STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS Private view + a talk with Henry Moore Institute’s Pavel Pyś

newly painted plinths awaiting video works by Sturtevant

Preparations for our next exhibition  second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS continue apace.

Sturtevant's Medion TV monitors arrive at CHELSEA space

The silver/grey Medion Monitors that Sturtevant specified for her video installation have arrived from Berlin.

SECONDEDITIONS' Markus Eisenmann tunes a Sony Cube at CHELSEA space

As have the Sony ‘Cube’ monitors from Matthew Fitts’ excellent London-based The Block  who source and supply a range of monitors for video works.

SECONDEDITIONS 'rainer werner fassbinder-martha' 2012. 2 channel video installation

The Private view opens at CHELSEA space on Tuesday 22nd January from 6-8.30pm

Sturtevant 'Duchamp Bicycle Wheel' 1969-1973 © Sturtevant Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones

 
The following evening, 23rd January, SECONDEDITIONS’ Markus Eisenmann and Elizabeth Peebles will be in conversation with Pavel Pyś, curator at the Henry Moore Institute who recently organised the excellent display of Sturtevant’s ‘Duchamp Bicycle Wheel’ 1969-73 at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. They will discuss the underlying concepts of Sturtevant’s work  in relation to the show second reflection / symmetrical contents. The talk is part of CHELSEA space’s collaboration with Chelsea college of Art and Design’s Graduate School programme and starts at 6pm in the Lecture Theatre of Chelsea College of Art and Design, Atterbury Street entrance. Admission is free but  booking is essential, RSVP gsevents@arts.ac.uk for your place at the talk.
 

Omega Rug attributed to Frederick Etchells installed in '1913: The Shape of Time' at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

 
Sturtevant’s Duchamp Bicycle Wheel 1969-73 was beautifully displayed in the Henry Moore Institute’s Gallery 4; although this could be seen as a one-work solo exhibition it was also timed to coincide with their major show 1913: The Shape of Time . The 1913  show is a fascinating  evocation of a remarkable progressive period  in art, science, social & political thinking, and literature  just prior to the devastation wrought by the First World War of 1914-18. This well constructed show includes brilliant artists and artworks and CHELSEA space loaned our Omega Workshop Rug attributed to Frederick Etchells and made for the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition of 1913. This rug was shown at CHELSEA space in 2011 in our exhibition Ideal Home. Sadly, Sturtevant’s show at the Henry Moore Institute closed on Sunday but 1913: The Shape of Time will continue until 17th February 2013.
 

SECONDEDITIONS 'Qualified Nouns' 2002 slide show

second reflection / symmetrical contents  STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS 
Private View: CHELSEA space Tuesday 22nd January 2013 6-8.30pm
Talk with SECONDEDITIONS and Pavel Pyś: Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Atterbury Street, Wednesday 23rd January 2013, 6pm (RSVP essential for the talk: gsevents@arts.ac.uk )