Politics, Harrow, Obituaries - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions
17 February, 2012
by: Tom Jeffreys
Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.
From Wednesday 22nd February
Jeremy Deller @ Hayward Gallery
A mid-career survey at the Hayward this spring for Turner Prize winner (and ex-Tate trustee) Jeremy Deller. Deller is probably best known for 2001's 'Battle of Orgreave' a recreation of the battle that occurred during the UK miners' strike of 1984. Deller's work is generally political charged (possibly in a not particularly rigorous way) and he often works in collaboration with other artists, musicians, and architects. This should be an interesting one.
From Friday 24th February
Laura Maes @ Usurp Gallery
Harrow's finest (only?) contemporary art gallery celebrates its second birthday with an interactive audio installation by Belgium-based artist Laura Maes. Using all sorts of complex equipment (piezoelectric disks anyone?) Maes has constructed a kind of operating table made of stainless steel in which the visitor becomes a kind of patient, but one fully in control of the operation. This is sound as full bodily experience.
From Friday 24th February
Hugh Mendes @ Charlie Smith London
A solo show for Hugh Mendes at Charlie Smith this February and March. Mendes is best known for his painstaking oil paintings of newspaper pages, particularly obituaries, on which this exhibition – his first solo show with the gallery – focuses. There's something disarmingly pointless about Mendes' work, and there's a poignancy not just in the subject matter but in the dedicated elevation of the essentially ephemeral.
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