THE ECONOMY OF THE GIFT
Apr 9 - May 22, 2010
Four English galleries from outside the London Orbital were asked to select four international partners. Participants then select an artist represented by their partner for exhibition in A Foundation Liverpool’s iconic galleries. In this process a discourse is created at which the concept of the gift is at the heart of the exchange. Participating galleries are: Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm; Bureau, Manchester; Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool; Freymond-Guth & Co Fine Arts, Zurich; The International 3, Manchester; Ivan Gallery, Bucharest; Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, New York; Workplace Gallery, Newcastle Artists exhibited:

 Eric Bainbridge,
 Brass Art, Geta Bratescu, 
Elodie Pong
, Jacob Dahlgren, 
Mark Harasimowicz, 
Rebecca Lennon, 
Shaun O’ Dell

SAATCHI ONLINE : NORTHERN STARS
Apr 9 - May 22, 2010
Saatchi Online, the Saatchi Gallery's website founded in 2006 to provide artists with a free platform to show their work to a global audience, will be exhibiting a selection of artists from the north of England. Entitled Northern Stars, the exhibition will present outstanding work by artists from Birmingham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Loughborough, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham. All the works in the exhibition will be for sale. 'Northern Stars' at The Economy of the Gift follows on from the success of Saatchi Online shows at international art fairs including Zoo, London; Scope, London and Basel; Pulse, New York; and Al Bastakiya, Dubai.

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PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS
through April
This year's Spring Green season focuses on water.

RISING SEA LEVELS : RETREAT? DEFEND? ATTACK?
Mar 4 - Apr 8, 2010
Touring exhibition by RIBA Building Futures and ICE looking at ways of dealing with rising sea levels.

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JANEK SIMON
Jan 30 - Apr 5, 2010

IMOGEN STIDWORTHY
Feb 27 - Apr 25, 2010

OTTO ZITKO & LOUISE BOURGEOIS : ME, MYSELF AND I
Apr 24 - Jul 4, 2010

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AN ORRERY FOR OTHER WORLDS : ANDY HARPER
Feb 6 - Apr 18, 2010
Andy Harper’s paintings seem to have no apparent beginning or end, they grow out from and deep into themselves, embracing and absorbing both the viewer and the space in which they are shown. Images of flora and fauna are at once natural and unnatural, of this planet and extraterrestrial. Moist patterns sprawl across and suffocate the surface of the works, executed with such precision and fluidity that visually they become as organic as they are man-made.

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SONIA BOYCE : LIKE LOVE – PART TWO
Jan 30 - Mar 28, 2010
A multi-media installation by Boyce exploring universal ideas around the concepts of care.

GLOBAL STUDIO
Apr 9 - Jun 20, 2010
Showcasing the work of Liverpool artists who have forged significant international networks outside the city.

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LEO FITZMAURICE AND KIM RUGG
Feb 19 - Apr 4, 2010
Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition with Leo Fitzmaurice and Kim Rugg consisting of both new and existing work. Through the dissecting and re-arranging of mass produced information based material, such as newspapers, brochures, comics and packaging, the artists fragment our visual and cognitive understanding of images and text, and force us to reconsider the familiar from a completely new perspective.

DAVID OSBALDESTON
Apr 16 - Jun 6, 2010
New work by David Osbaldeston

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BRILLIANT CREATURES
Mar 13 - 30, 2010
Books,prints, paintings and sculpture celebrating the natural world

MIKE HARVEY : NEW PAINTINGS
Apr 10 - May 4, 2010

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WANG JUN IN RESIDENCE
Jan 20, 2009 - Apr 23, 2010
The focus of Wang Jun’s work is the evolving nature of the Chinese as they adapt to dramatic shifts in the social framework.
During his Breathe Residency, Wang Jun will visit the homes of Manchester artists. Working in collaboration, he wishes to observe the traits and features of social spaces within the home. He hopes to collate these dialogues into a curatoral project that brings together artists from Manchester and Chongqing. The project attempts to discuss the inherited social codes that connect an individual to their own culture and social groupings.
Presented with Support from Visiting Arts and British Council.
Open Studio 15 - 22 April 2010.

