Past
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PARIS PHOTO | LOS ANGELES 2013
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin 26 - 28 Apr 2013 At Paris Photo Los Angeles, Paradise Row is pleased to present a solo presentation of key works by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. Focusing on four series of works, American Landscapes, People in Trouble, Dora Fobert and Poor Monuments, the booth will present a mini-overview of their recent practice. Nominated for this year's Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013, Broomberg and Chanarin are amongst the most compelling artists working conceptually with the photographic medium. Adam... Read more -
Art Dubai 2013
20 - 23 Mar 2013 At Art Dubai 2013 Paradise Row is pleased to present key works by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin and Shezad Dawood. Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin present works from The Day Nobody Died their seminal body of work which marks a critical moment in the history of documentary photography. Made in Helmand, Afghanistan, whilst embedded with the British Army, the series comprises of twelve unique photograms, each seven meters long. Each piece was made... Read more -
Kirk Palmer
August Shadows 15 Mar - 13 Apr 2013 At 7.45am on the morning of 9th August 1945 three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, three B-29 bombers of the US Air Force set to carry out a second atomic strike planned to rendezvous in the skies above Yakushima. However, one of the B-29s failed to join the others. At 8.25am the plane 'Bockscar', having circled Yakushima for 40 minutes carrying a pre-armed atomic bomb was unable to wait any longer and proceeded to... Read more -
The Armory Show 2013
Report On An Unidentified Space Station 7 - 10 Mar 2013 'But this small setback counts for nothing now. We have accepted the limitless size of the station and this awareness fills us with feelings that are almost religious. Our instruments confirm what we have long suspected, that the empty space across which we travelled from our own solar system in fact lies within the interior of the station, one of many vast lacunae set in its endlessly curving walls. Our solar system and its planets,... Read more -
Kiss Me Deadly: a group show of contemporary neo-noir from Los Angeles
24 Jan - 9 Mar 2013 Jeneleen Floyd, Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe, Francesca Gabbiani, Sayre Gomez, Mark Hagen, Glenn Kaino, Aaron Sandnes, Allison Schulnik, Simmons & Burke, Bobbi Woods, Rosha Yaghmai A group show curated by Price Latimer Agah 'Why torment yourself? Who would you see? Someone you do not know, a stranger. What is it we are seeking? How civilized this earth used to be. But as the world becomes more primitive, its treasures become more fabulous. Perhaps sentiment... Read more
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Erratum
5 Dec 2012 - 12 Jan 2013 E R R A T U M Beyond Utility E R R A T U M® is a new collection of dysfunctional luxuries conceived by London-based artist Jeremy Hutchison. Each object has been made with an error that removes its original function. 'True luxury has no function. It is not something to be used or understood. It is a feeling: beyond sense, beyond logic, beyond utility. It is an ethic of perfect dysfunctionality,' says Hutchison.... Read more -
PARIS PHOTO 2012 | Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
15 - 18 Nov 2012 Paradise Row is proud to present a number of key works by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin from their recent series, 'To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light' at Paris Photo 2012. The title of this body of work was originally the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe the capabilities of a new film stock developed in the early 80’s to address the inability of their earlier films to... Read more -
Anna Bjerger | Da Capo
26 Oct - 1 Dec 2012 Private View: Thursday 25th October 2012, 7.00 - 9.00pm Repetition and a delicate ambiguity animate Anna Bjerger's second solo show at Paradise Row. The exhibition's title, Da capo, is a musical term, a composer's directive to repeat the previous passage of music on a score. Accordingly this new body of paintings is structured around a number of works that repeat the same motif, a man with a hat, with his back to us. In different... Read more -
Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam 2012 | Margarita Gluzberg
