- Venue
- The Charles Dickens Museum
- Starts
- Saturday, April 2, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, April 24, 2011
- Address
- The Charles Dickens Museum 48 Doughty Street London WC1N 2LX Reception Friday 1 April, 6 - 8 pm. Entrance to reception is free. Show continues until 24 April 2011. Regular museum hours are Monday to Sunday 10 - 5 pm. Entrance to show is included in the museum?s general admission fee: £7 adult; £5 student/concession; £3 child.
- Location
- London
Dickens liked to walk the streets of London 10 to 20 miles at a time. For Sketches by Boz, published in The Morning Chronicles, he observed city life in early Victorian London. The exhibition brings together artists from different nationalities who have developed works in response to Dickens’s descriptions of these streets. Each of the artists has selected a sketch, re-inscribing Dickens’s writings with new meanings as they walk the streets of London today. Andrea Artz (born Germany) exhibits black and white conté drawings of film negatives, originating from overexposed negatives taken in the Seven Dials area after dark. Julie Fiala (born Canada) displays photographic documentation from a balancing act performed during a walk from Monmouth Street to the Museum. Claudia Larissa Artz’s (born Germany) works on paper explore the theme of transportation in London in 1855 and 2011. Jon Aye’s (born Britain) oil paintings investigate the relationship between the city of London and the people who live and work there. Livia Garcia (born Hong Kong) re-images the objects that Dickens observed in a pawnbroker’s shop using Google as a search engine, and assembles bookworks recalling the form of Dickens’s published writings. Reception Friday 1 April, 6 – 8 pm. Entrance to reception is free. For press information contact [email protected]
