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In the West Bank every inch of land is known, recorded and potentially a source of conflict. The landscape is varied across this region, from the mountains to the Dead Sea Valley. As rainstorms come in from the Mediterranean, within minutes the light and atmosphere can change, projecting a fascinating array of shifting colours onto the terrain. It was important for me to discuss not just the political but the aesthetic beauty of this land”- Nick Waplington, 2011

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http://www.wilkinsongallery.com/exhibitions/64-JoanJonasVolcanoSaga

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unilever2011/

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FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.
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http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-bloomberg-commission-josiah-mcelheny-the-past-was-a-mirage-i-had-left-far-behind

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Sculptor and writer Josiah McElheny transforms the Gallery into a hall of mirrors. Seven large-scale, mirrored sculptures are arranged as multiple reflective screens for displaying reconfigured abstract films. Chosen by a group of invited collaborators and programmed to change throughout the year, the sculptures refract the projections and reflect the viewer within the work, saturating the gallery in images and light.

Distorted and multiplied, the moving images explore how abstraction is used to symbolise the Modernist enlightment project. The Bloomberg Commission is displayed in Gallery 2, a dedicated space for site-specific works of art that was previously the reading room of the former Whitechapel Library. The work is inspired by the Library’s history as a lantern of learning and a creative haven for early Modernist artists such as David Bomberg and Jacob Epstein.
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 http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/rist/exhibition

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Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist fuses dazzling colour, sensual images and mesmerising music to create immersive video installations in which the visitors themselves become important elements.

This exhibition, her first survey in the UK, presents videos, sculptures and installations spanning her career from the 1980s to the present day, including two works specially created for the Hayward Gallery (Administrating Eternity, a vast, immersive artwork which she describes as ‘a forest of light’, and Hiplights Or Enlighted Hips, an extraordinary outdoor light work created from hundreds of pairs of underpants). Rist wants the exhibition to provoke feelings of energy, serenity and enlightenment, and hopes that her work makes visitors smile.

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