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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YOSHITOMO NARA + GRAF 12 June 2008 - 26 October 2008 A-Z Project
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Yoshitomo Nara + graf
A-Z Project
12 June 2008 - 26 October 2008
BALTIC present a magical new exhibition by internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, in collaboration with design unit graf. The exhibition will feature a village brought to life with Nara’s iconic characters, turning ordinary life into art.
Yoshitomo Nara’s work embodies a defiant spirit that comes with youthful optimism andbelief that we can change the world. He is best known for his deceptively simple drawings, paintings and sculptures of children with apparently innocent, kawaii or cute expressions. Kristin Chambers explains further in Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing EverChanges ‘Their direct gazes and impish grins suggest that although they’re young anddarling, these kids sense what the world has in store for them’. Influenced by popularculture from punk music, rock ‘n’ roll and Manga to the American cartoons of hischildhood, Nara explores the tensions of a hyper consumer culture.
Additional Information
At BALTIC, Nara continues his ongoing collaboration with creative design unit graf: theA-Z Project which began in 2003. The project explores the relationship between theindividual, the space they inhabit and objects within their surroundings. It aims to revivethe idea of narrative, the relationship between the work and its environment, art and life.For each phase of the project, the team create a new wooden structure or ‘house’ thatresponds to the particular environment of the exhibition space. Ultimately the project will accumulate more than 26 houses over the course of 26 exhibitions.
Together the houses create an imaginary town with each street named after a letter ‘A’ to ‘Z’.For the next stage of their project, Nara and graf will construct three cross-shaped‘houses’ at BALTIC. Two of these are reconstructions from earlier stages; the third house is specially designed for the exhibition and built using local reclaimed materials.2Nara + graf’s recent exhibitions include Torre de Malaga, Malaga, GEM Hague, GalerieZink Berlin, A to Z Hiosaki, Welcome to Soi Sabai Bangkok, Stephen Friedman GalleryLondon, Yokohama Triennale 2005 and Home graf media gm, Osaka.
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