Castlefield Gallery Fundraising Auction:

Put Your Money Where Your Eyes Are

I have donated Chess Painting No. 22 to Castlefield Gallery's fundraising auction. Please be generous - all proceeds go towards the running costs of the gallery, having had its funding cut last year. Bidding starts on the 4th May (see below). Thanks. 

Chess Painting No. 22

(Duchamp vs. Davidescu, Paris, 1924)

gesso on linen

Tom Hackney, 2012

Castlefield Gallery will hold an extraordinary Fundraising Auction on Wednesday 30 May 2012, 6-9pm.

The auction will feature almost fifty original artworks from nationally and internationally acclaimed artists/curators, many of whom have exhibited or worked with Castlefield Gallery before such as Pavel Büchler, Shezad Dawood (Abraaj Capital Art Prize and Tate Triennial), Leo Fitzmaurice (Northern Art Prize 2011 winner), Lubaina Himid MBE, Mark Leckey (Turner Prize 2008 winner), Haroon Mirza (Silver Lion, Venice Biennale 2011), Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Olivia Plender (British Art Show and Tate Triennial), Peter Saville and Liam Spencer with 100% of the auction sales proceeds going to Castlefield Gallery. 

The auctioneer for the evening will be highly respected artist and teacher Professor Pavel Büchler of Manchester Metropolitan University.

Castlefield Gallery now is calling on art lovers and collectors to support it in raising funds that will ensure the gallery’s continual success in providing exhibiting and professional development opportunities for artists.

Online bidding will begin from 4 May and the works will be exhibited at the gallery from 19 May.

For more information visit www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk

Curator's Egg Altera Pars (installation view) - Anthony Reynolds Gallery

03.02.12 - 03.03.12

(left) Chess Painting No. 10, Tom Hackney 2011 (selected by Ed Hubbard)

For more information, click here.

I've added several new texts added to the Writings section. To read the This is Tomorrow review of Point. Line. Plane. at Hannah Barry Gallery, by Rye Holmboe, click here. There's also a Contemporary Art Society piece by Paul Hobson, here.

I've also added Ed Krcma's excellent catalogue essay from The Knight Turns its Head and Laughs, here.

You can read a review I have written of the recent Gerhard Richter show at the Tate, to be published in Issue#5 of Enclave Review here.

Image: Tom Hackney, Chess Painting No. 16 (Duchamp vs. Menchik, Paris, 1929) 2011.

Director's Choice

Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Art Society, recommends his favourite exhibition of the week.

"POINT. LINE. PLANE at Hannah Barry’s Peckham gallery is a fresh and robust group exhibition which sets out to survey new attitudes towards geometrical composition in non-objective painting and sculpture. Rather than pin-pointing a method or rule the show offers insight into some of the ways in which contemporary artists are approaching geometrical composition. I was particularly taken with the intriguing beauty of Tom Hackney’s chess paintings. The three works in the show map out moves played in three chess games Duchamp played in 1920’s Paris. The artist grids a square canvas and using a record of the game, maps out its progression applying a layer of gesso on the grid position of each piece move by move; the patterns of moves played out in the game begin to come forward in relief. This delicate and quiet exhibition causes the viewer to think about balance, composition and the relationship between geometrical rigour and gestural expression amongst a group of artists searching out a new vocabulary in point, line and plane."

29 October – 3 December 2011

Kadar Brock, Lilah Fowler, Christopher Green, Tom Hackney, Nick Jeffrey, Wyatt Kahn, Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Rob Sherwood, Viktor Timofeev

Hannah Barry Gallery, Unit 9i, Copeland Road Industrial Estate, 133 Copeland Road, London SE13 3SN

Open Wednesdays - Saturdays, 11am - 5pm, or by appointment.

www.hannahbarry.com