'Well well well....' a friend of mine would have said.
Since I wrote
that entry about a great exhibition in Bricklane by No Barking Art, my life has become more exciting :)
Their lovely curator Shizico Yi got in touch with me and offered for me to be featured in their crisp, brand new art magazine (but I will tell you about this in another post)
Furthermore, I have also been invited to the private view of the 2nd part, that was on display in Espacio Gallery in East London!
It was a busy week at work and I could not leave as early as I wanted, so I just arrived right on time to Espacio Gallery on Bethnal Green Road. The crowd and buzz in front of the gallery made it easy to spot the place!
I was standing somewhere in the middle when people started moving around and I soon realised it was because the performances were to start!
First we could listen to an opening poem recited by
David Whiting, -
Reflections of Love, Life and Mortality - standing in front of Tony Smith's paintings. Then we could fall into another world by listening to a beautiful song specially written and sung for this night by sisters
Pelagie-May and
Eloise Green, the latter is also amongst the artists who exhibited here!
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| no barking aRt David Whiting (on the left) |
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| no barking aRt Eloise and Pelagie-May Green |
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| no barking aRt private view |
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| no barking aRt private view |
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| no barking aRt private view |
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| no barking aRt private view |
John Humphreys, whose distorted head sculptures have gotten my attention at the 1st part of the exhibition back in March, was here today too, showcasing 4 of his pieces.
A UFO that was inspired by the happenings in Roswell and by the alleged findings of a UFO, that was examined and dissected by the US government.
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| no barking aRt John Humphreys UFO |
3 of his sculptures with works of
Gianluca Pisano and
Daphne Bampanioti in the background.
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| no barking aRt John Humphreys, Gianluca Pisano and Daphne Bampanioti |
A head, titled as 'Baby Jesus'
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| no barking aRt John Humphreys - Baby Jesus |
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| no barking aRt Jaime Freestone - On a journey |
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| no barking aRt Jaime Freestone - On a journey |
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| no barking aRt Jaime Freestone |
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| no barking aRt Jaime Freestone - I'm beautiful but bite |
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| no barking aRt Jaime Freestone - Dear Barbie |
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| no barking aRt Jaime Freestone - Dear Barbie |
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| no barking aRt Jaime Freestone - Bunny brains |
Greetings again to No Barking aRters by curator
Shizico Yi
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| no barking aRt private view Shizico Yi the Curator's words |
AnnyRose: New Testament
AnnyRose mainly creates ceramics. This piece, the New Testament seems some sort of folded and patterned soft material like textile or paper from far, but as I got closer, I realised it was made out of ceramic. When I looked at it together with a receipt about the 'Damaged goods', I first thought, this must have been a sort of interpretation of the New Testament being broken...however later I was told a story behind... well my cousin's young son recently told us that we try to find interpretations for everything whereas there might have just been inevitable occurrences of external factors, that actually leads the artist to create what it is in the end.
AnnyRose loves and cherishes her pieces trying to protect them from damage and any kind of malformation throughout shipping. Hence she travels and carries them with herself for exhibitions! This time, unfortunately even though all care was taken from her side...the flight operators and their co-workers still broke her piece of art. How sad it is...but AnnyRose was disappointed, but not furious and unlike other people she instantly had an idea how she could make it into a different piece of installation. Knowing this background information gave me a kind of connection to her piece, that carried values from the past, yet it was current and very alive!
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| no barking AnnyRose - New Testament |
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| no barking AnnyRose - New Testament |
After the welcoming words by Shizico and another magical song by the Green sisters,
Hidekazu Sogabe (another artist of those exhibited here) started creating music...rather 'noise' as he also describes it. The acoustics and sounds were weird yet likable and interesting! Check out the instruments below he connected to the amplifier and used to make the sounds!
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| no barking aRt Hidekazu Sogabe |
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| no barking aRt Hidekazu Sogabe's instrument |
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| no barking aRt private view |
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| no barking aRt private view |
Silvio Severino: Last Vynil Supper
A great angle to bring Da Vinci's original The Last Supper into another life!
So which musicians would be the equivalent to Jesus and the Apostles?
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| no barking aRt Silvio Severino The last vynil supper |
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| no barking aRt Silvio Severino The last vynil supper |
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| no barking aRt Silvio Severino The last vynil supper |
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| no barking aRt Tony Smith |
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| no barking aRt Veronica Shimanovskaya - Perepeteia |
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| no barking aRt Victoria Rowley |
I love these 4 paintings! Amazing how the artist was able to capture general lifemoments like Recovery, Growth, Follow me and Meet (titles in order from top to bottom) by purely directing the lines in different ways. I felt, I did not even have to read the titles of these images because they just shouted to my face what they really were! Very well thought and executed!
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| no barking aRt Yuni Ko |
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| no barking aRt Zahid Mayo - 2 paintings (large and small) |
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| no barking aRt Roan Allen Was |
Pascale Pollier's installation had already got my attention in the 1st Part of no barking aRt exhibition. '
The heart wax' a hyperrealistic heart sculpture reminded me of my years at the medical university. This time she brought a grown up, elderly, (maybe dying?) man watching himself in the mirror and still markedly connected to the placenta by a thick umbilical chord.
Observing it at first, brought me back to another exhibition I saw in Milan dedicated to Paul McCarthy.
Is it about birth and death? Are we already programmed what and who we are going to be when we get older and this is reflected in the mirror? Or the other way round; do we look back on our deathbed to see who we were? How we started? How innocent and naiv we were, yet sensing the whole world around us?
Interestingly on the last image you can see that this body is not only a body, its nervous system is also visible to everyone, showing, part of the cerebellum, spine and the nerves, which suggest sensation.
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| no barking aRt Pascale Pollier |
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| no barking aRt Pascale Pollier |
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| no barking aRt Pascale Pollier |
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| no barking aRt Sandra Dakin |
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| no barking aRt Sharon Sondh - You again |
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| no barking aRt Naomi Szabo |
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| no barking aRt Laura Colantonio |
Lucy M Johnston
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| no barking aRt Lucy M Johnston |
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| no barking aRt Holly Maslen - City Foxes 1-2 |
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| no barking aRt Hidekazu a-wa Sogabe - Dokoka Series |
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| no barking aRt no barking aRt Andrew McNeile Jones |
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| no barking aRt Colin Binns |
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| no barking aRt Aster Reem David - Inevitable happenings |
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| no barking aRt Betty Ritshcel - Seven days around |
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| no barking aRt Betty Ritschel - After the Gym |
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| no barking aRt Ira Lupin - Safe haven |
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| no barking aRt Ana Cvejic |
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| no barking aRt Georgina Howard - Beard Awakening |
