Our preparations for our second exhibition ‘The Secret Garden’ are nearly complete, and we’re really excited to see it all coming together.  The show is taking place at The Bossanyi Studio in Eastcote and showcases an installation by Taciana Coimbra, works by Luigi Menichelli and sound by Ray Ganz.

PRIVATE VIEW: Sunday June 19^th, 5-8pm (featuring live music with Joe Donohue)

EXHIBITION ENDS: Saturday 25^th June

MONDAY-FRIDAY: 11am–4pm

SATURDAY 11am–6pm

OTHER TIMES BY APPOINTMENT: tel: 020 8866 2880

THE BOSSANYI STUDIO, 22 FIELD END ROAD, EASTCOTE, PINNER, MIDDLESEX HA5 2QL

TUBE Eastcote station, served by Piccadilly and Metropolitan line  and BUS 282, stop  St. Thomas More RC Church

T: 0208 866 2880

E-MAIL: oliver&ann@mannion22.freeserve.co.uk

‘THE SECRET GARDEN’ PRESS RELEASE

“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts -just mere thoughts – are as powerful as electric batteries – as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.”

The stunning garden surrounding the Studio gallery, with its landscape of tall trees and its various nooks and crannies, could be likened to the scenery usually found in a children’s literature classic, such as Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ‘Secret Garden’ or many of Enid Blyton’s books.

As adults, the nostalgia one may feel for this idealized world of delight, joy and small miracles is perhaps tainted by a shade of darkness. We have acquired the knowledge that these stories are not without cost to the writer. Indeed, many children’s authors have had unhappy lives or come to unhappy ends; not to mention the children of those writers whose childhood experiences have been the basis for many a tell all book.

In this exhibition visitors may explore the delight and darkness of the secret garden — (as we know, sometimes keeping secrets can be a very bad thing indeed) —through works which combine light and shade in a space where life, death and renewal take place on a daily and seasonal basis, where art fuses with nature or is restrained by the closed environment of the hothouse gallery.

In the Studio gallery, Taciana Coimbra’s ‘Immersions’, painted bodies of women in different positions, as seen from an a variety of perspectives, cover the whole room, representing a cathartic carpet of unforgotten feelings, loaded with truths and ready to return to life under the feet of the on-walking visitors. Stepping on this intriguing carpet, in the act of trampling on the bodies on images which could be interpreted as being beautiful or ominous, the visitor is brought to be part of a perceptive act that encloses the whole space. The figures are a form of alphabet –a necro-alfabet or dead alphabet because it is written in the private form of an unspecified place, where the buried bodies are not rotting human corpses, but feelings hidden in the subconscious and carved in the heart.

In the open space behind the gallery, in a game of hide-and-seek amongst the luxurious real-life foliage, are Luigi Menichelli’s still lifes captured in plastic and now become a synthetic material designed which has slowed down the inevitability of decay, thanks to human ingenuity in the expansion of technology. Like a modern-day poisoned apple from Snow White, they evoke immortality, death, and the human desire to extend life.

In the garden, listening to Ray Ganz’s ‘Nightmare on Skehan Street’ soundtrack of unique and unrepeatable compositions of natural and abnormal sounds, mirroring a nocturnal experience of solitude, the viewer becomes an active part of the artist’s research in acoustic meaning and selective listening.

Trying to trace their way back to the secret garden, the visitors start a quest to their personal Cosmogenesis, unveiling the innermost enigmas that lay behind the evanescing magic of children’s fiction.

“The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.” Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Cabin Fever is a contemporary music project established in 2010 and led by British composer and performer, Joe Donohoe. Combining introspective lyrics with ethereal and dense musical textures, Cabin Fever’s sound is warm and deeply melancholic.”

Check out Cabin Fever’s compositions on:

http://www.facebook.com/cabinfeverband

http://www.cabinfeverband.tumblr.com

http://www.myspace.com/cabinfeveruk

EyeSeeSound tv tonight

Sky 201 & Freesat 403 in the UK. Europe can use satellite pointed at Astra/Eurobird complex at 28.2degreesE .

The Show Episode 101 featuring:
……
True Ingredients
The Boicotts
Sarah Maple
The Guilty Hands
Spring Offensive
What Would Jesus Drive
Short Film: Cream / Egg
Agents of Change featuring Reptiles

Live Sessions (from 9.30pm)
Ex Libras
Stars & Sons

Like a glorious pick and mix without the smeared handprints of grubby toddlers, expect laughs, chin stroking and toe-tapping a-plenty…

In a move almost as awful as the pig-eyelid goodness found in spam fritters (apologies to all you spam enthusiasts out there), the Bare/not email was hacked yesterday and some of you might have got rogue emails. It’s a bummer.  Sorry guys, unfortunately this was out of our control, so if you do happen to get any emails from us, please don’t open them. We’ll resume regular non-spamming soon .

We are working on stuff honest…

Please delete any emails sent from that email address.  We have updated our system and are in the process of increasing security and hopefully your virus software will have stopped the virus in its tracks.

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience and for the trouble.

We are in the process to set up our website and in the meanwhile we’ll  set up a temporary email address for any urgent communication. Also, please feel free to leave a comment on the blog.

A group exhibition exploring the relationship between the nature of the image abhsbdnd the object whilst challenging the boundaries between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional disciplines.

Featuring works by: Ana Cockerill, Angelo Rambaldi, Ben Mellor, Desmond Brett, Carlos de Lins, Caroline Attan, Claudia Borgna, Daisy McMullan, Frank Pohlmann, Furrah Syed, Jacek Wankowski, Mark Sowden, Matthew Kolakowski, Susan Forsyth, Sue Skitt and Sharon Drew.

Private View: Friday 14th of January 2011 – 6.00 pm to 11.00 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 14th of January – Thursday 3rd of February 2011 Gallery Opening Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri: 11.00 am to 6.30 pm – Sat: 12.30pm – 5.00 pm

Last day of Exhibition: Thursday 3rd of February: 10.00am to 5.00pm

Red Gate Gallery invited a group of artists to submit work for an exhibition in January 2011 titled ‘Image to Object’. Artists are asked to submit works which explore the relationship between the nature of the image and the object whilst challenging the boundaries between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional disciplines. The exhibition will ask where the image ends and the object begins, and discuss how the artist’s process or intervention transforms the image into an object, or vice versa.

Taking inspiration from art which uses devices such as the vitrine, archives, assemblage, found-objects or ready-mades artists are invited to test the interface between space, material and process.

The work presented throughout the duration of the exhibition will be in any form, including, but not limited to, painting, drawing, photography, installation, sculpture, live art or performance art.

With an innovative approach to medium and a slew of intriguing artists, and even a nod from The Independent, this exhibition looks set to be a fascinating examination of the external nature of art as a craft and how this relates to the psychology and message of the work itself. For an all-encompassing look at means of expression in an age where anything goes (I am personally, very excited about the vitrine…) Image to Object is a must see…so be sure to pop down.