Gipsy Gold Projects

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HandGemenge

9 – 25 August 2009

Private View: Sunday 9 August, 11-2 pm 

Deutsches Ledermuseum

Frankfurter Strasse 86

63067 Offenbach

The German Leather Museum (DLM) is pleased to present “HandGemenge”, a solo exhibition presenting new works of Aline Von Der Assen.

The various sections of the German Leather Museum served as inspiration for Von Der Assen’s drawing workshops, which involved the public into the art making process. The works evolved during a six month artist-in-residency at the DLM in collaboration with the visitors.

The motifs of the drawings feature similarities to folktales – each narrator adding their part towards the story. It is difficult to figure out each individual artist of the drawings as they evolve into a piece of multiple authorship. On large-format paper sheets the participants start working each for themselves, but as their drawings grow they reach the limits of their individual actions and start collaborating. They reflect their own desires towards a concept of community.

In varying handwritings universal and phantasmagorical narratives evolve. The tales breach the rules of reality; they blend fragments of everyday live with marvellous elements to a fickle mixture. Myths of heroes and heroines battling the eternal fight of good against evil feed the source of the drawings.

Aline Von Der Assen was awarded with the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008 and the Prix des Arts Rotary Club Strasbourg 2007. She has exhibited and performed widely including the Jerwood Space, Centre for Drawing and The Nunnery. From September on she will be taking part in a seven-month residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu in Japan.

GGold@gmx.net (Aliz) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:23:00 +0000

Aline von der Assen

Aleksandra Frankowska

Clive A Brandon

Leah Clough

Wang Ip Sszto

James J Lindley

Li-Wen Chen

Justine Blau

Louise Yeandle Diver

Ilka Leukefeld

Luke Ottridge

Private View: New Territories

GGold@gmx.net (Aliz) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:56:00 +0000

Press Release

GGold@gmx.net (Aliz) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:07:00 +0000

Gipsy Gold Projects/ Ada Street Gallery presents

NEW TERRITORIES

Aleksandra Frankowska • Aline von der Assen •

Clive A Brandon • Ilka Leukefeld • James J Lindley •

Justine Blau • Leah Clough • Li-Wen Chen •

Louise Yeandle Diver • Luke Ottridge • Wang Ip Sszto

Opening Times

17. - 20. December 2008

12 to 6 pm

Private View: Thursday 18. December 2008

7 to 9 pm

"They were to sail for months over the breezy Atlantic and the sunny Mediterranean; they were to scamper about the decks by day, filling the ship with shouts and laughter - or read novels and poetry in the shade of the smokestacks, or watch for the jelly-fish and the nautilus over the side, and the shark, the wale, and other strange monsters of the deep." Mark Twain, 1869

Is it possible that there are still clandestine places on the globe despite GPS, Google Earth and CCTV?

ALINE VON DER ASSEN, this year's Student Jerwood Drawing Prize winner, accompanied by a group of ten promising emerging artists, are facing the arduous and adventurous journey to find yet undiscovered worlds.

NEW TERRITORIES presents the intriguing and enthralling finds of their expedition, leading to a multimap of expressions, from drawing and painting to sculpture and performance.

The outcome is an atlas of the hidden, revealed and imagined. The multitude of findings reaches from social and cultural grounds to the exploration of romantic, idealized and imagined landscapes and space worlds. The heart of the exhibitions is the anachronistic position of the artists to research the concept of 'terra incognita' in the era of the 'global village' and times of permanent surveillance.

Ada Street Gallery

2 A Ada Street

London

E8 4QU

Upcoming: Group Show in London

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Gipsy Gold Projects/Ada Street Gallery presents