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Time Out
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Camden Arts Projects: London has a brand-new free art gallery
Remember the Zabludowicz Collection? That converted church in Chalk Farm which housed a vibrant free art programme? After closing its doors at the end of 2023 – the Zabludowicz family had its fair share of controversies due to its links to Israel, though the collection claimed the closure had no connection to an ongoing boycott or the war in Gaza – the space at 176 Prince of Wales Road is now being re-launched. Enter Camden Arts Projects, an all-new not-for-profit space with a focus on contemporary art and film. The new cultural hub opened its doors on May 9 with an exhibition featuring Martin Creed's interactive installation, 'Work No. 3891 Half the air in a given space (2025)', in which a sea of balloons takes over the gallery, inviting visitors to feel them, move them and play with them as they navigate the room. The work was last on display in London more than ten years ago, for its Hayward Gallery debut in 2014. Creed is also making his mark outside the gallery: visitors will be welcomed into the building by the Turner Prize-winning artist's iconic 12-metre neon text piece, 'Work No. 1086: EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT (2011)'. The building, built in the 1860s as a place of worship, has a long history of supporting creatives. The London Drama Centre took it over in the '60s before it was turned into an art gallery in 2017 by AHMM architects. For its new era, Camden Arts Projects promises to 'exhibit the works of both established and emerging artists and filmmakers in an inspiring, innovative environment'. A screening room has been added and artisan bakers Little Bread Pedlar are now running the café.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Locarno's Wolfgang Tillmans Poster Offers 'Image of a World in Which We Can All Live, Work Together'
The Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland has unveiled the poster for its 78th edition this summer, created by Turner Prize-winning German artist Wolfgang Tillmans after last year's poster from Annie Leibovitz. The poster for Locarno 2025 depicts the festival's trademark leopard on a tree branch 'amid an acid trance of yellow and purple abstraction,' according to the fest. 'Guided by a profound sense of curiosity, Tillmans seeks to expand the poetic possibilities of the medium of photography while addressing the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world.' More from The Hollywood Reporter Elton John, Brandi Carlile Bring the Groove, and Messages of Hope, to 'Who Believes in Angels?' Album Concert in London How Gaumont Germany Is Navigating TV Drama's Big Shake-Up Netflix Reveals Steamy K-Drama Adaptation of 'Dangerous Liaisons' Tillmans produced the poster using an experimental Xerox technique, which gives images a blurry texture and 'allows the artist to approach composition through the lens of early digital abstraction,' Locarno said. 'Combined with its psychedelic color palette, the poster is both a throwback to '80s and '90s iterations of the Locarno poster, which were often impressionistic and themselves bordering on abstraction, as well as a bold reimagining of the visual landscape in which the cinema world's most famous leopard finds itself.' Tillmans' brief was quite specific: the poster had to feature a leopard and the color yellow. 'On the glass window of my old color laser photocopier, I brought together a photograph of a leopard lying on a tree, which I had taken in Kenya seven years ago, with two fake leopard fur mittens, which I had sewn myself as a 16-year-old teenager,' Tillmans explained. Maja Hoffmann, president of the Locarno Film Fest, called this year's poster 'a tribute to imagination' that 'captures the bold, emotive, and dynamic spirit of cinema,' adding: 'Like cinema itself, [Tillmans'] work explores the layers of perception with a sensitivity that challenges conventions. … The Locarno Film Festival is a celebration of the power of storytelling, creativity, and diversity, and continues to explore the beauty of images on every level.' Added Giona A. Nazzaro, Locarno's artistic director: 'Wolfgang Tillmans' sensual artwork reminds us of all the unexplored potentialities of the film medium and cinema while imagining a new landscape where creativity unfolds in new forms, shapes, and colors. In this fluid and unexplored landscape, where everything is still possible, new combinations of dreamlike colors and shapes dance together weaving a tapestry of hope.' He concluded: 'Wolfgang Tillmans' artwork offers us the image of a world in which we can all live and work together.' Locarno 78 is set to run Aug. 6-16. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked 20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
New European
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
A quantum art experience in Berlin
