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Programme February – April 2014 Free Entry Ikon Celebrates Its 50Th Year During 2014–2015 Programme February – April 2014 www.ikon-gallery.org Free entry Ikon celebrates its 50th year during 2014–2015. Ikon 50 starts in February with the first solo show A programme of special exhibitions and events, by Iraqi-Kurdish artist Jamal Penjweny, coinciding collectively known as Ikon 50, marks this milestone with an ongoing installation of wall drawings by in our history. David Tremlett. Spring 2014 arrives with the most comprehensive UK exhibition to date by Belgian Spanning five decades, five locations and five artist Michel François, followed in the summer by As directors, Ikon has grown from a small artist-led Exciting As We Can Make It, a survey of Ikon’s activity space in a kiosk in Birmingham’s Bullring to become during the 1980s. In September we present the an internationally acclaimed gallery, housed in the extraordinary multi-media creations of Korean artist former Oozells Street School building, Brindleyplace, Lee Bul before the exhibition to celebrate Deutsche welcoming over 130,000 visitors every year. Bank’s Artist of the Year 2013, Imran Qureshi. Ikon Throughout its 50 years, Ikon has played a key role 50 culminates in early 2015 with an exciting video in the development of many artistic careers. Martin installation by Angolan artist Nástio Mosquito, Ikon 50 Appeal Creed, Antony Gormley, Carmen Herrera, Julian shown alongside the more quiet and contemplative Opie, Cornelia Parker and Dayanita Singh have all work of Norwegian artist A. K. Dolven, and a Tower You can help. Make a donation to our Ikon 50 had important exhibitions here, to name just a few. Room tribute to Robert Groves, the artist who gave Appeal and support three key areas of activity in our Ikon its name in 1964. anniversary year: the Ikon 50 exhibition programme; outreach work in schools and communities; and a Ikon Icons sees the return of five key British new public sculpture for the city by Birmingham-born artists from an exhibition programme starting in artist Gillian Wearing. 1965, one artist per decade: John Salt, Ian Emes, Cornelia Parker, Yinka Shonibare and Julian Opie. During 2014–2015, Arts Council England will match A presentation of work by each takes place, any donation you make to Ikon, so your donation consecutively during Ikon 50, in Ikon’s Tower Room. will be automatically doubled! Ikon 50 also includes an extensive public programme For more information or to donate please visit of talks, events, film screenings and off-site projects. www.ikon-gallery.org/support/ikon-appeal or call A highlight is our series Those Were The Decades, 0121 248 0708. days of talks, debates and film screenings focusing For more about Ikon 50 on each decade since Ikon began, exploring wider visit www.ikon-gallery.org social, political and cultural contexts. 1 Ikon Gallery, Bullring, 1965–1968 Western soldiers in ranks and on patrol – each with Jamal Penjweny a single red line drawn across the neck. The mark references the Islamic custom dictating that images of living creatures should be avoided, their creation Saddam is Here considered the rightful domain of God rather than that of humanity. By separating body and head, Exhibition Penjweny ‘invalidates’ the image, disclaiming his role 19 February – 21 April 2014 of creator. For Iraq is Flying (2006–2010) Penjweny First Floor Galleries requested that his subjects jump whilst being photographed and so it seems that they are jumping for joy, perhaps in reminiscence of lost childhood games, in the face of the great hardship they experience in everyday life. This exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Ikon presents the first solo exhibition of Jamal Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq. Penjweny, including photography and video works reflecting on life in Iraq today. Born in Sulaimaniya, “Kurdish artist Jamal Penjweny’s cheeky portraits of Iraqi Kurdistan, in 1981, Penjweny started his artistic Iraqis holding a black-and-white photo of Saddam career as a sculptor and painter, moving into Hussein over their faces manage to momentarily photography whilst supporting himself by working animate the dark legacy of the country’s former as a shepherd and, latterly, a café proprietor. His leader.” Artforum work has been the subject of international attention following its inclusion in Welcome to Iraq, the Iraqi To coincide with his exhibition at Ikon, Penjweny pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, curated by Ikon has produced a limited edition photograph Untitled Director Jonathan Watkins. [Sitting Soldier] (2014) from the series Saddam is 2 Here, edition 200, £250. Visit our online shop at Key to this exhibition is the photographic series www.ikon-gallery.org for the full range of Ikon’s Saddam is Here (2009–2010), consisting of twelve catalogues and editions. images of Iraqi people in familiar surroundings, each holding a