Press coverage for MOSTYN June-August 2020 – general interest, MycoTV and Montez Press Radio digital programmes
Listing of Montez Press Radio on Art Monthly, published 1 June 2020:
https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/calendar/
Listing of MycoTV on Artforum.com, published 15 June 2020:
https://www.artforum.com/artguide/mostyn-13492/mycotv-185691
and Artrabbit.com, published 15 June 2020:
A series of online talks, workshops, readings and film, using the concept of ‘SlowTV’ as a starting point and featuring critical reflections on the current socio-political climate:
https://www.artrabbit.com/events/mycological-twist-mycotv
Feature on The Guardian, published 8 July 2020:
(passage of interview with Alfredo Cramerotti here below:)
Feature in the North Wales Pioneer on MOSTYN re-opening after lockdown, published 27 July 2020:
Feature on The Art Fund Newsletter, published 5 August 2020.
Your guide to museums and galleries by the sea:
https://www.artfund.org/whats-on/museums-and-galleries/mostyn-gallery
Short interview with Alfredo Cramerotti on BBC Radio Wales Art Show, that aired Friday 15 August 2020.
Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ln31 (from 1:10mins)
Feature on The Telegraph, with quote from an interview with Alfredo Cramerotti, published 21 August 2020:
‘Conflict Reporting’ on Switch [On Paper] Issue September 2020
Image: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, The Press Conference, June 9, 2008 (detail) from The DayNobody Died, 2008
Observing the limits of photojournalism in the face of humanitarian and wartime tragedies, artists have sought ways to bear witness to human suffering freed from the grip of media and government powers. Their approach is not without problems. Perhaps their critical potential lies in testing these limits.
An investigation by Alfredo Cramerotti and Lauren Mele for Switch [On Paper], the only international news weekly where art and culture serve as a window on the world.
Full text here: https://www.switchonpaper.com/en/conflict-reporting/
AICA-UK Emerging Art Writers Fellowships
AICA-UK is pleased to launch a programme to support emerging art writers at formative moments in their careers. Offering two or more non-stipendiary Fellowships each year, the scheme provides successful candidates with mentorship and editorial guidance from distinguished art critics and writers among AICA-UK’s membership. With interests that complement those of the Fellows, mentors will review writings and offer both detailed feedback and general career advice over the course of the six-month Fellowships.
If you are interested in applying for an AICA-UK Emerging Art Writers Fellowship, please email your CV, two examples of recent work and a statement of up to 500 words setting out what you hope to achieve through this opportunity, to George Vasey at info@aicauk.org.
Please note that applicants must be UK-based and within five years of establishing their practice.
The deadline for submissions is 21 September 2020. Applications will be reviewed by a number of members of the AICA-UK Executive Committee and the first Fellowships will start in autumn 2020.
WE ARE RECRUITING: Visitor Experience Team Supervisor
Would you like to work alongside our team at MOSTYN?
MOSTYN is seeking a Visitor Experience Team Supervisor to play a key role in ensuring MOSTYN’s visitors enjoy their visit in a safe and secure environment.
Download the full job description here
To apply, please send CV and brief covering letter to: steph@mostyn.org
Application deadline: 5pm on 31st August 2020Interviews will be held on: 3rd September 2020 and 7th September 2020
Press coverage highlights for MOSTYN exhibition season November 2019-March 2020: Anj Smith, Chiara Camoni, Nobuko Tsuchiya
Contemporary Perspectives on Digital Image Making: Lecture at University of South Wales, Cardiff
Lecture for MA Documentary Photography and PhD Courses
Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales.
Thursday 7 May 2020, 2pm
Presentation on contemporary perspectives on digital image making, part of the body of research “The Hypermage: A Curatorial Approach on Expanded Photography”.
MOSTYN exhibition season: Kiki Kogelnik and Athena Papadopoulos
MOSTYN, Wales UK presents a new season, commencing March 2020, which includes exhibitions by Kiki Kogelnikand Athena Papadopoulos.