19 - 23 Sep 2012 Paradise Row presents a major new work by Margarita Gluzberg from her ongoing, acclaimed series The Consumystic, a meditation on the mystical, ritual nature of material desire and consumption. The new 80 slide work, The Consumystic (Winter), a projection piece, will be displayed alongside a number of platinum prints - all of the material originally shot on 35mm black and white slide film. By double and triple-exposing the film, Gluzberg adopts the analogue photographic techniques... Read more -
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
To Photograph The Details Of A Dark Horse In Low Light 13 Sep - 20 Oct 2012 Private View: Wednesday 12th September 2012, 7.00 - 9.00pm The title of Broomberg and Chanarin’s new solo exhibition at Paradise Row was originally the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe the capabilities of a new film stock developed in the early 80’s to address the inability of their earlier films to accurately render dark skin. Jean-Luc Godard famously refused to use Kodak film during an assignment to Mozambique in 1977, on the grounds that... Read more
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NADA Hudson 2012 | Eloise Fornieles | Open Siren
28 - 30 Jul 2012 Dark ground becomes a sea of sequins; their cheap sparkle richer than the distant city. In the heat, the tar chipped dirt smells like a nook, sweet with sweat. Fingering dollar bills, alert and present, her hair scaling down her back, her legs ajar. Without touching, her body makes notes on our physical tone. Drunk, the dusk falls yet again and in the half cut light it dawns on us that she is listening. Our... Read more -
Moments of Reprieve
Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography 27 Jul - 22 Sep 2012 David Campany will be giving a talk titled 'Images of Loss and the Loss of Images' on Monday, 17 September at 7pm. Artists: Birdhead, David Birkin, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Justin Coombes, Ori Gersht, Idris Khan, Eleonora Rossi, Indre Serpytyte, Taryn Simon, Jane & Louise Wilson Paradise Row is pleased to present an exhibition curated by Louisa Adam and David Birkin. Moments of Reprieve brings together a group of artists whose... Read more -
Everything's Alright Forever
Group Show 7 Jul - 18 Aug 2012 Private View: Friday 6th July 2012, 7.00 - 9.00pm A group show curated by Gabriel Rolt. Everything's Alright Forever features works that play on the tension between surface and depth and exemplify the beauty and difficulty of attempting to use aesthetic forms to express the ineffable. The exhibition brings together artists from the Netherlands, Poland, the U. S. and the U.K., several of them showing in London for the first time. Wojciech... Read more -
Tom Gidley | From the Corner of Your Eye to the Corner of the Room and Back Again
25 May - 30 Jun 2012 Private View: Thursday 24th May 2012, 7.00-9.00pm Paradise Row presents an exhibition by Tom Gidley of new paintings and sculptures themed around portraiture and representations of the human body. In this body of work Gidley looks at the perception of the self in relation to the destructive and regenerative forces of the natural world. Gidley combines objects and paintings to create intriguing relations and playful juxtapositions, a web of connections forming an open ended narrative.... Read more -
GABRIEL ROLT / PARADISE ROW
Fracture 28 Apr - 18 May 2012 Gabriel Rolt / Paradise Row present Fracture, a pop-up exhibition at Mindpirates, coinciding with the gallery weekend in Berlin. Saturday 28 April - 1pm - 8pm Daily Opening Times: Wednesday - Sunday, 1pm - 8pm and by appointment Spanning a diverse range of media, styles and tactics, the exhibition explores ideas and motifs that circulate around the themes of fracture and disruption; from the contested surfaces of Davina Semo's reification of the contemporary urban aesthetic,... Read more
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Art Cologne 2012 | Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Shezad Dawood & Barry Reigate
18 - 22 Apr 2012 At Art Cologne 2012 Paradise Row will feature works by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Shezad Dawood and Barry Reigate. Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin (Broomberg, Johanesburg b.1970 & Chanarin, London b. 1971) interrogate the documentary and ethnographic traditions of photography with critical rigour. Shezad Dawood's (London, 1974) practice, pursued through the mediums of film, sculpture and 2-D work, reveals and creates moments of synthesis and harmony between seemingly disparate, bodies of knowledge, cultural traditions... Read more -
