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
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Gongs as part of B.OPEN inaugral exhibition 2002
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Gongs as part of B.OPEN inaugral exhibition 2002
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Gongs as part of B.OPEN inaugral exhibition 2002
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Jaume Plensa
13 July 2002 - 18 August 2003
In addition to the gongs a series of eight benches for the building, with excerpts of text taken from William Blakes The Proverbs of Hell, are sited in public viewing and orientation areas around BALTIC.
Additional Information
Plensa has also created a light beam sculpture, originally commissioned fro the visual Arts Year in 1996, which has been permenantly re-installed outside BALTIC and will be lit to mark the opening on 13th July. Consisting of a beam of light projected thousands of metres into the air from a 5metre diameter cast iron base, the text around the bottom of the sculpture, taken from Blake’s The Proverbs of Hell reads ‘No Bird Soars too High if he Soars with his own Wings’.
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