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4/5 MAIN EXHIBITION Jaume Plensa from 9 April 2011 Underground Gallery, Open Air From 9April2011 J Generously supported by supported Generously a ume Plensa solitary contemplation. contemplation. solitary for spaces are and enter to visitor one for enough large only are light, coloured Songs of Song as such complete, them to make body of ahuman presence the need works Other despair. and language memory, love, themes: universal with engaging and human be to means it what exploring of way a as body the using intangible, the to form physical gives sculpture Plensa’s with sound. gallery the to fill strike can visitors that gongs engraved and landscape, the in sculptures illuminated large letters, steel of suspended made of poetry curtain a50-metre includes exhibition vibrant this exploration, sensory and tactile Encouraging Plensa. Jaume artist Spanish by renowned work recent and new of body extraordinary an presents YSP . These glass cabins, immersed in in immersed cabins, glass These . Plensa has an international reputation reputation international an has Plensa and website. and Galleries Shop, YSP the from available are merchandise exhibition special and guidebook, £5 a Peake, Laurie and Baranano de Kosme Strick, Jeremy by texts with catalogue £20 A Project. 4’s Art Big of Channel part as Helens St for sculpture high a 20-metre Dream created he 2009 In Chicago. in (2004) Fountain Crown momentous the including world, the around projects art public significant completed has and

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(‘miraculous playing’, The Telegraph). The Times) and guitarist Craig Ogden charismatic, brimming with verve and poetry’, Featuring cellist Matthew Sharp (‘virtuosic, of spring. essence to very the closer performance that promises to bring audiences wrote for the four seasons, this is a one-off and including Vivaldi and Piazzolla, who both to Mahler, Purcell from ranging music With season. spring to the evoke and show Plensa Jaume of the opening the to celebrate song and music perform musicians Chapel, the of surroundings intimate beautiful, the In £30. Book online or call 01924 830579. course dinner deal at 6pm in the YSP Restaurant9 April, 7.30pm, performance only £15. Two- FO YS P &O S UR E PER ASONS: S ASONS: A NO R PRI TH PRE TH NG S E NT

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Shirin Neshat: STRUCTURE & MATERIAL Soliloquy Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley, Karla Black

5 March – 26 June 2011 31 March – 26 June 2011

Chapel Longside Gallery For further information please visit A rare showing of Neshat’s poetic film, In Soliloquy Neshat uses architecture An Arts Council Collection exhibition www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk on loan from Tate, in YSP’s listed Georgian as a cultural reference as she walks through curated by Katrina Brown and Chapel. This unique context provides two distinct landscapes; one in Mardin, Caroline Douglas a serene yet provocative space for the Turkey and the other in Albany, New York. Structure & Material investigates the installation which explores themes of The two films make visual the state of work of three significant young artists who identity, exile and cultural history. With longing and dislocation experienced as a each investigate the way we create meaning characteristic subtlety, Neshat renders result of being born in one country, living through form. Unlikely sculptural materials East and West as cultures in exile from each in another and belonging to neither. Using such as cosmetics, sugar paper, blackboard other, but which have distinct parallels and dual screen projections facing one another, paint and brass hinges, or craft in the form possible points of connection, revealing the viewer is physically immersed in of turned wood and tapestry, are employed beauty and difference within each place. hauntingly beautiful imagery and to diverse and distinctive effect. From evocative sound. elements that are sometimes meagre or Neshat was born in Iran in 1957 and, over-familiar, new forms are created that are after leaving school, moved to the USA mysterious and highly evocative. Structure to study art. She was exiled in 1979 & Material features a comprehensive body following the Islamic Revolution in Iran of work by each artist and includes recent Film Screening: Women Without Men and now lives in New York. Neshat is an acquisitions from the Arts Council Collection     important international artist who was and installations made in response to A quietly tremendous film which ensnares recently awarded the Silver Lion at the Longside Gallery. both the heart and the mind. The Guardian Venice Film Festival for her first feature 6/7 24 March, 6.30pm, £4. See page 14. film, Women Without Men. See pages 13, 14 and 15 for Mel Brimfield TS and Rebecca Chesney events. PR OJ EC T I STS/ New work in the open air work New Throughout the Park and Galleries and the Park Throughout NT A R CURRE NT

Mel Brimfield: Rebecca Chesney: Martin Creed Eva Rothschild This is Performance Art Diligent Observation Work No. 700, 2007 Someone & Someone, 2008 (Edition 3 of 3) 9 April – 3 July 2011 9 April – 3 July 2011 Lower Park Open Air Bothy Gallery Garden Gallery Martin Creed creates order where there To coincide with the inaugural exhibition at Mel Brimfield is a London-based artist Rebecca Chesney explores and reveals is none, offering ‘a simple frame through The Hepworth , YSP is showing and curator with a particular interest in changing environments and the impact of which people can see all the chaos of a work by Eva Rothschild. performance art. Brimfield creates playful, human activity, creating installations that the world.’ Using varied materials, from leather to not only capture a sense of wonder in the alternative histories, inspired by real artists, Work No. 700 is the largest sculpture in Perspex, Rothschild creates sculpture which natural world but also the inescapable artworks and pop culture. Recognising that a series made from stacking objects that hovers between figuration and abstraction. struggle between survival and death. performance art is difficult to document and ascend or descend in scale. The work is Someone & Someone surpasses the Chesney’s project demonstrates YSP’s represent accurately, Brimfield toys with the made up of three progressively slimmer limitations of material to resemble two unique ability to provide a landscape for truth and produces fabricated information, I-beams stacked together, simultaneously figures and, decorated with day-glo paint, art, in this case as a laboratory in which objects and ephemera to support her often eliminating and alluding to the intended is a striking addition to the landscape. to research and develop new work. The comical parallel realities. In this exhibition, function of the objects by making them exhibition maps the landscape of the Bretton In her own words Rothschild is ‘interested Brimfield re-imagines the space as ‘Room unusable, but retaining a quality that Estate in relation to its populations of bees in the ways of looking that go with concepts 27’ of a major museum survey entitled This suggests they are second-hand. is Performance Art. Brimfield merges artists and wildflowers and includes drawings based of faith and in how things are invested with on the sounds of bees and their hives, dead such as Gilbert and George with footage Creed’s practice takes in aspects of a power above and beyond their materiality, plant and animal specimens and a conceptual of Morecambe and Wise, and shows a film Minimalism and found art and is characterised the transference of spirituality onto objects’. work for an extensive landscape intervention, by a spirit of enquiry – posing questions about the fictional sculptor and dancer Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art and created with bee-friendly plants. about taste, commodification and reality Alex Owens, based on the female star of the the New Art Centre, Roche Court. versus the unreal. popular 1980s filmFlashdance . The exhibition captures Brimfield’s joyfully subversive Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth capacity to create entirely fictional scenarios 8/9 that are intuitively plausible. TS PR OJ EC T I STS/ New work in the open air work New NT A R CURRE NT