Art Dubai 2012 | Mounir Fatmi & Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
21 - 24 Mar 2012 Paradise Row is proud to present Mounir Fatmi and Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin at Art Dubai 2012 Mounir Fatmi ( Morocco , b.1970) employs his own distinctive strategy to engage with the subject of how strands of meaning and cultural forms evolve and mutate as they flow through and into different cultural contexts. Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin (Broomberg, Johanesburg b.1970 & Chanarin, London b. 1971) interrogate the documentary and ethnographic traditions of photography... Read more -
Birdhead | Welcome to Birdhead World Again, London
9 Mar - 24 Apr 2012 Paradise Row presents the first London solo show of Shanghai based photographic duo Birdhead. Founded in 2004 and comprising Ji Weiyu (1980) and Song Tao (1979), Birdhead use photography to capture, mediate and occupy their contemporary experience of daily life in Shanghai, China's greatest metropolis whose ever increasing scale and vitality is more than itself - being read the world over as a gauge of the flow of power from West to East. Their tactical... Read more -
Project Space | Justin Coombes | Halcyon Song
9 Mar - 24 Apr 2012 '…ascend to a hard human parade of mind stealth; cold comfort knowledge; the vortex of the self.' From Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror Text by Justin Coombes In his second solo show at the gallery, Justin Coombes presents 'Halcyon Song', a series of photo-text vignettes. A halcyon is a mythical bird, often identified as a kingfisher, said to charm the wind and waves into calm from its floating nest. Fusing the... Read more -
Drawings
10 Feb - 3 Mar 2012 Private View: Thursday 9 February, 7.00-9.00pm 'You can never do too much drawing.' Tintoretto Paradise Row presents Drawings a group show based on an idea of drawing and drafting. The show includes works on paper, video, photographic prints and light works by Diann Bauer, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Shezad Dawood, Mounir Fatmi, Margarita Gluzberg, Kirk Palmer, Guillaume Paris, Barry Reigate and Douglas White. Read more
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London - Margarita Gluzberg
Avenue des Gobelins 18 Nov 2011 - 28 Jan 2012 Everywhere I go I dress up and I go out I got lots of gwalla, let me show you how I show out Everywhere I go I dress up and I go out I got lots of gwalla, let me show you how I show out Gucci, Louie, Prada, man I'm all about my dollas I be all up in the mall ballin like it's no tomorrow Gucci, Louie, Prada, man... Read more -
Dusseldorf - Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Poor Monuments 9 Nov 2011 - 4 Feb 2012 Private View: Thursday 9 November 2011, 7.00 - 10.00 pm Paradise Row, Dusseldorf presents Poor Monuments, a new body of work by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Poor Monuments, a series of 85 works on paper, is a contemporary re-working of The War Primer, a book published in 1955 by Bertolt Brecht. The War Primer comprises of images clipped from newspapers, each accompanied by a four-line poem composed by Brecht. The title of the book... Read more -
London - Douglas White
New Skin for an Old Ceremony 10 Oct - 12 Nov 2011 He said, 'I locked you in this body' 'I meant it as a kind of trial' Leonard Cohen - Lover, Lover, Lover 'While traveling in East Africa in 2001 I came across the remains of an elephant. There was little left as it had been mostly scavenged. All that remained were a scattered arrangement of bones and its vast deflated skin, draped and folded like a collapsed tent. The image of... Read more -
London - Project Space | Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
present Dora Fobert 10 Oct - 12 Nov 2011 Paradise Row announces the first exhibition in its new Project Space, located within its London gallery. 'Dora Fobert presented by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin' showcases a series of historically important images taken by the young photographer Dora Fobert (1925 - 1943), in the Warsaw Ghetto, in the summer of 1942. At that time Forbert was assisting Jakub Boim the official ghetto photographer. In an initiative of her own, however, she began to take the... Read more -
London - Barry Reigate
