‘(a contemporary) phantasmagoria’ curated by John Bunker and Ken Turner for @tensionfineart
“Bringing together a dynamic and diverse range of images, objects and ideas produced by serious and committed artists, (a contemporary) phantasmagoria sees painting and sculpture invested with a startling and raucous materiality, twinned with meticulous craftsmanship. Collage and abstraction are used to open-up or pulverise both picture plane and sculptural object, rendering them as sites of complex disruptions, antagonisms and mutations formed from disparate ideas from the history of art and the (de)materiality of the life we are living now. Delicate, fragile, improvisatory processes that harness painting’s polarities, chaos and control, in figurative, narrative terms, celebrate, visual storytelling and the power of illusion. We might understand the word ‘Phantasmagoria’ as conjuring up the magic-lantern shows of darkened eighteenth-century drawing rooms; or, in its more recent incarnation, as Walter Benjamin’s term for the fractured, kaleidoscopic nature of the experience of modernity. This show looks to enlarge the scope of Benjamin’s definition, the better to take the measure of our fragmentary, collagic, screen-mediated contemporary reality. (a contemporary) phantasmagoria reflects ironically on the sense of loss, frailty and failure by which our era, the ‘High Anthropocene’, might one day come to be defined; but it also seeks to show how current artistic practice channels the multifarious, ineffable ways in which a contemporary phantasmagoria can act upon us, thereby becoming a catalyst for change.”
Looking forward to being a part of this. Thanks to @h_a_r_d_p_a_i_n_t_i_n_g @ianboutell @donnellpatrick @stigevans @colecorner @phoenix_artspace
# H_A_R_D_P_A_P_E_R asks all artists who were in our first two shows to do so again and to invite another artist of their choice. List of artists:
Mohammad Ali Talpur. Richard Bell. Biggs and Collings. Helen G Blake. Katrina Blannin. Isabelle Borges. Ian Boutell. John Bunker. Matthew Burrows. Belinda Cadbury. John Carter. Cedric Christie. Nina Chua. Philip Cole. Deb Covell. Gina Cross. Matt Dennis. EC. Henrik Eiben. Stig Evans. Catherine Ferguson. Martina Geccelli. Della Gooden. Richard Graville. Dom Gray. Charlotte Winifred Guerard. Alexis Harding. Rupert Hartley. Pete Hoida. Zarah Hussain. Ditty Ketting. Roman Lang. Jo McGonigal. Matthew Meadows. Johanna Melvin. Mali Morris. Morrissey and Hancock. Jost Münster. James William Murray. Patrick O’Donnell. Tim Renshaw. Giulia Ricci. Carol Robertson. Sonia Stanyard. Daniel Sturgis. Trevor Sutton. G R Thomson. David Webb. Lars Wolter. Eleanor Wood. Mary Yacoob. Jessie Yates.
A Narrative of Possibilities 05.10.23 Private View 5:30-8:30pm, runs to 28.10.23 Closing drinks 3-5pm pm on 28.10.23 Open Tues – Sat 10-5pm
Paintings and sculptures by Gisli Bergmann – Karl Bielik – Kate Bland – Stefan Bottenberg – Patrick Bryson – John Bunker – Alfredo Cristiano – EC – Rob Hall – Amanda Houchen – Johanna Melvin – Mark Millsted – Casper Scarth – Peter Suchin – Sharon Swaine.
Terrace History In 2004 Artist @karl_bielik opened @terrace_gallery in Hackney, London. Over the years exhibitions have been held at Terrace Studios, a reclaimed wasteland and in a pub back room. More than 50 exhibitions have been held showing works by over 500 Artists including the likes of Matthew Collings, Bob and Roberta Smith, David Leapman, Mali Morris and Eddie Peake. The primary focus of Terrace Gallery is painting.
PROPOSALS Proposals are welcomed for group shows from curators. Send a basic one page maximum outline of your proposal with confirmed Artists to Enquiries on www.karlbielik.com
“Dislocated, Urban Persons”* 51 x 40 cm, acrylic, oil bar on paper and canvas, EC 2023.
