Art SPY Special
10-04-2008
Welcome to this week’s Art SPY
‘Art SPY’ brings you a selection of various Artists and Galleries that we find simply delightful!
Ismail Erbil, Fashion Designer and Fine Artist showcases he’s first piece in a series of sculptures addressing the body. This is an exhibition not to be missed and provides true inspiration for designers who wish to seek a new perspective in art and body form…‘Transpersonal’ 2008 Mixed Media. Ismail Erbil works with figurative ideas and abstracts them with a personal journey he experiences; it is a deep perspective of both Ismail himself and his art. The work explores ideas of the self focusing on metaphors for the body. Ismail combines materials from his background as a designer with new found objects, fabrics and embellishments collected on his travels and uses them to present ideas about making, context and identity. “Transpersonal” is the first work of a series that looks at the relationships between the physical body and the body as symbol. The aesthetic intensity in the work imbues the work with a presence that echoes both real-world and imagined bodies.
SCHWARTZ GALLERY_____________________________________
Press Release Flux- transgressions in time and place. 4 April – 13 April 2008
Opening times: Thurs-Sun 12 – 6pm.
Schwartz Gallery is a new artist-run space in Hackney Wick set amongst an enclave of artists’ studios showcasing contemporary art from artists working across all fine art disciplines with an emphasis on sculpture and installation.A state of flux implies a movement of parts in and around one another; interactions are multi-faceted; hierarchies are displaced, negated, transformed and re-evaluated. The very fabric of life has recently been undergoing such a transformation in the Hackney Wick area in the East of London. The obvious change imminent is the approaching 2012 Olympic Games which have marked their stake on the urban landscape of East London with a stark primary blue perimeter fence that encircles the entire re-development site.
‘Flux’ focuses on the site of a former printing business that lies on the edge of the 2012 Olympics site, adjacent to nearby Union Canal. The property is currently being redeveloped into live-work studios for artists in one of the last-remaining pockets of warehouse-based living and art-making on the cusp of Tower Hamlets and Hackney Boroughs. The property is being developed in stages. Within this timescale there exist windows of time where entire floors remain idle, in between stages of gutting and refurbishing.
This localised as well as surrounding sense of indeterminacy and flux informs the work of artists taking part in the exhibition. ‘Flux’ places their work in an environment of real-world fluctuations setting up a dialogue between practice and context. The selection of work explores contemporary practice primarily in the field of sculpture and installation from UK and international artists.
Artists: Stuart Aird, Simon Atkinson, Gabriel Birch, Maryjane DeBelen, Briony Denver, Ismail Erbil, Mariana Fantich, Ryan Hannan, Samantha Mogelonsky, Janne Malmros, Patrick Michalopoulos, Nana Varveropoulou, Mark Wright.
SCHWARTZ GALLERY
White Post Quay
92 White Post LaneLondon E9 5EN
+44(0)7828937013
patrickmichalopoulos@hotmail.com
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Images taken
Patrick Michalopoulos ‘Thought Apex’ 2008 Patrick is a sculptor and the curator of ‘Flux’. He is also running Schwartz Gallery. ‘Thought Apex’, is a conical structure covered in text.
It uses platonic solids and a layered text format that make reference to cyclical and gradual growth in ‘awareness’ in its most humanistic sense i.e the accumulation of experience and knowledge
over time is metaphorically transcribed onto a structure that echoes universal forms to do with harmony, enlightenment and self-awareness. Images taken by Patrick Michalopoulos
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Vanessa Camelia
