Jamie Reid - Peace is Tough Exhibition
The Bear Pit,
Park St,
London
27th October - 20th November 2011
Private View 26th October 6pm - 9pm
Isis Gallery and Merge Festival are extremely pleased to announce the opening of Jamie Reid - 'Peace Is Tough'.
Hot on the heels of Reid's wonderful Ragged Kingdom installation for Isis Gallery at Londonewcastle Depot in June, Peace Is Tough revolves around two polarities - one being principal elements of the Jamie Reid Archive which has recently been exhibited at the CCBB in Rio and MoCA in Los Angeles. The second being a presentation of the 365 paintings that comprise the core of Reid's expansive and delightful Eightfold Yearproject.
Peace Is Tough will be installed in a very raw space behind Tate Modern. Entry is at your own risk.
Reid's Archive spans the decades, from college plotting through punk to protest graphics. This presentation includes original collage work, drawings and paintings, bromides, proof prints and photographs. Elements of the archive are present in extremely important international collections, including that of Tate, acknowledging Reid's importance in the narrative of 20th and 21st century culture.
The 365 small gouache paintings (each a uniform 100 x147mm) that compromise the core of Reid'sEightfold Year project represent an exposure of an intensely private endeavour. Reid's daily painting practice has flourished in the last ten years. October 31st 2011 will also be the first day of the second year cycle for an online project which offers a daily painting, festival dates, moon phases and wild flower information that changes daily, through the cycle of solstice and equinox.
Jamie Reid's unique vision articulates and gives form to some of the key issues of our times. He responds to the ever-increasing attacks on our civil liberties and shared common spaces with passionate anger and savage humour, and shows us ways in which we might re-organise our political and spiritual resources. This is the role of the shaman and Reid's art acts like a lightning rod, returning us to the earth so that we might share the work of healing.
Open 12pm - 7pm Wednesday to Sunday.
Please contact us at Isis Gallery for images and interview proposals
contact@isisgallery.org
or call John Marchant on 44 7906 275 098.
Isis Gallery would like to thank Illuminate Productions, Merge Festival and its sponsors - Tate Modern, Better Bankside, The Denis Rosen Memorial Trust, Land Securities, Bankside Mix, Commercial Art and the London School of Economics.
The Bear Pit
Opening Thursday 13th October - South Bank, London
The BEAR PIT is special presentation of contemporary art organised by a loose collective of three contemporary ventures – CARTER presents, L-13 and Isis Gallery. Around twenty international artists will be represented in a two-floor installation that encompasses sculpture, painting, photography and installation.
The BEAR PIT will run concurrently with Frieze and will present an alternative platform for work that would otherwise be unrepresented.
The artists include Martin Erik Andersen (DK), Alice O’Malley (USA), Dallas Seitz (CAN), Brian Reed (UK), Billy Childish (CH) and Neal Jones (UK).
The BEAR PIT is located behind Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Tate Modern on Bankside
Website www.thebearpit.org
This summer the Hayward Gallery presents Tracey Emin: Love is What You Want, a major survey of one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary artists. Covering every period of her career, the exhibition features painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, textiles, video and sculpture. Seldom-seen early works and recent large-scale installations are shown together with new outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward Gallery.
Since she first emerged in the early 1990s, Emin (b.1963) has made art that takes as its starting point the most harrowing and intimate details of her personal history. Sometimes confrontational or sexually provocative, her art resonates with the 'personal political' legacy of feminist art while at the same time speaking to relationships in general, as well as exploring spirituality, cultural identity, class and celebrity. Disarmingly frank and often deeply confessional, much of Emin's art - as this show makes clear - is also animated by her playful and ironic wit.