London Twelve

Contemporary British Art

City Gallery Prague

The Stone Bell

29 June - 23 September 2012

Curator: Toby Clarke

 

In collaboration  with  curator  Toby  Clarke, the City Gallery Prague is excited to present London Twelve, an exhibition of contemporary British art.

 

The artistic landscape in London is extremely diverse and fluid, without any specific dominant school or group that could be readily pigeonholed or defined. Awash with talent, it is constantly evolving and mutating. Advances in technology coupled with societal and cultural changes, have expanded valid artistic territory, opening new avenues for exploration. Concurrently, time-honoured areas of inquiry such as the treatment of nature and identity are given new twists, explored in both sublime and subversive contexts.

 

London Twelve neither aims to present this environment in its completeness, nor to chart its apex. Instead, the curator has taken a subjective approach, introducing a group of artists whose output has captured his interest over the last year. As such it gives a glimpse of what is happening from one persons viewpoint, a snapshot of a dynamic and subjective set of dispersed and interlocking artistic activities.

 

The exhibition juxtaposes generations, as well as established and emerging artists. The works are presented aesthetically in order to take advantage of the unique character and nature of The Stone Bell building. However, there are threads and themes that run through the show, namely abstraction, identity, technology, history, and nature.

 

London Twelve follows two preceding successful shows of British art including Close Echoes which presented a number of outstanding British artists including Dinos & Jake Chapman, Abigail Lane, Mat Collishaw, Mona Hatoum, Richard Billingham, Douglas Gordon and Christine Borland, and Other Times which featured works by Tacita Dean, Peter Doig, Sam Taylor-Wood, Cornelia Parker and others.

 

This exhibition expresses the unflagging interest of the City Gallery Prague in presenting contemporary British art in the Czech Republic. The exhibition includes works of thirty-three British artists and like both preceding exhibitions is accompanied by a catalogue.

 

The exhibition opens on 28 June 2012 at The Stone Bell Museum, City Gallery Prague, an architectural jewel and one of the most prestigious exhibition spaces in the city. Many renowned artists have exhibited here, from Mario Merz to John Cage.

Address:

City Gallery Prague

The Stone Bell

Old Town Square 13

Prague