Frith Street Gallery

Golden Square

17-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ
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  • FIONA BANNER WILL CREATE THE TATE BRITAIN DUVEENS COMMISSION 2010

    FIONA BANNER WILL CREATE THE TATE BRITAIN DUVEENS COMMISSION 2010

    We are delighted to announce that Fiona Banner has been invited to create the next installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010, supported by Sotheby’s. Her new work, created especially for the neoclassical Duveen galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be unveiled on 28 June 2010 and will be on display until 3 January 2011.

    Image (left): Tate Britain

  • RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN FALLING IN LOVE

    RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN FALLING IN LOVE

    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    2 April – 20 June 2010

    For BALTIC, Raqs will create a new installation that explores ways of life that die and are reborn elsewhere, and where fortunes of both love and labour are framed and dismantled by global forces. Like on-shore sweethearts bidding farewell to men in ships, the world watches its own histories float away.

    The show takes inspiration from archival images of two giant shipbuilding cranes on a voyage to India from the River Tyne. Raqs’ proposition generates an exhibition exploring a global web of wills and longings that sustain life and that can encourage strange intimacies across vast distances.

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE: HINDSIGHT

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE: HINDSIGHT

    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
    17 February – 17 May 2010

    This important exhibition examines many aspects of Schütte’s practice from his homonym series that examines moments of human isolation, vulnerability and hopelessness, to the architectural models-designs that push to the extreme their ability to simplify and exaggerate, and which unintentionally provide viewers with a sense of protection and mental refuge. His works have at once a handcrafted and a utopian appearance to them. All of Schütte’s oeuvre is imbued with social and political questions, as well as his concern for the artist’s relevance to and place within society.

  • FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
    30 January – 18 April 2010

    This exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of Tan’s work in Switzerland, examines the concerns at the heart of her practice which is underpinned by a preoccupation with memory and history. Tan’s recent photographic works and video pieces, such as Rise and Fall (2009), Provenance (2008) or A Lapse of Memory (2007), revolve as much around issues of identity and belonging as around remembering and forgetting.

    The exhibition Rise and Fall was initiated by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Following its presentation at the Aargauer Kunsthaus the exhibition will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montréal.

  • JUAN USLÉ: NUDOS Y RIZOMAS

    JUAN USLÉ: NUDOS Y RIZOMAS

    Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma, Spain
    29 January – 2 May 2010

    Juan Uslé‘s work reflects on the possibilities of painting. It has an intriguing intensity borne from plays of colour and the nuances of pattern and gesture. The works in this exhibition communicate the accelerated buzz of New York City as well as the nature of the Cantabrian village of Saro; the places between which he divides his time.