Arts in Southwark

There is still time to catch a beautiful show at Tate Modern. Work by the late Spanish artist Juan Munoz will provide a haunting and largely uplifting moment in your life. Figures, slightly shorter than Western male averages, fill one space in harmonious exchange and mutual acceptance - powerfully reflecting back to ourselves how we generally conduct life when faced with people en masse.
Visiting this work after touring Duchamp-Man Ray-Picabia is immensely illuminating. Great seminal artists that they were, creators of iconic work, Munoz operators from the heart and immediately touches one. Scale, humour, feeling, knowingness, all are at play ...

7/4/2008

DOIG at TATE BRITAIN

Peter Doig has lived in Canada, London and now Trinidad; he studied at Chelsea School of Art and his massive paintings hang at Tate Britain until late April. His work hovers between figurative and abstract, his canvases are spattered with large globules of paint as if to undermine any illusion created and return the viewer to the flat surface with which he began.
This reviewer lives with an abstract artist and is fascinated by that tension Doig explores sometimes electrically and sumptuously across his colour palate. Later exhibits however whilst if anything growing in size are steadily removing themselves from our ken. They are spare, bereft of colour, passion and almost of life though appearing to represent location and even activity.
Look out for the stunning, shimmering, red 'Baked', and for a group of large paintings inspired by a woodland creation of Corbusier.
In the land of the installation, a major show dedicated to a contemporary painter is something to visit and acknowledge. Doig has a clear voice. He does not belong and over the last two decades has moved (sadly ?) from riches to detachment like a person preparing for their death. Or is he just meditating ?
Go, see, think.

11/2/2008

ARTS ON SOUTHWARK.TV

Here on Southwark.TV there are any number of people, of all ages, now practising and expanding their creativity in ICT's new arts realm of multimedia.

On this site, many of our partners have uploaded work to visit, ranging across digital photography, video, music files, film reviews, animation projects ...

Primary schools have excelled recently. Try Gloucester PS for example.

Links below to sites of interest related to
"Southwark.TV" -

Freewheelers Theatre Company have joined recently, a wonderful theatre company with plenty of wheelchair users among the membership. They are based in Leatherhead, Surrey.

The Sassoon Gallery has also joined the website this spring. They are housed underneath Peckham Rye railway station ! ... in a refurbished archway. Expect film nights, installations, sculpture, fine art ... and Bar Story is their owner, so drinks are on hand.
There's Cooltan Arts here, Southwark Young People's Magazine Project, Castle Arts, and individual filmmakers represented on the Community TV Trust section of this site ... also:

http://www.corsicastudios.com
Corsica are here on this site. Venue for counter culture, dance, events, parties, hire ... and home last year to the inaugural Southwark.TV Festival of Film & Photography.

Paul Taylor, trombone poet, says:
The marvellous free film festival Elefest, at the Elephant & Castle, culminated in a grand cultural knees-up at Corsica Arts Club. This was a brilliantly designed event, crammed with artists and performers, including Mat Fraser and Anne Pigalle, and pics and clips will be found soon on their website
For more information about NEON, the arts network that organized Elefest, please visit

http://www.newelephant.net

NEON too are on this site.

Otherwise

http://www.thecreativeswing.com

10/5/2007