SHOWnews: Your Weekly Arts Bulletin
Ken Currie Presents The Crossing at Flowers Gallery
Once you know the key ingredients to a Currie painting, identifying any piece of work by the artist becomes second nature. Renowned for his unsettling portrayal of the human figure that sees the artist paint mesmerisingly haunting depictions of mortality, it's undeniable that his latest exhibition The Crossing couldn't be more Currie: a disturbing-yet-brilliant series that acts as an exploration of life, death, and the human body. Make no mistakes, this is Ken Currie at his best.
Ken Currie's The Crossing at Flowers Gallery will be open to the public until 16 November. For more information,click here.
Incubator Welcomes the Work of Artist Antonia Caicedo Holguín
If you want to get to know young painter and Slade School of Fine Art graduate Antonia Caicedo Holguín, we suggest watching this video. If you want to get up close and personal with her work, on the other hand? We suggest you take yourself down to Holguín's opening tonight at Angelica Jopling's Incubator, where you'll be able to take in the vibrant spaces she paints and the characters immersed in them for yourself. In a spectacular blur of merging imagination with memory, Holguín's paintings have a very tangible quality to them, partly informed by her knowledge of paint, partly by her own interest in wanting to conjure up her very own entire universe, where every character's own story is as detailed as the next.
Antonia Caicedo Holguín's exhibition at Incubator will be open to the public until 10 November. For more information, click here.
King, Queen, Knave by Gregory Halpern at Huxley-Parlour
Once a centre of industry - which has since migrated elsewhere along with half its population - Buffalo in New York is a city of two halves; its booming past and ghostly present. Despite the city's landscape having witnessed significant loss over the last couple of decades, ex-resident, photographer Gregory Halpern, sees a quiet resilience and strange sense of beauty in what remains of his hometown. And so, armed with a desire to communicate the poetic idiosyncrasies of everyday life, Halpern's latest photography series King, Queen, Knave does exactly that, offering a pensive look into the lives and landscape of a town that once was.
King, Queen, Knave by Gregory Halpern at Huxley-Parlour's Swallow Street gallery will be open to the public from 31 October until 30 November.
Barbican To Stream The Circus Tent, Directed by Keralan filmmaker Govindan Aravindan on 3 November
Old age, loneliness and regret become magnified through Govindan Aravindan’s salient observation in what many refer to as his masterpiece, The Circus Tent, now streaming at Barbican for one day only on 3 November.
Originally released in 1978, this updated restored version of the film is as good (if not better, simply because of the renewed quality) as the original and falls as part of the art centre's new cinematic series titled Rewriting the Rules: a season of films from the 1970s, 80s and 90s, when filmmakers rewrote the traditional rules of what constituted Indian cinema. Ritualistic, romantic and almost altruistic, The Circus Tent will teach you a lot, and not just about a circus.
For more information and to buy tickets, click here.
Close-Up Presents One Minute Volume Ten - A Curation of Artist Moving Image Shorts by Filmmaker Kerry Baldry
Marking the tenth in the series of artist moving image programmes curated by filmmaker Kerry Baldry, One Minute Volume Ten adds to the eclectic mix of films that have recently been screened at Shoreditch's hidden gem - Close-Up cinema. Having compiled a tremendously varied collection of sixty second films since launching his first One Minute project at Co:Collective over 15 years ago, Baldry has become somewhat of an expert on short film, particularly the type that makes very little sense, if any at all. Whimsical, engaging, candid, and - for the most part - freakishly brilliant - we urge you to rethink your Halloween plans in favour of taking a seat at Close-Up this Thursday, you certainly won't regret.
One Minute Volume Ten will stream at Close-up cinema in Shoreditch on Thursday 31 October. For more information, click here.
ICA Screens Alexander Sokurov's The Lonely Voice of Man
Yes, this week's SHOWNews certainly seems to be a little unintentionally film-focused but you know what? As the Home of Fashion Film, we're most certainly here for it, and we hope you are too. This Friday, the ICA will be screening Alexander Sokurov's The Lonely Voice of Man, the director's first feature film that's based on two key Andrei Platonov's stories; The River Potudan and The Origin of a Master. Following Red Army soldier Nikita Firsov, who returns home to a remote Soviet village after the Civil War, haunted by disturbing memories, the film documents Firsov falling in love with Lyuba, a medical student, whose relationship offers a path to rebuilding his shattered life. However, both are deeply affected by the trauma of war and the disintegration of the world around them, which makes it difficult for them to find peace in a rapidly changing society. We'll leave it there for now but if you count yourself a film buff, or, in particular, a Soviet film buff - you know the drill.
The Lonely Voice of Man will stream at the ICA on 1 November at 18:45 GMT. For more information, click here.