Equation 9 Sep - 8 Oct 2011 Equation is Barry Reigate's second solo show at Paradise Row. At the core of this new body of work is a series of geometric forms, appropriated from a number of Mathematics exams and re-contextualized as pseudo-Modernist icons. The forms find themselves iterated through various media, in minimal works on paper, as a number of floor-based concrete sculptures and as elements in a sequence of paintings that serve to ornament an evacuated form of Pop-art expressionism.... Read more
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Dusseldorf - Group Show
9 Sep - 5 Nov 2011 Paradise Row announces the launch of a pop-up-space in Dusseldorf to run from September to December 2011. The space opens during the Dusseldorf-Cologne Open weekend with a group show featuring: Shezad Dawood Tom Gidley Margarita Gluzberg Barry Reigate Peter Schuyff Marianna Uutinen Douglas White The show is themed around each of these artists' expansive and elliptical engagement with both the idea and actuality of Modernist forms. The artists draw on disparate sources of... Read more -
The Pavement and the Beach
Group Show 8 Jul - 13 Aug 2011 Jean-Michel André Jesse Ash Alex Bag Diann Bauer Ashley Bickerton Martha Colburn Will Cotton Shezad Dawood Nooshin Farhid Mounir Fatmi Mick Finch Claire Fontaine Margarita Gluzberg Jeremy Hutchison Steven Le Priol Edouard Levé Peter Lewis Guillaume Paris Clunie Reid SIGUI Sol'Sax Reena Spaulings Marianna Uutinen A group show curated by Mick Finch and Guillaume Paris in collaboration with Paradise Row. Private View & Summer Party: Thursday 7th July, 6:30pm -... Read more -
Diann Bauer
The Enemy is Everything That Might Happen 13 May - 2 Jul 2011 PRIVATE VIEW: THURSDAY 12th MAY 6.30 - 8.30 PM For her second solo show at Paradise Row, Diann Bauer turns the rhetorical excess of extreme-cum-mainstream contemporary political discourse back on itself. Using wall painting and a series of near illegible political signs and posters, Bauer ramps up the apocalyptic hysteria of right-wing libertarian movements whilst simultaneously laying-bare their proximity to left-wing traditions of protest. The works accelerate the logic of spectacle driven politics to their... Read more -
Hesam Rahmanian
Till the End of Dawn 8 Apr - 7 May 2011 OPENING: FRIDAY 8TH APRIL 6.30 - 8.30 PM In his first solo show in Europe, Iranian artist Hesam Rahmanian presents a body of paintings that, in the main, respond with a mordant and mournful wit to the repression and violence inflicted by the current theocratic regime in Iran on the country and its people. Since the beginning of the year, however, Rahmanian has broadened his scope to include the uprisings and revolutions that have sprung... Read more -
Eloise Fornieles
The Body is an Ocean 31 Mar - 2 Apr 2011 Private View: Wednesday 30th March 6:30 - 9:00pm The Body is an Ocean, Eloise Fornieles' new immersive installation, creates a series of spaces that co-exist at once, physical and aesthetic, psychological and emotional, that amount to an expanded portrait of the human body. In the darkened gallery hundreds of black buckets full of seawater sit on the floor. Hanging above the buckets is a formation of dimly glowing light bulbs. The sound of a heartbeat,... Read more
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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
PEOPLE IN TROUBLE LAUGHING PUSHED TO THE GROUND 25 Feb - 26 Mar 2011 PRIVATE VIEW: THURSDAY 24th FEBRUARY 6.30 - 8.30 PM Hundred of balloons rising into the sky… a young boy staring, close-up, at a glass that has caught the light on a sunny day… a column of flame, bursting, volcano-like, through a broken window of a burning car…a man, fallen, surprised… someone grieving, in the arms of someone fierce with anger… a crowd, seen from behind a line of riot shields, advancing towards us… a girl... Read more -
Light - Part I
14 Jan - 19 Feb 2011 Reza Aramesh, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Desiree Dolron, Terence Koh, Wayne Horse, Dawn Mellor, Gino Saccone, Peter Schuyff and Conrad Shawcross. A group show curated by Gabriel Rolt and Nick Hackworth Private View: Thursday 13 January 2011, 6.30 - 8.30 pm “Anyone who has sense will realize that the possible confusions of the eyes are of two kinds and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the... Read more -
Anna Bjerger | A Perfect Throw
19 Nov - 23 Dec 2010 Paradise Row proudly presents A Perfect Throw , a new series of paintings by the Swedish painter, Anna Bjerger. Bjerger paints images taken from old travel books, DIY and gardening books and photographic manuals, largely bought in charity shops and jumble sales. Dated and discarded, images denuded of their original functionality are strangely elevated through the transformative process of painting. She picks out images that, for her, manifest 'a boundless quality as well as compositional... Read more -
