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LONDON FOR FUN Newsletter: 29 January 2008 Issue No.140

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1.) Top 10 London events
2.) Other Events, Theatre listings, Museums and Galleries
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1. Top 10 London events
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1 - Katie Deith - Katie Deith presents a series of paintings depicting fantasy landscapes in her obsessive, precise style confidently disturbed by vibrant abstract brushstrokes. Just like the best writers of Sci-fi, and the best film directors, Katie Deith, in her aesthetically compelling paintings is able to successfully blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy; the figuration in her dream-like landscapes is a convincing iteration of actual scenes, composed as a sort of fantasia on the theme of holiday destinations. Roy Exley Until February 10.
www.daniellearnaud.com

2 - Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass - This exhibition, the first of its kind at the National Gallery, sets out to demonstrate that the best stained glass from the Renaissance period fully reflected – and even rivalled – the latest developments in painting, while exploiting to the full the vibrant properties of light. 'Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass' brings together a group of some of the finest examples of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century German stained glass from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection – and juxtaposes them with a selection of National Gallery paintings from the same period and from the same regions of Germany, along with some surviving examples of designs for stained glass. Until 17 February.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

3 - Tango Por Dos - Featuring highlights from past shows, Buenos Aires Tango is a display of this fiery dance form at its seductive best. Through a combination of immaculately executed footwork and live music, the audience is whisked through the exotic history of tango – from the smoky backrooms of Argentinean clubs, to the glitz and glamour of the 1920s, to the international sensation it has become today. From 29 January until 23 February.
www.sadlerswells.com

4 - Tim Noble & Sue Webster - Sacrificial Heart - Sacrificial Heart is a large, rotating sculpture of a bleeding heart studded with hundreds of flashing coloured lights. Here, the archetypal Christian emblem fuses with the classic tattoo of rock n' roll and/biker iconography in a mesmerizing display that pulsates with light. This sculpture is the first three dimensional free-standing sculpture which rotates. This work marks the 10th anniversary of the iconic wall-piece, Toxic Schizophrenia (1997). Duality lies at its core: romance and pain, love and hate, veneration and aversion, fidelity and betrayal, sympathy and disbelief, male and female. Its spectacular nature fuses highbrow art with lowbrow kitsch. The riotous flashing lights recall the nightscapes of Las Vegas and the fairgrounds of Blackpool and other British seaside resorts., transforming the vitrine gallery into a playful yet reflective space. Until 23 February at Davies Street.
www.gagosian.com

5 - Elgar’s Violin Concerto - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Green and Pleasant Land concert series continues with Nigel Kennedy performing the work he is most closely associated with, Elgar’s Violin Concerto. With just weeks to go and only a limited number of tickets available, this concert marks the return of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to the Royal Festival Hall and Nigel Kennedy’s long-awaited comeback with a major London orchestra – Wednesday 12th March, 7.30pm.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

6 - Roman Signer - A self-described 'emotional physicist', Signer harnesses elemental forces and the mechanisms of man-made contraptions to expressive effect, making exhilarating deadpan incidents from the experimental and tacitly dramatising our relationships with the basic stuff of existence. Carefully planned and executed, the artist’s works are nonetheless at the peril of chance, a vulnerability that endows the most Keatonesque scenarios with heroicism and intrigue. Signer’s materials tend to be the immediate utilitarian objects and Swiss landscapes that are a part of his lived experience, yet the manner in which he uses them is anything but banal. Until 15 March.
www.hauserwirth.com

7 - Yayoi Kusama - For the first timeVictoria Miro gallery will present an exhibition which spans both buildings at 14 & 16 Wharf Road offering a substantial presentation of the artist’s work. For this exhibition, Kusama has conceived a new installation Dots Obsession – Infinity Mirrored Room (2008) especially for the upper gallery and in the lower galleries will install 50 new silkscreen works that will be shown alongside two significant sculptural pieces from the early nineties. At Victoria Miro 14 the artist will present a series of new dot paintings and an environmental installation I’m Here, but Nothing, (2000-2008). The exhibition will continue outside the gallery where Kusama will install one of her most infamous works, Narcissus Garden in Regents Canal - a work which has never before been exhibited in the UK. Kusama’s work is instantly recognisable for her signature use of obsessively repeated forms – dots, nets & phallic protrusions – which can be traced back to childhood hallucinations in which multiplying forms encompassed the universe so that she and everything else was obliterated. From 7 February until 20 March.
www.victoria-miro.com

8 - Waiting for the Light: Photography by David Noton capturing the world's most beautiful places - David Noton is recognised as one of the country’s leading landscape and travel photographers, winning international awards including winner of the British Gas/BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award. This exhibition showcases photographs he has taken over 25 years, whilst touring the globe with his camera. From 14 March until 30 March.
www.coinstreet.org

9 - Laughing in a Foreign Language - Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art. In a time of increasing globalization, this international exhibition questions if humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding what you are not familiar with. Laughing in a Foreign Language investigates the whole spectrum of humour, from jokes, gags and slapstick to irony, wit and satire. The exhibition brings together more than 70 videos, photographs and interactive installation works by more than 30 artists from all around the world. Until 13 April.
www.hayward.org.uk

10 - Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze - This exhibition is the first collaboration between the Wallace Collection and the Musée du Louvre, and will contain one of the masterpieces of seventeenth-century Spanish painting, Ribera’s Le Pied-Bot (The Boy with the Club Foot) of 1642, which will make a fascinating comparison with the Spanish paintings in the Wallace Collection by Velázquez, Murillo and Alonso Cano. Also there will be a splendid array of eighteenth-century French paintings (La Caze’s favourite school) by, among others, Watteau, Pater, Lancret, Rigaud, Chardin, Nattier, Boucher and Fragonard. From 14 February until 8 May.
www.wallacecollection.org

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