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Sparklehorse
2009 (Wood, Paint, Vinyl Tape, Ceramic, Epoxy Resin)

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=217642

This beautiful thing is my sisters wedding present, it is also entered in this months Saatchi Showdown – where:

ARTWORKS GO HEAD-TO-HEAD FOR VISITORS’ VOTES…

So please click on the link vote for this piece of sculpture so my sister can have a prize winning artwork on her wall.

2009 (Wood, Paint, Vinyl Tape, Ceramic, Epoxy Resin)

2008 (Wood, Paint, Vinyl Tape, Ceramic, Epoxy Resin)

I thought that it was a particularly ‘tight’ film in terms of the design and feel, clearly a lot of thought had gone into this and it hadn’t been wasted. Gotham city is brutal. It is the dark side of the Modernist Project, Post Modernism and wherever we are now haven’t got a look in. Can you imagine a curvey building by Frank Gehry or Richard Rogers (actually not very curvey but full of light and weightlessness)? I can’t. Gotham is a city where the concrete and the grid rule, this is not to say that some of the buildings are not beautiful, because many are.

I’ve noticed a few years ago that as the new model cars appeared they were all more hard edged, straight lined and less curvey than their predecessors, particularly the more expensive vehicles – think Landrovers or BMWs – in short more militaristic, more hard edged designs. I think what makes it more interesting is that for a very long time prior to this, on the whole cars had been gaining curves. Clearly though people right now are in the mood to buy brutal looking cars. Some of the designs are wonderful (at least from a purely aesthetic point of view) – I think some of the smaller BMWs are sublime.

I think these hard edged designs are a direct response to fear and unease in society at large. People want to buy harder looking vehicles because they are fearful and therefore feel the need to project strength, of course good designers produce what thier customers and clients want, and the best the designers do this before their customers know what they want. Of course the biggest, hardest most brutal vehicle of all is the Batmobile.

Back to the film. I remember going to see Starship Troopers at the cinema when it came out, I went along with all my house mates and we illicitly necked a load of beers (or possibly a bottle of vodka (shudder)) and whooped and screamed as we watched the film. I remember the film because it was the first film I consciously saw where you couldn’t tell where the cgi began, of course ten years latter it almost tame. Special effects have just got bigger and better and they have got so big that they don’t really make any impact at all anymore because there is too much to take in.

So does he deserve an Oscar or not?

As its inaugural exhibition Way East presents Stained; new work by artist Nick Kaplony in his first London solo show. Kaplony’s practice is concerned with inheritance and genetic predisposition, examining the extent to which emotional, mental as well as physical traits are carried down the family line: the cause and effect of family history.

Familial relations act as a motivation for Kaplony. He focuses on his parents, using them to create photographic images that invite the viewer to consider similarities between parents and offspring. Stained is the first exhibition of Transmitter/Receiver, a new body of work incorporating photography and drawing in a series of portraits suggesting a psychological correlation between the sitters. Direct reference to the family is abandoned in a new large-scale installation work utilising the iconography of the Rorschach print. Blackness is punctuated by neon dots that seem to flash in an unknown sequence, creating a potential but ambiguous relationship between individual images.

Nick Kaplony is a graduate of Camberwell College of Arts and has shown nationally in Manchester City Gallery and Gallery 1885 in London. He is also a member of the arts collective Slowfall Projects and has worked on a number of site specific projects including Ringing; St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney and at Woodbridge Chapel, London in collaboration with the Barbican.

Way East is a new contemporary art space run by artist and writer Russell Martin.

STAINED
Nick Kaplony

Wed 30 Jan – Sat 23 Feb

Private View: Tue 29 Jan
6pm-8pm

WAY EAST
62 EASTWAY, HACKNEY WICK, LONDON E9 5JH
OPEN: SATURDAYS OR BY APPOINTMENT
Tel: 07855 352 955 Email: hello@russellmartin.org.uk
Web: http://wayeast.russellmartin.org.uk/

Streetmap location:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=536682&y=184956&z=1&sv=EASTWAY&st=6&

tl=Eastway,+E_9&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf

Haven’t had the time to do a thing yet – or even to create my profile properly… but it looks like it could be great. One to watch.

We will be looking for contributors to write reviews and keep up to date with what’s on, but the whole point is anybody can write a review, anybody can add a show they loved (or hated).

If you would like to contribute or get involved in testing the site please send me a message and we will get in touch.

The one thing up and running so far is our Artist’s Book shop with an ultra secure checkout powered by Amazon. We will regularly be updating the books to include editors choices, must have books for students etc.

Nothing to do with me, just a bit of shameless PR for my friends Sean, Claire and Nick who do have a studio there.

(BTW I used to have a studio in a completely different place, but which was also coincidentally called the Chocolate Factory…)

Sat 24 Nov 2007 – Sun 2 Dec 2007

The Chocolate Factory N16
Farleigh Place
Stoke Newington
London
N16 7SX

admin@chocolatefactoryN16.com

020 7503 7896

EXHIBITION AND SALE OF: CERAMICS, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, FINE ART, FASHION, HOME ACCESSORIES AND MORE

Opening times:

Saturday 24 November, 10am-6pm,
Sunday 25 November, 12noon-5pm,
Saturday 1 December, 10am-6pm,
Sunday 2 December, 12noon-5pm

The Chocolate Factory artist studios (N16) open their doors to the public. A hidden gem and hive of local creativity the Chocolate factory has long housed a diverse community of creative practitioners that has attracted interested locals, discerning shoppers and art buyers, hunting for unique and exceptional finds. Now following the addition of 14 new studio units the Chocolate Factory has become home to double the creative talent.

Chocolate Factory boasts one of the most eclectic mix of disciplines and talents under one roof. Unique ceramics, contemporary paintings and sculpture, exclusive fashion, illustration and home accessories are all on display to make the Chocolate Factory Winter Open Studios weekend the perfect opportunity for discovering some of freshest new local talent and buying some of the most covetable products.