Blood event June 2006 - Sunday in Bethnal Green: Modern Art, MOT and IBID Projects
Image courtesy of MOT gallery
Sunday 4th June 2006
>11.30am: Brunch @ Bistrotheque
23-27 Wadeson St, E2 9DR
bistrotheque.com
A dingy Bethnal Green street lined with industrial buildings doesn’t look like the setting for a fashionable eaterie, but here it is, through an unmarked door, occupying a former clothing warehouse. We started the day with a brunch at this fabulous restaurant - definitely worth the trip to Bethnal Green.
>>1.10pm: Lisa Oppenheim @ Modern Art
7 Vyner St, E2 9DG
modernartinc.com
Recently named one of the “coolest” galleries in the art world, Modern Art run by Stuart Shave moved to Vyner Street in 2003. We saw a fantastic video installation by Lisa Oppenheim. Story Study Print, 2005, is comprised of two 16mm films based on two children’s alphabet posters used in America in the 70s. One projection shows only texts while the second projector shows the visual representations of the texts. In this work, Oppenheim is interested in the political and social connotation contained in words.
>>>1.50pm: Group show @ MOT
Unit 54/5th floor Regents Studios
8 Andrews Rd, E8 4QN
motinternational.org
For this show, artist, curator and director of MOT, Chris Hammond brought together Daisychain, a project started by Bruce Haines with Richard Forster, Rachel Harrison, Franz West and Rudolf Polanzsky. Daisychain is Forster and his meticulous, athletic drawings of office interiors, the sea off the Cleveland coast and the Folies Bergeres. Harrison whose objects create an obtuse dialogue between pop and minimalism makes a new work with 80s picture mirrors. West selected two messy and animalistic collaged posters. Polanszky leaps about his studio in a chair made by his friend West for his compression-spring paintings.
>>>>2.45pm: Anthea Hamilton @ IBID Projects
Unit 4, 210 Cambridge Heath Rd, E2 9NQ
ibidprojects.com
IBID Projects works with emerging British and Baltic artists. Founded as a curatorial initiative by Vita Zaman and Magnus Edensvard in 2002 it was transformed into a commercial gallery in 2003. We visited the first solo show by Anthea Hamilton, a recent RCA graduate whose work has developed a distinct aesthetic style through her way of gathering delicate compositions. Hamilton’s installations are made of a series of autonomous elements that get recombined for different exhibitions to form impermanent three-dimensional collages.
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