Artprojx news, update and recommendations April 2013

Jumana Manna: Blessed Blessed Oblivion (still)

Jane Bustin in the Drawing Room’s Drawing Biennial – auction and exhibition from 18 April

http://drawingroom.org.uk/drawingbiennial2013

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Nick Abrahams Films – Dukes at Komedia, Brighton 20 April

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Dukes_At_Komedia/film/A_Night_Of_Nick_Abrahams_Films/

https://www.facebook.com/events/569334899765708/

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Patrick and Tristram Fetherstonhaugh – Transplant at Margaret Street Gallery from 18 April

http://www.patrickandtristramf.com/

http://margaretstreetgallery.com/

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Charlie Phillips – The Urban Eye, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, curated by Paul Goodwin from 20 April

http://thenewartexchange.org.uk/

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Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother (still)

Artprojx presents at Picturehouse, Hackney – 6 June

The Poetics of Unforgetting with Jumana Manna, Mickalane Thomas, Susanna Wallin

www.artprojx.com

http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/  info coming soon.

a new monthly series

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The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia … presented by Artprojx

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/

Part 2  http://www.youtube.com/

featuring: Nick Abrahams, Shoja Azari, Hans op de Beeck, Stuart Croft, Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Jumana Manna, Nicolas Provost, Ben Rivers, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Matthew Stone, Kerry Tribe, Susanna Wallin.

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Susanna Wallin: Echo Park (still)

Artprojx on blinkvideo

featuring Susanna Wallin

http://www.blinkvideo.de/

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contact

David Gryn

+447711127848

david@artprojx.com

www.artprojx.com

Artprojx News January 2013

Artprojx News January 2013 - Artist News

Jane Bustin – MOSTYN OPEN 18

Nick Abrahams Films – ICA

Meredith Danluck – Sundance

The Poetics of Anxiety and Melancholia – MOCAtv

E.S.P TV Season 3 – Kickstarter

Summer Show – Cul de Sac

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Jane Bustin at Mostyn Open

MOSTYN OPEN 18

Selected by: Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN; Adam Carr, Curator of MOSTYN; Ryan Gander, artist; and the visiting audience, for the People’s Choice.

Participating artists: Jacqueline Bebb, Jane Bustin, Cath Campbell, Tomas Chaffe, Danilo Correale, Sean Edwards, Alex Farrar, Claudio Gobbi, Gareth Griffith, The Hut Project, Yuki Kishino, Lawrence Leaman, James Lewis, Stuart Middleton, Edward Morgan, Philip Newcombe, John Henry Newton, Laura Reeves, Zhao Renhui, Hua Kuan Chen Sai, Chris Shaw-Hughes, Nikolaus Schletterer, Mathew Tom, Alaena Turner, Gwyn Williams, Jesse Wine.

MOSTYN Open 18

12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno

LL30 1AB  Wales, UK

Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10:30–5pm

www.mostyn.org

Since its inception in 1989, MOSTYN Open has functioned as a call-out to artists of any age and residing place to enter, with an exhibition of the selected artworks taking place at MOSTYN, and a prize of 10,000 GBP awarded to a single artist or collective. While continuing in this tradition, this 18th edition will also bring a fundamental addition. A prize of 1,000 GBP will be given to the People’s Choice, determined by the artist who receives the most votes from the visiting public during the exhibition’s run. In doing so, the questions that are raised, and central to this renewed edition, are: How do we examine and judge artwork? What criteria do we bring to perceiving, interpreting and understanding artwork? What really makes our favourite? Visitors are invited to make their selection at the People’s Choice voting booth.

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/mostyn-open-18/

http://www.janebustin.com

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The Posters Came From The Walls

NICK ABRAHAMS FILMS AT THE ICA

Jan 24th Screening of excerpts from films, promos etc at the ICA in London, with chat from director Nick Abrahams and David Gryn, curator at Artprojx from 7pm, videos involving collaborations with Sigur Ros, Jeremy Deller, Huggy Bear, Stereolab, Aidan Gillen and many others…

please come along plus dj’s in ICA bar afterwards

http://www.ica.org.uk/36103/Film/A-Night-of-Nick-Abrahams-Films.html

and then on Jan 25th Screening of ‘The Bruce Lacey Experience’ by Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller, followed by Q + A with the directors at 6.30pm

http://www.ica.org.uk/36107/Film/The-Bruce-Lacey-Experience-Jeremy-Deller-Nick-Abrahams-QA.html

http://www.facebook.com/events/397411923676617/

http://www.nicholasabrahams.com/

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Meredith Danuck’s North of South, West of East

MEREDITH DANLUCK – SUNDANCE

Meredith Danluck is an artist and filmmaker working in New York and Los Angeles. She has exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and Venice Biennale and has a major film installation coming up at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit (MOCAD). She has also screened films at a number of festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, Byron Bay International Film Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, and Margaret Mead Film Festival.