life-size picture of Saddam Hussein’s face in front of their own. Saddam’s likeness becomes a mask obscuring any expression of emotion, Associated Event any gaze, or possibility of sure identification and individuality. It is ludicrous, hilarious and at the same Exhibition opening time absolutely ominous, pointing up the insidious Wednesday 19 February, 6–8pm – FREE influence of a dictator. Of the work, Penjweny has Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the opening said “Saddam is here. Iraqi society cannot forget him of our new exhibition. even after his death because some of us still love him and the rest are still afraid of him … His shadow is still following Iraqi society everywhere.” Penjweny’s short film Another Life (2010), follows some days in the lives of Iraqis smuggling alcohol from Iraq into Iran. It has the grainy appeal of covert mobile phone footage, and is very matter- of-fact in its editing. There is no melodrama, but the last moments are striking when, instead of rolling credits, we see a short text explaining how 2 Jamal Penjweny two of the men just introduced to us were killed by Without Soul (2011) customs police a few days after filming. 3 Jamal Penjweny Iraq is Flying (2010) Another photographic series, Without Soul (2011), shows everyday scenes – Iraqis at work and prayer, Courtesy the artist 3 David Tremlett 3 Drawing Rooms Exhibition to 21 April 2014 Second Floor Galleries David Tremlett’s artistic practice, developed after his formal training at Falmouth School of Art, Birmingham College of Art and the Royal College of Art, is characterised by a critical examination of what sculpture and indeed art could be; an interest in the creative process of making, rather than focusing on a final result. Tremlett refers to his work as objects, flat sculpture, rather than images which, for him, imply illusion. His compositions typically consist of abstract forms, abstract arrangements of arcs, circles, trapezoids, text and line – formal constructs which emanate a joy of colour. For Ikon, Tremlett has transformed the second floor galleries with geometric shapes, applied directly to the walls using pastel pigment and engine grease. Each of the three rooms contains a separate drawing playing off the volumes of architectural space, retuning our perception of them. The first is covered with a dramatic composition of red, blue, black and grey vertical rectangles, based on observations of high-rise buildings and city landscapes the artist made while in Japan. The second, described by Tremlett as the ‘hinge’ between the two larger spaces, is a drawing with diagonals of grey paint and black graphite grease, A newssheet publication, containing photography whilst the final room features horizontal bands of of the installation in progress and complete and an earth-like colours, a scheme first conceived but interview with David Tremlett and Jonathan Watkins, unrealised for the Skolkovo Moscow School of Ikon Director, accompanies the exhibition. Price £1. Management, Russia. Visit Ikon’s online shop at www.ikon-gallery.org for the full range of Ikon’s catalogues and limited Like all of Tremlett’s wall drawings, the installation editions. was planned with meticulous detail, taking more than two weeks to complete, with the artist and his “As you enter each room the effect is seductively assistants applying the colour painstakingly by hand. disorientating. Slabs of black and white are visually 4 David Tremlett Visit www.ikon-gallery.org to view an installation punctuated by geometric passages of primary 3 Drawing Rooms (2013) film by Chris Keenan. colour.” The Guardian Photograph by Stuart Whipps Ikon Icons Afternoon Tea Public Events Thursday 20 March, 2.30–4.30pm – FREE* Join us for an exhibition tour, followed by tea, cake and chat in Café Opus at Ikon. Places are free but John Salt should be booked. Visit www.ikon-gallery.org to book online or call Ikon on 0121 248 0708. *Suggested Exhibition Talks and Tours £4 donation for refreshments 19 February – 21 April 2014 Tower Room Spotlight Tours 1960s Art and Architecture Tour Only accessible via a number of steps Every Friday, 1pm and Sunday, 3pm – FREE Saturday 22 March, 1–2.30pm – FREE Join a member of our staff team for a 15 minute Tour starts: Paolozzi statue, Westgate, spotlight tour looking at a key work in the Main Entrance, The University of Birmingham John Salt, the first artist ever to exhibit at Ikon, exhibition. No need to book, meet in Ikon foyer. Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2FG shows paintings, prints and sculpture made Meet University Curator Clare Mullett for a walking 5 John Salt Cadillac (1967) before he embarked on an artistic career both in Jamal Penjweny in conversation tour of the University of Birmingham’s Fine Art Oil on canvas Courtesy the artist the US and the UK that saw him acknowledged Thursday 13 February, 7–8.30pm – FREE collection and 1960s campus architecture.
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