(Chess Painting No. 27, 2013)

"Essence of Things"

Chess & new abstract reduction 
in contemporary British Painting

ERNESTO CANOVAS
TOM HACKNEY
GRACJANA REJMER-CANOVAS

AMBACHER CONTEMPORARY

Lothstrasse 78a - 80797 München/Germany

Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday, 1pm - 6pm

Private View, 16.5.2013, 7pm 

17.5. - 29.6. 2013

(Colour Chart No. 5,  2013)

PLURAL
Curated by BREESE LITTLE
Joe Biel, Suki Chan, Tom Hackney, Rowena Hughes,
NASA (Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt)
and Sam Zealey

WW Gallery, 34/35 Hatton Garden
London, EC1N 8DX

Private View: Tuesday 5th March, 6 – 9 pm
Show runs: 6th – 23rd March 2013
Open: Weds - Fri, 11 - 6, Sat, 11 – 4

Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image

curated by Ed Krcma and Matt Packer

Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland

22 January - 10 March 2013

Artists: Pierre Bismuth, Tacita Dean, Brian Fay, Tom Hackney, William Kentridge, Alice Maher, Henri Matisse, Henri Michaux, Susan Morris, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, and Denis Oppenheim.

Motion Capture is an exhibition that explores the relationship between drawing and the moving image, examining the way in which each one involves both movement and stillness. The exhibition presents works on paper alongside investigations of drawing in other media, including film, video and photography.

The language of film and the cinema was adopted in the mid-20th century by such celebrated artists as Henri Matisse and Henri Michaux to describe their drawing practice. The contemporary artists in Motion Capture make contact with these earlier moments and reveal the ability of drawing to capture and articulate movement.

A 183p fully illustrated catalogue is available, featuring texts by participating artists and essays by Ed Krcma, Matt Packer and Chris Clarke.

(ISBN 978-1-906642-56-3)

www.glucksman.org

Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image

Curated by Ed Krcma and Matt Packer

27 July - 4 November 2012

Artists: Pierre Bismuth, Tacita Dean, Brian Fay, Tom Hackney, William Kentridge, Alice Maher, Henri Matisse, Henri Michaux, Susan Morris, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, and Denis Oppenheim.

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland

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