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Star City
Nottingham Contemporary probes the space race in the imagination of communist Europe. By Owen Hatherley
Let’s do the time-future-past-warp, again. Nostalgia for a time yet to come, the ruins of the future, the unexpected boredom of the 21st century – these ideas have been simmering for some time now, bubbling to the surface in books and mega-exhibitions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Cold War Modern show at the end of 2008. At best, it’s a way of making the past unfamiliar and casting the present in an unforgiving light, at worst a pseudo-political spin on museum culture, but regardless, this is an idea whose non-time has come. Star City is an excellent show, but contains within it this genre’s retro limitations as well as its possibilities.
It arranges into (implicit) opposition a series of objects, installations and sculptures by mostly East European artists. The vintage posters and memorabilia remind us just how much “big tech” and the promise of space travel was part of the culture of the Eastern Bloc in its late 1950s/early 1960s pomp, before the region became a byword for backwardness. As this is a dead world, it’s experienced through the holes and hopes of memory.
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Larry Bell
Larry Bell is one of the most renowned and influential artists to emerge from the Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s, alongside contemporaries Ed Ruscha and Robert Irwin, and had garnered international repute by the age of 30. Known foremost for his refined surface treatment of glass and explorations of light, reflection and shadow through the material, Bell’s significant oeuvre extends from painting and works on paper to glass sculptures and furniture design.Bell’s understanding of the potential of glass and light allows him to expand visual and physical fields of perception, and his sculptures to surpass traditional bounds of the medium. He has said: ‘Although we tend to think of glass as a window, it is a solid liquid that has at once three distinctive qualities: it reflects light, it absorbs light, and it transmits light all at the same time.’
Bell’s use of commercial industrial processes in his studio, located in Venice, California since the 1960s and Taos, New Mexico since the 1970s, demonstrates his unparalleled skill and dedication in each step of his sculptures’ fabrication. Since 1969, his studio has managed its own high-vacuum coating system that allows him to deposit thin metal films onto his glass surfaces, harnessing a little known technique develope
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2015: The Gathering of Acorns, Arches, Shells, McQueen, Pavilions, & More
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January: Alison Crowther’s Big Table installed close Kew Bridge
Big Table testing a stout hand incised sculpture moisten artist Alison Crowther. It was commissioned invitation Futurecity, request behalf funding St Book, for depiction residents be paid Kew Tie West.
February: Inferno: McQueen refer to the Heading at Foyles
An intimate natural portrait in this area McQueen’s creative show ‘Dante’, Autumn/Winter 1996/97 announced financial assistance the Verandah at Foyles
March: 30 Fowl and Get around Works Elect for MRC Laboratory sharing Molecular Accumulation Artist-In-Residence
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April: Salaam Arts say you will open 90 affordable artists studios spitting image Wapping
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