Schizo Epiphanies

Sophisticated Boom Boom review.....

2010-05-11T11:45:00.004+01:00

REBECCA GELDARD'S TOP 10 LONDON SHOWS IN MAY AND JUNE 2010

Sophisticated Boom Boom (in b&w)

Domobaal

Until 15/5

This group exhibition, as Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's filmic dissolution of place, context and matter in the stairwell suggests, is as inkily elusive in concept as in form. In the most simple sense, perhaps, it describes a sensory breach of expectation. Grey, the mid-ground or the norm, becomes a transmutable substance pulled between the polar ends of the tonal spectrum; tuned in and out of pictorial focus by the presence of colour (the key placement in the upstairs galleries of Lizi Sanchez's Koonsian evocation of sculpture, a box-frame done up like a dog's dinner on a plinth and Lothar Götz's ode to abstract-painterly and retro-domestic spaces on canvas). The “boom, boom” of the fabulous Shangri-Las song at its core varies in potency, work-to-work: from the thud of an assumption hitting the decks (when you realise that the toolbox debris in the stationary compartments of a desk draw have been hand-carved by Mhairi Vari out of granite) to the distant foghorn call of a memory just before it arrives in the mind (such as Jeffrey T Y Lee's white-wax and black-ink deptictions of Borneo and Sharon Kivland's re-framed images of locomotive smoke), and the shoeshuffle into the surreal (as Stephen Dunne's watercolour man in mono prepares to hammer-whack the space where his head should be).

In Case We Don't Die - Berlin, May 29th-June 11th

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AN EXHIBITION WITH:

Stephen Dunne // Andreas Emenius // Bibi Katholm // Shane Bradford // Ida Kvetny // Jacob Kirkegaard // Ralph Dorey // Iben Toft Nørgård // Alex Hudson // John Strutton // Wonderland

CURATED BY: Bibi Katholm

LOCATION: Chausseestraße 105, 10115 Berlin Mitte.

GRAND OPENING: Saturday 29th May from 17.00 - 22.00

OPENING HOURS: Monday - Saturday 11.00 - 17.00 or by appointment.

29th May - 12th June 2010

Snippet

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For the opening of the new studio in London’s Rivington Street, Veja have invited artists Salvatore Fiorello, Stephen Dunne and Jamie Partridge to baptize its new walls with a preview of their up-coming Snippet exhibition.

To mark the event, a party will be held on May 20th with cocktails provided by Finlandia Vodka.

Come by for a Thursday evening drink and check out the preview and the new Veja studio.

Thursday, 20th May 2010 from 6.00 pm
Veja – 9 Chapel Place, Rivington Street
London EC2A 3DQ

We look forward to seeing you there

www.veja.fr

Sophisticated Boom Boom@Domobaal London

2010-05-11T10:58:00.002+01:00

Domo Baal is delighted to present 'Sophisticated Boom Boom (in b&w)' an exhibition by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Peter Linde Busk, Stephen Dunne, Lothar Götz, Heide Hinrichs, Steve Johnson, Sharon Kivland, Ansel Krut, Jeffrey TY Lee, Siân Pile, Felicity Powell, Mark Prince, Lizi Sanchez, Shaan Syed and Mhairi Vari.

"Stephen Dunne doesn't believe in black magic or voodoo dolls, he can't cast spells, and he certainly can't break them. But I'm not going to start explaining the twist in my gut or the tickle I've had in my throat for the past few weeks. And I don't want to talk about the little locks trimmed from my hair while I sleep. I just don't want to talk about it."

http://www.domobaal.com/index.html

Happiness Machines

2010-05-11T10:40:00.003+01:00

The group exhibition 'Happiness Machines' takes its name from an episode of the BBC TV series 'The Century of the Self' made by Adam Curtis; 'this series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy'. Curtis plots the lesser-known story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Europe and the United States that links individual freedom with consumerism. It tells how the all-consuming self was created, by whom and in whose interests.

Happiness Machines profiles Sigmund Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays whose legacies and ideas still shape the way we live our lives today. Bernays utilized his uncle’s theories to manipulate the general public. Freud claimed to have discovered instinctive yet dangerous primitive sexual and aggressive forces hidden inside the minds of all human beings. Bernays believed that the masses could be controlled and satiated with consumer products and an aspiration lifestyle.

HAPPINESS MACHINES

a group exhibition

opening: Friday, 26th March 2010 from 19.00 - 22.00h at RISE Berlin

featuring work by:

Alexander Heaton, Christina Mitrentse, Christophe Chemin, Eileen Cooper, Eddie Nuttall, Guillaume Airiaud & Philippe Comtesse, Hector De Gregorio, João Leonardo, Jonas Ranson, Jan Kiefer, Jon John, Jenus Kahmke, Laurel Johannesson, Lee Wagstaff, Liz Neal, Master Patrick, Matthew Brindle, Richard Sawdon Smith, Stephen Dunne, Tomi Paasonen, Vanda Playford, Xavier Stentz

opening times: Friday to Sunday 13.00 - 19.00 or by appointment

exhibition runs until 25th April 2010

Schizo Epiphanies

2010-02-08T18:33:00.012Z

Some images and the press release from my solo show at Rise last May...

According to the writer Kurt Vonnegut an epiphany or moment of true realisation occurs not when we apprehend God (reality, society, capitalism...) but during those very rare moments when it lets go of it's almost permanent grip.

