The curators British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet (BAS7) have announced which artworks will feature in each Plymouth venue when the show comes to the city later this year.
Held every five years to showcase the work of British artists selected as having made a significant contribution to international contemporary art, the British Art Show will be in Plymouth – for the first time in its history – from September 17 until December 4.
The work of 39 artists will go on display at five citywide venues (Peninsula Arts Gallery at Plymouth University; Plymouth Arts Centre; Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery; Plymouth College of Art Gallery and the Slaughterhouse at the Royal William Yard), including everything from sculpture and installation to performance, painting and photography.
A parallel programme of supplementary activity co-ordinated by Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium (PVAC) will also take place including everything from artist talks and workshops to public performances.
Subtitled In the Days of the Comet (after the 1906 HG Wells novel), BAS7 is being curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton. The show opened in Nottingham late last year and it has since toured to London and Glasgow.
For each new location, the show is evolved and fine-tuned.
The works selected for Plymouth include:
Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) – a work that features thousands of found film fragments of clocks, watches, and characters referring to a particular time of day. The fragments have been edited together to create a 24 hour-long, single-channel video that is synchronised with local time.
(The Slaughterhouse at Royal William Yard –which is being transformed from dereliction to exhibition space in time for the show following a £100k Arts Council grant)
Roger Hiorns’ Untitled (2005-11)– a performance artwork involving a bench, one end of which will be set alight at unspecified intervals and occasionally tended by a naked young man.
(The Slaughterhouse at Royal William Yard)
Brian Griffiths’ The Body and Ground (Or Your Lovely Smile) (2010) – a giant bear’s head stitched from canvas, reminiscent of a tent, a theatre backdrop, a place of refuge and seeming to belong to an old-fashioned travelling fair or carnival.
(Plymouth College of Art Gallery)
Sarah Lucas’ NUDS (2010) – organic, flesh-like sculptural forms made from stuffed nylon tights
(Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery)
Wolfgang Tillmans’ Freischwimmer 155 (2010) – a huge abstract photographic print that has been created without a camera
(Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University)
Anja Kirschner and David Panos The Empty Plan (2010) – a feature-length film depiction of the life of German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s wartime years in Hollywood.
(Plymouth Arts Centre)
Nathanial Mellors’ Ourhouse (2010) – sculpture and film installation that has attracted widespread attention for the inclusion of an animatronic ‘vomiting head’.
(The Slaughterhouse at Royal William Yard)
The work of two Turner Prize 2011 nominees Karla Black (sculpture) and Devon-based George Shaw (painting) will also be featured at Royal William Yard and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery respectively.
David Coslett, Chair of the Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium, said: “The scale and variety of work featured in the British Art Show 7 is incredible and all the Plymouth venues have been waiting with baited breath to find out whose work they will be exhibiting. The show is going to be unlike anything Plymouth has seen before. We’re really eager for everyone to come and experience the artworks in all their different locations. This is a great chance especially for people from Plymouth and the wider South West who have little or no experience of contemporary art to see the very best of what is being created in Britain today. It’s an incredibly exciting time for the city.”
BAS7 curators Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton said: “British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet is an exhibition that captures the art being made in Britain today. The exhibition seeks to reinvent, reinvigorate and constantly question itself as it travels across the country. We are delighted to present the exhibition in Plymouth, a city with lively institutions and an energetic art scene.”
Roger Malbert, senior curator, Hayward Touring said: “The British Art Show is a strongly collaborative project, involving close cooperation not only between Hayward Touring and our partners in each city, but also between the participating galleries. We are very excited to be working with the wonderful team of curators in Plymouth and to be playing a role in the development of the Visual Arts Consortium at a crucial stage. We hope that the exhibition will leave a permanent impression on the city, and lead to a new wave of artists’ commissions and projects that will raise the profile of the visual arts in the South West of England.”
