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ANTICIPATION Selfridges continues its arts season at the Ultralounge with ANTICIPATION, an exhibition of the best of London's art schools graduates, in collaboration with contemporary art curators Kay Saatchi and Catriona Warren. Both curators have been allowed unique access over several years to visit the studios of artists before their degree shows in all the London art schools and have developed a comprehensive expertise in spotting the next generation of talent. ANTICIPATION at Selfridges is the second instalment of the celebrated exhibition staged in May 2007, now moving on to the Ultralounge, London's most innovative new exhibition venue. This year the artists will benefit from the larger space and be able to show their work in greater depth. They will have a wider exposure to an audience beyond the art world. The Ultralounge will function like an 'art gallery' with visitors having the opportunity to meet the artists, the curators and learn more about contemporary art. The art in the exhibition will be for sale, with Selfridges supporting the artists by giving them 100% of the proceeds. Last year ANTICIPATION generated over £100,000 in sales. "This philanthropic show was created to provide a platform from which new talent can be launched to a larger audience, so Catriona and I are delighted that we are able to work in partnership with Selfridges in an expanded exhibition" says Kay Saatchi. As two of London's most respected talent-finders and curators, Kay Saatchi and Catriona Warren have worked closely with London's art schools including Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea School of Art, Central St. Martin's, City and Guilds, Goldsmiths, London College of Communication, Royal Academy Schools, Royal College of Art, Slade and Wimbledon searching for those young artists they feel have the creative and intellectual stature to continue making thought-provoking work for years to come. They are some 20 artists due to feature in the show. Highlights will include Jeni Snell's inflatable bouncy castle bunker, a statement about how children growing up in war zones play amongst the ruins of war. Nick Hornby's sculpture of a life size slice of a 727 will intrigue. Jodie Carey's majestic 10 foot 'Monument' is made of 2,000 cast plaster bones. In last year's exhibition, she stood out with her now famous Chandeliers made from vacuum cleaner dust. Philip Caramazza makes grand statements in small scale works. He will have a bijou museum filled with 60 post-card size paintings of the great works of art history from Velasquez to Richter. Svein Moxvold's 18 foot all-black Union Jack was made as a sign of mourning in response to Britain's involvement in the Iraq War. Alex Hoda's dark sculptural wall pieces are made from rubber, latex and foam. Rita Soromenho's photographs are records of her walks through the wasteland of London whilst Jo Longhurst's compelling photographs explore the intimate relationships between man and dog.
RECENT PROJECTS Exactitudes
Selfridges is delighted to open a new season of artistic and cultural events in its Oxford Street store’s project space, the Ultralounge, with: This collaboration, brokered and co-produced by Nine AM, is created by Ellie Uyttenbroek and Ari Versluis, two Dutch artists who were brought together by a shared passion for street fashion, dresscodes and collecting. Exactitudes is the result of Ellie and Ari's collaboration since 1994, a still on-going project that has as its name a contraction of ‘exact’ and ‘attitude’, in an attempt to build a photographic inventory of the meaningful styles endorsed by various groups of people in key World cities. The idea is to present a different, fresh and objective reflection on contemporary society, focusing on the language of fashion as a mouthpiece for the multiple tribes identified by the project. London is Exactitudes’ new focus; the artists will be producing 6 new tribes in Selfridges' Ultralounge that reflect current urban groups and trends in London. “We are so excited to be working on the London project. I think that the UK and London in particular can be seen as the inventor of youth style in a tribal way, more than any other world city. There is something very distinctive and original in the way Londoners approach fashion that should translate with clarity in our new work.” says Ari Versluis. Once the leading tribes have been identified and their representatives agreed to take part, they are always shot under the same lighting, frame, and photographic construction to allow the subject matter – fashion - to give out its message unbridled. Such standardisation brings about clarity in the tribes’ messages, especially when comparing fashion styles – from swimwear to hoodies - across the world. Ultimately however, beyond fashion, it is at the people that Exactitudes is casting its anthropological eye, asking: “Who are we?”. While Exactitudes creates their first inventory of the London tribes, a retrospective of their past series will be exhibited in the Ultralounge, situated on the lower ground floor. From Friday 4 April the London series of Exactitudes will open to the public. Exactitudes at Selfridges is curated by Raphaelle Stopin and Michel Mallard and co-produced by Nine AM and The Photographers’ Gallery.
TOD’S Art Plus Film Party 2008
Art and film fuse at the unmissable TOD’S Art Plus Film Party 2008, an extraordinary collaboration between the luxury group TOD'S SpA and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, brokered and co-produced by art consultancy Nine AM. The Whitechapel’s Art Plus celebrates the flashpoints of art and other cultural forms in an exceptional one-off event. The Whitechapel’s Director, Iwona Blazwick, TOD’S CEO Diego Della Valle and Art Plus Chairs Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst and Jade Jagger along with the committee of leading figures from the arts, fashion, film and music, invite guests to an extraordinary evening of live performance, film and music to raise funds for the Whitechapel’s Expansion and Education programme by buying tickets at £125 each. More information at www.whitechapel.org/artplus. Christian Marclay will create an extraordinary artwork combining music, art and film. Dramatically staged in a former church in One Marylebone Road, London NW1 this unmissable event will raise funds for the Gallery’s Expansion Project and Education Programmes. This specially commissioned new work will be accompanied by a one-off live performance, as well as a glamourous montage of party scenes from classic Hollywood movies created by film curator Ian White. Fashion designer Henry Holland has created the invitation for the party. Event designers Urban Caprice will create a special menu for the evening, and celebrity DJs Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) and David Dorrell will get the party started with live sets, while Mourad Mazouz of Sketch creates the soundtrack for the lounge bar. Guests will also have the opportunity to buy specially commissioned artworks by leading contemporary artists in an auction.
