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THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
Artists announced for the biggest museum-scale exhibition
of its kind
Private View: 9 Oct 2007
‘THE NEW LONDON SCHOOL’ REVEALED
Leading curators present the art stars of tomorrow –
and today
Tom Hackney, Tessa Farmer, Sarah McGinity, Gordon Cheung,
Gavin Nolan, Stella Vine and Miho Sato are just some of the
artists showing work in The Future Can Wait - the biggest
ever
museum-scale privately curated exhibition for breaking artists.
Curators Zavier Ellis and Simon Rumley have now announced
the full list of artists set to exhibit in the Old Truman
Brewery’s Atlantis Gallery, in what promises to be a
seminal show in the future of art history. Ellis and Rumley
have selected the best of what they describe as The New London
School – artists whose work deals with the human condition
in painting, video and installation, underpinned by an emphasis
on technical expertise.
List of artists:
Jennifer Allen, Dylan Atkins, Emma Bennett, Kiera
Bennett, Louise Camrass, Juliana Cerqueiera-Leite, Gordon
Cheung, Simon Cunningham, Chris Davies, Tessa Farmer, Nadine
Feinson, Bettina Graff, Tom Hackney, David Hancock, Matthew
Houlding, Sam Jackson, Chia En Jao, James Jessop, Kounosuke
Kawakami, Cathy Lomax, Alexis Milne, Rui Matsunaga, Robin
Mason, Sarah McGinity, Hugh Mendes, Richard Moon, Alex Gene
Morrison, Rie Nakajima, Gavin Nolan, Tim Parr, Jaime Pitarch,
Emma Puntis, Harry Pye, Miho Sato, Dominic Shepherd, John
Stark, Erik Tidemann, Gavin Tremlett, Will Tuck, James Unsworth,
Stella Vine, Hannah Wooll
Featuring the art stars of the moment, the show will bring
together hundreds of future collectable works in one gallery
space and all pieces will be for sale. The Future Can Wait
will be bigger than anything of its kind that has gone before.
It will also offer a contrast to the more limited viewing
context of the art fair booth system by showing a wealth of
work as it was originally intended – in a spectacular,
spacious environment. Featuring these London-based artists
for its inaugural year, The Future Can Wait will eventually
take on global partners to become a primary showcase for international
artists.
Editors’ Notes:
Zavier Ellis
Two years after graduating from Manchester University with
a BA (Hons) in History of Modern Art in 1996, Zavier Ellis
opened his first gallery in London at the age of 24. Also
an artist with a Masters in Fine Art, Ellis has work in several
renowned international collections including Peter Nobel (Zurich),
Anne Lewis (Sydney, New York) and Helmut Schuster (Frankfurt,
Berlin). Ellis’s most recent project, CHARLIE SMITH
london, is a curatorial dealership specialising in young,
contemporary artists. Conceived as a platform for emerging
to mid-career artists, CHARLIE SMITH london’s priority
is to present work with a specifically curatorial emphasis
at selected art fairs and events as well as singular exhibitions
at the gallery and at alternative venues, both internationally
and in the UK. Ellis, through CHARLIE SMITH london, is keen
to promote interrelations between artists, curators and galleries
while maintaining a priority to show work in its correct context
, providing for progressively-minded collectors. Ellis has
a broad and extensive experience of the contemporary scene,
as curator, dealer, artist, collector and events organiser.
www.charliesmithlondon.com
Simon Rumley
Having bought works by then relatively unknown artists Jamie
Shovlin, Ian Monroe and Marcel Dzama, Simon Rumley founded
the auspicious New London Kicks in 2005. An annual show sponsored
by the oldest and largest art fair in the US, The Armory Show,
New London Kicks promotes contemporary and emerging artists
in New York in collaboration with Soho House NY and Wooster
Projects. As well as showing breaking talent such as Miho
Sato, Gordon Cheung and Stella Vine, Rumley was first to exhibit
Katy Moran’s work in New York before she was picked
up by Stuart Shave/Modern Art and selected for a show at the
Gagosian Gallery. Rumley has also produced, written and directed
four feature films. The first three, Strong Language, The
Truth Game and Club Le Monde formed a youth culture trilogy
set in 1990s London and were critically acclaimed by, among
other publications, The Times, Penthouse and Time Out. Rumley’s
most recent film, The Living and The Dead, an extreme psychological
drama starring Roger Lloyd-Pack, was premiered at the prestigious
Rotterdam Film Festival last year and will be released by
DNC at the end of 2007. Rumley has also directed a short film,
The Handyman, starring Greta Scacchi, which is travelling
extensively on the festival circuit. Rumley will be shooting
his next feature in Alabama, USA, in 2008.
www.simonrumley.com
www.newlondonkicks.com
Contacts
For further information / Use of pictures / Interviews
Idea Generation: +44(0)20 7749 6853
Liz Barrett: liz@ideageneration.co.uk
Marta Bogna: marta@ideageneration.co.uk
The Atlantis Gallery
Old Truman Brewery
146 Brick Lane
London E1
Tube: Liverpool Street
Opening Hours: Private View October 9th 2007
Prices: Free
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