1. Kiki Kogelnik, Untitled (Sea Monster), c. 1974. Glazed ceramic. Courtesy Kiki Kogelnik Foundation
Kiki Kogelnik: Riot of Objects
March 14–July 5, 2020
Riot of Objects is the first institutional presentation in the UK to focus solely on Kiki Kogelnik’s ceramic works. Considered one of the key figures of the post-war avant-garde, Kogelnik’s multidisciplinary oeuvre spans five decades. Her multifaceted artistic style evolved from painterly abstraction to Pop Art and the representation of the (female) body.
Consumer culture, technology and feminism were recurring themes throughout her work. Her unique aesthetic is marked with playfulness and humour yet imbued with a stark sense of criticality. In resisting and contesting the lure of post-war capitalist culture in her work, she demarcated herself from her contemporary peers.
Her first ceramics were made in 1974, and soon became a key activity in her artistic practice. Her ceramic works were hand-built and cut from slabs using stencils and are reminiscent of her earlier paintings in their boldness, bright colours and vivacity. Drawing on a method of presentation she employed in an exhibition at the Henri Gallery in Washington, DC in 1990, a number of islands pepper the space; made from clusters of plinths of different heights and widths and displaying a range of her freestanding works that date from the 1950s through to the 1990s. Arranged chronologically, this exhibition demonstrates Kogelnik’s boundless capacity for invention and restless commitment to making.
Kiki Kogelnik was born in 1935 in Bleiburg, Austria. She lived and worked in New York and Vienna. She died in 1997 in Vienna, Austria.
The exhibition is curated by Chris Sharp and organised by Alfredo Cramerotti, in partnership with the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation. Supported by the Austrian Federal Chancellery.
2. Athena Papadopoulos, Gogo Angel, 2019. Mixed media. Courtesy the artist and Emalin, London
Athena Papadopoulos: Cain and Abel Can’t and Able
March 14–July 5, 2020
Cain and Abel Can’t and Able presents a new body of work by artist Athena Papadopoulos. Working across sculpture, painting, text and sound, Papadopoulos’ practice defies traditional representations of the body, creating excessive, decaying and abject hybrid forms hovering between the worlds of the imagined and the real. Through a process of assemblage, her work is formed of found objects amassed and collaged together. Traditional binary perceptions of gender and sexuality are uprooted and unfixed.
Using her ever-expanding vocabulary of materials and ancient narratives, which she combines with unlikely elements, this new series of works includes sound, sculpture and painting. Exploring human dichotomies, the exhibition questions the complicated duality of reason and emotion.
The exhibition is inspired by her recently published book Cain and Abel Can’t and Able, which gives the exhibition its title. Drawing from the biblical story of Cain and Abel, Papadopoulos reflects on her own personal experiences of sibling rivalry and competition within romantic relationships but also, crucially, the struggle between good and evil.
Cain and Abel Can’t and Able is centred around a dialogue written by Papadopoulos in which an imagined narrative between two seemingly distinct voices is played out. Exploring themes such as jealousy, lust and kindness, Papadopoulos transforms this dialogue into wall-based sculptural paintings, an experimental sound work which can be heard throughout the gallery space and pages of the text that reappear hidden, splayed and nesting within the installation.
Athena Papadopoulos was born in 1988 in Toronto, CA. She lives and works in London.
The exhibition is curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, MOSTYN and supported by the Zabludowicz Collection.
MOSTYN
12 Vaughan Street
Llandudno LL30 1AB
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About MOSTYN, Wales UK
Situated in the coastal town of Llandudno, MOSTYN is Wales’ foremost visual arts centre, serving as a platform for contemporary artistic practice and audience engagement. MOSTYN presents outstanding and critically engaged international contemporary art that engages, inspires and encourages people to form and share new perspectives on the world through its programmes. It is part of Plus TATE, the UK-wide contemporary visual art network.
For further information and press images, please contact Lin Cummins, Audience Relations Manager, MOSTYN
lin@mostyn.org / T 01492 879201
MOSTYN is recruiting!
A new job opportunity at MOSTYN for a Philanthropy Manager
The role is non-exclusive and doesn’t require relocation. Starting from April 2020. Initial contract 2 years, renewable.
