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Ai Weiwei’s spider looks even better at night time as its lit up with slowly changing coloured lights.
‘Web of Light’ to give it its proper name spans Exchange Flags behind the Town Hall and these pictures were taken around 7pm before it got really dark.
We saw a lot of people coming especially to look at it and take pictures with their families.
via the NML Blog…
Since the ‘Best of Merseyside‘ exhibition opened visitors have been voting for their favourite artwork. Today Paul Cousins was announced as the winner of the Visitors’ choice award for his painting ‘Night Flight’. He was presented with a bottle of champagne and some Rennies vouchers in the exhibition. The exhibition ends this week (5 Oct 2008)
If Paul looks familiar that may be because he was the man responsible for ‘Cloudorama’, the Superlambanana that was displayed at the Lady Lever Art Gallery over the summer.
Paul is not the only artist whose fate lies in the hands of our visitors, as you can now vote for your favourite painting in the John Moores 25 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, which opened at the weekend.
A very good review of the Biennial, by Japanese art journalist Toyoko Ito. Its written in Japanese, the title is “The Beatles City transformed into Contemporary Art Megalopolis”
Continue reading ‘Biennial Review by Toyoko Ito on fogless.net’
Liverpool artwork of the week 37. Still from Workers (leaving the factory) by Nancy Davenport at Open Eye for Liverpool Biennial 20 September – 30 November 2008
Open Eye Gallery presents a newly commissioned video installation by Canadian artist Nancy Davenport, shown alongside earlier parts of her evolving project Workers (leaving the factory), which was conceived in 2004.
Shot at the Jaguar car plant in Halewood, Merseyside, Davenport’s new piece focuses on the assembly line and the workers’ daily drive to the plant. Against the background of Ford’s recent sale of Jaguar to Indian Conglomerate Tata, the piece reflects on changing conditions and representations of industrial production. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, it proposes that to search for reality we must look not beyond but within fantasy and illusion.
Despite her fascination with moving images, Davenport describes herself as a photographer. Her new piece features an animated sequence of the Jaguar assembly line constructed from digital stills – a hybrid of video and photography. Davenport was inspired by two cult car films of the 1970s: British Sounds (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Henri Roger), famous for its ten-minute tracking shot of an MG assembly line, and C’etait un rendezvous (Claude Lelouch), a frantic eight-minute Ferrari drive through the streets of Paris.
http://www.artinliverpool.com/index.php/maingalleries/open-eye
Please, please donate more stepladders, the installation was looking very sparse and sad last time I looked.
All on www.artinliverpool.com/biennial
In an Ideal World at St Brides
‘In an Ideal World’ exhibition at St Brides Church (Liverpool)…
George Lund – Serendipity at LCAD
George Lund presented a collection of new work with some… 
Tracey Emin visited Liverpool again on Thursday to unveil her… 
This is a lovely installation by Japanese artist Satoru Tamura… 
There’s a lot of artwork in Lewis’s department store windows… ‘In an Ideal World’ exhibition at St Brides Church (Liverpool) is curated by Alice Lenkiewicz and brings the art work of the Toxteth Art Gallery group with other art practitioners who have contributed.
George Lund presented a collection of new work with some retrospective. This was a solo show titled ‘Serendipity’ (Phase 1) at the Liverpool Centre for Arts Development (Liverpool, UK).
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