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Jonathan Viner Gallery / Fortescue Avenue Jonathan Viners Furniture Show - an exhibition of artists furnitures and lighting Donald Judd 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 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 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. SEA OAK is the name of an industrial housing estate in a short story by George Saunders, a settlement where there are neither 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 MY BRAIN'S A CLIFF AND MY HEART'S A BITTER BUFFALO featuring JAMES BROUGHTON 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 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
JONATHAN VINER / Fortescue Avenue MICK PETER Private view: Friday 26th January 2007, 6.30-9pm
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 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 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
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- group show curated by Man In The Holocene
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FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents GALERIE NOMADENOASE 8th April - May 27th
FORTESCUE AVENUE / Jonathan Viner presents Meet Me At The Corner
- Group show 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 |
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