White Cube Bermondsey Opens This Month
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INSIDE: October Plenty p3 • Half term events for families p4 • Apple Day p3 Guided walks p5 • London Photo Festival p3 • Black History Month • The Big Draw October 2011 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 160 FREE Email: [email protected] White Cube Bermondsey opens this month White Cube has announced that its new gallery in the former The Minotaur: Recall warehouse on Bermondsey art & restaurant Street will open on 12 October. The gallery will open six months after Southwark’s at Old Vic Tunnels planning committee approved the conversion of the disused warehouse for use by White Cube. The new Bermondsey space is bigger than either of White Cube’s existing Hoxton and Mayfair galleries. The Old Vic Tunnels underneath “The opening of White Cube Bermondsey is an The ‘South Galleries’ will provide the principal Waterloo Station will this month affirmation of the ongoing strength of London as a display area. Three smaller galleries, collectively known creative hub and the next chapter in White Cube’s as the ‘North Galleries’, will feature an innovative new host an exhibition of intepretations history,” says gallery owner Jay Jopling. programme of exhibitions. of the Minotaur myth by “I’m immensely excited by the opportunities it At the centre of the building there is a gallery of contemporary artists. will give us to expand the range and ambition of all 81 square metres entitled ‘9 x 9 x 9’. The artists have been commissioned by Steve aspects of our programme, not least the chance to An auditorium will allow White Cube to present Lazarides whose 2010 Hell’s Half Acre exhibition make even more quality exhibitions with world-class an education programme, artists’ films and lectures. in the tunnels attracted 10,000 visitors. artists.” The inaugural exhibition will be ‘Structure & Participants include Stanley Donwood, White Cube originally intended to use the Absence’, a group show which “uses Chinese scholars’ Jonathan Yeo, Antony Micallef, Conor Harrington, warehouse for storage but soon realised it had potential rocks as an organising device to take a fresh look Doug Foster, 3D, Ian Francis, ATMA, Michael as a space for public exhibitions. The company has at contemporary abstraction”. It includes work by Najjar and Lucy McLauchlan. a 15-year lease on the site which was previously Andreas Gursky, Wade Guyton, Damien Hirst, Sergej There will also be a 120-cover restaurant with earmarked for a large residential development. Jensen, Brice Marden, Gabriel Orozco, Sterling Ruby, food cooked by Michelin-starred chefs. Architects Casper Mueller Kneer have overseen Robert Ryman and Jeff Wall. • Monday 10 to Tuesday 25 October at the Old the conversion of the 1970s warehouse to include The launch of White Cube Bermondsey has been Vic Tunnels. Admission £5 (under-16s free) timed to coincide with the Frieze art fair. three exhibition spaces, storage, private viewing rooms, • theminotaur.co.uk an auditorium and a bookshop. • www.whitecube.com RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT South Bank Specialists 123 Stamford Street SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk October 2011 2 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 LISTINGS INFORMATION Listings for most types of local This month in brief SE1 event are free; details of events in to be considered for inclusion Westminster Bridge first archive of garden and 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by Direct action group UK Uncut has landscape design. London SE1 8NY Monday 24 October to called on its supporters to occupy www.gardenmuseum.org.uk [email protected] Westminster Bridge as a protest Tel 020 7633 0766 or by post. against the Government’s health Morley Blades Web www.inSE1.co.uk service reforms. 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