Opening Hours: Fri 5th - Wed 31st December 2008, 2.00 pm - 11pm

Private View: Thursday 4th December, 7pm. Strictly Invite only.
RSVP martin@neugalleries.com

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A debauched, bacchanalian, chocolate house where the high class descended to to get whoring and dirty whilst talking politics and gossip, and where Sir Richard Steele instigated and composed the first issue of Tatler Magazine.

“Even highwaymen of the more presentable type were constantly to be met at the Chocolate House; judges there were liable to meet the man whom they might afterwards have to sentence in the dock: it was no uncommon thing…to recognise a body swinging in chains on a heath outside London as a man with whom you had called a main at hazard a few weeks before at White’s or at the Cocoa-Tree”
Murray

‘Ear Today Gone Tomorrow’ The Van Gogh chocolate ear
‘Talk is cheap’ The Cocoa Tree Chocolate nose
‘Something For the Weekend?’ The Cocoa Tree Truffle
‘The Gallows’ The Cocoa Tree hot chocolate and rum
‘Fighting Talk’ The Cocoa Tree hot chocolate and whiskey

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Image: Hogarth - A Rake’s Progress, Plate 3

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Chicken is from the unconscious; I use my body as a weapon.
It is an attack on my comfort zone.
I enter my steely glory hole with a struggle.
It is a portraiture of incompetence.
Chicken is fully loaded.
I am trapped in domestic dramas; I am invisible, I am not getting any.
There is no spirit here, it is a helpless action; an object, with no function other than to ridicule my dignity, baiting the spirit into obscurity.

I hide in my romantic fantasies.
I lurk and wallow in desires of petty circumstances of Binary make believe.
Appetite will tranform and stimulate my discontent and false piety.
I will plod, dull tasks will colour and perservere.
Emptiness will fill the obstacles of bloody pride, with emotional conflicts that bleedthe gut from wounds of immaturity and the supernatural.
Impulses will hold fast, while I sleep the uncharted Moment of thoughts and dreams.

© Jonny Reding

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“Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its present. It’s become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.”
Malcolm McLaren

An antidote to boredom, cuteness and the fear of tomorrow, The Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery is proud to present ‘SEEN…’

Each Thursday throughout the month of November, the now talent from music and art (including artistes du jour S.C.U.M) will collaborate on a series of art-sound-sculpture-installation-performances that exact an event where romantic idealism meets brutal nihilism and where the dystopian, anarchic and chaotic are meshed together to give birth to a new kind of monster, a new set of rules, the likes of which have previously existed, but no-one knew where.

Burn down the gallery, the disco, the system…

Each collaboration will take the form of an art-lock in, where the artist/musician/band are locked in (the gallery), while the audience watch outside, conversely, turning the street into ‘the gallery’.

NOVEMBER 6TH: S.C.U.M & Matthew Stone
The high priest of gothic art, Matthew Stone - famous for his tableaux of shamanic rites of passage in the style of Caravaggio - joins electro arrivistes S.C.U.M (named after Valerie Solanis’ 1968 manifesto Society For Cutting Up Men) who make music for the emotionally crippled, deficient and diseased.
www.myspace.com/artshamen
www.myspace.com/scum1968

NOVEMBER 13TH: An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump &
Martin Sexton
The metaphysical poems evoked by the sculptural art of Martin Sexton in which ancient mythologies are fused with ufology, are sound tracked by the all girl trio, An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump (named from the 1768 Joseph Wright painting of the famous scientific experiment, where a white cockatoo dies in the vacuum of an air pump), whose taut no-fuss big noise is part Patti Smith, part Yoko Ono.
www.concreteandglass.co.uk
www.last.fm/music/

NOVEMBER 20TH: V.E.G.A.S. Whores & Adham Faramawy
An electronic tinged, noise rock performance experiment, with a bristling rebuff to hackneyed indie, Vegas Whores mines a mania welling within a deviant unconscious. It is a violent chemistry that invites the destructive technological fascination of Suicide to dine with the shamanistic tendencies of The Doors and gets together with London-based Faramawy who traces his Egyptian roots via pagan transmissions through TV screens stacked in pyramids to represent and evoke moments of enlightenment and fear.
www.myspace.com/vegaswhores

NOVEMBER 27TH: Project:KOMAKINO & Ciaran O’Shea
The dark lord of graphic design behind the label Disc Error and anarchic Southend club, Experimental Circle completes the month of discord and madness with post-punk outfit Project:KOMAKINO, whose performances from the shadows are like a strange séance in which Ian Curtis is raised from the dead.
www.last.fm/music/Project:KOMAKINO
www.myspace.com/discerrorrecordings
www.myspace.com/experimentalcircleclub

The effects of Brown Noise can be compared to the symptoms of ‘Stendhals syndrome’, where sufferers are known to experience dizziness, panic and hallucinations when confronted with the ideals of beauty found in ‘High’ art. For this show, the artists use the metaphor of Brown Noise to suggest an equally extreme response to the more contingent ‘beauty’ of a ‘Low’ art. Their work engages with concepts tending towards the scatological and the abject (or at least the ‘messy’ and the inappropriate), a distinctly non-transcendent vision characterised by its discomfiting use of a shallow and base humour.

Brown Noise will open to coincide with Concrete and Glass, a major music and art event taking place in Shoreditch on the 2nd & 3rd October and remain open throughout Frieze (London Art Fair) until the beginning of November.

Sean Dower is a London based artist who has exhibited his art work internationally since the early nineties and has also engaged in music and live-performances since 1983. His practice incorporates Sculpture, Photography, Video and Music and often retains a performative element. Recurrent themes include the uncanny, memes, altered consciousness, and the loopholes implicit in society and technology. Examples of his output include No Room in Hell (Absent Qualia), a site-specific, ‘3D’ Zombie film exhibited at Matt’s Gallery, London in 1997. An ongoing series of photographs, Bathrooms of the World, has been in production since 1985. His work has been included in exhibitions at MOMA New York, Tate Modern & Tate Britain, London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London and Queensland Art Gallery, Australia. Recent exhibitions and performances have included: K48 Presents (K48 Vienna), Break it Down - A performance (Timothy Taylor Gallery, London) and Single-Shot (Tate Britain, London).

Lohan Emmanuel is a London based artist who makes use of traditional aesthetics in ways that expose the perceived moral authority of art and the artist. Often obscuring the exact nature of his role in the production of work, he establishes ambivalent relationships of subject matter to presentational style, enabling the work to operate in the manner of sedition and propaganda. Recent ‘involvements’ include, The Unveiling, at 1000000mph project space, London and Only When the Excoriated Ruins of Human Endeavour Litter the Scorched Horizon Shall the Meek Inherit the Earth, (presenting the work of Anon.c.21?) at Chapman Fine ARTS, London.

Nick Waplington is a London biased artist. He has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally and his work can be found in a number of major collections including MOMA and Guggenheim both New York and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. There have been numerous publications of his work including ‘Double Dactyl‘ 2007, published to coinside with Waplington’s recent show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Nick is currently undertaking a fellowship in Jerusalem where he is working in collaboration with the 7 messiahs presently living in the City.