Body: New Art From The UK - Group Exhibitions

Installation: Everything Goes Away In The End. Image: We Fade in the Sun and Shine in the Lamplight (This Place Fills Us). Artist: Martin Boyce.



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	Body: New Art From The UK


	Collaborative exhibition between Vancouver Art Gallery and The British Council

This collaborative exhibition, co-curated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and the British Council, presents the work of 14 British artists in Canada’s foremost contemporary art museum, subsequently touring to museums in Ottawa, Oakville, Edmonton and Nova Scotia. An investigation into the body and cultural geography provide inspiration for most of the works in the exhibition. The diverse range of practice alludes to the social changes which have given a special prominence to the body in contemporary social theory, and engage with current notions such as that of the ‘somatic society’, a society within which major political and personal problems are both internalised within, and also expressed through, the body.

Artists included in Body are Fiona Banner, Martin Boyce, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tacita Dean, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Melanie Jackson, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rebecca Warren, Gillian Wearing, Cathy Wilkes and Carey Young. The artists represented are neither of a single generation or geographical location but share common concerns, along with eclectic working methodologies; the exhibition encompassing installation, sculpture, video, painting and drawing.

A full colour catalogue accompanies the exhibition containing texts by Bruce Grenville, Chief Curator of Vancouver Art Gallery, and Colin Ledwith of the British Council as well as a commissioned contribution from the acclaimed writer Douglas Coupland.

Venues:

CANADA

Vancouver Art Gallery 28 May – 5 September 2005

Ottawa Art Gallery 24 November 2005 – 6 January 2006

Oakville Art Galleries 8 April – 4 June 2006

Edmonton Art Gallery 9 June – 11 September 2006

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia November 2006 – January 2007 (tbc)

For further information please contact Colin Ledwith