Rich White, The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
This new commission from Bristol-based artist Rich White is an installation featuring found furniture including chairs, tables, and cabinets. Resistance explores nostalgia for Swansea’s pre-war architecture, much of which was destroyed during the ‘Three Night Blitz’ of 1941. The result is a mass wall of objects that separates the old and new parts of the National Waterfront Museum. Part of the Art Across the City programme designed and delivered by LOCWS International.
Until 19 June 2016. www.artacrossthecity.com
Sean Lynch, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Sean Lynch’s ‘The Weight of the World’ is a series of video installations examining topics such as Irish folklore, marginalised stories and the power of the media. The exhibition also features the UK premiere of Adventure: Capital, the projected video element of Lynch’s show of the same name, first shown as Ireland’s presentation at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Until 2 July 2016. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard: Requiem for 114 Radios, Colston Hall, Bristol
“Like some mad engineer has been tinkering with loads of radios” is how Jane Pollard describes the look of this commission for Bristol New Music 2016, installed in the cellars of Colston Hall. Featuring 114 analogue radios – a dying breed as DAB takes over – guest vocalists have recorded individual vocals for Dies Irae from the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, famously used by Stanley Kubrick in his films A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. With each vocal broadcast to individual sets, this disembodied choir crackles, coalesces and collapses in the ‘in-between spaces’ of the analogue signal.
Until 5 June 2016. www.colstonhall.org
Georg Baselitz, White Cube Bermondsey, London
This haunting show from German neo-expressionist Georg Baselitz features large-scale paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Highlights include a reworking of an early double-portrait of Baselitz and his wife Elke from 1975, reinterpreted here in black and white paint from recent polaroids of the pair naked. Also on show is a new, large-scale bronze sculpture, Zero Dom (2015), featuring five almost comically elongated legs dressed in high-heels.
Until 3 July 2016. www.whitecube.com
The Simplicity of Truth, FACT, Liverpool
Combining still and moving images, this show from artist and theatre director Mark Storor offers a different take on masculinity. It mixes new elements and unseen material from his work The Barometer of My Heart (2015) with a live performance in the gallery space developed and enacted by local men. As part of the project, Storor has worked extensively with FACT’s Veterans in Practice (VIP) programme, which aims to encourage local ex-servicemen and women to get involved in creative projects.
Until 12 June 2016. www.fact.co.uk
Jumana Emil Abboud, BALTIC, Gateshead
Influenced by the traditions of Palestinian folklore and myth-making, Jumana Emil Abboud creates work in drawing, installation, video and performance. Her ambiguous narratives are filled with monsters and magical beings, with the landscapes and sites they inhabit including grottos, wells and trees. Also on show is I Feel Nothing – a video-poem inspired by a Palestinian folktale The Handless Maiden and Titian’s painting Noli me Tangere.
Until 2 October 2016. www.balticmill.com
Images:
1. Rich White, Resistance, 2016
2. Sean Lynch, The Weight of the World, 2016
3. George Baselitz, Zero dome (Zero Dom), Patinated bronze, 118 11/16 x 62 13/16 x 58 1/16 in. (301.5 x 159.5 x 147.5 cm), 2015. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin
4. Mark Storor, The Barometer of my Heart, Mark Storor. Photo: Stephen King
5. Jumana Emil Abboud, BALTIC, Gateshead
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