THE SURREAL HOUSE
Jun 10 - Sep 12, 2010
This Summer Barbican Art Gallery is transformed into a surreal house by acclaimed young architects Carmody Groake. The Surreal House will be filled with art, film and architecture. Wander through its labyrinth of chambers and haunted rooms to experience delirious forms, blasted architecture and cinematic dreamscapes. Featuring Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Rene Magritte and Man Ray amongst others. Come and discover what secrets it holds.
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JOHN BOCK : NEW COMMISSION FOR THE CURVE
Jun 10 - Sep 12, 2010
In a new project by the internationally-acclaimed, Berlin-based artist John Bock, a modified motor home lands like an alien space ship in the middle of The Curve, where it docks with strange, parasitic structures housing a pub, a noodle restaurant and shops that hang dramatically from the ceiling. Resembling a utopian, plug-in city constructed of found materials and handmade elements, the installation alludes to the original plan for the Barbican’s Frobisher Crescent which was to include a shopping arcade one level above The Curve.

DAMIÁN ORTEGA
Oct 15, 2010 - Jan 23, 2011 to 12:00am talk/event
The next commission in The Curve will be an ambitious installation by acclaimed Mexican artist Damián Ortega. For 31 days Ortega has set himself the challenge of creating a new sculpture over 24 hours. Each sculpture will be inspired by an item culled from the newspaper of that day: whether a news story, a photograph, or a graphic. Over the calendar month the works will accumulate in the gallery to become both a sculptural chronicle of a particular period of time – and a dynamic reinterpretation of the notion of an art commission.
 
Damián Ortega is one of the leading sculptors of his generation. His Barbican commission follows important solo shows at ICA Boston (2009) and Centre Pompidou (2008), White Cube (2007) and Tate Modern (2005). He began his career as a political cartoonist before he turned to art, and the development of his characteristically ‘mischievous process of transformation and dysfunction’.
 
Damián Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City and currently works and lives in Berlin, Germany.
Free admission

FUTURE BEAUTY: 30 YEARS OF JAPANESE FASHION
Oct 15, 2010 - Feb 6, 2011 11:00am - 8:00pm talk/event
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present. Curated by the eminent Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, the exhibition explores the unique sensibility of Japanese design, and its sense of beauty embodied in clothing.
 
Japanese fashion made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late 20th century and designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto redefined the very basis of fashion. Their works will be shown alongside Kawakubo’s protégé, the techno-couturier Junya Watanabe, together with the acclaimed Jun Takahashi, and the new generation of radical designers including Tao Kurihara, Fumito Ganryu, Matohu, Akira Naka and Mintdesigns.
£8 online/£10 on the door
 
For further booking details visit www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10771

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VANESSA HENN
Oct 12 - Dec 18, 2010

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TESTBED 1:
Sep 18 - Oct 17, 2010
TestBed 1 is a series of new digital screen-based commissions produced in residence between March and September 2010 through readily available modes of production.
 
From March to late July 2010 the commissioned artists used Beaconsfield as a creative base in a series of residencies. Limited means, collaboration and audience participation served as a framework for the commissions as our galleries turned laboratories, turned performance and production sites.
 
TestBed artists’ discussion on 19 September at 2pm
 
Curated by Dafna Talmor, Joseph Walsh and Beaconsfield.

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SIGURD ROMPZA : SEHSTUCKE 1985-2010
Sep 9 - Oct 6, 2010
A selection of reliefs in wood or aluminium from 1985-2010

YUJI OKI : IN A TEMPLE COURTYARD
Oct 14 - Nov 13, 2010
abstract paintings and works on paper

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SUMMER 2010
Jun 23 - Sep 4, 2010 FINAL WEEK

LUKE FROST
Sep 8 - Oct 2, 2010
Beaux Arts presents its first solo show of work by Luke Frost. Includes paintings made in 2008/9 during his Tate St Ives Residency at Porthmeor Studios and first seen at Tate St Ives in 2009, and continues the conversation with colour and structure Frost started while at Porthmeor.
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MARILENE OLIVER : CARNE VALE
Oct 6 - Nov 6, 2010
A new body of work by printmaker-meets-sculptor Marilene Oliver, inspired by her relocation to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. What's different about this, her fourth solo show, is that this work places a much greater emphasis on the fantastical and the handmade.
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NATHANIEL RACKOWE : WHAT THE CITY LEFT BEHIND
Sep 17 - Oct 30, 2010

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ERNST CARAMELLE : COMMA26 ELINA BROTHERUS : COMMA27
Sep 2 - 25, 2010
COMMA continues - Ernst Caramalle creates a new site specific wall drawing & Elina Brotherus presents newly commissioned photography & film.

COMMA: EXHIBITION TALK
Sep 2, 2010 12:30pm - 1:30pm talk/event
Artists Ernst Caramelle and Elina Brotherus in conversation with curators Sacha Craddock and Vanessa Desclaux about their exhibitions for COMMA
Free. To book, please send an email to gallery@bloomberg.net

ADRIAN PACI : COMMA 28 JULIEN BISMUTH : COMMA 29
Oct 13 - Dec 4, 2010

COMMA: EXHIBITION TALK
Oct 15, 2010 12:30pm - 1:30pm talk/event
Artists Adrian Paci and Julien Bismuth in conversation with curators Sacha Craddock and Vanessa Desclaux
Free. To book, please send an email to gallery@bloomberg.net

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CLOSED
Jul 25 - Oct 4, 2010

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Oct 6 - Nov 5, 2010
Julie Cockburn, Richard Ducker, Neil Gall, Oona Grimes, Mindy Lee, Clare Mitten, Sue Sluglett, Paul Vivian

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ANDREW VASS
Sep 1 - Oct 3, 2010
New paintings and works on paper by this English artist

PIERRE IMHOF : HOTEL DYSTOPIA
Oct 5 - Nov 7, 2010
New paintings by this Swiss artist

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