North of South, West of East enhances narrative storytelling by wrapping the film around the entire room. Presented in a 20-seat theatre with swivel chairs, Meredith Danluck’s remarkable four-channel narrative feature deftly unspools a darkly humorous tale of small-town folks as they try to make sense of a posthope America. Shot on location in Detroit, Michigan, and Marfa, Texas, this unique film features fantastic performances by Ben Foster, Stella Schnabel, and Sue Galloway, and a soundtrack by Marfa local punk band Solid Waste. – S. F.

http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/13034/north_of_south_west_of_east

See also: Cinema Series 1 (Fight Scene) on MOCAtv http://youtu.be/Ml-Ok5qHb9E

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THE POETICS OF ANXIETY AND MELANCHOLIA – MOCAtv

Curated by David Gryn / Artprojx

Part 1

Nick Abrahams, Shoja Azari, Stuart Croft, Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Jumana Manna, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxu-gwnbaA&feature=share&list=PLLdkjkOBv9VROLLgC-a5rcrCZ9FhYVlHG

Part 2

Hans op de Beeck, Shoja Azari, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Nicolas Provost, Ben Rivers, Matthew Stone, Kerry Tribe, Susanna Wallin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cLNJRageaA&feature=share&list=PLLdkjkOBv9VSZxJTI7O-EGXWb6NRzDGHa

http://www.artprojx.com

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SUPPORT E.S.P. TV

Season 3 on Kickstarter http://t.co/A1SODPB9

E.S.P. TV is a nomadic showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music, video art and performance and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television. E.S.P. TV formed in January of 2011 out of Louis V E.S.P.  The following year, E.S.P. TV opened a new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for production of the show, development of the E.S.P. LAB project, and a regular schedule of performances, screenings and special events.

Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to VHS and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New York City. After airing, the episodes are posted online at http://www.esptvnyc.com for later viewing.

E.S.P. TV has worked with various venues including: Present Company, The Schoolhouse, La Sala, 285 Kent, Vaudeville Park, Spectacle Theater andRoulette (Brooklyn, NY), Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT), Liminal Space(Oakland), Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco), Millennium Film Workshop (New York City) as a part of INDEX Festival, Printed Matter (NYC),General Public (Berlin) and Pallas Projects (Dublin). http://www.esptvnyc.com/

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SUMMER SHOW – CUL DE SAC GALLERY

JIRO AMETANI, THORBJØRN ANDERSON, SOL ARCHER, VANYA BALOGH, DOMINIC BEATTIE, LOUIS BENASSI, HECTOR CASTELLS, VINCENT LE CHAPELAIN, CLAUDIA DJABBARI, ELISE, DAMIEN GOOD, ALEX FOX, STEPHEN HALL, DENISE HAWRYSIO, CAMERON IRVING, TIMO KUBE,TOMAZ KRAMBERGER, SAMIA MALIK, DAWN MELLOR, FLORE NOVÉ-JOSSERAND, DANIEL PASTEINER, OLIVER PERKINS, RAUL PINA PEREZ, ELLIOT POTTS, LILI REN, SVEN SACHSALBER, REBECCA SCOTT, DALLAS SEITZ, PULPSTUDIO, DAVID BRIAN SMITH, MARTINA SCHMÜCKER, JULIA VARELA, JESSE WINE, MARK WOODS