Shezad Dawood
The Jewels of Aptor 10 Oct - 13 Nov 2010 Paradise Row proudly presents Shezad Dawood 'The Jewels of Aptor' in our brand new exhibition space in the heart of the West End. This new exhibition by Dawood describing a journey through realms of esoteric knowledge, comprising of symbols printed and painted onto vintage textiles and a series of sculptures suspended in mid-air, of strange and seductive exotic birds flying through rings of coloured neon. Read more -
Art Dubai 2010 | Mounir Fatmi: Interventions | Stand N12
17 - 20 Mar 2010 Paradise Row is proud to present Mounir Fatmi at Art Dubai 2010 Mounir Fatmi ( Morocco , b.1970) employs his own distinctive strategy to engage with the subject of how strands of meaning and cultural forms evolve and mutate as they flow through and into different cultural contexts. His works bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and serve to both clarify the origins and... Read more
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London | Play
Group Show 9 Oct - 13 Nov 2009 'A happier age than ours once made bold to call our species by the name of Homo Sapiens. In the course of time we have come to realize that we are not so reasonable after all as the Eighteenth Century, with its worship of reason and its naïve optimism, thought us; hence modern fashion inclines to designate our species as Homo Faber: Man the Maker. But though faber may not be quite so dubious as... Read more -
Istanbul | Il Faut Être Absolument Moderne
Group Show 10 Sep 2009 - 10 Jan 2010 Paradise Row Gallery, London, and Lalin Akalan, proudly present Il faut être absolument moderne, a group exhibition in a 'pop-up space' in Istanbul, timed to coincide with the 11th International Istanbul Biennial. We present the work of some of the most exciting artists active in London, many of them showing in Istanbul for the first time. The show also aims to help forge links between London and Istanbul, as it will be followed in 2010... Read more -
Balla - Drama - Group Show | We Dream of Language Without History
26 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 ' 'Identity' is one of those false friends. We all think we know what the word means and go on trusting it, even when it is slyly starting to say the opposite... For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free...' Amin Maalouf Balla-Drama takes the contested... Read more -
Garrett Phelan | At What Point Will Common Sense Prevail
26 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 Paradise Row is pleased to present At what point will common sense prevail by Dublin-based artist Garrett Phelan. The material dimension of the project exists on multiple platforms: the physical space of the gallery, the FM carrier waves, broadcast on FM radio stations and, lastly, on the world wide web at www.atwhatpointwillcommonsenseprevail.com . The online project consists of 26 sound works which are presented for a 5 year period on the dedicated website. Garrett Phelan... Read more -
Douglas White | Elephant Totem Song
15 May - 13 Jun 2009 Crow's Elephant Totem Song Once upon a time God made this Elephant. Then it was delicate and small It was not freakish at all Or melancholy The Hyenas sang in the scrub You are beautiful-- They showed their scorched heads and grinning expressions Like the half-rotted stumps of amputations-- We envy your grace Waltzing through the thorny growth O take us with you to the Land of Peaceful... Read more
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Karen Russo | On a Clear Day We Can See Forever
15 May - 13 Jun 2009 'One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.' Carl Jung Paradise Row is proud to present On a Clear Day We Can See Forever, a solo show by Israeli-born artist Karen Russo. In her video installations, drawings, writing, and photographs, Russo attempts to illuminate the murkier side of human life, returning to visibility that which contemporary culture paradoxically encourages and obscures. Attracted to narratives of excess,... Read more -
Gosha Ostretsov | The Adventures of Robbing Good
3 Apr - 2 May 2009 In a parallel universe only fractionally distant from ours in the space/time continuum, there exists another Earth. The people of this Earth languish under the yoke of a single, all-powerful, fascist regime - the feared, ever present, ever listening, ever watchful New Government. With pitiless bureaucratic efficiency they tighten their iron grip on the world - relentlessly they plunder the natural resources of the world, felling forests at a stroke, draining the seas of life,... Read more -