HENRY MOORE & From the Arts Council Collection & Landscape Barbara Hepworth 31 March – 26 June 2011 From 22 April – 10 July 2011 From 21 May 2011 Longside Gallery Project Space Upper Space Open Air

Henry Moore is an important figure for the To celebrate the launch of The Hepworth 100 acres of undulating hills are home to These displays coincide with the opening of Arts Council Collection. He was a key advisor Wakefield, YSP has worked with the one of the world’s most significant open-air The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire’s major to the acquisitions committee during the early Hepworth Estate to display photographs, displays of Henry Moore bronzes. new art gallery opening in May 2011. Find out more at www.hepworthwakefield.org 1950s, shaping the Collection by advocating sculpture, film and ephemera that share The selection of sculptures changes this the acquisition of a significant group of the artist’s thoughts about landscape year with new loans from the Henry Moore post-war British sculpture. His representation and its influence on her work. Foundation including Upright Motive No. 5 within the Collection is also very strong, with and Mother and Child: Block Seat. sculptures and works on paper spanning five decades. This new Project Space display On Hillside is Barbara Hepworth’s seminal offers an opportunity to enjoy these rich Family of Man, a beautiful and poignant holdings. During spring 2011, all 26 works representation of figures in the landscape, by Moore in the Collection will be on display and Squares with Two Circles, on loan in Yorkshire, including nine sculptures and from Tate. 10/11 15 works on paper in this exhibition. 12/13 EVENTS Throughout the Park & Galleries first to hear about upcoming events and activities. and events upcoming about hear to first the be and www.ysp.co.uk at enews to up Sign YS East Sculp Y entries. 100 first the for egg chocolate Free Restaurant. YSP the in lunch family to afree win chance your for and part take to Centre Visitor the from aleaflet up Pick drop-in. free, April, –25 23 East choices. and own thoughts of your aworld up opens which book with asculptural aself-portrait Create 832528. 01924 call or online Book 8+, age £4. children for suitable – 3.30pm, &1.30pm –12.30pm 10.30am April, 20 19, Bee Trust.Wildlife Yorkshire with the activities Family 8 May, drop-in. free, Ter P Membership Co-operative by The Supported workshop. Seeds with Drawing the in part take and site on beehives live see exhibition, Gallery Garden of her tours for Chesney Rebecca artist Join drop-in. free, 2.00pm, and 11.30am at tours &3.00pm, 2.00pm 12.00pm, 11.00am, at May,30 workshops create human forms. human create to objects natural found incorporating and blocks plaster shaping in artists join Moore, of Henry work by the Inspired 832528. 01924 call or online Book 8+, age £4. children for suitable – 3.30pm, &1.30pm –12.30pm 10.30am 2June, 1, and much more... courses to family drawing workshops sculpture and talks artist from range YorkshireEvents at Park Sculpture o l P F a rk ce s &See m F er F er er Fu er sh am d i t am ur ire Wil il n th am y il a n Tr F ds y Sculp l B il e Lands y W oo d a am li il o f k il e Tru rk s t y Fu : ure W ure sho c a st pe: H pe: n D p F s o ay am rk a l il sho f y D ay p s

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All images by Jonty Wilde unless otherwise stated. Page 2/3 Barbara Hepworth, Squares with Two Circles, 1963. Page 6 Soliloquy © Shirin Neshat. Collection: Tate. Page 7 Karla Black, Principles Of Admitting, 2009. Plaster powder, powder paint, sugar paper, spray tan, chalk, concealer stick. 20 x 2770 x 1025 cms / 7 7/8 x 1090 1/2 x 403 1/2 ins, 2 parts. MMG-BLACK-00120. Image courtesy The Artist; Mary Mary, Glasgow; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zürich. Photographer credit: A Burger, Zurich. Sammlung migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zürich. Page 8 Martin Creed, Work No. 700, 2007, Steel I-beams 5 x 40 x 1ft / 1.5 x 12 x 0.25m. Installation view, Hauser & Wirth Outdoor Sculpture, London, 2010 © Martin Creed. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Peter Mallet. Eva Rothschild, Someone & Someone, 2008 (Edition 3 of 3) © the Artist. Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art and the New Art Centre, Roche Court. Image courtesy New Art Centre, Roche Court. Page 9 Henry Moore, Large Spindle Piece, 1974 © The Henry Moore Foundation. YSP is an accredited museum and registered charity, number 1067908. Design: blueriver.co.uk