PV 12/01/2013,  7 – 10 PM

HECTOR CASTELLS PERFORMANCE

‘THERE ARE BETTER THINGS TO DO’ 8:30 PM

EXHIBITION OPEN 
13/01 – 12/02/2013

THURSDAY – SUNDAY,  12 – 6 PM

CUL DE SAC GALLERY

65 – 69 COUNTY STREET

LONDON, SE1 4AD

WWW.CULDESACGALLERY.COM

http://www.facebook.com/events/115004688674117/

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David Gryn

david@artprojx.com

+447711127848

http://www.artprojx.com

MOSTYN OPEN 18 – artists announced

MOSTYN OPEN 18

18th January – 14th April 2013

MOSTYN | Wales is delighted to announce the participating artists for MOSTYN Open 18. They are, Jacqueline Bebb, Jane Bustin, Cath Campbell, Tomas Chaffe, Danilo Correale, Sean Edwards, Alex Farrar, Claudio Gobbi, Gareth Griffith, The Hut Project, Yuki Kishino, Lawrence Leaman, James Lewis, Stuart Middleton, Edward Morgan, Philip Newcombe, John Henry Newton, Laura Reeves, Zhao Renhui, Hua Kuan Chen Sai, Chris Shaw-Hughes, Nikolaus Schletterer, Mathew Tom, Alaena Turner, Gwyn Williams, and Jesse Wine.

Beloved by Jane Bustin

Since its inception in 1989, the Open has functioned as a call-out to artists of any age and residing place to enter, with an exhibition of the selected artworks taking place at MOSTYN, and a prize of £10,000 awarded to a single artist or collective.

While continuing in this tradition, the 18th edition will also bring a fundamental addition. A prize of £1000 will be given to the Peopleʼs Choice, which will be determined by the artist who receives the most votes from the visiting public during the exhibitionʼs run. In doing so, the questions that will be raised, and central to this renewed edition, are: How do we examine and judge artwork? What criteria do we bring to perceiving, interpreting and understanding artwork? What really makes our favourite?

The selection of artists for MOSTYN Open 18 represents the rise of MOSTYNʼs international profile and the significance of the Open itself, with participants from Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, as well as the UK.

MOSTYN Open 18 has been selected by Adam Carr, Curator of MOSTYN; Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN; Ryan Gander, and you, the visiting audience, for the People’s Choice.

MOSTYN | CYMRU | WALES is Wales’s leading public contemporary art gallery and receives financial support from the Arts Council of Wales, Conwy County Borough Council Art Service and Llandudno Town Council. Situated in the north Wales coastal town of Llandudno it reopened in May 2010 following an award winning major expansion project designed by Ellis Williams Architects. Mostyn Gallery Ltd is a registered charity trading as MOSTYN. MOSTYN is part of the Plus TATE network of galleries.

MOSTYN, 12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno, Conwy, LL30 1AB +44(0)1492 879201 www.mostyn.org

Open Daily 10.30am – 5.00pm ADMISSION FREE

For more information or to request images please contact Lin Cummins, Audience Relations Manager at MOSTYN on +44 (0)1492 879201 or email lin@mostyn.org

MEDIA RELEASE November 2012

Contact for Jane Bustin – see www.janebustin.com 

Artprojx Events and News Update Oct 2012

ARTPROJX EVENTS & NEWS UPDATE OCT 2012 …

Artprojx presents a special screening during the Frieze Art Fair Week: ‘THIS IS A TRUE STORY’: FOUR SHORT FILMS BY PENNY SIOPIS in association with Stevenson. Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema on Thurs 11 Oct http://davidgryn.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/artprojx-presents-penny-siopis-films-frieze-art-fair-week/

Penny Siopis films are magical, mesmerising and harrowing – and explores what she calls the ‘poetics of vulnerability’  …

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Film and Video at Art Fairs – a panel discussion at Moving Image – the Contemporary Art Fair on Fri 12 Oct. With Amanda Coulson, Michael Hall, Elizabeth Dee / Jayne Drost Johnson,  David Gryn and Janet Biggs.

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David Gryn / Artprojx curates for:

‘The Voice and the Lens’ at IKON, Birmingham, Nov 2012. Artists: Terry Smith, David Blandy, Rashaad Newsome, Mel Brimfield, Kota Ezawa, Dara Friedman, Martha Rosler www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/

The launch of MOCAtv. Artists: Meredith Danluck, Jesper Just, Kerry Tribe, Matthew Stone, Nick Abrahams, Stuart Croft, Sam Samore and Thomas Nordanstad, Shoja Azari, Jumana Manna, Hans op de Beeck, Nicholas Provost, Susanna Wallin http://www.youtube.com/mocatv

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Art Video at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 - selected by David Gryn / Artprojx – programme soon to be announced.

also

Jane Bustin is currently in the John Moores Painting Prize, Jerwood Dawing Prize and will be in the MOSTYN Open 18 in 2013 – see www.janebustin.com

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David Gryn, Director & Founder of Artprojx - a leading brand that screens, curates and promotes artists’ moving image projects, working with leading international contemporary art galleries, art fairs, institutes and artists.

