b'| CULT URE CULT URE | Olafur Eliasson: YourTATE BRITAIN In Eliassons captivating installations you become aware uncertain shadowMILLBANK of your senses, people around you and the world beyond. (colour), 2010 SW1P 4RG Some artworks introduce natural phenomena such as rainbows to the gallery space. Others use reflections and William Blake shadows to play with the way we perceive and interact 11 September To 2 February 2020 with the world. Many works result from the artists research William Blake was a painter, printmaker and poet whointo complex geometry, motion patterns, and his interest in created some of the most iconic images in British art.colour theory. Inside the exhibition will be an immersive recreation of the small domestic room in which Blake showed his artNam June Paikin 1809. In another room, Blakes dream of showing his17 October To 9 Februaryworks at enormous scale will be made reality using digitalNam June Paiks experimental, innovative work has had technology. With over 300 original works, including hisa profound influence on todays art and culture. He watercolours, paintings and prints, this is the largest show ofpioneered the use of TV and video in art and coined the Blakes work for almost 20 years.phrase electronic superhighway to predict the future of communication in the internet age. It brings together over Sophia Al-Maria: Beast Type Song 200 works from throughout his five-decade careerfrom 20 September To 26 January 2020 robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer andworks and all-encompassing room-sized installations such as filmmaker living and working in London. Her practicethe dazzling Sistine Chapel 1993.Exhibitions explores the isolation of individuals through technology andDora Maartradition, the destructive effects of consumerism, the erasure of history, and a blind faith in a future no one is prepared for.20 November To 15 March 2020Al-Maria will present a new film, Beast Type Song, invokingDuring the 1930s, Dora Maars provocative photomontages the erasure of identities, histories and cultures in thebecame celebrated icons of surrealism. Her eye for the machinery of colonial control. unusual also translated to her commercial photography, including fashion and advertising, as well as to her social NEWPORT STREET GALLERY Bridget Riley Mickey Leckey: O Magic Power of Bleakness documentary projects. Her relationship with Pablo NEWPORT STREET, SE11 6AJ 23 October To 26 January 2020 24 September To 5 January 2020 Picasso had a profound effect on both their careers. She The first large-scale survey of Rileys work to be held in theAn ambitious large-scale exhibition by the Turner Prizedocumented the creation of his most political work, John Squire: Disinformation UK for 16 years the exhibition will look closely at the originswinning artist composed of new and existing work, thisGuernica 1937. He immortalised her as Weeping Woman 11 September To 10 November of Rileys perceptual paintings including iconic black- exhibition is an atmospheric, theatrical experience of1937. Together they made a series of portraits combining Squire is a British artist, musician, and a founding memberand-white paintings of the 1960s, early representationalspectral visions, sound and video. Mark Leckey transformsexperimental photographic and printmaking techniques.and lead guitarist of the Stone Roses. Since leaving thepaintings, expansive canvases in colour and recent wallTate Britains galleries with a life-size replica of a motorway band, he has released two solo albums. Squire is also knownpaintings, as well as studies and preparatory material. bridge on the M53 on the Wirral, Merseyside, where the for his role in defining the now-iconic visual aesthetic ofartist grew up. The bridgea recurring motif in his workisDora Maar: Model in the Stone Roses. The exhibition will feature a new series ofNATIONAL POETRY LIBRARY, ROYAL FESTIVALthe setting for a new audio play. Mark Leckey is one of theSwimsuit, 1936large-scale oil paintings by Squire, based on photographsHALL most influential artists working today. Since he first came(Photograph, gelatin silver taken by the artist or found online. Squire alters the imagesLawrence Ferlinghetti: A 21st-Century Ferlinghetti to prominence in the late 1990s his work has addressed theon paper)using editing software, which he overloads to prompt visual16 October To 17 November relationship between popular culture and technology as glitches. These partially distorted, fragmented scenes areCelebrating Beat poet, publisher, painter and activistwell as exploring the subjects of youth, class and nostalgia. then enlarged from their original small screen format andLawrence Ferlinghetti, who marked his 100th birthday this rendered in the traditional medium of oil and canvas. year. On display are examples of Ferlinghettis visual work, asTATE MODERN well as video and audio of him reading his poetry. BANKSIDE, E1 9TGSOUTHBANK CENTREBLEVEDERE ROAD, SE1 8XX SOUTH LONDON GALLERY Dora Maurer6567 PECKHAM ROAD, SE5 8UH To 5 July 2020HAYWARD GALLERY Maurer was at the centre of an independent community Thabiso Sekgala: Here Is Elsewhere Danh Vo: Untitled of artists, poets and musicians that championed their own To 6 October 19 September To 24 November culture outside of the official Hungarian system during Sekgalas first solo exhibition in the UK brings together 50The first major solo exhibition in London by internationally- the socialist period. In the 1970s she started to work in photographs from six different series taken between 2009acclaimed Danish artist Danh Vo. This exhibition continuesphotography and moving image, often collaborating and 2014 in South Africa, Jordan and Germany. Many ofDanh Vos largely conceptual practice, weaving togetherwith musicians, as well as teaching creative performative Sekgalas photographswhich include portraits, streetarchival fragments and personal references. In the Mainworkshops. scenes and elegiac depictions of public and domesticGallery, Vo presents a series of gestural abstract paintings spaceoffer nuanced, alternative narratives about life inon mirror foil executed by his former professor at the RoyalOlafur Eliasson: In Real Lifecontemporary Africa. Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Peter Bonde. To 5 January 202030THE RIVER MAGAZINE|Autumn 2019 THE RIVER MAGAZINE|Autumn 201931'