NEGOTIABLE VALUES
Jan 22 - Apr 3, 2010
Negotiable Values invites seven artists from the UK and China to create works in response to idea of ethics and moral choices.
Developed out of a dialogue with Yan Yan, Director of 501 Arts Space, Chongqing.
The exhibition brings together artists’ works which explore the notion of advancement and raises questions about the price of progress.
What has been lost in the pursuit of a better life? What are the value judgements we make? What do we perceive to be betterment?
Negotiable Values takes the internal experience of and international consciousness of China’s development as its starting point.
Since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy, China has embraced aspects of Western culture.
However we are also now seeing the influence of China and Asia on the West. China is also presenting an alternative to the social capitalism.
Some instances is bound to economic betterment, can be found across the globe.

LAN WEI BY STANLEY WONG
Apr 16 - Jun 12, 2010
Lan Wei is an on-going project continue the artist’s interest in the impact of people live, as a result of the change of urban landscape under rapid economic development.

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DAVID MACKINTOSH : THE EDGE OF THINGS
Jan 23 - Mar 28, 2010
The Edge of Things presents a collection of new and recent works by leading Manchester-based artist David Mackintosh. Delving into a growing concern with narrative, Mackintosh creates deceptively simple and compelling drawings and installations full of dark humour that present an unsettling view of the world.
 
Exploring the relationship between drawing, animation and sculpture, this solo show features a new large-scale wall painting, accompanied by a stop-frame animation that will bring Mackintosh’s signature gouache drawings to life; and a free-standing sculptural tree that will house a new body of drawings on paper.
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CARLOS AMORALES: PSICOFONIAS
Mar 6 - 27, 2010
To coincide with the 16th installment of the popular ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival (5-27 March), Cornerhouse presents a solo show by Mexico’s leading contemporary artist Carlos Amorales.
 
Gallery 1 will be flooded with a soundtrack from Psicofonias, 2008, a large-scale two-screen video installation Amorales created along with musician Julián Lede and digital programmer André Pahl – an interface that is equivalent to the pneumatic player piano once popular in the 1920s. This realtime-animation or ‘virtual pianola,’ displays a selection of Amorales’ graphic drawings, represented by dots that are translated into musical notes triggering two synthesizers. These dots scroll from the top to the bottom of the screens, playing a musical note (from either a piano or harpsichord) as they approach the bottom and then vanish.

CONTEMPORARY ART IRAQ
Apr 16 - Jun 6, 2010
An exhibition of Contemporary Art from Iraq, encapsulating new and recent work from Iraq-based artists working in video, photography, sculpture and performance.

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RICHARD GRAYSON
Jan 16 - Mar 14, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Richard Grayson’s work is energised by the kind of cultural collisions that make contemporary life exciting. Inspired by the correlation of apparently unconnected cultural artifacts and phenomena, Grayson investigates the importance of language and narrative in how we comprehend the world. Through the use of playful or decorative forms, Grayson is able to engage his audience with complex and difficult ideas. We are encouraged to participate in a critical and perhaps subversive view of humanity that encompasses astrology, religion, politics, the global economy and extra-terrestrial life. As a retrospective of his work from the past five years, the exhibition brings together prints, drawings and films by Grayson for the first time.

MODERN TIMES : RESPONDING TO CHAOS
Apr 1 - Jun 13, 2010
This exhibition is being selected by film-maker, painter and curator Lutz Becker. His exhibition will comprise drawings, prints and experimental films, and will explore the recurring tension between figuration and abstraction throughout the 20th century and the ways by which ideas and concepts evolve. Presented non-chronologically, it will encompass movements such as Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Vorticism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and comprise works by key artists, as well as works of artists who have been sidelined in the mainstream of art history. From Malevich and Lissitky to Flavin and Judd, from Grosz and Dix to Pollock, Michaux and Kounellis, Becker anticipates two major strands of drawing emerging – the geometric and the gestural. The exhibition will also include films by Hans Richter, Fernand Léger and Viking Eggeling.

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CURTAIN SHOW
13 March - 17 April
Céline Condorelli, Tacita Dean, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Holub, Hannah James, Grace Ndiritu, Lilly Reich, Eric Satie, Ines Schaber, Albrecht Schäfer
 
Curated by Céline Condorelli & Gavin Wade
 
Launch 6-9pm Friday 12 March

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MYWAR
Mar 12 - May 30, 2010
In a period of global unrest, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) presents a timely exhibition. MyWar explores conflict in a digitally networked world through the work of 12 international artists. Their work investigates the realities and myths of war at a time when the boundaries between the public and the private are being steadily eroded.
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WHAAM! COMICS, ART AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
APRIL
Events, talks and an artist in residence exploring comic art.

