Thursday
Books In Limbo...
Tank just collected first load of books today for Books in Limbo installation opening on the 1st of June. Very Exciting!
There is something so comforting about being amongst all those books. Its not surprising that they are a never ending source of inspiration for artists.
Their very fabric along with the content is an intoxicating combination open to exponential creative possibilities. Which is probably why this exhibition will have so many facets ...readings, discussions, performances, interactions, recordings, ....and more.
I was meant to keep focused on loading and unloading but kept getting distracted by cool book covers and interesting subjects.
The Use and Abuse of Statistics caught my eye. Something I have always been interested in....I used to go to the library (in the days before the internet) and pour of the Annual National Statistic Reports, comparing, checking and putting things into perspective.
An original Jane Fonda work out, The Geographia A1 atlas of London with no date that I can see yet..probably from the 40's or 50's, a set of encyclopedias, ancient DIY books, cook books, dictionaries. Some beautifully covered some with their cover torn off. I just have to try not to keep them all!
20 artists, poets & writers have been invited to choose a book to change, adapt, destroy, reinvent, or simply read. Artists including Judy Brown, Claire Stanhope, Stella Duncan Petley & Renata Kudlacek to name a few. The books in their new form will be added to the installation.
These are our building blocks, our source...what we do with it remains to be seen....we will work together to construct and deconstruct within the the space, but also the content. What are these books and what do they mean to us? Piles and piles of information, some highly specialised such as engineering study manuals and some just at the dawn of learning with kids counting books.
I want to swim in them all, bury myself in all that knowledge! I have to admit I couldn't resist rolling around on top of them in the back of the van! Haha!
More details about the exhibition and all the events to follow!
Books in Limbo, 28th May-19th July 2010
PV Tuesday 1st June 2010 6-9pm -DJ set by guest artist from 9pm.
text and photos by Aoife van Linden Tol
Tank just collected first load of books today for Books in Limbo installation opening on the 1st of June. Very Exciting!
There is something so comforting about being amongst all those books. Its not surprising that they are a never ending source of inspiration for artists.
Their very fabric along with the content is an intoxicating combination open to exponential creative possibilities. Which is probably why this exhibition will have so many facets ...readings, discussions, performances, interactions, recordings, ....and more.
I was meant to keep focused on loading and unloading but kept getting distracted by cool book covers and interesting subjects.The Use and Abuse of Statistics caught my eye. Something I have always been interested in....I used to go to the library (in the days before the internet) and pour of the Annual National Statistic Reports, comparing, checking and putting things into perspective.
An original Jane Fonda work out, The Geographia A1 atlas of London with no date that I can see yet..probably from the 40's or 50's, a set of encyclopedias, ancient DIY books, cook books, dictionaries. Some beautifully covered some with their cover torn off. I just have to try not to keep them all!
20 artists, poets & writers have been invited to choose a book to change, adapt, destroy, reinvent, or simply read. Artists including Judy Brown, Claire Stanhope, Stella Duncan Petley & Renata Kudlacek to name a few. The books in their new form will be added to the installation.
These are our building blocks, our source...what we do with it remains to be seen....we will work together to construct and deconstruct within the the space, but also the content. What are these books and what do they mean to us? Piles and piles of information, some highly specialised such as engineering study manuals and some just at the dawn of learning with kids counting books.I want to swim in them all, bury myself in all that knowledge! I have to admit I couldn't resist rolling around on top of them in the back of the van! Haha!
More details about the exhibition and all the events to follow!
Books in Limbo, 28th May-19th July 2010
PV Tuesday 1st June 2010 6-9pm -DJ set by guest artist from 9pm.
text and photos by Aoife van Linden Tol
Tuesday
TANK: On the Road
The TANK girls also had their first official excursion last weekend; a kind of Thelma and Louise meets 24 Hour Party People. We took off on our weekend roadtrip in a battered red Mercedes Vito arriving in the middle of the night at the village of Aldermaston, just outside Reading. The party was held in a huge tent on the forest-like grounds of an out-of-the-way private estate. Great djs and a contagious funky vibe meant we pitched up our tents and, after some costume changes, partied like it was '99 all over again. Hopefully, we'll report back to you from more of these 'field-trips'!
Ma
Art in the Trenches?
By Ma Rainey: triangle player and daydreamer extraordinaire.
The new threads exhibition has gotten off to a roaring start, if the opening night was anything to go by. We had spoken word from Jason Shelley's The Romance; several accomplished performance poets; we had a live Dr. Seuss reading by the Cat in the Hat (my very favourite performance of the night!); and my own contribution blowing bubbles for the children in the audience, who promptly arranged a coup of sorts and took over. There was definitely a very relaxed, welcoming atmosphere at the gallery even as 'hoi polloi' rubbed shoulders with the great and good of the artworld, which promoted some controversial whispers. "I can't believe this is Ladywell," a merry guest or two thought aloud, "this feels like the East End." And in a sense, perhaps even a very large one, they were right.