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac | Triumph of the Sign
3 Apr - 2 May 2009 Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real... Read more -
Making Mistakes | Woman
Performances | Saturday 21 March | 6 pm 21 Mar 2009 WOMAN, WOOOOOMAN we all come from them, half of us are them and a lot of us do our best to get inside of them. For as long as we can remember artists have been making work about Woman, many songs have been written about their love of women, many female artist have asked what does it mean to be a woman, some male artist have asked what does it mean to be a woman.... Read more -
Opening Night | Gail Pickering | John - Patrick Dine | Trine Marie Riel
19 - 22 Mar 2009 Opening Night is the last in a series of four solo performance shows, each commencing on successive Thursday evenings at Paradise Row examining the diversity of performative practices at work in the art world today but also the ultimate absorption of performance into wider strategies of representation. In this final show, Gail Pickering extended the invitation proposed to her by Paradise Row to Berlin-based artists John-Patrick Dine and Trine Marie Riel. Sometimes the commentator inside... Read more
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Homo Economicus | Julika Gittner
4 - 7 Mar 2009 Julika Gittner will present her sculptural performance Homo Economicus. A large assembly of objects, video animations and series of slides act as didactic tools in an instructional lecture on economic theory by the artist. The relationship between economic man and his three main occupations - labour, product and profit - is explained via absurd and forlorn characters: tragic-comic puppets in an unruly economic drama. The artist dissects the economic activities of several local East London... Read more -
Eloise Fornieles | A Grammar of Love & Violence
27 Feb - 21 Mar 2009 Love without cruelty is powerless; cruelty without love is blind, a short lived persistence which loses its edge. The underlying paradox is what makes love angelic, what elevates it over mere unstable and pathetic sentimentality, is its cruelty itself, its link to violence. Slavoj Zizek, Violence A proposition: the power relations that bind our human world together, that shape our societies like clay, are themselves animated by the invisible forces of love, desire and violence.... Read more -
I Eat Me by Fedor Pavlov‑Andreevich | First in a series of Performances at Paradise Row
27 Feb - 1 Mar 2009 I EAT ME is the first in a series of four solo performance shows, each commencing on successive Thursday evenings, at Paradise Row examining the diversity of performative practices at work in the art world today but also the ultimate absorption of performance into wider strategies of representation. Next in the series will be Julika Gittner (Thursday 5th March, 7 - 9pm), Will Holder (Thursday 12th March, 7 - 9pm) and lastly a curated project... Read more -
Sam Kaprielov | Shore Leave
17 Jan - 15 Feb 2009 Paradise Row proudly presents Shore Leave, an exhibition of new works by Sam Kaprielov. In works of powerfully compelling strangeness Kaprielov applies the visual language and techniques that developed in the golden era of mid-twentieth century European and American commercial illustration, by artists like Norman Rockwell, Gil Elvgren and Norman Saunders, to a painterly narrative of dislocation and mystery. During the Second World War, Norman Rockwell painted the Four Freedoms series, which was completed in... Read more -
Wallis Dies And Goes to Paradise | Group Show
17 Jan - 15 Feb 2009 It was amazing. There was puke on the stairs. Anonymous If any gallery dominated the artist-run space scene in the area near the canal, next to that big green book depository, in Hackney Wick, in East London, between the dates of March 2007 - August 2008 (inclusive), it was The Wallis Gallery. Run from an enourmous warehouse that tripled up as a primary (though un-registered) residence for a fluid number of young artists, writers, musicians... Read more
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Scavenging in The Waste Land | Group Show
