ART NOW
| The Art Now room houses four contemporary art exhibitions each year. These
exhibitions feature recent work by new and established artists, from this
country and abroad. For Art Now, 10 (26 May- 3 August ) Michal Rovner has
divided the room in half in order to show large-scale images in one section
and a video installation in the other. The contrasting two and three -dimensional installations of grouped figures and birds in flight create a sense of tension in a confined space. In generating, processing and representing her material, Rovner uses techniques drawn from computer technology and video, photography, printmaking and painting. The image undergoes a process of radical abstraction and at the same time becomes capable of many alternative readings. Her film Border (shot on and around the border between Israel and Lebanon) deals with the border as both a place and a concept - a meeting point between opposing points of view and opposing forces. Screenings of this film take place in the Clore Gallery Auditorium. |
For Art Now, 11 (27 August - 9 November) Beat Streuli will create a large scale photographic work using multiple slide projections. The pictures are portraits of people in the street (taken anonymously or with their permission), images of buildings, construction sites and general views of London as a busy, vibrant city. Through multiple viewpoints and conscious looking, an everyday theatre emerges. The creation of the Art Now room has been made possible by generous dona- tions from The Annenberg Foundabon, Giles and Sonia Coode-Adams, the Paradina Trust and an anonymous donor. Programme supported by The Patrons of New Art. |
Michael Rovner |
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