Future Programme
Programme 2010
Look out for Late Thursdays at Rivington Place from 7 - 9pm, lively evenings of talks and screenings with artists, curators, filmmakers and leading academics.
Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili: Counterpoints
31 March – 15 May 2010
New work by two contemporary Chinese artists includes the European premiere of a film by Lu Chunsheng who showed in the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at Battersea Power Station, as well as emerging artist Jia Aili's first solo exhibition in Europe, 'Make Believe…'. Both artists are drawn to the subject of industrial progress, social corrosion and the individual’s struggle in the machine age.
In Lu Chunsheng’s film, 'The first man who bought a juicer bought it not for drinking juice', the characters are both human and mechanical, and refer to the consequences of the globalised era in their repetition of senseless acts.
Jia Aili shows monumental new paintings, and an installation specially created for the window overlooking Rivington Street inspired by 16th-century painter Caravaggio. He uses a muted colour palette and quick brushwork, conjuring up the disorientating emotions felt in a developing society.