#edelassanti

[gordoncheung]

Desert of the Real, 2020 In Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation: "If once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly [...] this fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra. [...] It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own: The desert of the real itself..” Xinjiang is the largest administrative region of Northwestern part of China and will be the busiest intersection of the Belt and Road initiaitive (The re-ignition of the silk roads) as it borders 8 nations: Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (9 if you include disputed parts of Kashmir). It has 40% of China’s coal, 20% oil and gas and 20% potential Wind energy farms. The Uighur Muslims have attempted a separatist movement and briefly declared in 1949 independence, East Turkestan, with the support of Soviet Union. In 1990s the collapse of Soviet Union resurged separatist independence that was suppressed by Beijing. This was followed by terrorist attacks which was met with a severe crackdown and the current condition of one of the most high tech surveillance panopticons in China. Alongside algorithmic machine learning face recognition apparatus is also collection of DNA and fingerprints for a complete mapping of human movement whereby ’suspicious’ behaviour can be discerned and flagged for investigation. The sky is a map of the high speed rail of China that in a matter of decades built more than the entire world. In 1945 Xinjiang was 82.7% Uyghur and 6.2% Han Chinese. As a result of the high speed rail network and policy in 2010 census Uyghur account for 45.84% and Han 40.48%. The Golden poplar tree has been used to hold back desertification officially dubbed the Green Great Wall, launched 1978 to continue until 2050. It aims to plant 88 million acres of protective forests, in a belt nearly 3,000 miles long 💧 #GordonCheung #EdelAssanti #TearsOfParadise (Edel Assanti) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8crix8l50G/?igshid=3vuo8wqrisqi

[newyorkartdepartment]

NADA NY 2018 - NYAD Favorite 👀 Sheida Soleimani @sheidajanam At Edel Assanti - London, UK . . . . . . Booth 2.06 @newartdealers #nadany2018 #NYArtWeek #SheidaSoleimani #EdelAssanti (at Skylight Clarkson Sq)

[inezsuenart]

CHICAGO - Join us! Artist Talk: @gordoncheung at @chicagopubliclibrary Sept 21, 2019 3:30 PM @edelassanti @expochicago #CHICAGO #chinatown #artisttalk #expochicago #contemporaryart (at Chinatown Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Kn03wFDr7/?igshid=6xx2eycl0bk1

[nicholasstavri-blog]

Fat, Sugar, Salt is Dale's second solo exhibition with Edel Assanti The exhibition reflects on the realities of contemporary urban life, focusing on subjects drawn from the artist’s immediate surroundings in and around his home in east London. Mundane and extraordinary scenes are given equal prominence, gaining expression through allegorical distortion. In Family Fortunes (Image 3 and 5), the Lewis family Christmas dinner is transformed into a deranged banquet, in which the artist himself is served for dinner – conveying the artistic anxiety of being on show for public consumption – with the traditional goose and pork courses standing in as guests. Taking its title from the popular 90s TV programme, on closer inspection, the carnivorous horror show gives way to a tender portrayal of the complexity of the family environment, and the unique freedom it provides to exaggerate and express oneself without judgment or embarrassment. @dalelewis80 Fat, Sugar, Salt Closes 10th March @edelassanti 74a Newman street W1T 3BD #DaleLewis #edelassanti #FatSugarSalt #contemporaryart #contemorarypainting #exhibition #londonartist (at Edel Assanti)

[nicolabenford]

FINALLY got over to Noémie Goudal's exhibition - In Search Of The First Line at Edel Assanti 🙏So sooo seductive #noemiegoudal #edelassanti #insearchofthefirstline #newwork (at Edel Assanti)

[eyecandyandesoterics]

The incredible work of @noemiegoudal over at @edelassanti in London. Go so it. Her work is phenomenal. (at Edel Assanti)

[drenchedreviews-blog]

Exhibition Review -  Yoshinori Niwa: 'That Language Sounds Like a Language' at Edel Assanti, London till 21st December 2017.

“Language graduating slowly from language."- Drenched Co.

Notes:  "Niwa's performances are the wrench and strain of a line, tracing edges, testing waters, shaking loose a point of view. His is the stress in a twisted wire of words, baffling tongues, fooling limits, exposing boundaries. He leads us to a cliff edge, and asks us to make out the shapes below, arranged in the shape of our confusion, angled into the light of our betrayal. I wanted the wind to snag my breath, to catch my tongue, to lean out, to stumble into Niwa's world but alas I met but a step and wished for more." - JayZee

See https://edelassanti.com/exhibitions/73/cover/ See also http://www.soaked.space/2017/12/exhibition-review-yoshinori-niwa-that.html See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/12/exhibition-review-yoshinori-niwa-that.html

Caption: Image above: Installation view  Yoshinori Niwa   Edel Assanti, London  2017. Copyright Yoshinori Niwa. Courtesy Edel Assanti, London.  

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.

