Philip Lee

bookartbookshop is hosting an exhibition of artist books by AM Bruno

Private View

Friday 24th April
6 30 - 8 30pm

25th April – 2nd May 09
Wednesday to Friday 12 – 7pm
Saturday 12 – 6pm

Bookartbookshop
17 Pitfield St
London N1 6HB
020 7608 1333

AM BRUNO represents current artistic thought, practice and sensibility translated and expanded into book art form. The artists in the group are visual and conceptual practitioners in all media, including painting, photography, video, performance and sculpture.

The themes vary from inquiry into the nature of books/sketchbooks, human body/desire/private life, the value of artificiality, writing/image and time.

AM Bruno is an alliance of artists initiated by MA fine art graduates from Central Saint Martins.
Charlotte Andrew, Marco Cali, Nancy Campbell, Sara Dell'onze, Claire Deniau, Ana Efe, Francesca Galeazzi, Judy Goldhill, Jane Grisewood, Heather James, Anna Johnson, Philip Lee, Heidi Locher, Sophie Loss, Penny Matheson , Steve Perfect, Jeni Snell, Cally Trench, Paula Naughton, Alvin Watt, Mary Yacoob

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Between Gallery and Bookshop

Distribution and Artists' Books

Talk: 25th April 2009 18:00 - 21:00

IMT presents Between Gallery and Bookshop, a talk with Gordon Shrigley, Emily Speed and Kelly Wellman on artists' books to coincide with an exhibition of books by artists' collective AM BRUNO at the bookartbookshop. The talk is to address questions of distribution and display context for artists who use books as a medium for creative practice. How do different contexts of distribution affect the creation of and engagement with artists' books? Between Gallery and Bookshop attempts to look at artists' books via the channels through which they reach their readers.

In addition to the talk the gallery will be open from noon on the 25th of April with a curated display of books by members of AM BRUNO. The talk is free however places are limited.

Gordon Shrigley runs Marmalade and Filmarmalade, publishers of contemporary works of visual theory in the form of either drawing, text, photography or video. Both the artists' book publisher Marmalade, and the video DVD label Filmarmalade grew out of a desire to promote and distribute works that allow artists the space to ‘think the visual [. . .] through the act of a sustained looking, talking and working with and through media'.

Emily Speed is an artist based in Liverpool. She founded and coordinated Liverpool Artists' Book Fair in 2008 and is part of the artist-led space Wolstenholme Projects.

Kelly Wellman has an MA in artists' books. She teaches at Camberwell and runs bookartbookshop with Tanya Peixoto.

Between Gallery and Bookshop has been organised by artists collective AM BRUNO and IMT Gallery. AM BRUNO is an alliance of 24 artists initiated by MA fine art graduates from Central Saint Martins. AM BRUNO represents current artistic thought, practice and sensibility translated and expanded into book art form. The artists in the group are visual and conceptual practitioners in all media, including painting, photography, video, performance and sculpture. The themes vary from inquiry into the nature of books/sketchbooks, human body/desire/private life, the value of artificiality, writing/image and time.

An exhibition of artists' books by AM BRUNO will also be held at the bookartbookshop from 25 April - 2nd May 2009.

Weblinks:

• IMT http://www.imagemusictext.com/
• AM BRUNO http://www.am-bruno.blogspot.com/
• bookartbookshop http://www.bookartbookshop.com/
• Filmarmalade http://www.filmarmalade.co.uk/
• Wolstenholme Projects http://www.wolstenholmeprojects.org/

Philip Lee performs Colours I 2009, a new live body piece performed for the first time incorporating body paints and water. Lee applies body-paint in a ritualistic and methodical way, from head to toe and then toe to head, and so on. Different coloured paints are used for each sequence, as the body's skin becomes an ever-changing palimpsest. Lee struggles to follow his self-imposed schedule in an action that is symbolic of the journey through life to the deep unknown. As a living sculpture, Lee interrogates artistic traditions while the viewer is forced to consider the terrifying transience of corporeal existence.

Yason Banal will present Untitled/Again (Marienbad); a video and performance inspired by Alain Robert-Grillet and Alain Resnais' cold classic Last Year at Marienbad. Untitled/Again (Marienbad) is a constellation of the space-time continuum, purgatorial ennui and art haut naturalism, as well as photographic amnesia, cinematic stillness and sculptural performance. Yason Banal forms a contemporary constellation around etiquette, lethargy and stupor by transporting Marienbad to different cities, inhabited by human figurines, sculptural garments and gallery artifacts. Courtauld Institute students will form a doom couture styled tableaux vivant that will accompany the video screening.

Due to popular demand, Stephen Walter’s exhibition of The Island: London Series has now been extended until July 2009.

If you require any further information or wish to arrange a private tour of the collection for yourself, friends or clients then please do get in touch. Catalogues will also be available for artists to collect for the duration of the weekend.

Check www.eastwing8.co.uk to see the range of forthcoming exciting events.

Many thanks
Kindest regards

Chloé Nelkin
Chair, East Wing VIII
07764 273 219
www.eastwing8.co.uk

Next openings:
Saturday 25th April
Sunday 26th April
Friday 22nd May - Museums at Night programme
Saturday 27th June
Sunday 28th June
Saturday 25th July
Sunday 26th July - last ever opening
Please see the website for further dates and full details of all performances.