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Lucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press 1895 -1914 The Asmolean Oxford until 13 March 2011
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This Thursday sees the launch of the O3 Gallery's new events programme:'Alternative Thursdays' - A series of gallery gigs, artists talks, art-jewellery celebrations and spoken word readings that will take place from 6pm-8pm, every Thursday that the gallery has an exhibition open (4 weeks out of every 5). We kick-start the programme with a gallery gig featuring local band the Cogwheel Dogs.
COGWHEEL DOGS is a guitar / cello / vocals duo doing its utmost to sound nothing like a guitar / cello / vocals duo. Combining the energy of punk with an experimental attitude to sound and arrangement – but retaining a folk-like melodic backbone. Based in Oxford, Cogwheel Dogs have been playing together since some time in 2005. Songs are recorded in a small attic, amidst a mess of wires, canvases, coat-hangers and cobwebs.
www.cogwheeldogs.com
Please note there will a small admission charge on the door.
Guest Exhibition Tour:
Nana Oforitatta-Ayim
leads a tour of the
James Barnor exhibition
Thursday 28th October,
Rivington Place, London
Nana Oforiatta Ayim isa writer, cultural
historian and film maker. Her work has appeared in publications such as The National Geographic, The Statesman, The Dubliner and Time Out. She has given lectures and talks at a number of universities such as Cambridge, Kumasi, London and Oxford. She has been the curator of exhibitions and events for the British Council, the British Museum, e Liverpool Biennial, Royal Festival Hall and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her films have been nominated for prizes at a number of festivals, including the Festival of African Film in Milan, screened at the Museum of African Diaspora, among other places, and also used in academic study programmes. Her first work of fiction, The Tightrope Walker, was launched at the Hay Literature Festival in May 2010 and she is presently writer-in-residence at Triangle France in Marseille. She is the director and co-founder of ANO, a cultural think tank that investigates modernity in Africa and its diaspora.
What a great idea a Cushion concert...you take along your cushion or fold up stool and listen to a concert and a Pre-Raphaelite exhibition all in one go........
Adam Fuss is one of the artists taking part in the Shadow Catcher Exhibition at the V & A Museum which runs until 20th of February next year. With my obsession with lamps and shadows this is one I mustn't miss.
I couldn't miss out Remedios Varo, the third and final artist in the Pallant House Gallery's Surreal Friends Exhibition. I think that technically Varo was a better painter than Carrington. There is a great deal of attention to detail in her work, for example the parquet floor in Armonia, which must have been a painstaking task. Especially as it isn't the smallest of her works. In other's she layered the paint to make trees look three dimensional and yet others, used the most delicate strokes, that look as though they had been painted with a needle. It's probably because I'm not a painter that I find these elements in her work so fascinating. As to the content, although just as surreal as Carrington's, I felt that her inspiration came more from fairy tales than Biblical hell and hades. There is something very attractive, almost Heath Robinson, about the little contraptions in her work.
Hungarian photographer, Kati Horna was one of the three artists whose work was on show in the Surreal Friends exhibition. You can read the gallery's short biography of her life and work here. It would appear that not only did all three artist's have fulfilling practices as artists but also time for very romantic and often intriguing personal lives too. This recent article in theIndependent discusses Horna's secret relationship with war photographer Robert Capa who she had known since she was seventeen. 