Artprojx projects have included: Art Basel Miami Beach, MOCAtv, Gagosian, White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ, Lisson Gallery, The Modern Institute, Whitney Museum, Tate Britain, ICA, Frieze Art Fair and artists have included: Christian Marclay, Dara Friedman, Santiago Sierra, Mark Wallinger, Christian Jankowski, Tracey Emin, Susan Hiller, Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Wilhelm Sasnal, William Eggleston, Natalie Djurberg, William Kentridge, Luke Fowler. www.artprojx.com

Contact David Gryn for more information: david@artprojx.com +447711127848

Jane Bustin in the Jerwood Drawing Prize and John Moores Painting Prize

sacrificed to veil – sacrifiés pour voiler, 2011 by Jane Bustin. 
oil on muslin, oak and gesso
200cm x 150cm (overall wallspace)

Jane Bustin has work featuring in the Jerwood Drawing Prize and John Moores Painting Prize – both opening this week.

Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012

12 SEPTEMBER – 28 OCTOBER 2012

The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 is the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Judged by an independent panel of selectors; Stephen Coppel, Curator of the Modern Collection, Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum; Kate Macfarlane, Co-Director of The Drawing Room, London; and Lisa Milroy, Artist and Head of Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, the Prize aims to explore and celebrate the diversity, excellence and range of current drawing practice in the UK.

From a submission of almost 3,000 entries, the selectors have brought together an exhibition of 78 works from 73 artists. The shortlist includes established artists as well as relative newcomers and students fresh from art college. The selected works will be exhibited at JVA at Jerwood Space, London from 12 September – 28 October 2012, and then tour to venues across the UK including the new Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and mac, Birmingham.

The artists short-listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 are: Katie Aggett, Judith Alder, Linda Antalova, Aglaé Bassens, Meghana Bisineer, Matthew Burrows, Malina Busch, Jane Bustin, Elizabeth Butterworth, Heeseung Choi, Alexander Costello, Toni Davey, Jeffrey Dennis, Jane Dixon, Paul Eachus, Mark Evans, Marisa J. Futernick, Matteo Fuzzi, Richard Galloway, Stefan Gant, Pippa Gatty, Albert Geere, Karolina Glusiec, Margarita Gluzberg, Thomas Gosebruch, Beatrice Haines, Susie Hamilton, Tom Hammick, Jane Harris, Oona Hassim, Greg Hayman, Jefford Horrigan, Joanne Hummel-Newell, Abigail Hunt, Robin Jones, Kerstin Kartscher, Min Kim, Rebecca Kunzi, Nadine Mahoney, Sam Mould, Kyounghee Noh, Nengi Omuku, Simon Parish, Sarah Pettitt, Kasper Pincis, Kathy Prendergast, Carl Randall, Howard Read, Frances Richardson, Ishai Rimmer, Fiona Robinson, Daniela Sarigu, Katy Shepherd, Ruth Simons, Simson & Volley, Eiko Soga, Bada Song, Sarah Spackman, Jenny Steele, Maaike Anne Stevens, Rebecca Swindell, Eleanor Taylor, Shelley Theodore, Mathew Tom, Amikam Toren, Felicity Truscott, Andrew Vass, Julia Vogl, Sarah Kate Wilson, Ching Wong, Tanya Wood, William Wright, Aishan Yu.

http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/3095/Jerwood-Drawing-Prize-2010

John Moores Painting Prize 2012

First held in 1957, the John Moores Painting Prize is the UK’s best-known painting competition and is named after Sir John Moores (1896 – 1993), the founder of the prize. The competition culminates in an exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery every two years, which forms a key strand of the Liverpool Biennial.

The John Moores exhibition is held in partnership with the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust, and although the appearance of each exhibition changes, the principles remain constant: to support artists and to bring to Liverpool the best contemporary painting from across the UK.

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/

The following works will be displayed in the John Moores 2012 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, opening on 15 September 2012.

