LOVE My Live

Five day artists Residency, Monday 22 - Friday 26 October 11am - 6pm, Learning Space B

firstsite and Colchester Arts Centre are delighted to offer this rare opportunity to work with renowned artist and performer Franko B. Cost £95.00 for the week inc refreshments.

To apply please email CV, 3 images and A4 page to learning@firstsite.uk.net saying why this will develop your practice.

www.firstsite.uk.net
01206 577 067
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firstsite, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester, CO1 1JH

PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT THE RCA

3 NOVEMBER 2011

Works selected by contemporary artists Nigel Rolfe, Franko B, Leah Capaldi and Jack Tan will be exhibited in a night of Performance Art at the Royal College of Art.

Following a week-long programme of intensive coaching and development, proposed work by students will be selected for an evening of performance at the Battersea campus of the Royal College of Art. As part of the college’s interdisciplinary initiative (AcrossRCA) students from design, animation, visual communication and fine art will be taken through a process of proposal, development, refinement and selection for Performance Night at the RCA.

The event makes apparent how other disciplines, as diverse as industrial design engineering or textiles, can enter, enrich and inform performance art. Questions are raised about how performance consists as a field of enquiry, its development, and the permeability of its boundaries.

The Performance Night exhibition takes place on 3 November 2011, 6.30pm to 10pm.

Free Admission
Royal College of Art, 15-25 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11 4AS
Public information: www.rca.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 590 4444

3 NOVEMBER 2011

Works selected by contemporary artists Nigel Rolfe, Franko B, Leah Capaldi and Jack Tan
will exhibited in a night of Performance Art at the Royal College of Art.

Following a week-long programme of intensive coaching and development, proposed work by students will be selected for an evening of performance at the Battersea campus of the Royal College of Art. As part of the college’s interdisciplinary initiative, students from design, curating, animation, visual communication and fine art will be taken through a process of proposal, development, refinement and selection for Performance Night at the RCA.

The event makes apparent how other disciplines, as diverse as industrial design engineering or textiles, can enter, enrich and inform performance art. How performance consists as a field of enquiry, its development, and the permeability of its boundaries.
The Peformance Night exhibition takes place on 3 November 2011, 6.30pm to 10pm.

Free Admission
Royal College of Art, 15-25 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11 4AS
Public information: www.rca.ac.uk
Tel: 0207 590 4444

Franko B in conversation with art critic and historian, Edward Lucie Smith.
6.30pm, Thursday 2nd June. The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ

Discussion will revolve around the theories and concerns which inform Franko B's work and his current exhibition at The Nunnery, 'I Still Love'. This will be followed by a screening of a documentary accompanying his recent solo exhibition in Milan.

I STILL LOVE is Franko B’s first solo exhibition in London for seven years and features a new series of embroidered canvases, never before shown in the UK. The canvases, which depict animals, flowers, portraits and the male body, as well as images of torture and war, return to the central themes of Franko B’s work – death, eroticism, intimacy, pain and compassion. These recurrent motifs find a delicate new means of expression through the exclusive use of red and white cotton on unprimed canvas.

Franko B was born in Milan in 1960 and has lived in London since 1979. He graduated from Chelsea College and has been producing work across a diverse range of media since the early 1990s. Since 2009, he has been Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, Italy. Franko B is the current Artist in Residence with Bow Arts Trust.

Edward Lucie-Smith is an internationally known art critic and historian, who is also a poet, anthologist and a practising photographer. He has published more than a hundred books in all, more than sixty of them about art. Lucie-Smith’s photographs have been exhibited internationally and in Britain he was for many years a well-known broadcaster and journalist. He currently writes regularly for Art Review.

Doors will open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
Following the talk and screening, the exhibition will remain open until 9pm.

To reserve a place, please RSVP to nunnery@bowarts.com.

Gallery open Friday – Sunday, 1-5pm | Exhibition continues 6th May – 5th June 2011
Entry is free

Franko B Summer Salon
Saturday 25 June, 3-7pm. SE1 Project Space, 46 Willow Walk, London SE1 5SF
Part of Bow Arts Open 2011.
- All welcome -
Franko B has been running his ART POLITICS SEX Salons at Bow Arts Trust over the past two years, and at other venues across Europe since 2003. The event attracts a regular group of artists and art lovers who want to share their views and their creativity with others. (Read more about ARTS POLITICS SEX here.)

Thursday 2nd June

Franko B will discuss the theories and concerns which inform his work and the diverse range of approaches he takes to producing art. There will also be a screening of a documentary accompanying his recent solo exhibition in Milan. Doors will open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Following the talk, the exhibition will stay open until 9pm.
To reserve a place, please RSVP to nunnery@bowarts.com.

Franko B - I STILL LOVE  - exhibition open 6th May - 5th June 2011, Friday-Sunday.
The Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ

The next salon will take place on Tuesday 8th March 2011, from 6:30 pm at Franko B's studio - studio 7, P 1 studios block C15,Taylor Place, Payne road, London, E3 2SP.

The next salon will take place on Tuesday 8th March 2011, from 6:30 pm at Franko B's studio - studio 7, P 1 studio's block C15,Taylor Place, Payne road, London, E3 2SP.
[more details here]
All welcome. You can bring some food and drink.
ARTS POLITICS SEX is presented in association with Bow Arts Trust.

What’s the meaning of Body Art/Actions/Happening? What do performances and tattoos, Marina Abramović and Franko B, pain and sexuality taboo have in common?
On the occasion of the Franko B I Still Love exhibition, a special meeting with contemporary art critic Lea Vergine—pioneer of Body Art during the ‘70s—and theorist Francesca Alfano Miglietti is set up to debate with the public on ‘the body’.
Two of the most authoritative voices will explain the relationship between art and body in our society that every day sees true mutations through love practices, fights, rituals, incisions, penetrations and actions.

ARTS POLITICS SEX - The third salon in this series (in association with Bow Arts Trust) will take place on Tuesday 26th October 2010, 6:30-10:30 pm in Franko B's studio (Studio 7, P1 studios block C15, Taylor Place, Payne road, London E1 2SP[map]).
[more information here]
All welcome. You can bring some food and drink.