With her new show, the Turner Prize-winning French artist Laure Prouvost is attempting to bring to life the core principles of quantum physics, marking a century since they were defined by Niels Bohr and Max Planck. Thankfully, Prouvost has distilled their mind-boggling concepts down into a single mantra; we are everything and everything is us. Have you ever tried to wrap your head around quantum physics? I recently found myself in a dimly lit former power station in East Berlin desperately trying to understand the behavioural patterns of subatomic particles. Above me, illuminated blobs strung with glittering streamers rose and fell, as an eerie soundtrack of pre-recorded shrieks, sighs and gasps echoed around the cavernous concrete hall. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a vast, octopus-like tent with silken tentacles that stretch out across the space. At its heart is a large screen suspended from the ceiling, beneath which spectators gather to lie on their backs in a circle. On display is a video that invites viewers to reflect on the depth of our physical entanglement with the world – a hallucinogenic collage of clips showing sweeping shots of a wintry forest, close-ups of microscopic shrimp, flamingoes, comets blazing through a purple sky. 'We are the air,' says Prouvost's voiceover. 'We are the blood inside the cat's brain. We are the big fat whale that swallowed us.' The installation was commissioned by Berlin-based LAS Art Foundation, a non-profit organisation connecting creatives with the worlds of science and technology. Since launching in 2019, its projects have included everything from the creation of an immersive, virtual swamp in collaboration with the Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen to partnering with Israeli choreographers Eyal & Behar on a new dance piece. 'We wanted to work with Laure because she's very playful and sensitive,' says LAS co-founder Bettina Kames. 'She talks to your heart as well as engaging your mind.' For Kames, it was important that the show appeal to those who might otherwise be unfamiliar with the world of quantum theories. 'It's all about experiencing things. You can come in here without knowing anything about quantum computing. You can just get immersed first, with all your senses. Then you can really dive into it deeper.' Prouvost's fascination with quantum theory stretches back decades. 'I used to assist the artist John Latham in London for several years in my 20s,' she says. 'He introduced me to quantum and we would talk about it a lot.' 'We are everywhere. That's what I wanted to capture in the video,' she says. 'I wanted people's brains to switch to the current moment, to feel themselves stretching out of the building before they become little quantum bits floating in the sky above.' Prouvost's profile was given a huge boost in 2013 when she won the Turner Prize with Wantee, a video work blending fiction and reality to imagine her grandfather's mysterious disappearance. Today she works from her studio in her adopted hometown of Brussels. To realise We Felt a Star Dying, Prouvost and Kames travelled to Google's Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, where she was given rare access to a quantum computer – a device that uses the counter-intuitive properties of quantum physics to perform operations impossible for a classical computer. Prouvost used the computer to generate new sequencing for her video work, as well as feeding in audio from her sonic collaborator Kukii, a Cairo-based musician, who used the results to produce the installation's audio. 'A lot of the vocabulary around quantum is so close to an Ayahuasca or acid trip,' she says. 'It all comes back to the same conclusion; the time and space that we experience can actually be exploded. There's many versions of us happening at the same time.' These hypnotic thoughts linger long after leaving the dark halls of the power station. Reality feels a little less solid – perhaps because, as Prouvost suggests, it isn't. In the quantum realm, we are everywhere, everything, and always in motion. We Felt a Star Dying is at Kraftwerk Berlin until May 4 Hester Underhill is a freelance journalist living in Athens
BBC News
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Turner Prize winner's art on show at Wakefield's former court
A neon sculpture by a Turner Prize-winning artist will be installed on a former court building in artwork, which reads "everything is going to be alright", has been designed by globally acclaimed artist Martin Creed, who was born in the were approved for the sign to be clamped on to the Grade II* listed building, which has been empty for more than three is due to be transformed into a public events space as part of plans to regenerate Wakefield's civic quarter. Documents submitted to Wakefield Council said the work would aim to put the old courthouse "back on the map" as a destination for visitors to the to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Leeds-based developers Rushbond said the proposed installation would offer a "positive message" at a time of change in the city centre."It intends to offer reassurance and can be interpreted as a direct reference to the positive regeneration efforts under way at the courthouse itself," the developers said. Creed won the Turner Prize in 2001 and has previously exhibited work at Tate Britain in London, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Moscow Museum of Modern similar to the one planned for Wakefield have been displayed on prominent buildings around the world, including in Times Square, New York, and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in old courthouse was built in 1810 but has been derelict since it closed in is due to be reopened after being bought by the council.A planning officer's report said the installation was designed to clamp onto the building and would will not be permanently fixed to council's conservation officer said illuminated signs were "not generally supported within conservation areas" but there were "public benefits that justify the proposal".Approval was granted subject to a condition that the work be displayed for a maximum of five to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
