| Bowieart
and County Hall Gallery, in association with Bloc media, presents
BLOC
The
inaugural exhibition opens at County Hall Gallery, London, on 10
March 2005.
BLOC
provides exposure for 16 of the UK’s most promising emerging
artists at a crucial time in their career. Sourcing talent from
our most prestigious institutions, BLOC explores the trends, concerns,
techniques and diversity of a new generation of British artists.
The
exhibition includes work by Eleonora
Aguiari who recently daringly masked Lord Napier
of Magdala, the equestrian sculpture on Queens Gate (Kensington
Gore, London) with red tape. Doug
Fishbone, the artist who recently bought 30,000
bananas to Trafalgar Square is transporting soil from Israel onto
the gallery floor of County Hall, a minimal gesture with massive
geo-political clout. Whilst Raul Ortega
Ayala, originally from Mexico, continues his investigation
into the principles and world-weariness of office work; the artist
creates a fantastical escape out of the materials he finds himself
surrounded by during a stint as a jobs-worth.
Glasgow based artist Ruth Barker’s,
Dream of the Northern Lights replicates the aurora borealis in miniature,
which will be contained in a homemade bell jar. Continuing her investigation
into learning and the abstracted reality of physics, Naglaa
Walker, winner of a Jerwood Photography Award, will
create an ambitious site-specific installation, including film and
photography.
Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir’s,
disquieting drawings and animations are motivated by the stories
told to the young artist growing up in the darkness of Iceland.
Through her fictional narratives relayed in film and drawing Erica
Eyres invites you into an uneasy world of disenchanted
youth and beyond. Animation is explored as a medium, in the work
of Mathieu Gallois
whose digital animation appropriates the schematics of on board
safety information leaflets found on commercial passenger aircraft.
Another Goldsmiths graduate, Anthony
Gross, presents an exploded narrative, through a
fabricated day in the life of a group of generic commercialized
males. Incorporating music, images and the spoken word Ben
Sadler’s new video piece The Palace is composed
of a long narrative, which operates using the aesthetics of film.
Catherine Morland
paints English landscapes scenes in smoke on glass, which are then
projected onto a second surface; these delicate projections act
like residual images or distant memories. Upturned overhead projectors
are used a light source in the work of Colin
Guillemet who presents drawings laser-cut onto aluminium
plates.
Developments in recent painting are represented by the work of Simon
Keenleyside and Lynette
Yiadom-Boakye; wannabe Essex landscapes sit alongside
larger than life painterly portraits. Neil
Zakiewicz on the other hand combines the grandiose
and heroic tendencies of traditional subjects with a malleable and
impermanent modern material; his subjects emerging out of foam blocks,
leaning and warping and threatening movement or collapse.
A DVD catalogue, interactive cutting edge website www.bloc-art.com
and SMS services are provided by Bloc Media the Official Media Sponsor
of Bloc 2005. A panel discussion exploring the emerging art scene
in the UK chaired by Dr Suhail Malik (Senior Lecturer and Course
Leader, Postgraduate Fine Art Critical Studies, Goldsmiths College)
will take place on Sunday 13 March 2005. The panel consists of Miria
Swain (Curator, Modern Art, Oxford), Duncan McLaren (author and
journalist), Martin Herbert (Critic), Anthony Gross (artist and
curator) and Nigel Cooke (artist).
BLOC
at White Space, County Hall Gallery, London SE1, 10th March –
22nd May 2005.
Friday to Monday 10:00am – 6:00pm, 0870 744 7485, Admission
Free
For more information on the featured artists and images
visit www.bloc-art.com
or
email edward@bowieart.com
or nnenna@countyhallgallery.com
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Re-launched in 2000, Bowieart.com has a reputation
of establishing the strongest young artists, connecting them with
dealers, curators and collectors, the web site is visited by around
800,000 people a week.
BLOC
provides an invaluable platform for a selection of the most exciting
up-and-coming artists in the UK. For several years now serious international
attention has been paid to British based artists and more than at
any other time in history, British art is booming. BLOC presents
the work of tomorrow’s stars, positioning itself as the space
to encounter the strongest young artistic talent around.
Beth Greenacre, Director, Bowieart
www.bowieart.com
County Hall Gallery is London’s most versatile
art and exhibitions centre, home to the permanent Dalí Universe
exhibition and inspirational temporary exhibitions. The gallery
is situated in the heart of London South Bank in surroundings synonymous
with cutting edge art.
BLOC
is a real opportunity to guide new artists from across the UK to
the next level, securing the future of British art. Art institutions
in the UK are bursting with inspired, unseen talent and if British
art is to uphold and maintain its world class standard we need to
continue to bring that next generation into the spotlight.
Andrea Pedroni, Managing Director, County Hall
Gallery
www.countyhallgallery.com
Bloc Media are the official Media Sponsor, providing
all web, mail, SMS and digital media technology. Founded in 2000,
Bloc Media provides inspired creative and digital marketing to the
art, entertainment and fashion industries.
BLOC
represents a new platform for emerging talent and a fantastic opportunity
for the world to meet the next generation of truly inspirational
British artists. We are delighted to be part of what is sure to
become a staple in the British Art Calendar.
Rick Palmer, Managing Director, Bloc Media
www.blocmedia.com
For
more information please contact:
Ed
Greenacre, Bowieart 020 7352 4976 edward@bowieart.com
Nnenna Oleforo, County Hall Gallery 020 7450 7619 nnenna@countyhallgallery.com
Rick Palmer, Bloc Media 020 7739 1718 rick@blocmedia.com
London Underground's public art programme Platform for Art
is showing work by artists in BLOC as posters in the network at
Charing Cross and Earls Court Stations. For more information please
contact Tamsin Dillon tamsin.dillon@tube.tfl.gov.uk
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