Posts Tagged ‘De La Warr Pavilion’

Richard Wilson’s No Formulas private view + 1513: A Ships’ Opera

Richard Wilson talks with Will Alsop and Don Grant at the No Formulas private view

This year's model: private view visitors with maquettes by Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson’s No Formulas opened with an excellent private view on Tuesday 17th September.

Lights, Steam-Action! Richard Wilson's epic 1513: A Ships' Opera on the River Thames

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Lynda Morris, Frank Sidebottom, Motorcycle Cultures, Richard Wilson, and Derek Jarman

Lynda Morris invitation to Dear Lynda at BQ, Berlin. photo of Lynda: David Lamelas

Lynda Morris’s Dear Lynda exhibition and archive, shown at CHELSEA space in July 2012, is now opening at BQ in Berlin. The show was initiated by Matthew Higgs at White Columns in New York then came in a new version to CHELSEA space followed by shows in Dundee and Norwich. The brilliant image of Lynda on the Berlin invitation is by David Lamelas More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Sounds and Smells, Naff Graphics, A Bus on a Roof, and A Former London Cab Driver in Texas

Oswaldo Maciá's Library of Cynicism at CHELSEA space

An assault on the senses this week as Oswaldo Maciá opened his new audio-olfactory work The Library of Cynicism at CHELSEA space.

Stop Making Sense: A visitor examines one of Oswaldo Maciá's smell tanks

This spatial installation made especially for CHELSEA space incorporates sound and smell and encourages a heightened sensory perception in encounters with art and ideas. Oswaldo has also been showing this week in the Modern … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Hang On A Minute Lads: Richard Wilson’s latest great idea

An uncanny addition to the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion

As we mentioned at the end of our last blog something has come unhinged in the pleasant south coast town of Bexhill on Sea.

Hang On A Minute Lads, I've Got A Great Idea...

Look up at Eric Mendelsohn’s and Serge Chermayeff’s 1930s modernist masterpiece, the De La Warr Pavilion, and you will see a full size passenger coach teetering precariously … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

From Leckey to Lynda

Mark Leckey gets 'Touchy Feely' at Chelsea

A week is a long time at CHELSEA space and once again we have been packing in some great events. We broke off from installing our new show to host an excellent lecture by Mark Leckey entitled ‘Touchy Feely’. Mark is currently busy working in the studio and was very generous in coming to talk with us and candid in sharing his ideas, even showing us his work in progress - a film portrait of an immaculate chrome … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here

Alan Haydon 1949-2011

Alan Haydon (far left) with DLWP acting director Stewart Drew and DLWP curators David Rhodes and Jane Won at the 2011 Venice Biennale

CHELSEA space was deeply saddened to hear the news that Alan Haydon, Director of the De La Warr Pavilion, has passed away following a short illness.

Alan had been the Director and Chief executive at the De La Warr since 1999 and had overseen the transformation of this iconic but run down building into a world class centre for the arts with recent … More To Follow: Read The Full Text Here