Frith Street Gallery

Golden Square

17-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ
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  • dOCUMENTA (13)

    dOCUMENTA (13)
    9 June – 16 September 2012

    Frith Street Gallery are delighted to announce that dOCUMENTA’s artistic director, Carolyn Christov – Bakargiev has selected Tacita Dean and Massimo Bartolini to participate in dOCUMENTA (13).

    dOCUMENTA (13) is an exhibition of contemporary art held in Kassel, Germany, which takes place every 5 years and runs for 100 days.

  • Anna Barriball

    Anna Barriball

    The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
    20 January – 1 April 2012

    Anna Barriball makes work which moves between the parallel languages of drawing and sculpture, often using the practice of drawing to create something which might be more properly understood to be sculpture. Sheets of paper pressed insistently by her pencil up against windows, walls and doors become heavily material objects, while things in the world – windbreaks, found photographs, a fireplace – are redrawn as artworks through subtle alteration.

    This exhibition, organised in collaboration with Milton Keynes Gallery, brings together work from the last ten years, and includes new commissions alongside existing works.

  • A Room for London

    A Room for London

    A Room for London – Roi des Belges
    Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
    January 2012 – December 2012
    Designed by David Kohn architects in collaboration with Fiona Banner. Programmed by Artangel and produced by Living Architecture.

    A Room for London – Roi des Belges, is a temporary building on the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall. It is a studio for writers and performers who will live there for up to a week. The residents will create work in situ, which will be performed live and published on www.aroomforlondon.co.uk. The programme has been built around the themes and concerns of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

    Thames and Hudson
    Fiona Banner presents Orson Welles’ Heart of Darkness
    Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
    Saturday 31 March, 2012
    Orson Welles wrote a screenplay based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness in the late 1930s. It would have been his first film but it was rejected by the studio RKO, and he went on to make Citizen Kane instead. At the time the script was considered too political, too expensive, and too uncompromising artistically, not to mention its narrative parallels with the rise of fascism in Europe. Today other parallels could be drawn.

    The entire screenplay will be performed for the first time ever, live to camera on the Roi des Belges. It will be broadcast on the web and as a live projection into the Royal Festival Hall below. A Room For London

  • TACITA DEAN

    TACITA DEAN

    The Unilever Series, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
    11 October 2011 – 11 March 2012

    Tacita Dean’s work, ‘Film’ is the twelfth commission in ‘The Unilever Series’ for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

    Tacita Dean is one of the most respected artists working today. Her practice encompasses artist’s books, drawing, found objects, photography and sound installations, but she is best known for her use of 16mm film. Dean’s films act as depictions or portraits rather than conventional narratives, capturing fleeting natural light or subtle shifts in movement.

  • Fiona Banner: London 2012 Olympic poster

    Fiona Banner: London 2012 Olympic poster

    Fiona Banner creates nude studies from life, transcribing physical scenarios into verbal descriptions. These ‘wordscapes’ define the shapes and forms of the body as well as fleeting moments such as the tension in a second of shared eye contact, or a nervous finger tapping. Banner’s print is a nude study of a Paralympic Athlete. The title alludes to the extraordinary physicality of this body.

    She focuses on strength and physicality but also on the fragility of a human awaiting competition. Banner says ‘I liked the idea of comparing the athlete to a superhero, with some extraordinary prosthetic gift. Looking at an athlete naked made them powerful and vulnerable at once.’