28 Nov 2008 - 19 Jan 2009 …You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images, where the sun beats / And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief / And the dry stone no sound of water… World faced with growing instability, violence: think tank / Mofaz: Iran is the root of all evil, threat to world peace / Swallowed by sand: China`s billion-dollar battle against desertification / Banks count the cost... Read more -
Edward Fornieles | My Voice Will Go With You
7 Nov - 19 Dec 2008 Private View: Thursday 6th November 2008, 7-9pm We are now in a world bathed in light, bounded and contained by a myriad of shining, iridescent, perfect surfaces. Everything is smooth to the touch and here air is not air but pure scent. Countless images, moving and still, flicker in and out of life, miraculously floating before us and from the images an infinity of perfect smiles radiate...and in the centre, the very centre of... Read more -
Zoo Art Fair | The Wasteland @ The Royal Academy
17 - 20 Oct 2008 …You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images, where the sun beats / And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief / And the dry stone no sound of water… World faced with growing instability, violence: think tank / Mofaz: Iran is the root of all evil, threat to world peace / Swallowed by sand: China`s billion-dollar battle against desertification / Banks count the cost... Read more -
Eloise Fornieles & David Birkin | Hold
26 Sep - 19 Oct 2008 Primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and the same number of feet, one head with two faces looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike. Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial councils. Should they kill them and annihilate the race with... Read more -
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin | The Day Nobody Died
12 Sep - 26 Oct 2008 Private View: Thursday 11th September 2008, 7-9pm Paradise Row is proud to present The Day Nobody Died, a solo show by renowned photographic duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. In June of this year Broomberg and Chanarin traveled to Afghanistan to be embedded with British Army units on the front line in Helmand Province. In place of their cameras they took a roll of photographic paper 50 meters long and 76.2 cm wide contained... Read more
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Laughterlife
19 Jun - 27 Jul 2008 Private view: Wednesday 18 June 2008, 7-9 pm Featuring: Victor Alimpiev | Diana Machulina | Elikuka | Fedor Pavlov‑Andreevich | Georgy Ostretsov | Rostan Tavasiev Curated by Maria Baibakova The new director of a cemetery in a Russian city has a meeting with his employees: “Ok, we need to reduce costs. I’d like to hear some suggestions….” “Well,” says one staff member tentatively, “If we can bury the bodies standing up, then... Read more -
Margarita Gluzberg | The Money Plot
2 May - 8 Jun 2008 Private view: Thursday 1 May 2008, 7 - 9 pm This is money… this is greed… this is power… This is… In the Blackout… the blue petals of Forget-me-nots sit, a pretty, ghostly, presence on the surface of the canvas and behind an image of… what? Of, this… of pure desire, ordered, corralled into regularised working hours, into electronic information - light no less - that fills the hungry, unblinking computer screens that chart, with... Read more -
Barry Reigate | Happiness
14 Mar - 20 Apr 2008 Private View: Thursday 13 March 2008, 7 - 9 pm Closed During Easter Holidays: 21.3.08 - 24.3.08 Paradise Row is proud to present Barry Reigate's first major London solo show. Comprising of paintings, sculptures and drawings, the exhibition presents a riotous, chaotic, carnivalesque universe in which depraved cartoonish creatures, hyper-violent and clearly on heat, cavort, playing malevolently with their pudenda as well as with signs, forms and references. In the paintings inhabitants from the... Read more -
Eloise Fornieles | Carrion
7 - 9 Mar 2008 Private View: Thursday 6 March 2008, 7 - 9 pm Paradise Row proudly presents Carrion, the concluding chapter of Eloise Fornieles' dramatic trilogy of performance installations, following Senescence and From the Deep Waters of Sleep. In this 72-hour performance, Fornieles engages with violence and consumption. In a land strewn with discarded clothes stands a skeleton building in which Fornieles presides, guarding over an animal carcass. For the duration of the performance Fornieles will consume... Read more -
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin and Kirk Palmer