Link with the job brief below, where one can see and download the full job description: https://www.mostyn.org/philanthropy
MOSTYN: Exhibition Programme 2020
Exhibition Programme 2020
MOSTYN
12 Vaughan Street
Llandudno LL30 1AB
United Kingdom
T +44 1492 879201
post@mostyn.org
MOSTYN, Wales UK is thrilled to announce its programme of exhibitions for 2020 which includes solo presentations by artists Kiki Kogelnik, Athena Papadopoulos, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Nick Hornby, Richard Wathen, and Jacqueline de Jong.
March 14–July 5, 2020
Kiki Kogelnik: Riot of Objects
Riot of Objects is the first institutional presentation in the UK to focus on Kiki Kogelnik’s ceramic works. Considered one of the key figures of the post-war avant-garde, Kogelnik’s multidisciplinary oeuvre spans five decades. Her multi-faceted artistic style evolved from painterly abstraction to Pop Art and the representation of the (female) body. This exhibition demonstrates Kogelnik’s boundless capacity for invention and restless commitment to making. Kiki Kogelnik was born in 1935 in Bleiburg, Austria. She lived and worked in New York and Vienna. She died in 1997 in Vienna, Austria. Curated by Chris Sharp in partnership with the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation.
Athena Papadopoulos: Cain and Abel Can’t and Able
This exhibition presents a new body of work by artist Athena Papadopoulos. Using her ever-expanding vocabulary of materials and ancient narratives, which she combines with unlikely elements, this new series of works includes sound, sculpture and painting, and explores human dichotomies, questioning the complicated duality of reason and emotion. Athena Papadopoulos was born in 1988 in Toronto, CA. She lives and works in London. Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, MOSTYN.
July 18–November 1, 2020
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: In My Room
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings’ first solo institutional exhibition develops the artists’ enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and culture. This newly conceived body of work includes a fresco painting, wall rubbings and a film, and highlights the impact of gentrification upon the city and its gay communities, whilst also exploring the relationship between masculinity, capitalism and power within the urban landscape. Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings were both born in 1991 in Newcastle and London. They live and work in London. Curated by Juliette Desorgues, Curator of Visual Arts, MOSTYN. Commissioned by Focal Point Gallery, In My Room is presented in partnership with MOSTYN and Humber Street Gallery, Hull.
Nick Hornby
This exhibition includes new photo-sculptural works by Nick Hornby, MOSTYN Open 21 “Audience Award” winner, and continues his enquiry into hybridity. Mining the collective index of cultural history, Hornby uses technology not only as a way of invoking potential new worlds but as a way of investigating alternative ways of seeing history. Nick Hornby was born in London in 1980. He lives and works in London and New York. Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, MOSTYN.
Richard Wathen
MOSTYN Open 21 “Exhibition Award” winner, Richard Wathen‘s solo exhibition comprises a new series of paintings. Rooted in the historical canon of painting, his work focuses largely on portraiture, depicting figures in states of hesitation and contemplation. Through the use of subtle details, his paintings retain a sense of ambiguity by refusing to be fixed in time and place. Richard Wathen was born in London in 1971. He lives and works in Suffolk, UK. Curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Director, MOSTYN.
November 14, 2020–February 28, 2021
Jacqueline de Jong
Jacqueline de Jong is considered one of the crucial artistic figures of the post-war avant-garde. This exhibition is the first institutional solo presentation of her work in the UK. Throughout her career spanning half a century, de Jong has developed a unique painterly practice. Expressive in style, her work exhibits uninhibited eroticism, violence and humour. In parallel to her work as a painter, she was editor of The Situationist Times (1962-1967) and a member of the Situationist International during her early years in Paris in the 1960s. Jacqueline de Jong was born in 1939 in Hengelo, The Netherlands. She lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Curated by Juliette Desorgues (Curator of Visual Arts, MOSTYN) and organised in collaboration with WIELS where the exhibition will be presented by Xander Karskens (Director, De Ateliers) and Devrim Bayar (Curator, WIELS) (June 12-August 16, 2020).
Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti] 
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