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Bonington Vitrines #17: Andrew Logan, Alternative Miss World Sep - Dec 2021
Andrew Logan: The Joy of Sculpture Apr - May 2021
Reactor: Here, the Gold Ones meet Oct - Dec 2020
Sophie Cundale: The Near Room Feb - Mar 2020
Matt Woodham: Sensing Systems (streaming online) Jan - Jan 2020
Nick Chaffe: Motif Residency exhibition Nov - Feb 2020
Motif Sep - Nov 2019
Waking the witch: Old ways, new rites Apr - May 2019
The Big Head Man Sep - Nov 2019
Bonington Vitrines #13: Wayne Burrows – Works from the Hallucinated Archive Apr - May 2020
Bonington Vitrines #16: The Captive Conscious (POSTPONED) Feb - Mar 2020
Bonington Vitrines #15: Nomadic Vitrine with Mick Peter (CLOSED) Nov - Feb 2020
Bonington Vitrines #14: Journeys to Nottingham from the Windrush Generation Apr - May 2019
Bonington Vitrines #12: Complaint Jan - Feb 2019
Bonington Vitrines #10: Jewell Feb - Feb 2019
UKYA City Takeover Apr - May 2019
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Chloé Maratta and Joanne Robertson Mar - Mar 2019
The Community Live in Nottingham Nov - Dec 2018
THE SERVING LIBRARY V DAVID OSBALDESTON Nov - Dec 2018
Bonington Vitrines #9: Towards The Serving Library Annual Nov - Dec 2018
Emily Andersen Portraits: Black & White Book launch and exhibition Sep - Oct 2018
BONINGTON VITRINES #8: HOUSE OF WISDOM Jan - Feb 2019
DICK JEWELL: NOW & THEN Sep - Oct 2018
THE ACCUMULATION OF THINGS Apr - Apr 2018
Video Days Preview Apr - May 2018
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Bonington Vitrines #6: One Eye on the Road – festival and traveller culture since the 1980s Feb - Mar 2018
LACE UNARCHIVED Jan - Feb 2018
Bonington Vitrines #5: Communicating the Contemporary – The ICA Bulletin 1950s to 1990s Nov - Dec 2017
Bonington Vitrines #4: Sara MacKillop publications, 2008–2017 Sep - Oct 2017
Bonington Vitrines #3: London’s Calling Jan - Feb 2018
Ruth Angel Edwards: Wheel of the Year
! EFFLUENT PROFUNDAL ZONE ! Nov - Dec 2017
Sara MacKillop: One Room Living Sep - Oct 2017
It’s Our Playground: Artificial Sensibility Apr - May 2017
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT Sep - Oct 2016
MOULD MAP 6 — TERRAFORMERS Oct - Dec 2016
KRÍSIS Jan - Feb 2017
ALL MEN BY NATURE DESIRE TO KNOW Jan - Feb 2017
Bonington Vitrines #2: Marbled Reams Oct - Dec 2016
Bonington Vitrines #1: Selections from the Raw Print Archive Feb - Mar 2017
SHAPELESS IMPACT NOT TIME SLOW IS (FLITS BY)
24 Feb - 31 Mar 2017
SHAPELESS IMPACT NOT TIME SLOW IS (FLITS BY)
A solo exhibition by Giorgio Sadotti
THE VAST MAJORITY OF MY ART IS GENERATED CONCEPTUALLY THROUGH THE USE OF LINEAR TYPE IDEAS AND THOUGHTS, SYSTEMS RELATED TO THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE ‘FOUND’, ORDER, DIS-ORDER, THE ACCEPTANCE OF CHANCE, CONTEXT CATEGORIZATION AND THE GESTURE.
IT IS ALSO RELATED TO MATHEMATICAL AND GEOMETRIC CONTEMPLATION, MEASUREMENT, LOCATION, REPETITION, REPETITION AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE / TIME.
THE VOICE OF THE GROUP, THE BODY AS A CONCEPT AS RELATED TO AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP, THE ORIGINAL / COPY ARE ALSO NOTIONS DEALT WITH IN MY MIND.
SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING.
IN MY FUTILE ATTEMPT TO TRY TO FIND SOMETHING, ANYTHING, THAT ISN’T ALREADY DIVIDED I EXPERIENCE GLORIOUS FAILURE WHICH I EMBRACE AND PRESENT AS ART.
I AM FASCINATED BY THE POWER OF REFUSAL, THE VERY IDEA OF NOT DOING SOMETHING EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING IT, THE RIGHT AND CREATIVE BEAUTY OF POTENTIAL TO DO COMPARED TO THE REALITY OF THE DONE.
THE NOTION THAT THE MORE LANGUAGE YOU HAVE THE HARDER IT IS TO SAY SOMETHING APPEALS. AS DOES THE IDEA THAT WHERE LANGUAGE FAILS POSSIBLY ART BEGINS.
VISUAL LOVE AND LINGUISTIC AND LINGUISTIC AND AUDIO AUDIO BASTARD HALLUCINATION.
With contributions from guest artists:
» PAUL NOBLE
» MICHAEL PROUDFOOT
» CHRIS WATTS
» ELIZABETH WRIGHT
FINE ART LIVE LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS: GIORGIO SADOTTI
THURSDAY 2 MARCH, 5.15 PM – 7.30 PM
The Fine Art Live Lecture Series is an initiative by Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art course, whereby creative practitioners are invited to deliver a lecture to current students. The lectures are also open to staff, alumni and the general public.
» GIORGIO SADOTTI
(b.1955, Manchester) Sadotti lives and works in London.
Recent works include:
» WHAT IS ROLLED IS MOVING, 2016
» MUDDY WATERS, 2014
» THIS THIS MONSTER THIS THINGS, 2012
» Tate Britain’s Christmas Tree, 2011
His work is in public collections including the Tate and the British Council.
Sadotti completed an Art Foundation course at Nottingham Trent University (formerly Trent Polytechnic) in 1977.
To mark the opening of his solo exhibition here at the Gallery, Giorgio Sadotti led 80+ volunteers in an INAUGURATING INCANTATION. With the audience entering in silence and into near total darkness, the performance evoked the sense of a sort-of ritual taking place in a cave. Evidence of the performance has now been left in the space, creating an installation which will remain throughout the duration of the exhibition. Watch a video of the performance, below:
Images: Courtesy of Julian Lister / Giorgio Sadotti