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EXHIBITIONS
- PERFORMANCES - PROJECTS - WRITING
2008 THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION - ART & TACTICAL MAGIC
Group exhibition at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt June
7th - Sept 7th featuring works by Jonathan Allen,
Marcel Breuer, Center for Tactical Magic, Erich Consemüller, Roberto
Cuoghi, Claire Fontaine, Aurélien Froment, Mike Kelley, Joachim
Koester, Maria Loboda, Goshka Macuga, Michele di Menna, Eduardo Navarro,
Olivia Plender, ride.1, Allen Ruppersberg, Kerstin Stoll, Joanne Tatham
& Tom O'Sullivan, Banks Violette and
Adrian Williams. A catalogue with contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Simon
During and Chus Martínez, will be published in German and English.
The exhibition is produced in collaboration with MARCO, Museo de Arte
Contemporánea de Vigo, where it will be on view from September
19, 2008 to January 11, 2009.
2008 THE DIRECTOR'S APARTMENT - BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME
Group exhibition including Cian Donnelly, Prisca Thielmann, Aisling Hedgecock,
John Walter, Jonathan Allen[image],
Anthony Faroux, Gordon Burn, Jennifer Marshall, Nadia Hebson.[image]
2007-08
KALANAG - DAVID RISLEY GALLERY
A photographic installation exploring the powers of modern illusion named
after Adolf Hitler's notorious 'minister of magic', aka Helmut Schreiber.
Solo
exhibition London Dec 2007 - Jan 2008 [info]
[images] [review]
[reviews]
2007-08 HELEN
CHADWICK FELLOWSHIP - ROME/OXFORD
Arts
Council England Helen Chadwick Fellow 2007-2008, at The University of
Oxford and the British School at Rome [more]
2007
CABINET MAGAZINE - NEW YORK
Guest-editor issue no.26 MAGIC,
and article DECEPTIONISTS AT WAR [more][review][text]
2007
ART CAR BOOT FAIR - LONDON
Sunday
8th July, Old Truman Brewery, London. Curated by Karen Ashton and Helen
Hayward. Artists include Gavin Turk, Abigail Lane, Tracey Emin, Bob and
Roberta Smith, Vivienne Westward, Matt Collishaw, Jessica Voorsager, Sarah
Baker, Jonathan Allen[image],
Ian Munroe, Stuart Semple, Antony Gross, Zoe Griffiths, and many more..
2007
CITADEL 1:FRONT ROOM/KILLING ROOM
Group
exhibition David Risley Gallery, London 18 May– 1 July
'Citadel 1. Front room/Killing room exists both as a living room and as
an exhibition of one. It can be viewed as an ‘Ikea-style’
showroom and a stage set, where curatorial decision making and interior
design intentionally converge...'[more]
2007 DRAWING ROOM - LONDON
Drawing 2007 - Biennale fundraiser [19th April - 9th May]. Over 200 artists
generously donate a one-off A4 size drawing in support of The Drawing
Room programme and its non-profit activities. The drawings are exhibited
for three weeks, culminating in an silent auction event which attracts
over 500 people, from established to new collectors, collector groups,
art curators, gallery directors and artists.
2007 DICTIONARY
OF WAR - BERLIN, EDITION 4
DICTIONARY
OF WAR is a collaborative platform for creating 100 concepts on the issue
of war, to be invented, arranged and presented by scientists, artists,
theorists and activists at four public, two-day events in Frankfurt, Munich,
Graz and Berlin. The aim is to create key concepts that either play a
significant role in current discussions of war, have so far been neglected,
or have yet to be created.[concept]
2007
CABINET MAGAZINE -
NEW YORK
SLEIGHT OF LIGHT - Commissioned article for NY-based art and
culture quarterly Cabinet no.24 SHADOWS [Feb 2007] [article]
2007
HARRY SMITH ANTHOLOGY REMIXED - ALT.GALLERY, NEWCASTLE
This
exhibition brings together the work of 84 leading artists and musicians
who have been invited to make a visual artwork in repsonse to 1 track
each from the groundbreaking music release The Anthology of American Folk
Music. The anthology was edited by seminal New York artist, musicologist
and experimental film maker Harry Smith, and first published by Folkways
in 1952. Artists include Marcus Coates, Michael Nyman, Susie Green, Graham
Dolphin, Jonathan Allen [image],
Luke Fowler, Philip Taafe, Bill Drummond, Lone Twin, A Hawk and a Hacksaw,
zoviet*france, and others
2007
/seconds. ISSUE 4
/seconds.
is a three-monthly online publishing project initiated and edited by Derek
Horton and Peter Lewis, designed by Graham Hibbert and supported by an
international editorial and advisory board of academics, artists and curators
(contributor - issue 4)[info]
2006
SINGAPORE
BIENNALE
BELIEF
is the theme for Singapore's first visual arts biennale. "If today's
world has painfully called into question many certainties governing society,
history and humankind.."[more]
More than 50% of the exhibition showcases artists from across the Asia
Pacific, with artists from Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Central
Asia, Europe and North America completing the full list[participating
artists].
