Nothing in the World but Youth - Margate

Sarah Lucas,  Eating a Banana, from Self-Portraits 1990-98. (Tate Collection)

Nothing in the World but Youth is the new exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate, 17 September 2011 - 8 January 2012. The gallery states that the exhibition "will explore how youth experience has been reflected in art, culture and the media since the late nineteenth century, when adolescence emerged in cultural consciousness as a distinct phase of life, between childhood and adulthood".

The exhibition will feature no less than 94 artists, including: Diane Arbus / Peter Blake / David Bowie /  Glenn Brown / Henri Cartier-Bresson /  Michael Craig-Martin / Bruce Davidson / Corinne Day / Rineke Dijkstra / Richard Hamilton /  Lewis Hine / David Hockney / Chris Killip /  Sarah Lucas / Roger Mayne / Don McCullin / Jacob Riis /  George Shaw / Chris Steele-Perkins / Mitra Tabrizian / Juergen Teller / JMW Turner / Jeff Wall / Andy Warhol / Francesca Woodman. See here for the full list.

David Hockney,  We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961 (Arts Council Collection)

Peter Blake, Self-Portrait with Badges, 1961 (Tate Collection)

Rothko in Britain - Whitechapel Gallery

Rothko in Britain is an archive exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery (until 26 February 2012) marking the 50th anniversary of the first British Rothko show in 1961.  Read Laura Cumming's review and account of the huge impact that this exhibition had - and the indirect consequence of the Tate's acquisition of the Seagram murals.

Visitors at the 1961 Rothko exhibition at the Whitechapel. Photograph by Sandra Lousada

Mark Rothko, Light Red Over Black, 1957. The first of Rothko's works to be acquired by a British museum, and included in the current Whitechapel exhibition. (Tate Collection)

Mark Rothko, pictured in Cornwall during his first visit to Britain in 1959: clockwise from bottom centre:June Feiler, Helen and Anthony Feiler, Peter Lanyon, Marie Miles, Mell Rothko, Mark Rothko and Terry Frost. Photograph by Paul Feiler

Richard Hamilton, 1922 - 2011

Richard Hamilton died on 13 September, 2011. Read obituary by the late Norbert Lynton (1927 - 2007) and by Tim Head in Art Monthly, October 2011, No.350, p22. See also article based on an interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Pop Daddy, in Tate Magazine, Issue 4 (2003) and Remembering Richard Hamilton as a Design Critic, by Alice Twemlow. Below is a selection of his work.

Richard Hamilton, Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland, 1964

Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, 1956 (Tate Collection)

Richard Hamilton, Hommage a Chrysler Corp., 1957 (Tate Collection)

Richard Hamilton, My Marilyn, 1965 (Tate Collection)

Richard Hamilton, Epiphany, 1964

Richard Hamilton, Swingeing London 67, 1968-9 (Tate Collection)

Richard Hamilton, The Citizen, 1982-3 (Tate Collection)

Marcel Duchamp, La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même: The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass),  1915-23, reconstruction by Richard Hamilton 1965-6, lower panel remade 1985 (Tate Collection)

9/11 Tenth Anniversary: 10 photographs

Robert Clark

Spencer Platt

Marty Lederhandler

Patrick Witty

James Nachtwey

Alex Webb

Thomas Hoepker

James Nachtwey

Richard Drew

Stan Honda

Open West - Award Winners exhibition

4 Seen: The Open West 2011 Award Winners will be at The Gardens Gallery, Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham from 7 September until 13 September.
The exhibitors are Shan Hur, Helen Murgatroyd, Ellen Nolan and David Theobald. Examples of their work appear below, together with blurbs supplied by Open West.
Open West 20112 will be held in Gloucester Cathedral: the deadline for applications is 31 October 2011 - details and application forms on the Open West website.

Shan Hur, Ball in the Pillar, 2010

Shan Hur will be exhibiting a site-specific sculpture, expanding on his maxim ‘one brick cannot make a wall’ and continuing the themes of intervention and surprise that run through his work. Shan sees language and images in the debris of construction sites and plays with the disruption of normal perception. He completed his MFA at the Slade in 2010 and was spotlighted in The Independent as one of the year’s 40 most promising UK art school graduates.    

Helen Murgatroyd, Five Onions Printing Jig, 2010

Helen Murgatroyd will also be creating an installation in response to the site and influenced by her recent residency in rural North Cornwall. Inspired by Royal Mail sorting offices, kitchen utensils and the ideals of cottage industries, Helen invents tools and workstations to allow the duplication of her drawings. Helen is the recipient of a number of awards including the RCA Sustain Award and the Wooda Residency Award, and has work in private collections including the Conran Foundation. She completed her MA in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in 2010.

Ellen Nolan, Safety in Numbers: Untitled (Group 1)

 Ellen Nolan’s photographic project, Safety in Numbers, was developed as a result of a short but intensive collaboration with Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre. Safety in Numbers is an observation on the dynamics and identities of a group of Cheltenham school children within the context of a modern school. These photographs explore and reflect the collective realism of an institutional dynamic. Since graduating with an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2008, Ellen has been exhibiting internationally. Gallery commissions and shows include The Photographers Gallery and Grimmuseum, Berlin.

David Theobald, Trill (2010) Screen shot from digital animation of original photographs and downloaded images.

 David Theobald’s new animation Workers Playtime is a playful contemporary reboot of the morale raising radio show of the same name broadcast from the factory floor throughout the 1940s and 1950s. His films are animated loops structured from photographs, scanned images or single fames extracted from video footage, blended together to create a familiar yet alien environment. Recent exhibitions include this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Re:Animate at the Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales. David completed his MFA Art Practice at Goldsmiths College in 2008.

Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth, Audience 1, Florence, 2004

There is a wonderful exhibition of work by Thomas Struth at the Whitechapel Gallery, until 16 September. Read reviews by Adrian Searle, and Sean O'Hagan, and see a selection of images below.

Thomas Struth, Gereonswall, Cologne, 1982

Thomas Struth, Alte Pinakothek, Self-Portrait, Munich, 2000

Thomas Struth, San Zaccaria, Venice, 1995

Thomas Struth, Pantheon, Rome, 1990

Thomas Struth, Mailänder Dom, Milan, 1998

Thomas Struth, Semi Submersible Rig DSME Shipyard, Geoje Island, 2007

 

Image Manipulation

Roger Tooth, Head of Photogaphy at the Guardian, has written a short piece about image manipulation and journalism. He argues that context is key and that, for example, a picture of the Duchess of Cambridge, used on the cover of Grazia, in which her partner's arm was removed and replaced by a cloned copy of her own right arm, is acceptable because it is pure 'illustration'; it would not, however, be permissible in a the context of a news story. He suggests that practices which were routine in a darkroom, such as cropping and toning, are broadly acceptable but that the moving of pixels or "cutting and pasting" is absolutely not. However, he explains that picture editors are increasingly reliant on trust and that readers are increasingly alert to attempts to deceive, eg, the recent picture of President Assad of Syria swearing in the new governor who seems to be strangely floating above the carpet.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton on the Grazia cover on 9 May (left) and the original image (right). Photograph: Grazia/Getty Images

A Syrian state agency photo of the president swearing in the newly appointed governor of Hama is suspected of being a cut-and-paste job. Photograph: AP

For further examples of image manipulation, see Photo Tampering throughout History.