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1. AMANDA WILKINSON GALLERY
Joan Jonas | "In the trees II"
Born in New York in 1936, Jonas is an American visual artist, a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Jonas' projects and experiments provided the foundation on which much video performance art would be based. Her influences also extended to conceptual art, theatre, performance art and other visual media. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada. Jonas originally trained as a sculptor but soon became a pioneer of performance and video art. Learn more about Joan Jonas work: The american artist Joan Jonas wins 2018 Kyoto Prize.
1 October - 17 November 2018
2. THOMAS DANE GALLERY
Michael Landy | "Scaled-Down"
The process and aesthetic of waste disposal has been of huge personal interest to Michael Landy ever since his research on early projects such as Scrapheap Services (1995) and Break Down (2001). Over time Landy's focus on mechanical destruction has surfaced under many guises - from the shredder, to the (dis)assembly line, to self-destructing kinetic works. In Scaled-Down, the artist's latest work, he explores the variety of methods of industrial waste compaction. The process of destruction becomes not one of obliteration, but of transmogrification and renewal, as sculptures and drawings are re-imagined and re-shaped in unsparing, compressed sculptural form.
2 October - 17 November 2018
3. GAGOSIAN GALLERY
Chris Burden | "Measured"
From his action-based works of the 1970s to the jaw-dropping technical feats of his later sculptures, Chris Burden (1946–2015) consistently challenged his mental and physical limitations, reflecting on the surreal and precarious realities of contemporary life. Burden was a radical and uncompromising figure with a fierce political consciousness.
29 September 2018–26 January 2019
4. CELL PROJECT SPACE
Alan Michael | Solo Show
Astrology and the City is a solo exhibition by London-based artist Alan Michael. The exhibition presents a new series of paintings referencing street photography that look at displays of subjectivity, social value and processes of research. The paintings are based on photographs of models hired from an agency who are documented wandering through central London, using clichéd formats of classical street-photography and fashion editorials as reference points.
28 September — 11 November 2018
