Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, Belfast Exposed Contemporary Gallery, Belfast
This touring group exhibition features three artists – Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza Zelenkova – who were each awarded £5,000 to make new work for the show. Highlights include Piotrowska’s photos of young women recreating poses from self-defence manuals, re-contextualising the actions within a domestic setting.
Until 1 October 2016. www.belfastexposed.org
Lu Pingyuan, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester
Shanghai-based artist Lu Pingyuan’s latest work explores the supernatural and includes CCTV footage purporting to show mysterious sightings of a ghost at the Ye Olde Man and Scythe pub in Bolton. Staff at the pub, which is the fourth oldest in Britain, claim to have seen the spirit of the Seventh Earl of Derby, James Stanley. The royalist is said to have spent the last hours of his life there before he was beheaded in 1651 towards the end of the civil war. Whether Pingyuan has actually captured the earl on tape is debatable but the results are suitably eery.
Until 17 October 2016. www.cfcca.org.uk
Raqib Shaw, White Cube Bermondsey, London
This exhibition from Calcutta-born, London-based Raqib Shaw riffs on the past, splicing together elements of art history, mythology, poetry, theatre, religion, science and natural history. The focus is a series of paintings referencing, in part, Old Masters from the collections of the National Gallery, London, and Prado Museum, Madrid. The show also features a series of bronze sculptures in the style of the Renaissance Mannerist period.
Until 11 September 2016. www.whitecube.com
Joseph Beuys and Richard Demarco, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
This show explores the 16-year collaboration between Scottish artist, gallerist and promoter Richard Demarco and Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), who famously declared “Everyone is an artist”. The result of a friendship that began in 1970, the exhibition features photography, film and original correspondence drawn from the Demarco Archive, and highlights how Beuys’ relationships with both Scotland and Demarco proved to be a huge influence on the German artist’s work.
Until 30 October 2016. www.nationalgalleries.org
3 Colour: The Art and Science of Medieval Manuscripts, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Designed to coincide with the Fitzwilliam’s 2016 bicentenary, this bumper exhibition features over 150 manuscripts dating as far back as the sixth century. The work on show constitutes one of the largest and best preserved repositories of medieval and Renaissance painting in existence. With many historic panel and wall paintings destroyed by war and time, these manuscripts offer one of the richest resources for the study of European painting.
Until 30 December 2016. www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Images:
1. Joanna Piotrowska, originally commissioned through Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, 2015
2. Raqib Shaw, Centaur Duo, 2016. Photo: White Cube (Ben Westoby)
3. Richard Demarco (left) and Joseph Beuys at Edinburgh College of Art during the installation of ‘Strategy Get Arts’, August 1970. Courtesy of the Demarco European Art Foundation 2016. Photo: © George Oliver
4. Jean Corbechon, Livre des propriétés des choses, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, France, Paris, 1414
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