E2 Art Walk
13.02.2010
Havn't visited Vyner Street for quite a while (previous post here), so when a few friends are visiting London this month, I stole the chance to re-visit it again.
The Chair Arch at V&A Museum of Childhood
Chair Arch (close-up)
We approached V&A Museum of Childhood on Cambridge Heath Road first after getting off at Bethnal Green Station. I decided to go in as I reckoned my friends would be interested to see the vintage toys. To our surprise, we found the chair arch which was previously exhibited at the V&A Museum in Kensington at the central space there! We also saw a great photography show at the entrance space called Wendy's World by london-based french artist Etienne Clément (check the Further Readings section below about the concept and a full view fo the works) -
Parade by Etienne Clément
Continuing the walk up Cambridge Heath Road, we dropped by briefly at IMT gallery and 242 gallery -
Naoko Takahashi at IMT gallery
Object Expressionism: Drawings by Paul Doeman at 242 Gallery
On Vyner Street we first stepped into 12A Gallery and found wonderful sculptures by Paul Munn -
Paul Munn at 12A Gallery
Kate MacGarry is showing Josh Blackwell's miniature paper sweaters -
Josh Blackwell at Kate Macgarry
At Ibid Porjects there're some less-interesting installations of Magali Reus but the short film somehow makes it up. (Note: I previously posted an excerpt of the film here but the person who shot it has contacted me and told me that it is up for commercial sale and I should take it offline. So you won't be seeing it now.)
Background by Magali Reus at Ibid Projects
Nettie Horn has a compilation show with 3 artists, and we found Rebecca Stevenson to be the one that impressed us the most among them -
Show poster featuring Folie a l'orange (2009) by Rebecca Stevenson at Nettie Horn
Luxe Vert (2008) by Rebecca Stevenson at Nettie Horn
At the Gooden Gallery, Simon Morse's pseudo-mechanical switch boxes are lining up the walls of the gallery space. The mix of low-tech knobs and punch line text scattered on the face of the boxes creates a sense of strange-ness in the familiar -
Wilkinson Gallery has the most amazing work we have seen in the whole afternoon by london-based norwegian artist A K Dolven. The show is minimal yet powerful, characteristic of scandinavian aesthetics -
Ahead (2008) by A K Dolven
The day the sky become my ground by A K Dolven at Wilkson Gallery (video link)
Full photo set here
Further Readings -