*pg 182 paragraph 1 “Styles of Radical Will” by Susan Sontag. Published by Secker & Warburg, London. 1st edition 1969
Brink Occupant, oil, acrylic on canvas and paper, 30 x 21 cm, EC 2023
FILET, 1 Murray Grove, London N1 7QF 3 – 7 March, 2023 PV 2nd March 5 – 8 pm
Non-Bureaucratic Internal Object, Mixed media on canvas, paper, clay & card, H 10 cm W 6.5 cm D 6.5 cm, EC 2023
Forces of the Small: Project for an Artwork Compacted and Condensed
According to Gaston Bachelard, “Miniature is one of the refuges of greatness.” * For this exhibition some 130 individuals have each contributed a single work whose sole criteria is that it occupy a space no larger than 7.5 x 10.5 x 7.5 centimetres. No other rules apply, with artists having free reign in terms of medium, production, and idea. Every work submitted has been displayed, provided it adheres to the stipulated restriction on size.
While the majority of contributors are MA Fine Art students at Camberwell College of Arts and are mostly at the beginning of their practice or career, their tutors and technical staff are also represented in this show. A further dozen artists from outside the college have been invited to submit works. The broader picture given here thereby ranges from the “student artist” to practitioners who regularly exhibit in established galleries. Forces of the Small is a playful microcosm of artistic production at the present time.
While nothing larger than the show’s strictly-set dimensions is included, pieces tending towards a further reduction in scale were welcome. Artists usually crave “visibility” but, here at Filet, invisibility apparently beckons, a perverse temptation for the ambitious artist keen to demonstrate their often-expansive concerns.
In asserting the power of the miniature over the gigantic, or even against the merely “standard” scale of most contemporary art, Bachelard highlights a sharp paradox. This exhibition encourages both intimacy and intensity through perceptual diminution; it modestly stages a large spectrum of responses to Bachelard’s difficult, but astute, demand. – Peter Suchin
*Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, Beacon Press, 1969, p. 155.
Exhibition title from an essay by Peter Suchin, “Forces of the Small: Painting as Sensuous Critique”, in Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, The Future’s Mirror, Locus+, 1997
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Lucrezia Abatzoglu Melanie Ahmed Ramah AL Husseini Tom Allwinton Sofia Alrich Ran An John Peter Askew Susan Askew Paul Atkins Nele Bergmans Mujeeb Bhatti Keith Bowler Jessica Brauner Louise Bristow Maria Brito Clare Bryan Fiona de Bulat Martin Del Busto Cheryl Chen Danying Chen EC Ziqi Cheng Jacob Clayton Alexandra Costea Qiaolin Cui Yihao Cui Lin Ding Kimathi Donkor Max Dovey Hong Du James Duck Gavin Edmonds Matty Emery Geraint Evans Yilin Feng Yiran Feng Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau Breanna Gordon Changhong Han Zipei Han Astrid Harris Brian D Hodgson Jack Holme Xingxin Hu Xuaniun Huang Junnan Huang WenYu Huang Jane Hughes Xiaoyu Hui Carmen Van Huisstede Natsuki Iwamoto Alfred Kang Jianing Kang Madi Kavanagh Kate Kelly Aya Kikkawa Haerri Kin Yan Kong Stevie Ray Latham Simon Leahy-Clark Miyoung Han Lee Stephen Lee Tony Lee Chaohe Li Jiaxing Li Muchen Li Oli Li Shutong Li Xinlan Li Yu Li Xinyue Liang Hui Lin Nuoyi Lin Marco Livingstone Johanna Love Jingjing Ma Xinyue Ma Francesca McGowan Min Mao Helen Maurer Hao Ming Maria Moradi Kim L Pace Te Palandjian Kseniia Pasyura Chen Peng Chanin Polpanumas Amy Powel Jing Pu Jon Ridge Peter Roberts Hayde Sacerdote Christina Camilla Schön Maggie Shafran Cheng Shen Yanzhou Shen Yiwei Song Yuhuan Song Christine Stark Joy Stokes Eleanor Street Peter Suchin Changhong Sun Weiqi Sun Shang Tao Kate Terry Chris Tosic Tabitha Underhill Jamie Wagg Weirui Wang Yu-Chen Wang Wenying Wang Xiaoyu Wang Catrin Webster Brian Whitewick Sarah Woodfine Duncan Wooldridge Tianyang Xia Zhou Xiaoyu Chen Xie Meng Xu Starry Xu Zhen Yang Haoyang YeMiaomiao Yi Chen-Hung Yu Diyou Yu Yang Yue Jiaqi Yuwen Ruixiao Zhang Yuang Zhang Yuning Zhang Yuqi Zhang Shenyang Zhao Yushi Zheng Yi Zhou Xinyu Zhou Yingjun Zhu ********************************
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