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Off-site Project and KARAS 2 April – 25 May Perrott’s Folly, Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham Off-site Project Ikon will also show Jürgen Partenheimer’s work Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May, 8pm off-site, at one of Birmingham’s most historic Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham landmarks, Perrott’s Folly. Built in 1758 by John Perrott, this building supposedly inspired local Acclaimed Japanese choreographer Saburo resident JRR Tolkein’s Two Towers, the second book of Teshigawara presents his only UK performance in The Lord of The Rings trilogy. 2008, dancing on a massive square of thousands of broken glass pieces. For Partenheimer, the tower operates as ‘axis mundi’, a vertical extension between heaven Tickets cost £12.50, £9.50 concessions (booking and earth, also giving rise to a consideration of fees apply), to book please contact Birmingham architecture as sculpture. By climbing the long Hippodrome on tel. 0870 730 1234 or book online at spiral staircase, viewers encounter six rooms, each www.birminghamhippodrome.com containing a single work, pervaded by the sound of Running time approximately 70 minutes. Kevin Volans’ specially composed music. Fazeley Street is located 10 minutes walk from Moor 8 Entry to Perrott’s Folly is free and the Folly is open Street Station and 5 minutes from the Custard Thursday – Sunday, 1–5pm. Perrott’s Folly is located Factory or Digbeth High Street. 15 minutes walk from Ikon and 5 minutes from Hagley Road. This performance forms part of the fi rst Soi Project Pamela International Dance Festival Birmingham, a joint Ikon Family Day at Perrott’s Folly venture between DanceXchange and Birmingham Saturday 10 May Hippodrome, which takes place across the city Fruits Scott Wilkie between 28 April and 24 May. For more information about the Festival visit www.idfb.co.uk Off-site Project Passing Through 24 and 25 May Brindleyplace, Birmingham Exhibition Continues to 25 April Soi Project, a collective of artists from Thailand City Inn Birmingham, 1 Brunswick Square and Japan, bring their popular fruit stand to Brindleyplace, Birmingham b1 2hw Brindleyplace. Similar in style to those commonly www.cityinn.com found on street corners around Bangkok, visitors to the stand will be invited to make paper fruit Passing Through is a survey of paintings and prints by from specially designed template cut-outs which Pamela Scott Wilkie, an artist closely involved with 6 Perrott’s Folly are then added to the display, and in return, will be given real fruit to take away. Soi are concerned the development of Ikon in the 1960s and 1970s. This 7 Jürgen Partenheimer Kiwa 2000 with the increasing simulation of the world and exhibition combines works from Journey, a series of Bronze silk screen prints previously exhibited at Ikon in 1972 Installation, Perrott’s Folly the gradual proliferation of imagery and man- made substitutes that replace concrete reality. and inspired by an overland expedition she made 8 Soi Project 2007 Fruits In addition, the stand becomes the centre for through the Middle East to Pakistan, and Horizons, a 9 Ikon Education exchange of both international culture and new collection of 18 limited edition prints especially creativity, and in the process, grows into something produced for this exhibition. 10 Lutz and Guggisberg Population 2007 Charcoaled wood beautiful for its own sake, as it fi lls up with the 6 Installation view, Sharjah Biennial 8, 2007 brightly coloured paper shapes. Passing Through will tour to City Inn Bristol in June.