4 Mar 2008 Gate Cinema | 87 Notting Hill Gate | London W11 3JZ Tel: 0871 704 2058 | Fax: 020 7792 2684 Email: gate@picturehouses.co.uk Web: www.picturehouses.co.uk Date: March 4, 2008 / 18:15-19:15 In association with Picturehouse ArtSpace , Paradise Row is pleased to present films by artists Kirk Palmer and duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. British artist Kirk Palmer, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, will show two films Hiroshima and... Read more
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Poppy de Villeneuve | This is a story of hope and we are all characters in it
25 Jan - 2 Mar 2008 Private View: Thursday 24 January 2008, 7 - 9 pm It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. Oscar Hammerstein II This is a borderland, a liminal territory. It is about as far away as you can get from the classic backdrops of the American Dream whilst staying within the United States. It is separated by more than mere physical distance from the stretch of Sunset Strip where... Read more -
Shezad Dawood | If I Should Fall From Grace With God
23 Nov 2007 - 20 Jan 2008 They tell me that not everything is black and white, I say why the hell not? John Wayne And Hell will be manifest to him who sees. Qur'an - Surat Al-Nâzi't In his first major London solo show Shezad Dawood presents a major new series of sculptural works, using neon and tumbleweeds, that embody the Islamic tradition of the '99 Names of God' and, alongside, a new series of paintings that present a dark, fragmented... Read more -
Zoo Art Fair @ The Royal Academy
12 - 15 Oct 2007 'The mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.' John Milton, Paradise Lost Read more -
Diann Bauer | Necrotroph-optopolis
10 Oct - 17 Nov 2007 Private view: Tuesday 9 October 2007, 7 - 10pm Necrotroph-optopolis: A city of scavenging eyes infected with macular degeneration / a sober and awesome spectacle / of Perspex and painted paper / a realm in which flesh and stone collide / where the ghosts of Old Masters and fevered utopian dreamers huddle together for protection from the spastic golden rays of an unforgiving sun / where fictive binary opposites melt in material confusion / a... Read more -
Zelda Rubinstein | A Group Show
5 Oct - 11 Nov 2007 Private View: Thursday 4 October, 7-9.30 pm 7-9 Princelet Street, E1 6QH I see dead people. Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense. Occupying a second, temporary venue, Paradise Row proudly presents Zelda Rubinstein, a group show named in honour of the fabulous Holllywood actress who memorably starred in the Poltergeist movies as the small, weird, old medium. Set in an 18th century Huguenot house whose material substance and surfaces serve as a palimpsest of sorts for... Read more
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Justin Coombes | Urban Pastoral
6 - 30 Sep 2007 In Urban Pastoral, Justin Coombes recreates the sense of romance, adventure and threat he found upon first moving to London after a childhood spent in the countryside. Coombes' dense, allusive, large-format photographs are products of his direct interventions in the landscape: the subtle rearrangement or placement of people and objects to create scenes that are quietly emotive, with strong narratives and symbolism that nonetheless remain opaque to the viewer. In one photograph, Bully, a group... Read more -
Eloise Fornieles | From the deep waters of sleep
31 Aug - 2 Sep 2007 A weekend-long live performance engaging with the subject of loss and the memory of Bas Jan Ader. Read more -
Kirk Palmer | Hiroshima
23 Jun - 22 Jul 2007 Private view: Friday 22 June 2007, 6 - 8pm I see old people walking happily down the street. Young people holding hands and enjoying each other's conversation. Children holding their parents' hands and looking happy. And I think about those awful scenes that I experienced many years ago now and all the people that lost their lives... I think to myself, 'What was all that? Did it really happen? A-bomb survivor interviewed in the BBC... Read more -
Guillaume Paris | Paved with good intentions
19 May - 22 Jun 2007 Private view: Friday 18 May 2007, 7 - 9 pm Purity is the enemy of change, ambiguity and compromise Mary Douglas Paradise Row presents Paved with Good Intentions, the first major London solo show by French artist Guillaume Paris. On show will be key pieces from Paris' oeuvre along with a number of works including sculpture, video, painting and computer-generated works. Over the last fifteen years Guillaume Paris has evolved a diverse practice that focuses,... Read more -
Margarita Gluzberg | Funk of Terror into Psychic Bricks
14 Apr - 13 May 2007 Read more
