SHOWnews: Your Weekly Art Bulletin

BOOK

Why You Need To Pre-Order This Fashion Illustration Monograph Right Now

Since illustrator and artist Anjelica Roselyn graduated from London College of Fashion in 2014, she's worked on more projects than many artists do in their lifetime, counting a long list of clients including Louis Vuitton Christian Dior, Vogue, The Washington Post, New York Times, Four Seasons and even Sony Records to name a few. And so when you put it like this, it was only quite simply a matter of time before Roselyn would have her own monograph, documenting her favourite commissioned works over the years.

'Weirdly, as we came into the new year 2024, I had an overwhelming urge to start researching books/covers/pages and shortly after, I was offered the opportunity to make my own book published by Snap Collective', she told me via email. 'I knew this was the right time and i'd been saving the name Lucid Dreamer until this moment. Illustration books are a huge love of mine and I have been collecting quite a few over the years. This is me drawing past, present and future'.

Providing a delightful insight into Roselyn's mind from the past decade and into the next, the book is a one-of-a-kind documentation made by one of the most talented fashion illustrators living and working today. Want to know more? Lucid Dreamer: Drawing Past, Present and Future is available to pre-order now.

EXHIBITION

This Must Be The Place? Sarabande Foundation's Summer Group Show A Place Reveals All

Although we already highlighted the Sarabande Foundation's upcoming Summer Group Show A Place in our official summer culture guide, we're making sure it remains at top priority on your to-do list this week. After all, everyone knows it's the event of the summer; surely you couldn't possibly imagine missing out?

Presenting two different versions and interpretations of A Place, the show is conceived as two separate exhibitions in dialogue with one another; the first titled Can I just…(running from 1 August to 16 August); the second titled …stay longer (22 August to 6 September). As for the art on show? You'll have to go and see for yourself, no spoilers here.

FILM SCREENING

The Films of Marguerite Duras Go On Show At The ICA In London

When John Waters declared 'If there is such a thing as good avant garde cinema, this is it', he was talking about the 'ultimate eccentric' Marguerite Duras, who, according to the Female Trouble filmmaker 'has taken pretension one level ahead of itself and turned it into a style.'

All of Duras' 19 films were made in collaboration with Another Gaze Editions, a relationship that has culminated in the recently-published book My Cinema: Writing & Interviews by Duras herself. Encouraging an engagement with this fruitful body of work, the ICA have generously decided to partake in a month's-long screening of the films, presenting a full retrospective of her shorts, features and televisual work, alongside several works she wrote, or to which she lent her voice. Whether you count yourself as an avid fan of cinema or not, such rich work is bound to ignite inspiration in even the most sane of people. If the ICA are asking you to submit yourself to the cinematic spell of Duras, SHOWstudio is asking you to listen and, more importantly, learn. Tickets are available to buy here.

PERFORMANCE

Nico Vascellari Takes to Munich's Haus der Kunst To Prove Why Performance Art Is Accessible For All

Making sure this week's SHOWNews fires all cylinders, we know it wouldn't be complete without a knock-out art performance, especially when you consider the work of Nico Vascellari and his most recent site-specific performance ALESSIO, which took place last week at Munich's Haus der Kunst.

Taking its name from a 26-year-old man whom Vascellari first met in a bar near his studio in Rome, the performance ALESSIO explored non-verbal modes of communication, inspired by the real-life Alessio's own unique view and perception of the world shaped by his experience of living with autism. While examining art as a vehicle for emancipation from behavioural norms, paying homage to the collective desire to understand and be understood, the performance is one like no other, living on as a soundscape also created by Vascellari to enliven the gallery's spaces until 4 August. The project invites visitors to reflect on their own unique means of communication and come together, during a polyphony of nonverbal languages, to celebrate what it means to live openly and freely.

TALK

Artist Emily Pope Heads To Studio Voltaire To Dissect Themes of Class In Tom of Finland's Collaborative Exhibition With Beryl Cook

Want to dive deeper into the Beryl Cook / Tom of Finland exhibition at Studio Voltaire? Look no further than artist Emily Pope, who will lead a reading and exhibition tour on Saturday 3 August responding to the subjects conveyed in both artists' works, with a special focus on the concept of ‘class tourism’. Honing in on ideas of authenticity, nostalgia and the cultural appropriation of subcultures under late capitalism, Pope's talk offers the opportunity to get to know the works of Cook and Tom of Finland on a more intimate level.

Book tickets here.

ARCHIVE DISPLAY

Immerse Yourself In The Palestinian Sound Archive Thanks To A New Exhibition At Southbank Centre Spotlighting The Majazz Project

In 2020, Mo’min Swaitat founded the Majazz Project, a Palestinian-led record label and research platform keeping the history of Palestine through its music and sound alive. Since, the project has snowballed and now amasses an extensive archive of cassettes, reel and vinyl records from Palestine and beyond, spanning everything from field recordings of Bedouin weddings to revolutionary albums from the First and Second Intifadas, instrumental tracks, poetry, soul, folk songs and even experimental jazz. Honouring the importance of the archive and its resources, Southbank Centre has teamed up with the project to bring you the Palestinian Sound Archive display, open to the public for free until 1 November. For more information, click here.

EXHIBITION

Astra Papachristodoulou Does More Than Just Write Poetry, She Sculpts It Too

Two of our favourite art forms at SHOWstudio are poetry and sculpture. But did you know the two can coexist together? No, neither did we, which makes Southbank Centre's current exhibition Making Poetry - spotlighting the sculptural and poetic works of Astra Papachristodoulou - all the more enticing. Instead of just free floating words on a page, Papachristodoulou's poems exist in more unusual ways; as sculptures, objects and textiles. The relationship between the visual and the verbal has never been more literal but that doesn't mean Papachristodoulou's can't be equally delightful.

For more information, click here.