May 8 2004, Saturday, 10am-6pm
CD COVERS, PHOTOGRAPHIC & VIDEO WORKS BY YOUNG ARTISTS FROM NEW EU COUNTRIES: CZECH REPUBLIC; ESTONIA; HUNGARY; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; POLAND; SLOVAKIA & SLOVENIA ON SHOW ON LAST DAY OF "WELCOME!" EXHIBITION AT GALLERY IN GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET
A fairly large exhibition of CD covers, photographic and video works is soon to end in a centrally-located London art gallery, just off London's Regent Street and Oxford Street. Eleven young artists from newly added countries to the EU (European Union) have been brought together in an exhibition simply entitled, "Welcome!" And you are invited to go along and see more and discover more of the newly-extended Europe. Let us take a quick whistle-stop tour of our own, to see what is on offer. Firstly, Czech, Michal Pechoucek's "New Year's Eve" is a photo-novel, comprising seven black and white photographs mounted on board which can be seen on the gallery's outside wall. Also from the Czech Republic is another young artist, Veronika Zapletalova. Her "Summerhouses" comprises 288 colour photographs of Czech houses, used in the summer, which have been mounted on fibreboard. When we met her, at the exhibition's opening last month, Veronika told us they showed scenes from all over the Czech Republic, with the exception of the capital, Prague. Estonian, Kai Kaljo is exhibiting a projected video installation, produced in 1999, entitled "Pathetique." On the gallery's first floor, Hungarian, Gabor Gerhes - who we also met at the exhibition's opening, has two large (each over 1.2 metres by 1.5 metres) framed photographs entitled, "Recognition And Identification Of The Structure Of Decay" and "Fairy-Tale-Like Moment While Acquiring Knowledge." Kaspars Goba, from Latvia, is exhibiting 14 colour photographs mounted on board. In the Video Room, is the work of another Latvian…Katrina Neiburga. Katrina is showing a 20-minute video on monitor entitled, "What Girls Have In Their Purses."
Located around the gallery at different points,
are six framed colour photographs, entitled "Security Guards." They are the work
of Lithuanian, Alma Skersyte. Three dozen colour photographs, entitled
"Refugees" and which are on CD covers on display on the ground floor, reveal the
work of Marta Deskur, from Poland. Those of you who visit the Video Room will also be able
to see another video, by Slovakian, Pavlina Fichta Cierna. It is her 2003 10-minute
projected video installation entitled, "About Josef." Also from Slovakia is
Petra Feriancova, who is exhibiting her 2001 colour photograph, "Home." Last in
this review, but by no means least, are two more large framed coloured photographs (each
over 1.1 metres by 1.3 metres) taken by Slovenian, Tomaz Gregoric and also located on the
gallery's first floor. So, go along and discover more for yourself before the exhibition
finishes.
MENU A: Free
E: (see website)
L: Anthony Reynolds Gallery, 60 Great Marlborough St, London, W1
N: 020 7439 2201
T: Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines)
W: http://www.anthonyreynolds.com/
