Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, Aspex, Portsmouth
The winner of Aspex’s Craft Emergency award in 2014, Malene Hartmann Rasmussen merges applied art, design and fine art to create ceramic sculpture, installation and furniture designs. Using traditional craft skills and new technology, she produces multi-dimensional works that feature digitally printed fabrics and wallpaper based upon photographic interpretations of hand-modelled ceramics.
Until 19 June 2016. www.aspex.org.uk
Richard Forster, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
For his latest collection of sculpture and drawings on paper, Richard Forster explores Levittown, a suburban housing project built in 1947 and located in New York state, USA. The formulaic buildings were supposed to provide inhabitants with the domestic equivalent of the American dream at extremely low cost. Central to the show are four nine-part colour drawings and four-part neon signs partially inspired by the song, Little Boxes, which satirised such suburban housing projects and was made famous by Pete Seeger in 1963.
Until 5 June 2016. www.dlwp.com
Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, Camden Arts Centre, London
Experimental filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson (1907/10–1988) are perhaps best known for founding the independent publishing house Gaberbocchus Press in 1948, publishing more than 60 titles including works by Raymond Queneau, Bertrand Russell and Kurt Schwitters. This output is explored here along with their pioneering experimental film practice. Also on show are Franciszka’s stage design, puppets and a comic strip, all on the subject of Alfred Jarry’s anarchic 1890s play, Ubu Roi.
Until 5 June 2016. www.camdenartscentre.org
reGeneration3, QUAD, Derby
This bumper exhibition features 50 artists from 25 different nationalities, representing 40 international art institutions. They have been selected for the third edition of reGeneration, a project that contacts 350 art schools and centres for artistic training around the world and asks them to send the work of their five most promising students. The results range from printing and photographic series, artists’ photobooks, multimedia installations, projections, and performance to on-site installations.
Until 12 June 2016. www.derbyquad.co.uk
Kevin Harman, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Not for the first time Edinburgh College of Art graduate Kevin Harman is working with glass. Back in 2009 he deliberately smashed Collective gallery’s window while on the second year of an MFA, resulting in a fine of £200 for breach of the peace. This solo exhibition features a series of large abstract glassworks he’s been working on for the last two years. They sit somewhere between painting and sculpture, with enormous double-glazing units split apart in order for Harman to pour, layer and drip household paint onto their interior cavities.
Until 21 May 2016. www.inglebygallery.com
Images:
1. Malene Hartmann Rasmussen. Photo: Sylvain Deleu
2. Richard Forster, Levittown, September 2015, watercolour graphite and acrylic medium on Fabriano Artistico paper Nine parts, Photo: John McKenzie, Courtesy the Artist/ Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh/ Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
3. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, scene from performance of Kung Ubu, directed by Michael Meschke at the Marionetteatern, Stockholm, 1964
4. Kevin Harman, Untitled, household paint, double-glazing unit, steel frame 217 x 101 x 5.5 cm, 2016