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The team will provide a brief they discuss the current exhibition, including the Titles include Land Art, Conceptual Art, Video Art, New introductory tour of the show, before discussing off-site project at Perrott’s Folly and Partenheimer’s Media Art, Pop Art, Minimal Art, Realism and Surrealism. how groups of all ages might fully engage with it. collaboration with acclaimed composer Kevin Limited stocks available. Attendees will be able to book free group tours Volans. Tickets cost £3, to book please contact the during the event and are welcome to stay for a glass Goethe-Institut on tel. 020 7596 4045 Lomographic Cameras of wine with Ikon staff at 6pm. Places are free but For more information visit www.goethe.de Ikon Shop continues to stock the full range of should be reserved by calling the Education and lomographic cameras. New cameras just arrived are Interpretation Team on tel. 0121 248 0708. Performances by BCMG at Ikon the Holga35mm and the Holga35mm Pinhole. Also The Partenheimer Project by composer Kevin Volans, in stock are a new range of fun imported Japanese The Big Picture commissioned as part of Jürgen Partenheimer’s cameras which use 110 fi lm; the demekin – the one Family drop-in sessions – free exhibition at Ikon. and only Pop Eyed Fish lens; a selection of unusual Thursday 3 April, 2–5pm Saturday 19 April, 10am–1pm, Ikon – free keyring cameras; and The Golden Half, an ingenious Friday 4 April, 2–5pm Open rehearsal for public viewing, Ikon camera that doubles the amount of photographs 10 Saturday 5 April, 2–5pm Sunday 20 April, 12.30pm and 3.30pm, Ikon – free you can take with standard 35mm fi lm. Prices start Saturday 24 May, 2–5pm Premiere live performances, Ikon from £12.95. Sunday 25 May, 2–5pm Visitors are encouraged to move around the Monday 26 May, 2–5pm exhibition during the performances, places are free The Big Picture is an arts project aiming to create but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 9 a picture of the West Midlands region through the tel. 0121 248 0708. For more information on Future Ikon Also Showing eyes of people who live here. Everyone can add associated events with Birmingham Contemporary their favourite photographs – family, friends, local Music Group, including workshops for young Afternoon Tea – free Late night openings landmarks, arts events or gigs. To be in the Big people, visit www.bcmg.org.uk Thursday 8 May, 2.30–4.30pm Every Wednesday from 28 May, 6–8pm Exhibitions Utagawa Hiroshige The Moon Refl ected Picture visit www.inthebigpicture.co.uk Join Ikon’s Education Team for a special tour of Ikon will be open until 8pm every Wednesday 8 March – 26 April BCMG Insight: Art and Music the current exhibition before an informal, lively throughout the summer months from Wednesday Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool As part of The Big Picture, join artist Liz Rowe for Saturday 3 May, 3–5pm – free facilitated discussion about the work on show. Tea 28 May – 10 September, giving visitors an extended Lutz and Guggisberg www.blackpool.gov.uk/grundyartgallery as little as 10 minutes or as long as 3 hours as we Performance at CBSO Centre, includes ‘Meet the and cake will be provided. Places are free but please opportunity to see the exhibitions and visit the 28 May – 20 July 2008 Later woodblock prints from the British Museum. attempt to create a huge surreal landscape fi lled composer and the artist’ with Kevin Volans and reserve a place by calling Ikon on tel. 0121 248 0708. bookshop. Our late nights will be accompanied by a Ikon Gallery with miniature people and buildings that are both Jürgen Partenheimer in conversation about their schedule of events – visit the website This will be the fi rst exhibition of work in the UK by Alice Cattaneo strange and familiar. No need to book, just drop in – unusual collaboration. To book contact BCMG on A Pub Quiz www.ikon-gallery.co.uk for more information. Swiss artists Andres Lutz and Andres Guggisberg. 23 February – 19 May please note that children should be accompanied by tel. 0121 616 2616, email [email protected] or turn Yara El-Sherbini Consisting of video, painting, installation and MADRE, Naples an adult at all times. up on the day (places are subject to availability). Sunday 25 May, 7.30pm Museums and Galleries Month sculptural pieces, made since these two artists www.museomadre.it Café Ikon ArtBus began their partnership in 1996, alongside new Installation and video. Family Saturdays – free Ruth Claxton in conversation Join the quiz mistress, test your knowledge and win Wednesday 28 May, 5–9pm work, it will exemplify the absurd, humorous nature Saturday 5 April, 2–5pm with Richard Deacon – free a star prize in this playful pub quiz. As part of Museums and Galleries Month, board of their practice. Cornelia Parker Saturday 3 May, 2–5pm Thursday 1 May, 6–7.30pm the free ArtBus to travel between Ikon, the Barber 8 April – 27 May Join us for one (or both) of these creative Join exhibiting artist Ruth Claxton and acclaimed Over the past two years Yara El-Sherbini has been Institute of Fine Arts and the RBSA Gallery for MALI, Lima, Peru afternoons, exploring the themes and ideas within British sculptor Richard Deacon as they continue using the popular and entertaining format of A Pub a special late night opening on 28 May. You can Installation, sculptural pieces and video. the current exhibitions. Open to all ages (adults their conversation about each others’ practice. Last Quiz to playfully ask questions about art and life. visit the three venues in one evening to enjoy the positively welcome), this series of creative activities time they met, the conversation touched on the Maximum 6 people in a team, £1 per person, spaces exhibitions and collections. 