matecki is a lover of the city – only here can he find traces of other people’s lives. He walks, looks around, rummages, finds and examines - collecting things that other people have left behind. Matecki is currently fascinated with found images and in particular two kinds of images; the iconic image of a pop star or a model, often found in magazines, and the anonymous image of an individual in a portrait or a family photograph. Most of Matecki’s paintings and collages consist of a careful balance of found image and abstract painting. Neither one leads the way, the two equally influencing each other.

Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-10-13

Faced with these images and photographs of known or unknown people, the viewer might start reading meaning into the painting, trying to put together a story about the faces, bodies, objects and the sometime fragments on show. When asked what it is we see in his paintings Matecki answers – “what you see is nothing” - it simply isn’t in his interest to speculate about meaning on behalf of the beholder. Leaving little clues in his paintings he seems more concerned with posing counter questions; what is an image, how is meaning produced and interpreted, to what extent can an image be disseminated objectively and what part of the understanding is subjective?

The subjects of the paintings are eclectic, with many allusions to history and tradition on the one hand and popular/street culture on the other. Hypothetically Matecki could belong to the disputed movement Neoism. It would suit his attitude - one that converges life and reality and which seeks to discredit a hierarchy of values. Punk has unquestionably influenced Matecki’s sensibility - the anarchist spontaneity, the simplicity, the casualness of his brush strokes, the love of the grotesque and the penchant for trash. By deliberately exposing the imperfect and the cumbersome Matecki wishes to retain the human and the flawed. There is definitely an element of anarchy in Matecki’s work, but countered by an air of melancholy.

Matecki can work on a single painting for months; the seeming spontaneity and emotional directness of his art is an illusion in the eye of the beholder. Not getting the ‘point’ of exhibitions, Matecki’s interest in a piece ends when he decides that it is finished. Ultimately it is painting as a process, as a medium that he is committed to.

Przemek Matecki lives and works in Warsaw. This will be his first solo show in Britain. Recent exhibitions include Past Present curated by Vincent Honoré for the Zabludowicz Collection at 176, Place to live, place to love, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland, Efekt czerwonych oczu Fotografia polska XXI wieku, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw