ASPEX PREVIEW THIS SATURDAY - AFTERIMAGE, KIHLBERG & HENRY

This Saturday at aspex is the opening of Afterimage - an exhibition of newly commissioned work by Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry, the winners of the aspex biennial open submission competition EMERGENCY4. 

Through video and installation, Kihlberg and Henry investigate the history of 'viewership' and explore what it might be like to view the 'after image' of history in our present surroundings. As a framework for this exploration, Kihlberg & Henry have tracked down the many cinemas in operation on Portsea Island between the turn of the 20th century and their post-war decline, searching not for the images projected into the frames of the cinema’s screens, but for the physical locations that housed them and their audiences.  These sites now reflect aspects of contemporary life such as shopping, eating, and accommodation that have not only taken over the physical space that was once occupied by the cinema but also its place in our culture.  However within these images there is the ghost of a history which the artists re-frame as a two-dimensional image in the gallery and through this work suggest a new condition of 'viewership" where parallel embodiments of both time and place collide.

Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry have been collaborating since 2004. For the past two years they have worked as researchers in the Fine Art Department at the Jan van Eyck Academy. Their work has been screened at Tate Modern and they took part in the 100 Ideas Festival at Hayward Gallery in 2007. They have presented solo exhibitions at Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Vivid in Birmingham and Danielle Arnaud in London. This autumn they will be resident artists at the Institute of Beyond at Wysing Art Centre. Kihlberg & Henry are represented by Danielle Arnaud.

Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry
Afterimage
Preview: Saturday 9 April, 2pm.
Exhibition continues to 26 June.
aspex
The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth PO1 3BF

www.aspex.org.uk
 

THE THREADNEEDLE PRIZE

Last year's winning entry by Patricia Cain

Registration is now open for this year's Threadneedle Prize for representational art. 

The £25,000 Prize showcases paintings and sculptures that promote the practice of representational art but at the same time, challenge its "language and assumptions".

Both experienced and emerging artists are invited to submit work that is strong and topical in its observations on the world. There is over £40,000 of prize money to be won which makes this one of the largest prizes in the UK.

All the work selected for the exhibition in September - approximately 65 pieces - will be sourced through the open competition.  The winner of the £25,000 will be chosen by a panel of selectors from a shortlist of seven works and each of the six runners up will receive £1,000.  All works in the exhibition will also be eligible to win the £10,000 Visitors’ Choice prize.

Work in a variety of media - paintings, sculptures, original prints and drawings, mixed media constructions, reliefs and other figurative installations - will be accepted and each artist can submit up to three works.  Photography and video is only acceptable within other mixed media installations.
For full details, see The Threadneedle Prize website.