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News – Fiona Banner

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”:http://www.aroomforlondon.co.uk
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.’
FIONA BANNER: HARRIER AND JAGUAR

Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010
Until 3 January 2011

Tate Britain has unveiled its new Duveens Commission, _Harrier and Jaguar_, by Fiona Banner.

Banner’s largest work to date, _Harrier and Jaguar_ brings the highly-charged physicality of two real fighter jets, both recently in active military service, into the unexpected setting of the neoclassical Duveen Galleries.
FIONA BANNER WILL CREATE THE TATE BRITAIN DUVEENS COMMISSION 2010

We are delighted to announce that Fiona Banner has been invited to create the next installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010, supported by Sotheby’s. Her new work, created especially for the neoclassical Duveen galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be unveiled on 28 June 2010 and will be on display until 3 January 2011.

Image (left): Tate Britain
FIONA BANNER: PERFORMANCE NUDE

Published by Other Criteria October 2009

Using paint and line to portray the nude female body in words Banner questions the difference between looking and perceiving; the separation between experiencing something, and the language we use to describe it.
Fiona Banner: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph

Group exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
6 March - 26 October 2008

The exhibition Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph connects the structural (and symbolic) endlessness of the architecture of the Kunsthaus Graz with an attempt to navigate (mentally) the temporal and spatial levels of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection.