‘BARE BONES’
There Will Will Be A lot Of Conflict

Bare Bones Magazine Issue 9 Launch
FRIDAY 13th APRIL 2012
MEN Gallery

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Featuring: Adam Smith, Adila Golam Rassouade, Alexander Selby, Le Gun and The Black Squid, Amelia Johnstone, Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Ben Readman, Bill Bragg, Chris Bianchi, Dr. D, Echao Jiang, Emily Evans, Emma Rendell, Socrates Mitsios, Fergus McDonald, Frank Laws, Hal Shinnie, Hannah Bays, Harry Malt, Heretic, Hiroshi Kariya, Jacob Lillis, Jamie Daughters, John M F Casey, John Paul Prior, John Slade, Thee Marquis of Nowhere, Kate McMorrine, Kate Merry, Leigh Fox, Lie-Ins & Tigers, Matt Lambert, Michael Smith, Neal Fox, Neil Gavin, Niall O’Brien, Peter Rapp, Rebecca Thomas, Richard Gilligan, Richard Milward, Robert Rubbish, Ross McDonnell, Sam Winston, Seamus McGarvey, Simon Dara, Simon French, Steph von Reiswitz, Tobias Tak, Tom Jennings, Zoë Taylor

www.ourbarebones.co.uk/

Featuring a preview of the film “CAN HOUSE’
Written, directed and produced by Maxi Neil Bianco and Micael Smith
Also featuring live: Snapped Ankles, Capital K

www.subjectyourself.co.uk

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Bare Bones will also be showing at 1234ACTION

with films by Bare Bones collaborator Matt Lambert

#No.1 @ RICHMIX
FRIDAY 13th APRIL 2012
35-47 Bethnal Green Road
London E1

1234 will be announcing the full official line up for 2012 festival
Live on stage: SAVAGES, OFF LOVE, BANK OF JOY, Plus DJs from, S.C.U.M, ADVERT, DOUBLE DENIM, STREETS OF BEIGE, 1234 DJS
Doors 7.30pm – 1am
Ticket price  £6.00

www.the1234shoreditch.com
www.seetickets.com
www.richmix.org.uk

‘UNFAIR’ PARIS
“By The Pricking Of My Thumbs…”

Private View
THURSDAY 1ST MARCH 2012
7pm - 10.00pm

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‘UNFAIR’ Paris is a group show by EINE, William Blanchard, Noki and Mark Eley (Eley Kishimoto) with collaborations from Le Gun & Bare Bone artists: Chris Bianchi, Harry Malt, Robert Rubbish, Neal Fox, Steph von Reiswitz, Frank Laws, Gavin Bennett and Anne McCloy with special guest artist “ARNIE”.

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Against a brooding sky of political, social and financial uncertainty UNFAIR shows works by disparate artists who exemplify Englands rich tradition of POP Art and a niche slant on society.

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Lebenson GALLERY
56 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris FRANCE
Tel +33 (0)9 81 88 75 61

Contact Stephan Lebenson
director@lebensongallery.com

Ouverture Du mardi au Samedi de 11h à 19h
www.lebensongallery.com
www.neugalleries.com / www.whitenoisegallery.com

‘Forever Young’ by Nickie Divine

Private View
THURSDAY 6TH DECEMBER, 6.30pm - Late

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“The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes”.
John Ford

A preview show by the photographer Nickie Divine - a selection of eight works taken from a five year period that feature select artists that captures the inherent youthfulness of their attitude and spirit. Divine’s own attitude initiates the image, striping away the aura of these musicians and showing their character in an honest and intimate way.

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Mick Jones, Bobby Gillespie, Graham Coxon, Iggy Pop, Jenny Lewis, Fuji Rock, Pete Doherty (Babyshambles)

www.nickiephoto.com
www.neugalleries.com
www.whitenoisegallery.com

Presented by WHISPER
in association with WHITENOISE & MEN Gallery

Thursday 10th November 2011
- Saturday 3rd December

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UNFAIR Part 1 is the first of a two-part survey of the works of artists EINE, WILLIAM BLANCHARD, NOKI and MARK ELEY (ELEY KISHIMOTO).

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Against a brooding sky of political, social and financial uncertainty UNFAIR gathers together recent works by four disparate talents, EINE, William Blanchard, NOKI and Mark Eley; four artists who exemplify our Island Kingdom’s rich tradition of POP Art as surely as Brighton connotes Rock.