Eve Ackroyd

Dead Man

Henny Acloque

277

Kelly Best

That place between 11 and 12

Biggs & Collings

The Greater Light

Katrina Blannin

Pink

James Bloomfield

Collateral Damage – The Killing Jar – 14.I.2012

Hannah Brown

Time Hangs Heavy 3

Jane Bustin

- sacrificed

- to veil

- sacrifiés
- pour voiler

Graham Chorlton

Edge of Town

Wayne Clough

Down the Acapulco

Julie Cockburn

The Field

Paul Collinson

Temple of Ancient Virtue

Andrew Cranston

Thinking inside the box

Theo Cuff

Untitled

Cullinan Richards

Collapse into Abstract (black)

Bernat Daviu

Overall Paintings

David Dipré

Self Portrait on White Ground.

Nathan Eastwood

A Man after Ilya Repin’s Own Heart

Liz Elton

Twisted

Oscar Godfrey

Mineral 9

Vincent Hawkins

The House

Bé van der Heide

In the Desert

Rae Hicks

Late Summer Mirage

John Holland

Home VII

Kevin Hutcheson

Study

Jarik Jongman

Waiting room (1)

Laura Keeble

“I’d like to teach the world to sing!”

Robin Kirsten

Path of Whistlers

Laura Lancaster

Untitled

Brendan Lancaster

Wet Casements

Ian Law

M is many

Dominic Lewis

The Auction

Peter Liversidge

Proposal for the Jury of the John Moores Painting Prize 2012

Angela Lizoń

Made in Taiwan

Elizabeth Magill

Sighting

Danny Markey

Traffic Island in the Snow

Enzo Marra

Monet

Rui Matsunaga

Monkey

Onya McCausland

Iron Hill

Dougal McKenzie

Otl’s Gift (The Honeymoon of the Mechanical Bride)

Damien Meade

Talcum

Sonia Morange

Poncho

Stephen Nicholas

Gallery

Pat O’Connor

Black

Jay Oliver

Outside Toilet

Dan Perfect

Future Sun

Oliver Perkins

DEAD RUBBER

Virginia Phongsathorn

Comma (Test Piece for an Eye Break)

Sarah Pickstone

Stevie Smith and the Willow

Tom Pitt

Steps, Forest Rec.

Kevin J Pocock

Brutal Facade

Sarah Poots

Plaza

Narbi Price

Untitled Kerbstone Painting (MJK)

James Ryan

Untitled

Andrew Seto

Fruit Loop

André Stitt

The Little Summer of St. Michael

Trevor Sutton

Irish Painting (for Jack)

Emma Talbot

The Good Terrorists

Amikam Toren

Armchair Painting – Untitled (The Unthinkable)

Matt Welch

Painting of IKEA shelf brackets arranged in such a way as to signify towards IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad’s involvement with Nazism and Swedish Nationalism, distracted by varying levels of perspectival depth, variations in colour and visually dominated by some form of unknown dark oval in the background

Ian Whittlesea

Studio Painting – Agnes Martin

Thomas M Wright

Inherent Omniscience (Second Version)

More info:

http://www.janebustin.com

http://www.artprojx.com

Anatole Notes project at Testbed – Sept 2012 images

http://www.janebustin.com/gallery/

http://canberracontemporaryartspace.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/and-the-wiiner-was/

Jane Bustin Anatole Notes at Testbed

silence (il pardonne) / silence (he forgives)
oil on oak, somerset paper, japanese paper and letterpress 2010 14cm x 74cm
Jane Bustin

Anatole Notes (part 1) by Jane Bustin

with
Les Mystères du Château de Dé by Man Ray presented by Artprojx

at
Testbed 1

‘Mallarmé would have reacted to these paintings with silence. He was always eloquent.’ Anthony Rudolf on Anatole Notes

The Anatole Notes project consists of assembled groupings of paintings, objects, paper and letterpress text. Each assemblage reflects on the unfinished fragmented poems ‘Pour un Tombeau d’Anatole’ by Stephane Mallarmé (1879), ‘a tomb for Anatole’ translated by Paul Auster (1983). These fragmented phrases are Mallarmé’s attempt to come to terms with the death of his eight year old son Anatole. The sound and the visual arrangement of Mallarmé’s poems were as important as the meaning. His most famous poem ‘un coup de dés’ was a major influence on hypertext and has been the subject matter for many artists including Man Ray, Marcel Broodthaers etc.

