Jonathan Viner Gallery / Fortescue Avenue

Jonathan Viners Furniture Show

- an exhibition of artists  furnitures and lighting

Donald Judd
Christian Mergert
Jorge Pardo
Giles Round
Josh Smith
Oscar Tuazon
Nicole Wermers
Franz West
Rachel Whiteread
Sophie von Hellermann

PV FRIDAY 15th May 2009

6 - 8.30 PM

SHOW DATES 16th May - 28 th June 2009

HOURS FRI - SUN 12 -6 PM 

 by APPOINTMENT ONLY from 7th June through 28th june


Jonathan Viner Gallery / Fortescue Avenue

OSCAR TUAZON

DIRTY WORK

Oscar Tuazon presents a speciailly configured installation and series of new
sculptural works for this his first UK solo show.

Private View: Friday10th October 2008

Show Dates: 11th October - through 30th November 2008

Hours: Fri - Sun 12 -6 pm & by appointment

Special additional hours for Frieze 2008 call 07968548764



Jonathan Viner Gallery / Fortescue Avenue

is pleased to present two new 16mm film installations by artist Emily Wardill

Sea Oak / The Diamond (Descartes’ Daughter)

Private View - Friday 12th September 6pm

Show Dates 13th Sept – 5th October 2008

Open Fri – Sun 12 – 6 & by appointment

SEA OAK (51 min) was developed from a series of interviews conducted with the left-orientated Think Tank 'The Rockridge Institute' in Berkeley, California. From 2001 until its closure in April 2008, this Institute researched contemporary political rhetorics with special emphasis on the employment of metaphor and framing.
The strict absence of images throughout the film is introduced by institute member Eric Haas . He describes how, in every person, the term “bird” suggests a similar imagined being .This prototypical bird exists only in common thought  (…”we don’t think of an ostrich or a penguin…”) and provides the idea of an image to begin a film consisting of black leader and sound.

SEA OAK is the name of an industrial housing estate in a short story by George Saunders, a settlement where there are neither
oaks nor any view of the sea , just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx.

The themes within SEA OAK  range from The use of symbolism in politics to the methods by which emotional values and religious paradigms have been woven into Republican discourse. Concepts of commonality are looked at through Common Ground, Common Wealth with the history of Right Wing Think Tanks in America and their impact in structuring ‘Common Sense’, finally ending on the co-option of Progressive ideas by Conservatives within language and through metaphor – why this has been necessary and how it is hopeful.

 

The film SEA OAK puts trust in rationality, enlightened thinking and the frames of reference in which facts are made to appear transparent up for discussion. 

In the sole spotlight of the space, only the apparatus can be seen, the film projector, staged like a sculpture

“This is a stand-in for Francine, Descartes’ daughter, who never washed up on the shores of Sweden. (…)” with this sentence, a mechanical sounding Swedish accent begins the film The Diamond (Descartes’ Daughter) (2008, 15min). Taking the mythical story of the death of Descartes' Daughter as a starting point to search for her again without the anchor of Rational thought, The Diamond (Descartes’ Daughter)  is a disembodied wandering through scenes from a film where a diamond is protected by lasers , to images of a girl playing on a Nintendo Wii in a homemade version of the costume that Eitienne Jules Marey would dress his subjects in when conducting Chromophotography, through logic experiments, Ready Maids and words shattered like a crystal refacting light – the dispassionate reeling off of the text breaking up: sentence fragments are repeated, amended, the voice skipping as though trying to jump a programming error.

Emily Wardill was born in 1977 and lives and works in London. Recent Solo Exhibitions include 'Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck' at the ICA (London) , a show at STANDARD (OSLO) and 'Basking in what feels like 'An Ocean of Grace' i soon realise that i am not looking at it but rather I AM it, recognising myself' at Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner . She is the first Laureate of the Follow Fluxus Award and will be showing at the NKV Weisbaden from September 2008 - May 2009 as well as working towards Solo Shows at De Appel and Spacex in 2009. Wardill is the co-organizer of the yearly event Itchy Park at Limehouse Town Hall and a Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art.


