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Allora & Calzadilla have worked together since 1995, and have established themselves as prominent figures in the international contemporary art scene.
Never Mind That Noise You Heard will provide an opportunity to see (and hear!) recent installations and videos that consider the continuum between noise and music as a productive measure and potentially rich tool through which cultural, social, and political relationships can be gauged and challenged.
Many works in the exhibition are the outcome of Allora and Calzadilla's investigations into militarism, war, and the inscriptions of power encoded in and through sound.
The central work will be a monumental installation entitled Wake Up (2007): a sound and light installation for which the artists asked trumpet players from around the world to interpret Reveille; the trumpet call which signals the start of the military day.
These sonic re-workings open up the wake up call to other registers of meaning and associations.
The recordings are linked to a series of speakers and lights embedded within the walls that divide the space, creating a visual/auditory experience.
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The second 20 21 international art fair will take place at the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 21 - 24 February.
It will be opened by the esteemed author, Frances Fyfield, at 12 noon on the 21st.
Launched to much acclaim in 2007, this exciting fair features international modern and contemporary art - oils, original prints, watercolours, drawings, photography and sculpture from 1900 to the present day.
0ver 50 UK based exhibitors will offer work from many countries (Africa, Australia, China, Eire, France, Japan, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine and Britian).
Artists include 20th century "blue chip" names such as Modigliani, Matisse, Miro and Derain alongside British favourites as Hockney, Piper, Riley, Banksy and Hirst, plus by a host of artists who are well worth discovering.
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Berlin is a particularly strong magnet for international street artists and its landscape is filled with artwork and signatures that are inventing new visual codes.
But the impressions that these artists leave are inevitably fleeting as their art falls victim to the city's unrelenting development.
Luckily, the book Urban Art Photography serves as a permanent documentation and time capsule of both the creation and evolution of these constantly changing images.
Urban centres such as Barcelona, Paris and Berlin are places whose landscapes are characterised by anonymously created artwork and signatures that are inventing new visual codes.
This street art is much more than mere graffiti.
In addition to using spray paint, today's enterprising urban artists use stencils, wheat paste and found objects to manifest their ideas.
They work in an interdisciplinary way and are often creative nomads travelling and working their way through cities around the world.
Berlin is a particularly strong magnet for international street artists, inviting them to leave their mark.
But the impressions that they leave are inevitably fleeting as their art falls victim to the city's unrelenting development.
Luckily, editor and photographer Jürgen Große has worked with Michael Bonk for years to track and archive Berlin's urban art.
Urban Art Photography presents artwork from Berlin that communicates with its environment in a subversive way.
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Gagosian Gallery announced the exhibition of large-format photographs by Sally Mann.
Executed between 2000 and 2004, these works consist of images of the faces of her three children Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia.
These powerful images of Mann's children are simultaneously painterly and photographic.
They are made from wet-plate collodion negatives, produced by coating a sheet of glass with ether-based collodion and submerging it in silver nitrate.
The resulting light sensitive plate, loaded into a plate holder and attached to the camera, must be exposed while still wet, a period of approximately six minutes.
The photographers who originally used this method, which was introduced in 1851, worked to perfect the process and avoid irregularities.
Sally Mann, however, embraces these aberrations; she celebrates the peculiar flares, stains and dust trails unique to the collodion process.
She describes them as serendipitous, as "perfect flaws" which help create the mystical and poetic quality of the photographs.
Perhaps because of the lengthy exposures (as long as 6 minutes and never less than 3), the images possess a transcendent timelessness.
It may be this sense of suspended time, as much as genetics, that renders the faces of Mann's children eerily interchangeable.
Enigmatic, they seem to be awaiting the viewer's glance to wake from their shadowed stillness and take their next breath.
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The Derek Jarman exhibition will present a selection of work by the leading British film-maker of his generation.
Curated by the celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, it will highlight Jarman's work in film and painting, including his pioneering presentation of the moving image within the gallery context.
Jarman was arguably the single most crucial figure of British independent cinema in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
He struggled for Gay Liberation and with the impact of AIDS and lived as a participant observer, recording all that passed before him, from punk to Thatcher, Hampstead Heath to film premiere.
This exhibition is a timely reappraisal of Jarman's work, conceived as an immersive environment by Julien, featuring rarely seen films from the Derek Jarman Super-8 archive, an installation of his film Blue, 1993, as well as a selection of his paintings.
Julien has also created a series of photographic lightboxes documenting Jarman's cottage and garden in Dungeness.
The exhibition will mark the premiere of Julien's new film about Jarman, Derek, the centre of which is a day-long interview Jarman recorded in 1990.
The film includes a narration by Tilda Swinton and clips of Jarman's films, juxtaposed with news and footage of the current affairs from the times that this life illuminated.
It is a film of Jarman's life as well as the story of England from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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