William Blanchard’s series ‘UNFAIR’ builds on his recent works such as ‘I Just Don’t Care Anymore’ and ‘Protest Flag’ that suggest a simmering anger that bubbles beneath the surface of our (alleged) non-society ‘gone bad’. Taking the quintessentially English theme of the Fairground as his target, Blanchard’s new series seeks to pull back the gaudy curtain of our dark Carnival culture and in doing so reveal the ‘fix’ that guarantees the ‘no win scenario’ of a culture weaned on Game Show emotions, rigged ‘Talent’ contests and the Dark Arts of Political corruption and Media manipulation. Blanchard has made thirty four-colour screen prints that have been individually ‘finished’ in acrylics by the artist. A limited edition of ‘I Just Don’t Care Anymore’ in ‘diamond dust’ will also be available on the night.

EINE’s work is a familiar sight on the shop fronts and streets of our once fair land his precisely rendered fonts and typefaces lifting the mundane thoroughfares of tawdry commercialization to new heights of beauty. In May 2010 Ben Eine painted a complete alphabet on Middlesex Street in East London, which was re-christened Alphabet Street by the residents and described by The Times as “a street now internationally recognized as a living piece of art with direct links to The White House.” (In July 2010, President Barack Obama was presented with a painting by Eine, Twenty First Century City, as an official gift from the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.) His work recently featured in the most comprehensive review of street art to date “Art in the Streets” at MOCA, Los Angeles (April 2011).

For this show EINE will be delivering two unique paintings along with two new edition of prints – one of which is a collaboration with Mark Eley – that have been created exclusively for this show.

One time EINE collaborator, NOKI, brings the spirit of Allen Jones to life through his erotically charged and detailed sketches of thumbs. Amputated from their hands these swollen digits assume a new, autonomous context: H.R. Giger’s Alien channeled through the numb limbs of Hans Bellmer. Familiar but other, Noki’s almost sculptural pollex are shrouded totems ‘thumbing’ their noses at the world of commodity fetishism. A series of one colour screen-prints taken from NOKI’s original pencil drawings will also be complimented by an edition of his works re-worked by Mark Eley.

Playfully aggressive, NOKI’s agenda is much aligned to the writer and founder of Culture Jam and Adbusters magazine, Kalle Lasn, who he cites as a major influence on his world- view and work, as a positive critique on world globalisation.

Mark Eley’s distinctive patterns and prints have elevated Eley Kishimoto (the fashion house founded with his creative partner, Wakako Kishimoto) to a position of worldwide recognition. A weaver by training, Eley sees the world of products as the canvas for his aspirations to ‘pattern the world’ – bringing POP Art full circle (pace Warhol) by re-appropriating the physical elements of consumer society for his ‘beautifying of the planet’. His recent collaborations include works with BMW, Eastpak and Duvel. For this show Eley will collaborate with EINE and NOKI to create unique collaborative works for the show and to further his aim ‘to conquer all the surfaces of the world’.

UNFAIR Part 2: “Something Wicked This Way Comes” will be presented 2012 at WHISPER.

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WHISPER

Whisper is a new gallery focused on making art accessible to everyone, by producing and promoting fine art original prints, Whisper strives to support the process of printmaking in its truest form. Printmaking is one of the oldest artistic mediums, originating in China after paper was invented around AD 105, and although it has today advanced into an array of techniques and modern processes it remains an invaluable tool for producing innovative and evocative artwork. Whisper exhibits a program of contemporary artists working across print mediums to highlight the diverse methods involved.

For press enquiries and interview requests contact;
KATIE SCOTT on katie@wcommunications.co.uk

For further information, RSVP, invitation to private view and high resolution images for publication please contact;
RUTH WILKINSON on ruth@whisperfineart.co.uk

WHISPER
27/28 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DH
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7268 9858
Opening Times: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm or by appointment
INVITATION ONLY Private View THURSDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2011
www.whisperfineart.co.uk

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WhiteNoise

WhiteNoise is both agency and shop-window for both established and emerging artists’. Founded by David Dorrell in 2011 its first show was John Giorno’s STAR 69: DIAL-A-POEM-RELICS at the 54th Biennale in Venice.