Bustin’s reflections on his texts attempt to combine the written words with visual equivalents to reveal the expansive meaning of the text. Each work consists of three or four painted objects arranged on the wall and floor; they are made of various materials e.g. wood, linen, paper, metal, oil paint and readymade chairs. The Mallarmé text has been hand letter-pressed onto paper or linen by New North Press. See http://www.janebustin.com

This series has works that also feature in the John Moores Painting Prize and Jerwood Drawing Prize.

‘The purity of vision and execution in Jane Bustin’s work is startling. Warmth and emotion blur the edges of a teak-tough minimalism as exemplified in the materials used: natural wood grains and rich papers abutting sheer plastics and the mattest blacks.’ Mark Blacklock, writer

Contact: David Gryn david@artprojx.com +447711127848 http://www.artprojx.com

Press info, pricelist, images, more information all available on request.

Anthony Rudolf on Jane Bustin’s Anatole Notes

beloved v
black ink on oak and paper, 2012, 57cm x 18cm
Jane Bustin

DRAFT TEXT FOR JANE BUSTIN
Anthony Rudolf

What could be less verbal than a Jane Bustin painting?

What could be more verbal than a Mallarmé poem?

“One does not write with ideas but with words”, Mallarmé said to Degas, who fancied himself as a poet and had plenty of ideas.

As Borges might have said, we would expect the first livre d’artiste to have been created by Mallarmé (as translator) and Manet: Poe’s ‘Raven’, and we would be right.

Let me rephrase my first sentence: not what could be less verbal but what could be more silent than a Jane Bustin painting? After all, Debussy’s La Mer is as wordless as a Bustin painting. Silent it is not.

(Debussy set one of Mallarmé’s most significant poems, ‘L’Après-midi d’un faune’, to music. Mallarmé told Degas: “I thought I had already set it to music”).

My answer to the question posed above — what could be more silent than a Jane Bustin painting? — is a dead child whose absence his poet father commemorates, that “absence [which] is condensed presence” (the phrase is from a letter of Emily Dickinson, a poet well worth reading “against” Mallarmé).

The dead child is Anatole Mallarmé, whom Jane Bustin too commemorates and whose existence breathes into, inspires, Jane Bustin’s paintings, via a heart-rending posthumously published poem.

It is neither paradoxical nor ironic that Jane Bustin depends so heavily on words during the gestation of her work exhibited at Test-tube. Goya went further: he included words inside the visual image. (There is no artist more freighted with words than Kitaj, and I’m talking about his paintings and prints, not his writings.)

Mallarmé would have reacted to these paintings with silence. He was always eloquent.

By Anthony Rudolf 2012

Born in London in 1942, Anthony Rudolf has two children and two grandchildren. He is the author of books of literary criticism (on Primo Levi, Piotr Rawicz and others), autobiography (The Arithmetic of Memory) and poetry (The Same River Twice and collaborations with artists), and translator of books of poetry from French (Bonnefoy, Vigée, Jabès), Russian (Vinokourov and Tvardovsky) and other languages. He has edited various anthologies. His essay on R.B. Kitaj was published by the National Gallery in 2001, and he has published essays on other painters. He is Paula Rego’s partner and main male model. He has completed a volume of short stories and is now at work on two new memoirs. His reviews, articles, poems, translations, obituaries and interviews with writers have appeared in numerous journals. Rudolf is an occasional broadcaster on radio and television and founder of Menard Press. After a lifetime of uninvolving day jobs, he became Visiting Lecturer in Arts and Humanities at London Metropolitan University (2000-2003) and Royal Literary Fund fellow at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster (2003-2008). In 2004, he was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and, in 2005, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Anatole Notes (part 1) by Jane Bustin
with
Les Mystères du Château de Dé by Man Ray presented by Artprojx

at
Testbed 1
33 Parkgate Road, Battersea, London SW11 4NP
(Next to Royal College of Art – Howie Street)
Fri/Sat/Sun 11am – 6pm daily
Closes Sunday 2 September 2012.

Info/map/images/updates http://davidgryn.wordpress.com

The Anatole Notes project consists of assembled groupings of paintings, objects, paper and letterpress text. Each assemblage reflects on the unfinished fragmented poems ‘Pour un Tombeau d’Anatole’ by Stephane Mallarmé (1879), ‘a tomb for Anatole’ translated by Paul Auster (1983). These fragmented phrases are Mallarmé’s attempt to come to terms with the death of his eight year old son Anatole. The sound and the visual arrangement of Mallarmé’s poems were as important as the meaning. His most famous poem ‘un coup de dés’ was a major influence on hypertext and has been the subject matter for many artists including Man Ray, Marcel Broodthaers etc.