Selfridges to present Conrad Shawcross's most startling work to date Selfridges is delighted to announce that it has commissioned Conrad Shawcross, one of the brightest stars of the young British art scene, to produce two new arresting pieces exclusively for the store to be launched this September. Selfridges has been pioneering the arts in the UK since it opened its doors in 1909 and has welcomed, often commissioned, countless artistic exhibitions embracing a plethora of themes, influences and media, the latest of which was a celebration of Surrealism in tandem with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It will be Conrad Shawcross's first commission to be exhibited within a retail environment, opening his art to a more mainstream audience in the heart of London. The new work will push further this conceptual artist's continued investigation into his two most current and absorbing reflections. On the one hand the nature, structure and spiritual nature of space and on the other its inherent binary reality. Selfridges has given Conrad Shawcross two of its most highly visible spaces with which to fill his art - its largest window (Window 20 - at the corner of Orchard Street and Oxford Street) and the Ultralounge, the store's dedicated events and exhibitions space.
Selfridges takes a surreal turn this spring From 16th March to 24th June, Selfridges will explore the influence of Surrealism on contemporary art and design with a series of collaborations in its Oxford Street store. Running in tandem with the Victoria and Albert museum's exhibition, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design (29th March to 22nd July), Selfridges' commissions will demonstrate the powerful effect the movement continues to have on artists and designers today. At the height of the surrealist movement in the 1930's, artists such as Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli would create window displays for forward-thinking shops. Selfridges will celebrate this tradition by inviting current Surrealism-friendly designers to create unique and thought-provoking schemes. Commissioned designers include John Galliano, Viktor & Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela, and Moschino. Each of them has been given free reign to create a surrealist world within one window, reflecting the essence of their creativity and the influence of Surrealism on their work. Swiss minimalist designer Rolf Sachs, and Dadadandy - the Paris-based team inspired by Surrealism and Dadaism - will each create a window and other projects inside the store. Dadadandy will give Selfridges' Surrealism season one of its most startling art pieces: The Sum of All Reasons by Simon Moretti for Dadadandy, a gigantic eyeball dangling over the store's iconic Lady of Time above the historic main entrance. Rolf Sachs has created a range of surrealist products which will be sold exclusively by Selfridges in its surreal bespoke shop-in-shop. Hot young architectural practice Fashion Architecture Taste (F.A.T.) will design and curate a surreal shop on the lower ground floor of the Oxford Street Store. As a part of the store's exploration of contemporary Surrealism, Selfridges has also commissioned a surrealist art installation to occupy the Ultralounge, the Oxford Street store's events space.
Brian Eno creates visual music at Selfridges Selfridges is bringing the work of world-renowned sound and light artist Brian Eno to the Ultralounge, the store's dedicated space for special projects. From 27 January to 11 March, customers will experience the calm and beautiful sensation of Luminous, a marriage of sound and image created exclusively by Eno for the London store. Luminous is a multi-screen installation with software that selects, mixes and overlaps up to four images at a time, to create constantly changing paintings. Ambient audio is also processed – combining layers of sound and light in such a way that you never see or hear the same thing twice. Shoppers are invited to immerse themselves in a sensuous and contemplative atmosphere, evoked by the large colour screens installed in specific formation in the Ultralounge. Luminous explores the collapse of boundaries between artwork and audience by encouraging visitors to not just look, but linger for a while and make themselves comfortable.
The Whitechapel Auction Nine AM Ltd has been working with the Whitechapel Gallery and Sotheby's to organise a major auction to raise funds towards the Gallery's expansion and future Exhibition and Education programmes. The Whitechapel Gallery recently embarked on the most exciting phase of its 100-year history with the launch of an ambitious £10 million expansion plan incorporating the former library next to the Gallery. The development will increase the gallery space by 78% and give the people of East London more opportunities for learning by trebling training and education facilities. The plans, designed by leading Belgian architects, Robbrecht en Daem Architecten, were unveiled for the first time in early 2006. Included in the designs will be a new Collections Gallery to provide unprecedented public access to important art collections, a Commissions Gallery, which will provide a new platform for an annual art commission, a permanent gallery for the Whitechapel's 100-year-old archive and an Education and Research Tower, including a research centre, education studios and galleries. The Whitechapel is often seen as 'the artists' gallery', having realised the vision of artists for over a century. The Gallery has provided a platform for Britain's most significant artists from Gilbert & George to Lucian Freud, Peter Doig to Mark Wallinger, as well as premiering key international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Nan Goldin. Many of the artists who have shown at the Whitechapel over its history are now contributing major works to the auction.
China in London Follow Me Wang Qingsong: 'This project highlights the irresistible allure of consumer goods to all people everywhere. I hope my work will create a new understanding of how the very act of shopping has become a way of engaging in international communication.' Eating the City Beijing-based artist Song Dong's art explores ideas of transience, perception and the ephemeral nature of existence. Within Selfridges, he will combine these with the Chinese love of food by creating a city sculpture made entirely of sweets and biscuits. |
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