‘DISFIGURINES’ by Claire Parsons

Private View
THURSDAY 7TH APRIL, 6.30pm - 10pm

Show runs from FRIDAY 8TH APRIL
to SATURDAY 30TH APRIL 2011

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Mass produced and often crudely manufactured ceramic figures have long jostled for space on tabletops and mantles in homes the length and breadth of Britain. ‘Disfigurines’ are Claire’s manipulated end product of such ceramics. Figures are subverted to satirise and pervert the traditional cloying and romanticized life portrayed in there traditional figures. Victorian idyllic scenes of a by-gone genteel age, where ladies take tea, couples play cards and young lovers steal kisses, are re-appropriated to portray the desperateness and humor of everyday life. They are often angry and sexual depicting a counter reality of drug abuse, sexual perversion, suicide, murder, darkness of mind and other modern malaise. What makes Claire’s work distinct is that the figures have been cleansed for the most part of surface decoration and pattern so they immediately lose the superficiality of charm and appeal. Model poses are re-appropriated and situations re-configured, to construct a new Hogarthian representation of life in porcelain.

Claire was born in London and works and plays there too. Studied at Goldsmiths, St Martins and The Royal Academy  – graduating at some point. She has worked throughout her career in a variety of mediums and techniques.

Broken Hearts Requiem (Still)
Signed Edition of 10
C-Type Hand Print
Price: £150 unframed | £250 framed

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BROKEN HEARTS REQUIEM by Phoebe Collings-James

Private View
THURSDAY 24TH MARCH, 6.30pm - 10pm

Show runs from FRIDAY 25TH MARCH
to THURSDAY 31ST MARCH, 2011

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Broken Hearts Requiem is a 16 screen video installation displaying an ode to the lonely. It is a look at the ways in which humans communicate sorrow in public and private and how emotions are universally translated into songs for everyone to attach their woes to.

The piece takes its direction from the sorrowful act of wailing which led the artist to youtube where she probed into public, commercial and ritualistic displays of this act.

The love song recited by both men and women, but most frequently wailed by the female has a poignant role when it comes to public and commercial wailing. It asks and often expects the audience to be able to tap into their own memory bank of past love. Pulling on the listener’s heart-strings, the pitch and melody resonate in a very basic and immediate way.

What is it to perform emotion? It is almost like a re-enactment, in many religions preaching and repetitive chanting are used as a way to drive people into an almost ecstatic state of wailing, whipping congregations into an emotional frenzy. Similar scenes can be witnessed at a concert with both singer and their “congregation” in a heightened state of emotion led by the lyrics over melodical weeping and screaming of empathy.

As with all of her work, Collings-James does not attempt to condemn or point fingers as to what is or isn’t a valid form of communication. She is interested in what both the viewer and performer get out of a process that seems almost cathartic at times. To sing a broken heart might help towards mending it?

The exhibition itself will be an experience. As you enter the darkened, enclosed space, the 16 faces of prominent female singers will slowly be revealed building to a crescendo of sound, and floor to ceiling visuals that will leave the viewer overwhelmed and the passer by fascinated.

Location: MEN Gallery – 30a Redchurch Street, London E2 7DP
Opening: Thurs 24th March 2011 / 6-9pm
Dates: Fri 25th March – Thurs 31st March 2011
Times: Daily noon – 6pm
Curated by: Lauren Jones (Art Barter)
Contact: lauren@artbarter.co.uk

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Phoebe Collings-James graduated with a first in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University in 2009. Since then she has participated in group shows in London, Glasgow, Lisbon, Berlin and Beirut. Phoebe uses a range of mediums including illustration, video, photography, performance and installations. Often using found images from youtube and the internet her work is instantly engaging and can be subtly erotic and disturbing. She has been described as raw and intense as well as “a breath of fresh air in today’s mopey (art) scene of obsessive, passive introspectives.” (Dean Mayo Davies)

Phoebe was born in East London in 1987 where she continues to live and work.

www.phoebecollingsjames.com

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AVAILABLE WORK

To coincide with the exhibition, the artist has produced a photographic print edition as a memento to the show.

Title: Broken Hearts Requiem (Still)
Date: March 2011
Artist: Phoebe Collings-James
Description: C-Type Hand Print
Signed Edition of 10
Price: £150 unframed | £250 framed

‘Relic’ by Gavin Bennett
Show runs from THURSDAY 3RD MARCH
to THURSDAY 17TH MARCH, 2011

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12 ASSEMBLAGES ON THEMES OF LOVE, WAR, NATURE, MORTALITY, ART, CONSUMERISM AND THE POLITICS OF BEING, EACH WITH A UNIQUE, SPECIFIC ACCOMPANYING POETIC MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK.