These are a mix of both emerging as well as established artists working
across all art forms including architecture, biotechnology, drawing, installation,
new media, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, sound projects
and video[images]
[catalogue
text] [review]
2006
ZOO ART FAIR - LONDON
Zoo
Art Fair returns to London Zoo for its third year as one of the most significant
international platforms for emerging contemporary art. Participating artist
with David Risley Gallery [image]
2006 BLASPHEMY - BLACK DOG BOOKS
'Through
an examination of a broad range of contentious imagery in art, this book
questions the status of blasphemy in a world ever more divided in its
views of what is acceptable, and provides an intriguing vantage point
from which to view the interrelations between religion, politics and the
visual arts'(featured artist)
2006
OBJECTS IN WAITING - END GALLERY, SHEFFIELD
Objects
in Waiting is an exhibition of objects that were found or bought with
the particular thought or intention to one day use in the making of an
artwork. However, days or months or even years have passed, and still
no use for these objects has been found. Perhaps the objects have gained
a status whereby they have become too important to combine with anything
else. Objects in Waiting, provides an opportunity for artists to unburden
themselves of something which may have taunted them from a corner of the
studio for years.
2006
VOLTA 02 ART FAIR - BASEL
With
David Risley Gallery June 14-18th, Ultra Brag, Sudquaistrasse 55, CH-Basel
2006
SCARECROW
International
group exhibition at Evangelos Averoff Museum in Metsovo, Northern Greece.
"The cental motif of the exhibition, the scarecrow, acts as a celebratory
emblem, a warning sign for transgressors, a reminder of reprisals...".
Includes Jonathan Allen, Stefan Bruggemann, Marcus Coates, Jake &
Dinos Chapman, Thomas Eller, Tom Hunter, Henry Krokatsis, Hew Locke, Rosemarie
McGoldrick, Olivia Plender, Bob & Roberta Smith and others [review]
2006
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Smoke
and Mirrors investigates the crossover between artists' film and video
and traditional cinema.The four day programme references the artifice
of early cinema and theatre whereby the practice of magician and filmmaker
were often indistinguishable. Includes work by Georges Méliès,
Pathé Frères and Edison alongside recent video works by
Elizabeth McAlpine, Jonathan Allen[image],
Jason Dee, Sara Fletcher & Edward Adam and Tobias Sternberg.
2006
TOMMY ANGEL -DAVID RISLEY GALLERY
Solo
exhibition January 12th-19th February 2006.[info]
19th January 6.30-8.30pm[review]
[review]
2006
THE CIRCUS SHOW
11th
March- 2nd April.Three Colts Gallery, London.‘The Circus Show’
is a group show inspired by Alexander Calder’s Circus and celebrating
the spectacle and the crowd, play and transformation, a site of chaos
and excess, of mutation and exchange in the spirit of Bakhtinian liberation,
of the ‘carnivalesque’.[info]
2006
TATE BRITAIN
Taking
the Tate Collection displays as inspiration, award-winning live art collective
Duckie cruise the spaces
and displays of Tate Britain, delving into the worlds of art and belief.
From the salutary to the provocative, Duckie present performances from
Chris Green, Joshua Sofaer and Tommy
Angel Part
of Late at Tate Britain: February 2006.
KEEP
THE FAITH - Friday 3rd February 2006, 18.00–22.00 [image]
[image]
2006
MAGIC MAGAZINE
Feature
article on Tommy Angel in Las Vegas published Magic Magazine, the world's
widest distribution magic monthy publication.[text]
2005
VARIETY
The
De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea re-opens in late summer 2005 after
major refurbishment with VARIETY [url],
a three month programme of events that 'explores how contemporary artists
have not only been influenced by the variety genre, but have a genuine
desire to be part of it, to reconfigure, reinterpret and transform it.'
