Wednesday, 20 May 2015
New works on paper
Info here..
Fumbally Exchange Dame lane, Dublin, May 28th-June 8th. Private View May 28th, 5.30-8pm
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Friday, 13 September 2013
Friday, 6 September 2013
V1 GALLERY PROUDLY PRESENTS
TOOT TOOT TOOTSIE GOODBYE
A group exhibition with:
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Stephen Dunne, Neal Fox, Susan Hiller, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Dennis Rudolph
Curated by Francesca Gavin
OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13. 2013. TIME: 17.00 - 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: SEPTEMBER 14 – OCTOBER 19. 2013.
In 1945, the Nazis would broadcast German propaganda speeches on loudspeakers to the Allied enemies. Then a US soldier deactivating landmines, writer, director and actor Mel Brooks would respond by setting up speakers and singing Jewish musical theatre performer Al Jolsonʼs song ʻToot Toot Tootsie Goodbyeʼ on repeat to the Germans.
Mel Brooks has spent much of his career parodying Hitler and German national socialists. Yet his desire was not to lessen the horrors of war and genocide. As he stated in a 2006 interview with Der Spiegel, his aim was to bring Hitler and Nazis down with ridicule and laughter. “You can laugh at Hitler because you can cut him down to normal size... Of course it is impossible to take revenge for 6 million murdered Jews. But by using the medium of comedy, we can try to rob Hitler of his posthumous power and myths.”
Although much of the work in this exhibition is responding to the legacy of World War II and Nazis, the aim is to create an exhibition that highlights the increasing perils of the far right in contemporary Europe. The objective is to create a discussion that highlights the worrying current rise of parties who are exploiting a moment of economic crises for political aims – such as the Golden Dawn in Greece, Svoboda in the Ukraine, the Jobbik party in Hungary.
The point of the exhibition is not to soften or lessen the impact of the Nazis and the far right extremist rhetoric and violence. The intention in putting together this exhibition was to emphasise the importance of a continued awareness of the impact and horrors of the far right.
The lessons and experience of mid-20th century Europe are all too easily forgotten. By placing together work that veers from the satirical to the deeply disturbing, the aim is to create a real effect in the viewer. Hitting them with horror and the unacceptable at moments when humour has lowered their barriers.
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Francesca Gavin is a curator and writer based in London. She is the author of 4 books including ʻ100 New Artistsʼ and ʻNew Gothic Artʼ, is the Visual Arts Editor of ʻDazed & Confusedʼ magazine and the curator of the Soho House Collection. Francesca Gavin has curated shows internationally that include The Dark Cube at the Palais de Tokyo 2012, and The New Psychedelica at MU Eindhoeven 2011.
We look forward to seeing you. V1 Gallery
TOOT TOOT TOOTSIE GOODBYE
A group exhibition with:
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Stephen Dunne, Neal Fox, Susan Hiller, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Dennis Rudolph
Curated by Francesca Gavin
OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13. 2013. TIME: 17.00 - 22.00
EXHIBITION PERIOD: SEPTEMBER 14 – OCTOBER 19. 2013.
In 1945, the Nazis would broadcast German propaganda speeches on loudspeakers to the Allied enemies. Then a US soldier deactivating landmines, writer, director and actor Mel Brooks would respond by setting up speakers and singing Jewish musical theatre performer Al Jolsonʼs song ʻToot Toot Tootsie Goodbyeʼ on repeat to the Germans.
Mel Brooks has spent much of his career parodying Hitler and German national socialists. Yet his desire was not to lessen the horrors of war and genocide. As he stated in a 2006 interview with Der Spiegel, his aim was to bring Hitler and Nazis down with ridicule and laughter. “You can laugh at Hitler because you can cut him down to normal size... Of course it is impossible to take revenge for 6 million murdered Jews. But by using the medium of comedy, we can try to rob Hitler of his posthumous power and myths.”
Although much of the work in this exhibition is responding to the legacy of World War II and Nazis, the aim is to create an exhibition that highlights the increasing perils of the far right in contemporary Europe. The objective is to create a discussion that highlights the worrying current rise of parties who are exploiting a moment of economic crises for political aims – such as the Golden Dawn in Greece, Svoboda in the Ukraine, the Jobbik party in Hungary.
The point of the exhibition is not to soften or lessen the impact of the Nazis and the far right extremist rhetoric and violence. The intention in putting together this exhibition was to emphasise the importance of a continued awareness of the impact and horrors of the far right.
The lessons and experience of mid-20th century Europe are all too easily forgotten. By placing together work that veers from the satirical to the deeply disturbing, the aim is to create a real effect in the viewer. Hitting them with horror and the unacceptable at moments when humour has lowered their barriers.
_
Francesca Gavin is a curator and writer based in London. She is the author of 4 books including ʻ100 New Artistsʼ and ʻNew Gothic Artʼ, is the Visual Arts Editor of ʻDazed & Confusedʼ magazine and the curator of the Soho House Collection. Francesca Gavin has curated shows internationally that include The Dark Cube at the Palais de Tokyo 2012, and The New Psychedelica at MU Eindhoeven 2011.
We look forward to seeing you. V1 Gallery
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Sophisticated Boom Boom review.....
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Monday, 8 February 2010
Schizo Epiphanies
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
Rise Berlin group show 2009, follow the title link for a German t.v feature on the show....
Thursday, 3 December 2009
GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy
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 !
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....
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