TIM LEE : SOLO QUINTET (1897-1979)
Sep 8 - Oct 2, 2010

SANTIAGO SIERRA: DEDICATED TO THE WORKERS & UNEMPLOYED
Feb 1 - Apr 3, 2012
A major survey exhibition of video work and new work by Santiago Sierra. The exhibition includes a timetabled cycle of narrative based films shown alongside a curated selection of Sierra’s shorter and less linear works. Recently completed NO, GLOBAL TOUR is a new film which documents the manufacture and transportation through various world cities of two monumental sculptures in the form of the word "NO". Unchanged both in its form and immediate meaning – the sculptures gradually assume a complex semantic load during a journey full of eventualities, accidents and unexpected events. Death Counter, a Sierra piece comprised of an LED display counting annual number of human deaths worldwide since the beginning of the year will be mounted outside the gallery. Sierra represents the commercial conditions of our existence that we aren’t comfortable confronting. In doing so he has created a body of work that rescues and renews the expressive power of minimalism and conceptualism, with a political charge that encourages reflection on the classical problems of Western art while denouncing our current situation.
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SPENCER FINCH
Mar 21 - Apr 28, 2012
At the core of Spencer Finch's practice is his ongoing investigation into the nature of light, colour, memory and perception. Utilizing a range of media from painting, drawing, photography and installations using fluorescent lights with coloured filters, Finch distills his observations of the world into glowing abstract colour. Each work has its origin in Finch's own observation of a particular time or place with a lingering historical resonance, from a recreation of the light at the site of ancient Troy in Eos (Dawn, Troy, 10/27/02) – to a futile attempt to capture the colour of a waterfall in White (Niagara Falls obscured by mist, April 17th 2006, 5.30pm). Inherent in the work is the tension between the objective investigations of science and the subjectivity of perception and lived experience, endowing his work with a melancholy that comes from what Finch describes as 'the impossible desire to see oneself seeing'.
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JASON MARTIN
May 11 - Jun 23, 2012
Drawing from Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, Martin's work stands between painting and sculpture. Using layers of oil or acrylic gel on hard reflective stainless steel, aluminium or Perspex, he fashions comb-like pieces of metal or board to move the paint across the surface in one movement, often repeating it again and again, until the perfect balance of paint, translucence and striation is achieved. Paintings materialise in successive waves through continuous movements, accentuating the dynamism of the surface, as well as the implication of the artist's body and gesture. What Jason Martin focuses on is a way of modelling the surface in order to catch the light, exploring matters almost linked to sculpture, and resulting in an extraordinary and improbable marriage of abstraction and illusion of depth.

RYAN GANDER
Jul 11 - Aug 18, 2012
Blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, Ryan Gander assembles seemingly disparate objects, actions and texts to develop his own narrative systems. Characterized by conceptual rigor, visual simplicity and allusive text, Ryan Gander's works probe the processes of emergence and the mechanisms of perception entailed by the work of art. Installations, photographs, performances, publications and press inserts are his means of following up a train of thought concerning art's discursive potential and its transmission systems. His practice, which makes extensive use of language and work with other artists, aims at “making the invisible visible” and providing the “possibility and preconditions for things to happen”.

ANISH KAPOOR
Sep 19 - Nov 3, 2012
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Born in Bombay, he has lived and worked in London since the early 70's. Kapoor sees his work as being engaged with deep-rooted metaphysical polarities; presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the intangible. Throughout Kapoor's sculptures his fascination with darkness and light is apparent; the translucent quality of the resin works, the absorbent nature of the pigment, the radiant glow of alabaster and the fluid reflections of stainless steel and water. Through this interplay between form and light, Kapoor aspires to evoke sublime experiences, which address primal physical and psychological states.

LAWRENCE WEINER
Nov 21, 2012 - Jan 12, 2013
Throughout Weiner's practice he has pursued inquiries into language and a radical redefinition of the artist/viewer relationship. Translating his investigations into linguistic structures and visual systems across varied formats and manifestations, the belief at the core of Lawrence Weiner's work is that art is a material reality between human beings and objects and between sets of objects in relation to human beings. Weiner considers language to be a sculptural material and believes that a construction in language can function as sculpture as adequately as a fabricated object. His statement of intent published in 1969 states: 'The artist may construct the work / The work may be fabricated / The work need not be built / Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership'. As a proposition or statement, each work need not be confined to an existence in one realised form, place or time but might be constructed in different contexts.