Bustin’s reflections on his texts attempt to combine the written words with visual equivalents to reveal the expansive meaning of the text. Each work consists of three or four painted objects arranged on the wall and floor; they are made of various materials e.g. wood, linen, paper, metal, oil paint and readymade chairs. The Mallarmé text has been hand letter-pressed onto paper or linen by New North Press. See http://www.janebustin.com

This series has works that feature in the John Moores Painting Prize and Jerwood Drawing Prize, both opening over the next few weeks.

Contact: David Gryn david@artprojx.com +447711127848 http://www.artprojx.com

Press info, pricelist, images, more information all available on request.

Venue info and directions: http://www.thedoodlebar.com

Jane Bustin – Anatole Notes opens at Testbed on Wed 29 Aug

malade au printemps 2011 – Jane Bustin
oil on hessian and oak, japanese paper, letterpress and chair 2010

Private View: Wednesday 29 August 2012 6-8pm

Anatole Notes (part 1) by Jane Bustin 
with
Les Mystères du Château de Dé by Man Ray presented by Artprojx

Testbed 1 
33 Parkgate Road, Battersea, London SW11 4NP
29 August – 2 September 2012. 11am – 6pm daily

RSVP events@artprojx.com

The Anatole Notes project consists of assembled groupings of paintings, objects, paper and letterpress text. Each assemblage reflects on the unfinished fragmented poems ‘Pour un Tombeau d’Anatole’ by Stephane Mallarmé (1879), ‘a tomb for Anatole’ translated by Paul Auster (1983). These fragmented phrases are Mallarmé’s attempt to come to terms with the death of his eight year old son Anatole. The sound and the visual arrangement of Mallarmé’s poems were as important as the meaning. His most famous poem ‘un coup de dés’ was a major influence on hypertext and has been the subject matter for many artists including Man Ray, Marcel Broodthaers etc.

Bustin’s reflections on his texts attempt to combine the written words with visual equivalents to reveal the expansive meaning of the text. Each work consists of three or four painted objects arranged on the wall and floor; they are made of various materials e.g. wood, linen, paper, metal, oil paint and readymade chairs. The Mallarmé text has been hand letter-pressed onto paper or linen by New North Press.

the last flowers / les dernieres fleurs
oil on wood, linen and letterpress 2010 by Jane Bustin

“Unusually serious, yet mesmerisingly beautiful, with a deftness of painting and aesthetic balance, Bustin is an artist’s artist, and has a intense quality and master touch. Avowedly not for the minimalist purists, like most of her work, each painting tells a story, it just requires the audience participation to look and realise they are seeing the pure distillation of a concept, an idea, a poetic phrase, a musical note. We expect so much to be done for us with our visual culture, but here Bustin, as ever, makes us particiapte in exploring our language of looking.” Artprojx Review

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Other Anatole Notes works by Jane Bustin have been selected for the John Moores Painting Prize 2012 and the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012. http://www.janebustin.com

Contact: David Gryn david@artprojx.com +447711127848 http://www.artprojx.com
Press info, pricelist, images, more information all available on request.

Venue info and directions: http://www.thedoodlebar.com
Updates at http://davidgryn.wordpress.com

Anatole Notes by Jane Bustin, installation view at Testbed1

silence (il pardonne) iii – Jane Bustin 2012

Jane Bustin: Anatole Notes at Testbed 1 – Opening Weds 29 August 6-8pm

Private View: Wednesday 29 August 2012 6-8pm

Anatole Notes (part 1) by Jane Bustin 
with
Les Mystères du Château de Dé by Man Ray presented by Artprojx

Testbed 1 
33 Parkgate Road, Battersea, London SW11 4NP
29 August – 2 September 2012. 11am – 6pm daily

RSVP events@artprojx.com

The Anatole Notes project consists of assembled groupings of paintings, objects, paper and letterpress text. Each assemblage reflects on the unfinished fragmented poems ‘Pour un Tombeau d’Anatole’ by Stephane Mallarmé (1879), ‘a tomb for Anatole’ translated by Paul Auster (1983). These fragmented phrases are Mallarmé’s attempt to come to terms with the death of his eight year old son Anatole. The sound and the visual arrangement of Mallarmé’s poems were as important as the meaning. His most famous poem ‘un coup de dés’ was a major influence on hypertext and has been the subject matter for many artists including Man Ray, Marcel Broodthaers etc.

