Deptford Last Friday - The Eighteenth Emergency
Fri 27 Aug 2010
The Eighteenth Emergency
27th August -4th September 2010
Private View: 26th August 2010: 6.30-8.30pm
Deptford Last Friday Late Opening: 27th August 2010 we remain open until 8:30pm
Andrew Bryant, Frauke Dannert, Chas Higginbottom, Burcu Yagcioglu, Daniel P. Lichtman and Stefan Sulzer
Core Gallery is delighted to present 'The Eighteenth Emergency', an exhibition that brings together the work of international artists. All of the artists are current Goldsmiths MFA graduates and already have established careers in the art world. The exhibition is curated by Andrew Bryant, Artist, writer and editor of Artist’s Talking, a-n.
‘The Eighteenth Emergency’ is an exhibition of photography, sculpture, installation and video which explores the many issues surrounding masculinity; addressing the violent and aggressive dimensions of male identity.
The show will be accompanied with an Artist & Curators Talk with Andrew Bryant on 4th September.
In Betsy Byers’ The Eighteenth Emergency, a short novel for boys, Mouse and his best friend Ezzie have come up with 17 action plans for various types of emergency, such as Attack by an Unfriendly Lion. But nothing has prepared them for the 18th emergency: being on the wrong side of Marv Hammerman, every eighth-grader's worst nightmare.
However the real emergency is masculinity itself, something that, in a sexist society such as ours, for which gendered subjectivity is foundational, we are all on the ‘wrong’ side of.
Taking its name from Byers’ book, the exhibition Eighteenth Emergency brings together five artists whose work addresses the violence and aggression, either actual, or implied, inherent in taking up a position in relation to, or within, masculinity.
Venue
- Venue:
- Core Gallery - Website
- Street:
- C101 Faircharm Trading Estate
- ZIP:
- SE8 3DX
- City:
- London
- Country:
- UK
Description
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Core Gallery's highly considered and dynamic annual exhibition program to explore, excite and stimulate discussion.
Focusing on outstanding contemporary art and curated shows, Core Gallery is establishing itself as a key place to visit in Deptford.
Core Gallery’s launch show Exquisite Corpse invited twenty two artists and curators in a curatorially collaborative 'consequence' exhibition and saw over 600 visitors in its 2 week run.
The following exhibition, Wilderness, showcased three of London’s promising emerging artists and will be followed by further exhibitions by amongst others graduates of Goldsmiths and Central St Martins.
Core Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space, situated in one of Deptford’s thriving artist-run studio complexes. Core Gallery’s location within a working studio complex fuels an energetic and productive atmosphere where the appreciation for exhibited work comes from makers and visitors alike.
Accompanying exhibitions are educational talks with artists, guest speaks and curators and artists discussions. Cor Blimey’s Studio members who run the space are a diverse range of artists from around the globe, who have exhibited World wide, and include graduates from colleges such as RCA and Goldsmiths.
Core Gallery is part of the Cor Blimey Arts charitable cooperative.