Fri 16 Oct
Adam Chodzko Design for a Fold - October 2015
Adam Chodzko’s art explores the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour. Exhibiting internationally since 1991, Chodzko works across media, from video installation to subtle interventions, with a practice that is situated both within the gallery and the wider public realm. His work investigates and invents possibilities of collective imagination in order to reveal the realities and fantasies that might emerge from the processes of engagement his practice evolves.
Design for a Fold is a new installation incorporating many of Chodzko’s works made ‘locally’ since 2001, mapping his particular engagement with diverse places, times and communities around where he lives and works in Whitstable, Kent, alongside new work which seeks to root, or fold, the idea of the local within another, apparently remote, alien and distant place; Beppu, Japan.
Chodzko proposes a new understanding of Kent, that questions assumptions of who, what, when and where we might be. Design for a Fold suggests, through a recontextualising of his archive of artwork, new, dynamic and global connections that weave together the real and hidden with collective mythology and imagination.
This exhibition has been kindly supported by the Arts Council England and the Elephant Trust.
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Tue 22 Sep
George Eksts, Casual Cursive - September 2015
George Eksts is an artist using video, printmaking, drawing and sculpture to explore ideas of progress, completion, time and the temporary. For his upcoming exhibition at Sidney Cooper Gallery, 'Casual Cursive', Eksts will show a combination of pre-existing works and new work developed for the gallery during a studio residency. As suggested by the show's title, the emphasis will be on making and breaking connections between multiple works and the meaning generated by ordering and reordering within a modular system.
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Wed 11 Mar
Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Series and 11 Drypoints: 11 March – 11 April 2015
Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) is widely renowned and considered one of the most influential artists of modern and contemporary art. Bourgeois’ work, whether sculpture, drawing or printmaking, has always maintained an autobiographical theme and expresses some of her own vulnerabilities – loneliness, insecurity, anger, sadness, desire.
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Wed 28 Jan
Tania Kovats 2015
Tania Kovats practice moves between processes that intertwine, looking, documenting and making that unfold a deep fascination of the natural world and meeting points between landscape and seascape. This exhibition showcases a range of works from 2002 - 2014 including her recent installation All the Sea (2012-14) described as a library of bodies of water collected by people from around the world, originally commissioned by the Fruitmarket Gallery. Alongside this Kovats Evaporation series and Schist sculptures open up this deep engagement with the history and exploration of process evidenced in the landscape around us.
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