PUBLIC WORKS
Feb 27 - Mar 27, 2010
Marking the end of the pilot phase of their collaborative project, Colchester Inn.

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TRIS VONNA-MICHELL
Jan 11 - Mar 20, 2010
‘No more racing in circles — just pacing within lines of a rectangle'. The artist's first site-specific installation within a UK regional public gallery.

PETRA BAUER : 'ME, YOU, US, THEM'
Mar 29 - May 8, 2010

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GONGOOZLER
Opening in March 2010
Inaugural exhibition and open studios event at new artist-led space.
Exhibition opening 6-9pm Saturday 27 March. Open studios 12-5pm 27-28 March. Exhibition 27 March - 1 May, 12-5pm Thursday-Saturday.

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HELENA ALMEIDA : INSIDE ME
Feb 9 - Apr 1, 2010
The first UK showing of the extraordinary work of Portuguese artist
Helena Almeida, Inside Me presents a selection of works made over the last 40 years. Organised with Kettle's Yard, where this exhibition was first shown during Autumn 2009.
Almeida’s work includes photography,
performance and drawing.

DAWNBREAKERS
Apr 27 - Jun 19, 2010
21 artists explore the unfolding of a new age. Curated by Juan Bolivar. Diann Bauer • John Chilver • Ruth Claxton • Tom Dale • Nick Dawes • Shez Dawood • Angus Sanders- Dunnachie • Stewart Gough • Sam Herbert • Justin Hibbs • James Hopkins • Julian Hughes Watts • Zebedee Jones • Ian Monroe • Boo Ritson • John Stark • Pamela Richardson & Kevin Smith • Richard Wathen • James White • Leon Woolls • Neil Zakiewicz

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ALAN JOHNSTON : DRAWING A SHADOW : NO OBJECT
Feb 18 - May 2, 2010
Based in Edinburgh and exhibited widely in Europe, the USA and Japan, Alan Johnston creates delicate but magisterial pencil drawings that redefine the way we see familiar spaces. Invited literally to draw all over the main galleries of the Institute, Johnston will spend three weeks here in the early New Year working on the ideas he has elaborated over the last twelve months.
This exhibition is accompanied by The Developing Process which draws on our own and other regional archives to trace changes and continuities in the sculptor’s education.

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CLEMENS STECHER : CHARADE II AND IV
Jan 27 - Mar 27, 2010
‘Charade II’ is a collection of hand-made comics, created in watercolour, India ink and acrylic. It assembles familiar scenes from news coverage, removing them from their context as the artist’s response to media overload.
The second part of the exhibition ‘Charade IV’ fuses the everyday with abstract, subtle and mythological creatures and events.
 
Vienna based artist Stecher reproduces iconic moments in our collective memory, asking which images will remind us of the 2000s, George W. Bush, Lynddie England or the two young Iranians who were hanged for being homosexual?

PAUL TEIGH & MARTIN RUSSELL : BEYOND THE PLENUM
Feb 19 - Apr 24, 2010
British duo Paul Teigh and Martin Russell (formally known as PaulMart) have been collaborating since 2002. The work of Teigh and Russell has consistently questioned contemporary art’s internal dynamics, modes of reception and mediation with a highly developed understanding of the history of European decorative arts.
They bring a genuine interest in and commitment to materials to their work, and the technical abilities to bring disparate influences to fruition in sculpture. The result is an often humorous conjunction of high art and disposable contemporary kitsch, which at times is beautiful, enigmatic, visually enthralling and participatory.
At the Art and Design Gallery, Hatfield. Open Monday – Friday 9.30am to 5.50pm, Saturday 9.30am – 3.30pm.

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DAVID HILLMAN IN PRINT
Jan 18 - Mar 13, 2010 FINAL WEEK
Celebrating the career of the British editorial design icon, David Hillman. An engaging, informative and visually stunning exploration into art direction.

FARNHAM ART SOCIETY 63RD ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Mar 31 - Apr 10, 2010
This exhibition showcases the best work by members of the Farnham Art Society. With art in a wide range of media and at affordable prices, the exhibition has become a popular fixture in Farnham's calendar during the Easter weekend.

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