Artists include Jonathan Allen [images],
Ian Breakwell, Tommy Cooper, Marcel Duchamp, Rose English, Daria Martin,
Aura Satz, Cindy Sherman, Mark Wallinger, Boyd Webb, Will Wegman, and
others.[publication]
2004-6
TOMMY ANGEL
Tommy Angel is an ongoing heterogeneous visual art project that
centers on the critical parody of a fictitious ‘gospel magician’,
that is, a fundamentalist Christian who evanglises using the medium of
conjuring and magic. Described as 'Billy Graham meeting David Copperfield
via Donald Rumsfeld', Tommy Angel has been deploying a heady
mix of Christian evangelism and glitzy magic showmanship to art and cabaret
audiences alike since 2001.[more
text]. He has recently performed for the opening of the Hayward
Gallery's Eyes, Lies and Illusions, ZOO Art Fair[URL],
Tate Britain, and Singapore Biennale [more]in
2006. Tommy Tommy Angel is currently supported by Arts Council
England, and Artsadmin.[image]
[www.tommyangel.net]
2004
NON HUMAN
Group exhibition at David Risley Gallery, London.‘Portraits are
the evidence of existence. They immortalise a life lived, providing an
indication of the stature of the sitter, a symbol of power, position and
possession, real or desired. What, then, can a portrait of a non-human,
an outsider, an alien, an aberration mean?' Artist include Jonathan Allen
[image],George
Condo, Helen Frik, Peter Jones, John Stezaker.
2004 CENTREFOLD SCRAPBOOK
Centrefold Scrapbook is a limited-production collection
of works by London artists, organised by artists Reza Aramesh and Tina
Spear.
Scrapbook 2 contributors are: Shahin Afrassiabi, Jonathan Allen, Reza
Aramesh, Sarah Baker,James Barrett & Robin Forster, Diann Bauer, JJ
Charlesworth, Henry Coleman, Ilya Gridneff, Mustafa Hulusi,Lynne Marsh,Jo
Mitchell, Paul Noble, Pil & Galia Collectiv, David Risley, Jamie Robinson,
Giles Round, Anna Schori, Tina Spear, Holly Walsh. Scrapbook 2 launched
at Redux Gallery.[url]
So You're Afraid of What? was a Centrefold gallery event at REDUX
Gallery, London, in October 2004[url].
Artists included Jonathan Allen [image],
Reza Aramesh,Sarah Baker, Diann Bauer, Lali Chetwynd,Doug Fishbone, HK119,
Andy Ming-Yen Hsu,Seb Patane, Giles Round, John Russell,Tina Spear and
Francis Upritchard.
2004 MESMER
'Scrutiny, Seduction and Sleight of Hand' Group exhibition at
temporarycontemporary (London) curated by Antony Gross. How does the gaze
of the artist in what they see and what they make become the gaze of the
viewer as the artwork enters their world? Mesmer looks at the
obsessive and hypnotic gaze and how it is central to both the production
and reception of an artwork. Works in video (Peter Fillingham, Paul O’Neill),
animation (Anthony Gross, Laurie Hill), neon (Jonathan Allen [image],
Howard Dyke), installation (Luke Oxley, Seb Patane, Giles Round, Lindsay
Seers, Mark Titchner, Jen Wu) drawing (Diann Bauer) and painting (Ian
Dawson, David Lock, Cedar Lewisohn)
2004 CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE
'GOSPEL MAGIC - Jonathan Allen Opens Up God's Box Of Tricks'.
Article commissioned for CONTEMPORARY magazine TRIVIA section, edited
by Sally O'Reilly.
2002 CON ART
'Con Art: Magic/Object/Action surveys contemporary Western art
as it relates to one of the basic principles found in magic; sleight of
hand or conjuring. The works demonstrate the ways in which art and magic
share a similar goal of 'cunning and conning' while casting a critical
glance at everyday reality. The exhibition tests out the ways in which
the rhetoric and imagery of conjuring offer a critique of representation
and a model for art production and consumption.' Artists include: Jonathan
Allen [image],
Anna & Bernhard Blume, Sarah Charlesworth, Christian Jankowski, Ingeborg
Luscher, Simon Patterson, Keith Tyson, Mark Wallinger, Aura Satz. Con
Art was inititated by Jonathan Allen with American curator Helen
Varola and SITE Gallery director Carol Maund.
[more] [catalogue]
1998
SECOND TRUTHS
Second Truths was a Photo98 commission, and solo exhibition at
Site Gallery, Sheffield. Through a series of eight lenticular photographs,
which 'switch' when viewed from side to side, Second Truths explores
the museum space as an unfixed and volatile container of cultural meaning.
Museums included The Freud Museum [image],
The Darwin Museum, Harrow School Fourth Form Room, The Stephen's Ink Museum,
Barcelona Perfume Museum, The Victoria & Albert Mseum, Bovingdon Tank
Museum [image],
and The Old Operating Theatre Museum.(publication)
1998 STONE TROUPERS
Stone Troupers was a Hypertribes commission with film maker Steve
Hawley for Lovebytes digital arts festival in Sheffield. 'For
six weeks, four tiny neo-classical heads high on a building in the city
centre were video-animated using the faces of Sheffield's shifting populations...'
[image]
CURRICULUM
VITAE/IMAGES/TEXTS
Past Exhibitions, Reviews and
Images
LINKS
www.davidrisleygallery.com
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
www.re-title.com
www.tommyangel.net
www.vvork.com
CONTACT
David Risley Gallery, London
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