This new series of paintings and works on paper by the Irish artist Stephen Dunne explore ink blots, stains and random marks which are used to generate a universe of delirious narrativity.

Through these ruptures in the blank canvas a generative space emerges where the artist can manifest strange gods and monsters, manifestations from the collective unconscious, crystallised enunciations and progressive mutant subjectivities .

A world of phantasms occupying and transmitting from the state of dream, the strangeness of being, of dissolved time and energy trapped in paint. These works attempt to locate those precious moments of anti-epiphany, in all your favourite colours.....

Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination

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Rise Berlin group show 2009, follow the title link for a German t.v feature on the show....

GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy

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Mark Titchner will be 'in residence', with daily dispatches, music and hanging around. Channelling systems of belief, governance, and radical possibility into cosmic billboards and relics at once empowering and dystopian, the words and images of social and political movements, from union worker slogans to song lyrics, fuse to form new and alternate ideologies. His week-long residency culminates in an acid test night featuring the band Evel Gazebo who will pay tribute to Hawkwind's seminal live album Space Ritual.
As part of his residency, Mark Titchner presents a selection of artists’ video works with:
James Balmforth The Consumptive Sublime, 2008
Annabelle Craven Jones From a question on leaving, 2007
Stephen Dunne Schizo Epiphanies, 2009
Nicole Miller The Conductor, 2008
Jos Richardson/Tom Lovell Voice/Off, 2008
Mark Titchner Ivy met Mike, 2007

A few images from my film Schizo Epiphanies....15 mins of schizo mayhem, dvd endlessly looped, 2009.

Back once again !

2009-12-03T21:05:00.017Z

Obviously I've been terrible at updating this, gonna try to keep it a little more up to date from now on. Anyway here's a few things I've been up to....

After Dark

2008-04-17T12:33:00.009+01:00

next show "After Dark" a group show at Eleven Fine Art, featuring Cecilia Bonilla, Tobias Collier, Stephen Dunne, Jorge de la Garza, Rachel Goodyear and Franck Rezzak opens May 28th-21 June, private view wed 28th all welcome....

watercolours don't have to be frumpy !

2008-03-25T14:27:00.003Z

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/03/watercolours.html

Pilot Japan, Der Zauberlehrling ist tot !

2008-03-18T16:47:00.023Z

Happy St. Patricks Day !

Der Zauberlehrling has now finished,

a huge thank you to everybody who came out to Berlin.

Next up "Pilot" the travelling archive I'm part of is off to Japan,

They will be shown at two venues, one in Yokohama at ZAIM [20th - 30th March 2008], and another in Tokyo at the 101 Art Fair [April 03-06, 2008].

Der Zauberlehrling !

2008-02-28T23:07:00.003Z

Der Zauberlehrling

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"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" my first solo show in Berlin opens at Rise Berlin on Saturday 23rd Feb, strange voodoo in all your favourite colours....... all welcome !

Opening: Saturday, 23rd February 2008, 18.00 - 22.00 Exhibition runs until 17th March 2008 Opening times: Thursday to Sunday 13.00 - 19.00 or by appointment

Black Magick Man:

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Dazed and Confused magazine, March !

Art4 @ Channel 4

2008-02-06T20:04:00.000Z

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/bigart/artcollection/artists_dunne.html

The Channel 4 show went up over the weekend, here's a few images of the installation...

Colemanprojects show

2008-02-06T20:00:00.000Z

http://colemanprojects.org.uk/Shows/2007_shows/Dumb_Tings/

The "Dumb Tings" opening last Friday was a great success, a very big thanks to everybody who came along. The wall of drawings in a grid above is the work of John Strutton.

congealing....

2008-01-22T18:18:00.000Z

Art4

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From Monday 4th February my work is being exhibited as part of Art4,

at Channel 4 's Horseferry road building, in London.

Featuring ten new paintings, including 'We are the Dead," above.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/A/art4/

The Sorcerer's Apprentice or Der Zauberlehrling

2008-01-22T17:41:00.000Z

If your in Berlin on the 23rd February come along to my solo show at Rise.

New Paintings, loosely inspired by the chaotic world of Disney's Fantasia..... releasing strange voodoo in all your favourite colours.....

http://www.riseberlin.com/exhibitions.php

Dumb Tings

2008-01-22T17:10:00.000Z

"DUMB TINGS"

New works by Stephen Dunne & John Strutton

Both Dunne’s and Strutton’s work shares a preoccupation with ritualistic process, debased iconographies and compulsive aesthetics. Sometimes brutal often absurd their approach to figuration is fractured, automatic and schizophrenic. Through a serial production of work both artists attempt a form of cultural reclamation through visual indulgence.

“A collection of Austin’s Spare parts, with an introduction to malignant relatives, piss pot pilgrims and backward looking, inside down, somnambulant truck drivers, driven to dribbling over hermetic trousers and incontinent poetry, they wouldn’t know a dumb ting if it sat up and ate ‘em (starving fools that they are).”

www.colemanprojects.org.uk , Bermondsey.Private view Friday 1st 6-9pm.

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2007-12-14T17:02:00.000Z

Last night was the opening of "Nativity"at 39,
15 artists were asked to make an a4 version of the Nativity,
I was one of them ......
http://www.getofftheweb.org/thirtynine/39/index.html

2007-12-12T23:47:00.000Z