Bustin’s reflections on his texts attempt to combine the written words with visual equivalents to reveal the expansive meaning of the text. Each work consists of three or four painted objects arranged on the wall and floor; they are made of various materials e.g. wood, linen, paper, metal, oil paint and readymade chairs. The Mallarmé text has been hand letter-pressed onto paper or linen by New North Press.

“Unusually serious, yet mesmerisingly beautiful, with a deftness of painting and aesthetic balance, Bustin is an artist’s artist, and has a intense quality and master touch. Avowedly not for the minimalist purists, like most of her work, each painting tells a story, it just requires the audience participation to look and realise they are seeing the pure distillation of a concept, an idea, a poetic phrase, a musical note. We expect so much to be done for us with our visual culture, but here Bustin, as ever, makes us particiapte in exploring our language of looking.” Artprojx Review

Other Anatole Notes works by Jane Bustin have been selected for the John Moores Painting Prize 2012 and the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012. http://www.janebustin.com

Contact: David Gryn david@artprojx.com +447711127848 http://www.artprojx.com
Press info, pricelist, images, more information all available on request.

Venue info and directions: http://www.thedoodlebar.com
Updates at http://davidgryn.wordpress.com

Anatole Notes (part 1) by Jane Bustin – press release

– sacrificed
- to veil
- sacrifiés
- pour voiler

Anatole Notes (part 1) by Jane Bustin

with

Les Mystères du Château de Dé by Man Ray

presented by Artprojx

Testbed 1

33 Parkgate Road, Battersea, London SW11 4NP

29 August – 2 September 2012. 11am – 6pm daily

Private View: Wednesday 29 August. 6 – 8pm. 

RSVP events@artprojx.com

PRESS RELEASE

The Anatole Notes project consists of assembled groupings of paintings, objects, paper and letterpress text. Each assemblage reflects on the unfinished fragmented poems ‘Pour un Tombeau d’Anatole’ by Stephane Mallarmé (1879), ‘a tomb for Anatole’ translated by Paul Auster (1983). These fragmented phrases are Mallarmé’s attempt to come to terms with the death of his eight year old son Anatole. The sound and the visual arrangement of Mallarmé’s poems were as important as the meaning. His most famous poem ‘un coup de dés’ was a major influence on hypertext and has been the subject matter for many artists including Man Ray, Marcel Broodthaers.

Bustin’s reflections on his texts attempt to combine the written words with visual equivalents to reveal the expansive meaning of the text. Each work consists of three or four painted objects arranged on the wall and floor; they are made of various materials e.g. wood, linen, paper, metal, oil paint and readymade chairs. The Mallarmé text has been hand letter-pressed onto paper or linen by New North Press. The use of the architecture and the derelict state of the exhibition space at Testbed, echoes the emptiness and barren nature of the Anatole texts.

Artprojx presents: Les Mystères du Château de Dé, 1929, film 35mm by Man Ray. 25 mins (continuous screening as part of the Anatole Notes exhibition throughout the day).

The longest of Man Ray’s films, Les Mystères du Château de Dé, follows a pair of travelers on a journey from Paris to the Villa Noailles in Hyères, built by the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens with a cubist garden designed by Gabriel Guevrekian. This modernist collaboration was made as an architectural document and inspired by Mallarmé’s poem ‘Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard’.

Jane Bustin has been selected for the 2012 John Moores Painting Prize and the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012. Bustin has been in numerous group exhibitions including Kettles Yard Cambridge, Ferens Museum (Hull), Southampton City Art Gallery, Djanogly Gallery (Nottingham), Royal Academy (London) and recently at the B55 Gallery (Budapest). Bustin has had solo shows at The Eagle Gallery (London), Artprojx Space (London) and The British Library (London). Her work is in several collections including V&A Museum (London), Yale Center USA, Ferens Museum (Hull). http://www.janebustin.com

Contact: David Gryn david@artprojx.com +447711127848 http://www.artprojx.com

Press info, pricelist, images, more information all available on request

Venue info and directions: http://www.thedoodlebar.com/

Image:

- sacrificed
- to veil

- sacrifiés
- pour voiler
by Jane Bustin

at John Moores Painting Prize 2012 

and other Anatole Notes works at Jerwood Drawing prize