I STILL LOVE - photos

I STILL LOVE - 6th May - 5th June 2011

The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ

I STILL LOVE - Private View - photos

Thanks to everyone who came.
The exhibition, I STILL LOVE is open now until 5th June 2011 - Friday-Sunday, 1-5pm.
Artist's talk 8th May, 2pm
The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ

I STILL LOVE - e-flyer and press release

E-flyer for I STILL LOVE - an exhibition of recent visual art work by Franko B, at the Nunnery Gallery, London.

6th May - 5th June 2011

Private View: 5th May, 6:30-9:30 pm - put it in your diary!

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FRANKO B – I STILL LOVE
The Nunnery Gallery – 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
nunnery@bowarts.com
www.nunnerygallery.org

Private View: Thursday 5th May, 18:30-21:30
Exhibition continues: 6th May – 5th June 2011

I Still Love follows on from the artist’s recent solo exhibition at PAC (Pavilion of Contemporary Art) in Milan, and is Franko B’s first solo exhibition in London for seven years.

A bold, eclectic artist, for many years a leading figure on the international performance art scene, Franko B continues to express the beauty of existence in his work, focusing on powerful and emotive imagery.

This exhibition will include a new series of embroidered canvases, never before shown in the UK. The canvases, which depict animals, flowers, portraits, male bodies, as well as images of torture and war, play on the central themes of Franko B’s work – death, eroticism, intimacy, pain and compassion – here brought into a new light through the exclusive use of red cotton.

The fragile beauty of these images, delineated on the blank canvases with bright red thread, is reminiscent of the red blood marks on the whitened body of the artist – which were typical elements of his earlier performance works, and are deeply embedded in the public perception of his practice.

‘I’m essentially a painter who also works with performance. I come from a visual art background, and not theatre or “live art”, and this is very important to me as it informs the way my work is read. Over the last twenty years or so, I have developed ways of working to suit my need at that particular time, in terms of strategy and context, by using painting, installation, sculpture, video and sound.’
- Franko B 2010.

Franko B was born in Milan in 1960 and has lived in London since 1979. He graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design and has been producing work across a diverse range of media since the early 1990s – ranging from video to photography, from performance to painting and sculpture. He is a visiting lecturer at many arts institutions and universities across the world, and has run several workshops and mentoring schemes for emerging artists. Since 2009, he has been Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, Italy.

Franko B has performed at Tate Modern, ICA (London), South London Gallery, Arnolfini (Bristol), Palais des Beaux Artes (Brussels), Beaconsfiled (London), Bluecoat Centre (Liverpool), in Mexico City, Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid and Vienna, to name but a few. He has presented his visual art work at Tate Liverpool, RuArts Foundation (Moscow), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Freud Museum (London), PAC (Milan), Contemporary Art Centre (Copenhagen) and many more. His works are in the collections of the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, South London Gallery and the Modern Art Museum of Tel Aviv.

For more information, please contact
nunnery@bowarts.com
020 8709 5292

I STILL LOVE - exhibition in London - May 2011

I STILL LOVE - an exhibition of recent visual art work by Franko B.

The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ.

nunnery@bowarts.com

6th May - 5th June 2011

Franko B is supported by Bow Arts Trust.

I'M THINKING OF YOU - photos

I'M THINKING OF YOU [durational version] - performance at The Nunnery, 16th October 2010 - part of Visions in the Nunnery, presented by Bow Arts Trust.

Photos by Thomas Qualmann.

I'M THINKING OF YOU

I'M THINKING OF YOU [durational version]

- performance at the Nunnery Gallery, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ.

Saturday 16th October 2010, 6:30 - 10:30 pm.

Part of 'Visions at the Nunnery', presented by Bow Arts Trust.

Free admission, no booking necessary.

CAN YOU HEAR IT ?

CAN YOU HEAR IT - Group exhibition, curated by Franko B, at the Nunnery Gallery. Private view 25th June, exhibition continues until 26th June, Friday-Sunday 1300-1700.

181-183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ.

www.bowarts.org

NEW STUDIO

New studio with Bow Arts Trust

BOW ARTS TRUST

Franko B has recently moved into a new studio with BOW ARTS TRUST - with whom he has also entered into a professional relationship, which will include curating exhibitions at the Nunnery Gallery, starting with their Open Studios event in June.

Franko will also run a series of informal Salons and Critiques (ART, POLITICS AND SEX) in his studio every 12 weeks or so, beginning on 12th May, 6.30-10.30pm (more information to follow).

He will perform I'M THINKING OF YOU at the 'Visions' event at the Nunnery Gallery in October 2010, and put on a solo show in April-May 2011.

Detailed information about all events will follow.