BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead / Free Admission
BALTIC 39
Newcastle upon Tyne / Free Admission
FABRICE HYBER
Until 2 June 2013 / Using those already in popular circulation as starting points - found photographs, movies, posters, newspaper illustrations - his paintings naturally inherit the social and political implications of their source material.
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NOW OPEN: MATT CALDERWOOD
For his solo exhibition at BALTIC 39, the first in a UK public gallery, Matt Calderwood has created a series of ambitious new sculptures, works on paper and video. Now open Wed-Sun.
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GRAYSON PERRY / RELIQUARY PENDANT
Own your very own piece of art history with this Reliquary Pendant by Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry. A unique and original relic of his work.
Exhibitions
Chris Burden
B.OPEN: The Bridges (1997-2002)
13 July 2002 - 6 October 2002
As part of B.OPEN – BALTIC’s inaugural exhibition, BALTIC has commissioned influential American artist Chris Burden to make a scale model of the Tyne Bridge in Meccano. Tyne Bridge 2002) is the sixth in Burden’s series of model bridges that are made using massive quantities of Meccano and Erector Set parts. In Level 4 the viewer can experience the two bridges simultaneously: Chris Burden’s Tyne Bridge, 1/20th the size of the original and painted in the same distinctive green, and the original famous landmark that is visible through the glazed west façade of BALTIC.
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BALTIC presents this new commission alongside the five other bridges in the series:
Indo-China Bridge (2002), Hell Gate Bridge (1998), Mexican Bridge (1998-99), The Antique Bridge (1998-99) and ¼ Ton Bridge (1997). Patterns and drawings used by the artist, Meccano and Erector Set prints and some of the books that served as source materials for the Bridges are also displayed.
Describes by the artist as ‘performative sculptures’, the bridges interact directly with the human body by allowing the viewer to walk under, over and, in the case of the ¼ ton Bridge, on top of, the structure.
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Julian Opie
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