#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #EdelAssanti #YoshinoriNiwa #EdelAssantigallery #ThatLanguageSoundsLikeaLanguage #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview  #exhibitionreview #artreview #reviewart #language #bondary #limit #performanceart #artperformance #videoart #artvideo #perimeter #contigent #artjapan #japaneseart #artinjapan

[georgieleahy]

Art is to console those who are broken by life..... #vincentvangogh #sisterlylove at #edelassanti #leahyladies #legpop (at Edel Assanti)

[londonartmapper]

Petr Davydtchenko: Hard Bass, Edel Assanti, W1T 3DB

Such a pleasant surprise finding this in the basement at Edel Assanti. After the delicate and light works of Jodie Carey upstairs stepping through a meat cellar-esque curtain into a very dark room playing a loud video clip about ‘Hard Bass’ while objects connected to the ‘movement’ are displayed in the room was oddly refreshing! The video inspires questions of authenticity and eventual realisation that, in our post internet world, any ‘movement’ can develop overnight and so the question of whether or not ‘Hard Bass’ did become a ‘thing’ is quite academic. 

Installation View, 2015

Info:

http://www.edelassanti.com/exhibitions/44/overview/

Closes 22 April 2015.

[antoinedewerd]

#artist #andrewsutherland #gallery #edelassanti #london #art #thearmoury #nyc

[gordoncheung]

Towers of Water, 2020 Financial newspaper, acrylic and sand on linen 💧 The Himalayan mountains, otherwise known as the ‘water towers of Asia’ and a sacred mountain hovers over the major river systems of the Tibetan Plateau. China having already built over 84,000 hydro electric dams is also constructing more throughout the Plateau to satisfy energy demands of a developing nation. Control over the rivers accumulates political leverage over all downstream nations. Beyond the human rights issues, widened to a geopolitical perspective, Tibet without an army will always be vulnerable to foreign control which means control over the water towers of Asia and a potential chokehold on China’s water and therefore it’s sovereignty. 💧 ‘Tears of Paradise’ goes on till 7 March 2020. Please RSVP for an in conversation with Mark Rappolt, Art Review editor-in-chief 19 Feb. The discussion will begin at 7pm. RSVP eve@edelassanti.com to reserve a seat. The event is free, but space is limited. 🌟 Exhibition dates: 17 January - 7 March 2020 Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm 🌟 #GordonCheung #EdelAssanti #Art #TearsOfParadise #TibetanPlateau (Edel Assanti) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8RFMrRFSEV/?igshid=1pbw4hjprebl3

[inezsuenart]

Please join us on September 21, 2019 at 3:30pm at the @chicagopubliclibrary Chinatown branch to welcome London based artist, @gordoncheung and take an in depth look at the inspirations and motivations behind his artworks in the @edelassanti booth at the @expochicago #artisttalk #chicago #expochicago #artist #contemporaryart #paintings #chinatown (at Chinatown Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2H64N-Fs6Q/?igshid=ftaer43wfohq

[gordoncheung]

🙏Thank you Margot Mottaz who has written a great and nuanced feature on my solo show published in Artomity. ✨ Tears of Paradise / Edel Assanti / London / Jan 17 – Mar 18, 2020 / Margot Mottaz / ✨ #GordonCheung #MargotMottaz #EdelAssanti #TearsOfParadise #Artomity @edelassanti @artomitymagazine @margotmottaz (at Edel Assanti) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_zDTz-FjDf/?igshid=t8n76dpuq4xr

[gordoncheung]

🔥 Launched today is a short video of a conversation between Jeremy Epstein and myself about my installation called Home that is still in the gallery due to the pandemic and ensuing lockdown overlapping at the tail end of the exhibition. Home has become an important consideration for so many reasons in this crisis. 🔥 Home Fires 01: Gordon Cheung 🔥 Home Fires is a series of short conversations between Edel Assanti's artistic director Jeremy Epstein and gallery artists, discussing a recent or ongoing body of work. The conversations address inspiration, research and studio process, whilst framing individual works within a broader context of each artist's practice. 🔥 https://edelassanti.com/viewing-room/1-home-fires-01-gordon-cheung-home/#verify=94bcb163474d46d8ba94361566bbe425 🔥 Made from layered newspaper and bamboo, Gordon Cheung’s window installation Home refers to homes in China with traditional window lattice designs that were demolished due to rapid urbanisation. The sculpture hovers between states of being, suggesting a ghost architecture that would have supported the windows. They act as a demarcation between the march of unstoppable progress, and the framework of identity, history and culture that define the individual. Home appeared in Cheung’s fourth solo show with the gallery, Tears of Paradise. This exhibition was the latest in a series in which Cheung witnesses and interprets events surrounding the emergence of China as a twenty-first century global superpower. 🔥 #GordonCheung #EdelAssanti #HomeFires #covid_19 #Home (at Lockdown London) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_X2_nhlriu/?igshid=aaugyo9o6tel

[gordoncheung]

Home Fires 01: Gordon Cheung 🔥 Home Fires is a series of short conversations between Edel Assanti's artistic director Jeremy Epstein and gallery artists, discussing a recent or ongoing body of work. The conversations address inspiration, research and studio process, whilst framing individual works within a broader context of each artist's practice. 🔥 Home Fires 01: Gordon Cheung will be released this Friday 24 April at 4pm. 🔥 #GordonCheung #EdelAssanti #HomeFires #Lockdown #Covid-19 https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Vgtvzlqei/?igshid=jf9xjk1izioi

[gordoncheung]

Art Review Asia Spring 2020, ‘Myth, Belt, Road and the Sublime. Mark Rappolt, Editor in Chief, interviews Gordon Cheung 😷 #GordonCheung #ArtReview #ArtReviewAsia #MarkRappolt #ChineseWindow #ChineseWindowLattice #EdelAssanti (at Edel Assanti) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_C3L-qFD-t/?igshid=1cs4k17iy3t99