Current and Forthcoming Events

Christina Mackie at Chisenhale

Our very own sculpture and final project tutor Christina Mackie with a solo show at Chisenhale, starting this week and through February into March. Prime billing.

Private View: Thursday 19 January, 6.30-8.30pm

Exhibition continues until 11 March 2012

Download Invite c_mackie-at-chisenhale.pdf

For more information visit chisemhale.org.uk

Cass staff and alumni feature in West End ‘3D printing’ exhibition

Work by celebrated designer Assa Ashuach, a Senior Lecturer on the MA Product Design course at The Cass features in a new exhibition at Covent Garden’s Aram Gallery alongside exhibits by two of the Faculty’s successful Alumni.

The show, called Send to Print / Print to Send, offers an impression of uses of 3D Printing in the design industry today. This timely exhibition shows work by designers and organisations who are developing the capabilities of this technology. In addition it will include examples of the increasingly important role 3D Printing plays in the design process, particularly during the complex prototyping stages.

Featuring pieces from the studios of both established and emerging designers, The Aram Gallery uses this exhibition as a way to examine how designers’ processes are developing to accommodate new technological advances. Visitors are offered an idea of what 3D Printing is, and how it is being contemporaneously used. Send to Print / Print to Send is not intended as an exhaustive overview, but a cross-disciplinary pick and mix of examples, including works from the fields of architecture, industrial design, fashion, and product design.

3D Printing, the summary term for Rapid Prototyping or Additive Manufacturing is a means of creating Three Dimensional objects using a specifically designed printer. In place of ‘ink’ a continuous strand of, most commonly, polyamide or nylon is layered up to create a 3D form based on a computer drawn image. Early uses of 3D Printing were for creating prototypes as the process, although costly, is much quicker than producing a handmade model. More recently, Rapid Prototyping technology is being used to produce ‘finished’, end designs. Assa Ashuach has been at the forefront of these developments and students at The Cass are also offered unique access to this innovative technology at Metropolitan Works, the creative industries centre based at London Metropolitan University.

Send to Print / Print to Send
13th January – 25th February 2012

Participants:
Assa Ashuach, Riccardo Bovo, Michael Eden, FAT, Freedom of Creation, Jump Studios, Markus Kayser, Dirk vander Kooij, Chau Har Lee, PearsonLloyd, Chloe McCormick & Nicholas O’Donnell-Hoare, Serie, Superfusionlab, Silvia Weidenbach and Unfold.

The Aram Gallery
110 Drury Lane (near Aldwych)
Covent Garden
London WC2B 5SG

Mon - Sat 10 - 6 (Thurs until 7)
http://www.thearamgallery.org/next/

PER-OSKAR LEU
THE ENGLISH: ARE THEY HUMAN?

CURA. in collaboration with 1/9 unosunove gallery, rome

presents

PER-OSKAR LEU
THE ENGLISH: ARE THEY HUMAN?

LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
41-47 COMMERCIAL ROAD, LONDON

OPENING: Friday 3 February at 5pm
UNTIL FEBRUARY 29

www.commercialroadproject.com

Per-Oskar Leu’s THE ENGLISH: ARE THEY HUMAN? marks the second intervention in the London Metropolitan University display window for the Commercial Road Project, an event cycle involving Italian and International artists represented by five galleries in Rome.

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Hallogallo

Stuart Cumberland, Sean Dawson, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Michael Stubbs, Dolly Thompsett, Vicky Wright.

(Curated by: Sean Dawson, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Michael Stubbs)

Sir John Cass Gallery, London Metropolitan University, 59-63 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7PF

Open: 10 February – 9 March, 2012. Mondays – Fridays 10am-5pm
Private View: Thursday 9 February, 2012, 6-8.30pm

Enquiries: (t) 0044 (0)7970 075644. (e) momentum@dircon.co.uk

In the face of stock market meltdown, unemployment, revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, rioting and looting on the streets of London, the survival stakes become high and when the chips are down what’s left amongst the rubble is the last benign act - decadent hedonism.

Hallogallo is the title of a track from the Krautrock band Neu from 1972. It’s a knowing play on the German slang word halligalli which means ‘wild partying’ and is intended as an ironic pun.

On the one hand all the paintings presented utilise hallucinatory materials, colours, forms and narratives to convey a sense of worldly displacement - a form of wild partying. On the other, the artists self-consciously deploy these methods as shadows of historical painting styles; they paint the ‘act’ of abstraction and figuration in a knowing, playful and often excessive manner that quotes the carnivalesque parody of law and order.

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Cass Lecturer Unravelled

Steven Follen, Senior Lecturer at the Cass, is one of ten selected artists commissioned to produce new work for the ‘Unravelled’ Project at Nymans House and Gardens in West Sussex. The project invited individuals working within the fields of craft and design to propose site-specific work in response to the history and environment of this National Trust property, generating opportunities for visitors to interact with the heritage site in new and different ways.

Steven has been developing a design for the porch entrance to the house in the Forecourt garden.  Using lasercut ply, the design has been inspired by the qualities of light in the house and by research into the shapes and forms from the site including the Messel collection of fans (now in the Fitzwilliam Museum  in Cambridge), the geometry of the Monkey Puzzle Tree and the cones from the Pinetum.

The exhibition will open at Nymans in the Spring of 2012.

For more information, please contact Steven Follen

Cass joins forces with Cura for exhibition series at Commercial Road

Cura.magazine in collaboration with The Cass, London Metropolitan University and a network of Roman galleries present Commercial Road Project. From October 2011 to October 2012, five emerging international artists will alternate their work, presenting new and site-specific works in the display window of the University’s Commercial Road Window. The artists have been invited to re-interpret the publicly visible area in the window, transforming every work into part of an out-and-out public art project. A catalogue edited by cura.books, with the critical essays and the photographic documentation of the five projects will be published at the end of the five events cycle, on November 2012.

The participating artists are Andrea Sala (IT), Per-Oskar Leu (N), Jesse Ash (UK), William Cobbing (UK) and Pennacchio Argentato (IT). The galleries from Rome supporting the initiative are Federica Schiavo Gallery, 1/9 unosunove, Monitor, Furini Arte Contemporanea and T293 . CURA. is a curatorial project that revolves around the production of a quarterly magazine (cura.magazine), a publishing house (cura.books) and a space (cura.space), through which it investigates the contemporary artistic production and promotes the most actual developments of the emerging practice, thanks to the collaboration with international artists and curators, the production of artists books, limited editions, exhibition projects and curatorial cons.

All the information concerning the project is available at: http://commercialroadproject.com/
and the full press release can be downloaded here:
commercial road project_EN.pdf

First Exhibition:
October 13 - November 15, 2011 - Andrea Sala
Opening October 13 at 6.30 pm

PROGRAMME
October 2011 – Andrea Sala (Federica Schiavo gallery)
January 2012 – Per Oskar Leu (1/9 unosunove)
March 2012 – Jesse Ash (Monitor)
June 2012 – William Cobbing (Furini Arte Contemporanea)
October 2012 – Pennacchio Argentato (T293)