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue
is pleased to host:

MY BRAIN'S A CLIFF AND MY HEART'S A BITTER BUFFALO

featuring

JAMES BROUGHTON
CYPRIEN GAILLARD
AMY GRANAT AND EMILY SUNDBLAD
STEVE MYKIETYN
CEDAR SIGO
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
WESLEY WILLIS

a show previously concieved for CASTILLO / CORRALES - PARIS

PRIVATE VIEW : FRIDAY 13 th JUNE 6.30 - 8.30

14th - 29 th JUNE 2008

Fri - Sun 12 - 6 and by appointment


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue

TAMUNA SIRBILADZE - PAINTINGS and ELEMENTS

OPENING 4th APRIL 6.30 Onwards

5th April - 16th May

Fri - Sun 12 -6 & By appointment


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue

AGATHE SNOW - ATTITUDINAUSAURUS REX

Dates 1st February - 16 th March 2008

open Fri - Sun 12 -6 & By appointment

Reception FRIDAY 1st FEBRUARY 6.30 onwards


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue

JOSH SMITH - FORTESCUE AVENUE

OPENING SATURDAY 6th OCTOBER 2007

From 6.30 PM
7th October - 18th November 2007

Open throughout the week of FRIEZE ART FAIR


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue

DER FICKER

Group show including: Thea Djordjadze, Sophie von Hellermann, Mick Peter, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Josh Smith, Emily Wardill and Franz West.

Private view: Friday 23rd March 2007, 18:30 ­– 21:00
Open Friday – Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00, & by appointment
Remaining open until Sunday 29th April 2007


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue

MICK PETER
Yussupov Park

Private view: Friday 26th January 2007, 6.30-9pm
Open Friday-Sunday, 12-6pm, and by appointment
Remaining open until Sunday 4th March 2007

For this solo show Mick Peter presents a body of work derived from his interest in monumental sculpture and emblems of stupidity. The objects in the show propose pairs of personalities as scratchy paradoxes in lumpen matter. Comprised of drawings and sculpture the work adopts the demented impulse driving the fabrication of urban amenities and public sculpture that leads people to choose to congregate amongst dirt, bad smells and every kind of abomination.

Mick Peter is a Glasgow-based artist, born in 1974, who gained his MA from Glasgow School of Art in 2000, and his BA (Hons) from the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford, in 1997. Amongst others recent projects include ‘Like It Matters’, a group show at the CCA, Glasgow (2005), and a solo show at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2006). Peter was featured in New Contemporaries in 2000, and is a contributing writer to Frieze and Untitled magazines. A publication made with Transmission with an essay by Dan Fox is forthcoming.


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue

EMILY WARDILL
Basking in what feels like 'an ocean of grace', I soon realise that I'm not looking at it, but rather that I AM it, recognising myself 

Private view: Friday 3rd November 2006, 18:30 – 21:00 Open Friday – Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00, & by appointment Remaining open until Sunday 26th November 2006


JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue

MINATOUR BLOOD
curated by Gyonata Bonvincini

FIA BACKSTROM, COSEY FANNI TUTTI, MATTHEW DARBYSHIRE, LUCILE DESAMORY, MARTE EKNAES, ELLEN GRONEMEYER, HANNA LIDEN, NATHANIEL MELLORS, JOSEF STRAU, OSCAR TUAZON

PRIVATE VIEW 16th SEPTEMBER 2006 
6.30 Onwards SHOW RUNS 17th SEPT - 28th  OCT FRI - SUN 12 -6 32 

Fortescue Avenue London E8 3QB England


FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents

HK 119 VIDEOS


PRIVATE VIEW: FRIDAY 31st MARCH 6.30 - 9.00

Show Dates: 31st MARCH - 30th APRIL 2006

FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents

An Exhibition of FILM and VIDEO

STERLING RUBY & KIRSTEN STOLTMANN
- Behind The Pedastal

EMILY WARDILL - Born Winged Animals And Honey Gatherers Of The Soul

with support from the ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

PRIVATE VIEW: FRIDAY 27th JANUARY 6.30 - 9.00

Show Dates: 27th JANUARY - 26th FEBRUARY 2006


FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents


FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents

JOSH SMITH
- solo show by American painter

plus

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - group show curated by Man In The Holocene
featuring Annika Eriksson, Jeremy Deller, Sean Landers, The Wrong
Gallery & others

Private View - Thursday -22nd SEPTEMBER 2005
6.30 onwards

Show Run 23rd sept - 30th October 2005

Check website for special Frieze Art Fair week events


FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents

OPEN GARDEN

Group show of outdoor sculpture featuring Charles Avery, Matthew Darbyshire, Thea Djordjadze, Christian Frosi, Graham Hudson, Mick Peter, Giles Round

PRIVATE VIEW : Friday 15th July




Six Sites for Sound


1 July - 31 July

Fri - Sun 12 - 6 pm


FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents

GALERIE NOMADENOASE

8th April - May 27th


FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents

Meet Me At The Corner - Group show

featuring Markus Amm,Wade Guyton,Michaela Meise & Giles Round

15th April - Sunday 29th May

Hours Fri - Sun 12-6pm & by appt.


FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents

The Reader's Wife - an exhibition by EMILY WARDILL

18th February - 24th March 2005