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1 Jürgen Partenheimer 4 Ruth Claxton The space between (from the Copan diary) Lands End 2008 (detail) 5 Powder coated aluminium, 35x29cms Edition of 9, £680 5 Ruth Claxton Lands End 2008 (detail) 2 Jürgen Partenheimer Vessel #36 2007 Stoneware, apple green glaze, applied aubergine glaze drawing

3 Jürgen Partenheimer Reforzate 2005 Ink, watercolour, pencil on paper

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Exhibition Exhibition 2 April – 18 May 2 April – 18 May 2 First Floor Galleries and Tower Room Second Floor Galleries

Internationally acclaimed German artist Jürgen take place at Ikon with a 10-player ensemble Ikon presents the fi rst major museum exhibition by towards an atomised, dislocated future. It Partenheimer holds his fi rst solo UK exhibition at of strings, woodwind and brass taking cues British artist Ruth Claxton. Based in Birmingham, exemplifi es the artist’s concern with the impact Ikon. Comprising new and recent painting, works from Partenheimer’s practice and that of the Claxton has become widely known for her of passive consumption, and how a new kind of on paper and sculpture, Partenheimer’s work also interconnected galleries, creating physical constructed installations, populated with porcelain insulation from reality might effect the way we embraces poetry, music and literature, to assert displacement that provides exciting and surprising fi gurines, collected from car-boot sales, junk shops apprehend and interpret the world we live in. a continuity between them and an experience of opportunities within the overall musical structure. and internet auction sites. Claxton ‘blinds’ these daily life. His artistic proposition is philosophical, See Events for more information. fi gures through sculptural intervention so that their A fully illustrated catalogue, including installation encouraging us to challenge the distinction vision is obscured, paradoxically, by what it is they photographs, will be available in May, for £15, special normally made between reality and imagination. A fully illustrated catalogue, including installation would otherwise see. exhibition price £12. Visit the gallery’s new online photographs, will be available in April, for £25, shop at www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/shop for the full Partenheimer’s work is essentially abstract. The special exhibition price £20, also including a CD The entire second fl oor of Ikon is transformed by range of Ikon catalogues. drawings and paintings shown here, caught recording of The Partenheimer Project. Visit the new Claxton into a new topography of countless painted seemingly on the verge of dissolution, are remarkable online shop at www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/shop for the steel circles, suspended in a mass of metalwork. To coincide with her exhibition at Ikon, Ruth for their fragile beauty, whilst sculpture and ceramic full range of Ikon catalogues. The sightless fi gurines thus stand adrift in a Claxton will also show a series of new postcard work, suggesting some usefulness, remain elusive world in fl ux. Many of the circles are open hoops; pieces at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University with respect to any specifi c function. To coincide with his exhibition at Ikon, Jürgen others contain coloured and mirrored glass discs, of Birmingham (Print Room 1, 2 April – 6 July). Visit Partenheimer has produced a limited edition, precariously balanced, creating visual complexity www.barber.org.uk for more information. Such ‘aspiration to the condition of music’ – The space between (from the Copan diary). Available in as their refl ected imagery merges with our real abstraction, in other words – is signifi ed by the an edition of 9, for £680 from Ikon Shop. Shop online space. They also act to implicate viewers through Following Ikon, the exhibition will tour throughout artist’s collaboration with Irish composer Kevin at www.ikon-gallery.co.uk or tel. 0121 248 0708. refl ections of refl ections, immersing and enveloping 2008–9 to Oriel Davies, Newtown, Powys Volans, resulting in a new piece of music entitled them in this disorientating environment. (October – November 2008); Spike Island, Bristol The Partenheimer Project. A recorded version will (January – February 2009) and The Grundy Art be incorporated into a sculptural installation Through its allusion to our increasing engagement Gallery, Blackpool (March – April 2009). located in the gallery. Premiere live performances with information technology, Claxton’s works by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will 3 encourage our consideration of a societal shift