There are a plethora of art galleries and spaces in East London full of Bright Young Things, with an active and involved audience for the work that they produce. It would be absurd to claim that South-East London is devoid of such talent (artists do not grow only in the concrete jungles of Shoreditch), nor, I feel justified in writing, would anybody stand behind such a claim. But it appears that we are felt to be on the fringes. Migration for those who are serious about being taken seriously is standard practice. The downside, however, to being closer to the bright lights of the big city is often that 'art-makers' become disposable fodder for a great Machine; discovery and success resting more on who you know and the luck of the draw, as opposed to the art piece speaking for itself.
I think it is this point that our guests were intrigued by. Art south of the Thames is as brash and challenging and, well, inspired as anything in the East. It only comes without the ribbons and bows of pretension; the South-East manages to successfully combine style and substance in equal measure, where Shoreditch, Hoxton and other trendy hubs of creative activity often become overly enamoured of the former, to the detriment of the latter. At the threads opening, everyone crowded into the downstairs space to watch, hear and be moved - lions sat down with lambs and shared discourses on postautonomy and the many faces of Vincent van Scoff... TANK Gallery and places like it are the life-blood of underground scenes, offering valuable exposure to artists who can't or won't take their art out of context. Art is an inevitable by-product of living; and those who live hardest feel most.
Monday
Ladywell Tavern wins Best Pub In Lewisham Award!
The Ladywell Tavern, to which we belong has won the Best Pub in Lewisham Award. This is a reflection of all the work put into both the pub and the gallery as well as the contribution it has been making to the Lewisham, and especially the Ladywell, community.
Its a lovely cozy pub with an open fire and a piano. The food is also really good so you should combine a visit tothe gallery with Sunday lunch or nice dinner one evening.
Check out the pub website: http://www.ladywelltavern.co.uk/
Well done team!
xx
Aoife
Sunday
FROM MUD TO MORTAR
ZIGGY GRUDZINSKAS
ALEX WELENSKY
EXHIBITION: 12th March
PRIVATE VIEW: THURSDAY 11.03.2010
DJ SET BY
From Mud To Mortar presents four photographers attempting to capture individual viewpoints of the
Taken with a 1950's camera, Ziggy Grudzinskas' stunningly soft and ghostly landscapes are technical experiments, exploring the uses and the place of the more traditional manual camera in the context of modern digital photography. The photographs were created using a multiple exposure technique, as well as being scanned and composed later, which adds a depth and a history of sorts to rival the more 'polished' results gained from current digital techniques.
Adrian Hays' highly manipulated works have an almost CGI quality. These 'video game versions' of
Alex Welensky's deliciously gritty images are somehow simultaneously very pure and very simple. Focusing on the texture of the landscape around the
It is not surprising to find that as a photographer whose practice has its roots in reportage, Sheridan Flynn's photographs are the only ones with human bodies amongst the bricks.
Despite, or maybe because of this, there is a distinct lack of personal engagement in most of the images. No eye contact and often no faces at all. He negotiates these bodies as though they were pieces of street furniture, just more obstacles to walk around, and leaves the questions they silently pose unanswered. At times blending with the architecture, they are subtly lost in the advertising of the shops surrounding them.
What is so arresting about these collections of works is that they are hardly inhabited at all.
Image: The Layup by Ziggy Grudzinskas
Saturday
KH JERON - Mode2 KP TALK & PRESENTATION
SUNDAY 31.01.20106:30PM - 8:30PM
8:30PM - 11:30PM: MUSIC AND DRINKS
Tank is excited to introduce a presentation by well respected international artist and curator Karl-Heinz Jeron. His interest in shifting popular social perceptions involves using publicly available data, statistics, mathematics, web based media and cheap materials to create works that challenge the traditional ideas of production, value and ownership of the art world.
Mode2 KP deals with how our society transforms information into knowledge. It is about reflection and perception, about the competition between two languages mediating complexity. One is the language of science. The other one is the language of art which has to understand science but doesn't want to become it. The idea of what good science is or should be, the images of science and scientificity, are difficult to grasp but no less significant for it.
The presentation will be followed by Q&A and discussion session.
Karl-Heinz Jeron lives in Berlin. He studied Philosophy of Science and Logic and is the Lecturer for Multimedia Art at the University of Arts Berlin.
Find out more at www.khjeron.de
Friday
ARTIST TALK: SALLY KINDBERG
Artists Talk by Sally Kindberg
Sunday 22nd Nov 2009
3pm
Sally Kindberg will talk about her work and her art practice. She will focus on the body of work shown in The Great Exhibition, most of the work was made especially for this show, inclusing the video piece Mood Swings - The Journey. Sally Kindberg may lead a special demonstration of the amazing meditative and relaxing qualities of this film. Following the talk there will bean informal discussion where the artist will answer questions from the audience.
After selling out on the opening night we now have more DVD's of Mood Swings- The Journy in stock and there will be signed copys available to buy on the day priced £5.