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By artsculture, on Monday, July 18, 2011
The curators British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet (BAS7) have announced which artworks will feature in each Plymouth venue when the show comes to the city later this year.
Held every five years to showcase the work of British artists selected as having made a significant contribution to international contemporary art, the British Art Show will be in Plymouth – for the first time in its history – from September 17 until December 4.
The work of 39 artists will go on display at five citywide venues (Peninsula Arts Gallery at Plymouth University; Plymouth Arts Centre; Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery; Plymouth College of Art Gallery and the Slaughterhouse at the Royal William Yard), including everything from sculpture and installation to performance, painting and photography.
A parallel programme of supplementary activity co-ordinated by Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium (PVAC) will also take place including everything from artist talks and workshops to public performances.
Subtitled In the Days of the Comet (after the 1906 HG Wells novel), BAS7 is being curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton. The show opened in Nottingham late last year and it has since toured to London and Glasgow.
For each new location, the show is evolved and fine-tuned.
The works selected for Plymouth include:
Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) – a work that features thousands of found film fragments of clocks, watches, and characters referring to a particular time of day. The fragments have been edited together to create a 24 hour-long, single-channel video that is synchronised with local time.
(The Slaughterhouse at Royal William Yard –which is being transformed from dereliction to exhibition space in time for the show following a £100k Arts Council grant)
Roger Hiorns’ Untitled (2005-11)– a performance artwork involving a bench, one end of which will be set alight at unspecified intervals and occasionally tended by a naked young man.
(The Slaughterhouse at Royal William Yard)
Brian Griffiths’ The Body and Ground (Or Your Lovely Smile) (2010) – a giant bear’s head stitched from canvas, reminiscent of a tent, a theatre backdrop, a place of refuge and seeming to belong to an old-fashioned travelling fair or carnival.
(Plymouth College of Art Gallery)
Sarah Lucas’ NUDS (2010) – organic, flesh-like sculptural forms made from stuffed nylon tights
(Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery)
Wolfgang Tillmans’ Freischwimmer 155 (2010) – a huge abstract photographic print that has been created without a camera
(Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University)
Anja Kirschner and David Panos The Empty Plan (2010) – a feature-length film depiction of the life of German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s wartime years in Hollywood.
(Plymouth Arts Centre)
Nathanial Mellors’ Ourhouse (2010) – sculpture and film installation that has attracted widespread attention for the inclusion of an animatronic ‘vomiting head’.
(The Slaughterhouse at Royal William Yard)
The work of two Turner Prize 2011 nominees Karla Black (sculpture) and Devon-based George Shaw (painting) will also be featured at Royal William Yard and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery respectively.
A full list of artists/venues can be found at www.plymouthbas7.org
David Coslett, Chair of the Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium, said: “The scale and variety of work featured in the British Art Show 7 is incredible and all the Plymouth venues have been waiting with baited breath to find out whose work they will be exhibiting. The show is going to be unlike anything Plymouth has seen before. We’re really eager for everyone to come and experience the artworks in all their different locations. This is a great chance especially for people from Plymouth and the wider South West who have little or no experience of contemporary art to see the very best of what is being created in Britain today. It’s an incredibly exciting time for the city.”
BAS7 curators Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton said: “British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet is an exhibition that captures the art being made in Britain today. The exhibition seeks to reinvent, reinvigorate and constantly question itself as it travels across the country. We are delighted to present the exhibition in Plymouth, a city with lively institutions and an energetic art scene.”
Roger Malbert, senior curator, Hayward Touring said: “The British Art Show is a strongly collaborative project, involving close cooperation not only between Hayward Touring and our partners in each city, but also between the participating galleries. We are very excited to be working with the wonderful team of curators in Plymouth and to be playing a role in the development of the Visual Arts Consortium at a crucial stage. We hope that the exhibition will leave a permanent impression on the city, and lead to a new wave of artists’ commissions and projects that will raise the profile of the visual arts in the South West of England.”
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