Gavin Bennett, Royal College Of Art, 1972 describes himself as “the old master, known but not wanted, non-narrative multi-screen film maker, ghetto grotto installation performance artist, musesickall wordsmith, street clown, barely human stink bomb, gatherer and disperser of crowds, the loud hoarse whisper or garrulent rantor”.

GAVIN BENNETT (a.k.a Fegooish Ennym)
In a posterior era of eco mass Bennett’s messianal prayers to contemptorealities holy rubbish beat on to garbage like a dead heart or a flea from a heaith rug bugged to err rants. Visual + verbal phononyms big it up in outsiders’ neologisms + abound in a bun dance sounding off as symbols clash in Ali’s chemical cash clamour for glamour’s gash in it beggars belief, almost comical, the debtwriteus well to the left unenamoured off Brick Lane in the square mile of pretense of win doze pain.

Can good sensé preveil on Redchurch St., with chav angels again above lost leaders + the plod gods’ own goaled love of data’s conned trolls out of control below? The madam in the poet’s mind @ moz fears the slums. Can a normal I hear it to see it go so?

Like a ghost aghast gormless given form passed over in a choiceless voice, or a now disgusted, disguised geyser on fool’s fire extingwished iré in an east end boozer. Cool as hot can not get insighed, like insight’s bard code pissing on its own goat skin shoes in the barber shops of desire.

Bennett’s nuts are monk keys to the shape of the emperor’s bones to atone for the joy of his misery + genderus in the mute banality of neuter in between feather + fur their bricks kick ass some wear else, anon now + how like poise on extreme is equilibrium. Like a relic’s ease to seemen gone. Rock on!

I Love You featuring Anna Korzun (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £8,000.00
Edition of 2

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I Want To Fuck You featuring Anna Korzun (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £8,000.00
Edition of 2

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Graitification in white #1 featuring Justine (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £5,000.00
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Graitification in red #1 featuring Justine (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £5,000.00
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night-moves closer #1 featuring Jude (2010)
Lenticular Framed
360mm x 480mm
Price: £7,000.00
Edition of 1

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Suki, fill me up featuring Suki (2010)
Lenticular Framed
360mm x 480mm
Price: £5,000.00
Edition of 3

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Daisy Don’t Stop The Dance featuring Daisy (2010)
Lenticular Framed
360mm x 480mm
Price: £9,000.00
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Blue &gold featuring Flossie (2010)
Lenticular Lightbox
360mm x 480mm
Price: £4,500.00
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‘I WANT TO FUCK YOU BY DERRICK SANTINI’

Private View
THURSDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2010, 6.30pm - 10pm
RSVP bakul@planb.uk.com

Show runs from FRIDAY 10TH DECEMBER
to SATURDAY 29TH JANUARY, 2010, 12 - 8PM

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‘Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price’.
Jean Baudrillard

The exhibition is a filmic, playful and voyeuristic series of works that are provocative with an innocence aesthetic, but with the ability to shock and become a confrontational statement (depending on the viewers sentiment). The artworks are various frames in length of lenticular photographic sequences, an extension to Santini’s considerable filmic photographic work. The show comprises of 8 lenticular artworks: 3ft x 4ft which are on display at The MEN Gallery, whilst others are being displayed in various locations around London (full details revealed December 1st).

Santini’s lenticular series of pole dancers Red Pole and White Pole is steeped in ‘sex’ - pole dancing being the staple for strip clubs and gentlemen’s clubs, however, captured as a constant visual sequence with no beginning or end, rather than itillate or ‘shock’ they produce a discordant harmony that engages the viewer as an unwitting voyeur, without consent.

I Want To Fuck You and I Love You, illuminated, work in unison as direct spoken pieces with the viewer - the subject of the work mouthing the constant  invitation and declaration, to entice, which then questions - what is ‘love’ - cutting through sentiments of love and sex, blurring the emotions for the viewer as they receive the dialogue as innocent passers-by.

This is a show of what seems like simple actions and sentiments, however, it carries deeper thoughts, dialogues and dilemmas; with questions that arise from the artists basic sequencing of his subjects that commandeer the viewer to be privy to what are very private and personal moments.

www.derricksantini.com