Tank Gallery
the Ladywell Tavern
80 Ladywell Rd
SE 13 7HS
tankgallery@gmail.com
SALLY KINDBERG
Sally Kindberg
The Great Exhibition
5th - 28th November 2009
PV 4th November 6:30 - 9:30pm
The Great Exhibition is a title that suggests some overwrought and overarching conceptual theme - perhaps a deconstruction of exhibition strategies or of reflections in the hall of mirrors of commodity fetishism - rendered in the cool tones of that conceptual minimalism that has become the tasteful aesthetic of contemporary art. You might think so but you would be wrong.
Sally Kindberg just doesn't do tasteful minimalism and the title is a red herring. She gave us painterly Y fronts in a gilt frame as her The Masterpiece for the 2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painting Prize, and in the 18 months since then has been producing new paintings that are always cockily fence-sitting between the sublime and the ridiculous.
This exhibition previews a selection of these new works and from the ghoulish bouffant and bow of The Horrible Kid to blanched grin of The Maniac there emerges a fuzzy logic where doubt and uncertainty have upended any rational science of vision. What emerges in its place is a kind of blurred clarity that celebrates the surreal disjunctions of everyday life.
The Great Exhibition also includes a new video work called Mood Swings, the journey which muzaks around with the flickering flame of Luv, and a persistent sculpture called The Thing of which the less said the better.
In a sense the only thing that really links The Great Exhibition to its namesake is that it also came to the
Text by Jeremy James Wood
Saturday
EARLY LIES
Chris Getliffe
Early lies
25th June - 18th July 2009
South London based artist Chris Getliffe is most well known for his dark & subversive Illustrations. He adopts a minimalist high impact ‘pop art’ style heavily rooted in urban street art. Getliffe savagely attacks the media portrayal of what it is to be a successful ‘functioning’ human being. He works across multiple mediums with painting, illustration, & comics.
He has painted live on the walls of prestigious London venues such as Cargo & 93 Feet East. His work has been featured by the likes of Time Out, Disorder, Who’s Jack, & Gravity Guide. He has also produced work for Carhartt,We Hart Records, Artful, & Fix amongst many others
You can see his Illustrations & Paintings at www.getliffe.com, & his comic work at www.kitchendistrict.com
Tank Gallery,The Ladywell Tavern, 80 Ladywell Rd, SE13 7HS
Wed-Fri 3pm-7pm, Sat-Sun 1pm-7pm, Free admission
AGAINST THE WALL
Against The Wall (No. I)
5th June-20th June 2009
Live painting – 5th, 6 & 7th June
Private View Thursday 11th June 6-10pm
Against The Wall is a live painting performance, which will feature regularly in the Tank Gallery programme. Artists will be invited to create work directly onto the walls of the gallery space.
For the first of this series we have invited a local South London graffiti group to transform the gallery during the last weekend of the 'Brockley Max festival.' Feel free to come and watch them in action on the 5th 6th and 7th of June where they will be happy to chat and answer questions.
Tank Gallery, The Ladywell Tavern, 80 Ladywell Rd, SE13 7HS
Wed 5th June -Sun 7th June
12-6pm Free admission
A STITCH IN TIME
Aoife van Linden Tol
A Stitch In Time
9th-29th May 2009
Tank Gallery presents the solo exhibition A Stitch In Time by South London based artist Aoife van Linden Tol. Working primarily with explosives, Aoife van Linden Tol detonates small bombs to make imprints on paper, wood and metals. This collection of work uses the force and evidence of the explosions to explore perspectives of time.
Live Performance
The One I Love – Friday 29th May 4pm onwards
Please bring a photo of someone you love. Please bring them as early as possible.
Aoife will explode tiny hearts or tiny kisses onto the surface of the photograph.
Tank Gallery, The Ladywell Tavern, 80 Ladywell Rd, SE13 7HS
Wed-Sun 12-6pm Free admission
THINK TANK
3rd April- 3rd May 2009
Christine Kriegerowski, Sally Kindberg, Aoife van Linden Tol, Nazneen Ayyub-Wood, Ulrike Mohr, JJ Delvine, Tung Walsh, Sheridan Flynn, Fiona Halpin, Alex Welensky
Tank gallery opened its doors for the first time with a dynamic cross-disciplined group show Think Tank. The exhibition offers an introduction to ten artists, some of which will hold solo shows here in the coming year. Think Tank aims to highlight the width and breath of styles and practices we aim to show at Tank Gallery. Featuring established international artists, recent graduates and previously un-shown artists alongside each other, we have presented an exciting taster of what is to come.
Think Tank will continue until the 3rd of May. We will also be hosting a late night opening on 30th of April featuring a talk by Berlin artist Christine Kriegerowski about Welcome to Wonderland, her projected collection of photographs on show.
Late Night Opening @ Tank
Wed 30th April 2009
6-10pm
7:30pm Talk by Christine Kriegerowski
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