If you're in the market for some culture and inspiration be sure to visit Castlefield Gallery as they present BORN AFTER 1924, an atypical solo show by German artist Ingo Gerken.
Interpreting the contemporary legacy of the Merzbarn1 and Kurt Schwitters in the UK, Castlefield Gallery has invited Gerken to respond to Schwitters’ Merz Magazine (issue 8/9) of 1924 called Nasci2. The theme of the magazine, Nasci, meaning ‘being born’ or ‘becoming’, was co-edited with Russian Constructivist artist El Lissitzky3 forging an alliance of Dadaist and Constructivist ideals and included reproductions and texts by Vladimir Tatlin, George Braque, Man Ray, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Mies van der Rohe among others.
Often referring to his work as ‘activating’ art-historical contexts, Gerken is interested in the porosity of imagined and real spaces, their construction, flexibility and weight. BORN AFTER 1924 will become a group show and a site-specific manifestation of Gerken’s shifting and re-arranging of the contexts of Dada, Merz and the Nasci issue of 1924 itself. A re-edited and updated version of the historic avant-garde magazine will be published to accompany the resulting group show. The exhibition will become a physical manifestation of Gerken’s collages that will include other invited artists, from the UK and Germany as ‘articulations’ or ‘punctuations’ of his own practice. The exhibition will transform the gallery and represent a condensation of Gerken’s diverse and playful art practice drawing on some of sensibilities of Schwitters’work.
Better yet, admission is absolutely free and the gallery fully accessible!
Exhibition: BORN AFTER 1924
Artists include: Ingo Gerken and invited artists Matti Isan Blind, Madeleine Boschan, Rainer Ganahl, El Lissitzky, Antonia Low, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Reto Pulfer, Gregor Schneider and Kurt Schwitters.
Preview: Thursday 17 February 2011, 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: 18 February to 10 April 2011
Find it at:
Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester, M15 4GB
Opening Times: Wednesday to Sunday 1pm – 6pm
Telephone: 0161 832 8034
http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/
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