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11th february t0 30th April 2010:
The Garden that you Planted
Rowena Dring & Nike Savvas for Vital Arts
The artists Rowena Dring and Nike Savvas have become increasingly intuitive to each others practice since meeting at London's Goldsmiths College in 1996.
The collaborative exhibition, The Garden that you Planted, is inspired by the artists’ shared experience of living in a dilapidated chateau in France in the summer of 2009. The property, originally a 13th century fortification built upon a Roman temple, has over the centuries been rebuilt and altered, becoming a tapestry of interwoven histories.
Once a pleasure garden and summer palace to a large and profitable estate the property has, over the years, been diminished as a result of industrialization and war.
The chateau now faces an uncertain future with plans to build a high-speed railway through the property. The faded beauty of the estate and its poetic history, which in many ways is a time capsule of modern European history, are at the centre of Dring and Savvas’ collaborative exhibition.
For the Royal London Hospital gallery, Dring and Savvas have created In Towers and Clouds, which combines their individual approaches to landscape and to the grounds around the chateau. The composition of the landscape work is based on Japanese Floating World prints, where clouds part to reveal the world hidden behind them.
Savvas has installed a woollen string installation that references the forest space surrounding the chateau. Dring has created a large landscape that hovers between realism and abstraction, taking a man-made lake within the 19th Century English Style parklands of the chateau as its point of departure.
The Vital Arts Gallery Spaces are located in the Out Patients Department of Barts Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE and in the Main Corridor of the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, E1 1BB.
VitalArts is charitably funded to deliver arts programmes for the well-being of patients and staff at Barts and the London NHS Trust
till february 2010:
Redefining Landscape
Group show
Stef Driesen, Rowena Dring, Neil Gall, Johan Nobell, Yehudit Sasportas, Berend Strik
s t e p h a n e s i m o e n s
c o n t e m p o r a r y f i n e a r t
golvenstraat 7
B - 8300 knokke - zoute
tel. +32 (0)50 67 75 90 - fax +32 (0)50 67 75 90
www.stephanesimoens.com
info@stephanesimoens.com
OPTICAL SHIFT – ILLUSION UND TÄUSCHUNG
group show
opening (expected May) 2010
b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Montabaur
Im Stadtwald 2, D-56410 Montabaur
www.b-05.org
There Was a World Once
group show
opening November 2010
curated & featuring works by Rowena Dring for the Märkisches Museum Witten, Germany.
2ND TRIENNALE PRAGUE (ITCA)
group show
opening 2011
National Gallery Prague (Veletržní palác)
Dukelských hrdinu 47, Praha 7, CZ-17000 Praha
www.ngprague.cz