BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4560@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20191026 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20200224 DTSTAMP:20191106T143555Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-alexis-teplin/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Alexis Teplin DESCRIPTION:\n\nAlexis Teplin: It’s My Pleasure to Participate\n\nExhibit ion dates: Sat 26 Oct 2019 – Sun 23 Feb 2020\nLaunch event: Fri 25 Oct 2 019\, 6-9pm\n\n\n\n\nBluecoat\, Liverpool’s Centre for the Contemporary Arts\, welcomes American-British artist Alexis Teplin to the gallery this autumn\, with her largest UK solo show to date. Teplin\, known for her lar ge abstract canvases of fragmented colour and poetic performance works\, w ill exhibit newly commissioned painting\, performance and videos.\n\nTepli n’s new work is rooted in the discipline of painting. Blocks of colour d ance across her canvases\, oscillating between ground and foreground. The artist often hints at figuration and familiarity in her paintings\, overri dden by Teplin’s adherence to the rhythms of playful abstraction. Many o f Teplin’s paintings move beyond traditional canvas and are instead pain ted on a patchwork of different material\, including linen and decorative antique fabrics. At Bluecoat\, visitors will weave their way through Tepli n’s dramatic\, freestanding paintings which will transform the gallery t o create a new\, encompassing architecture. \n\nThe exhibition will featu re three performances devised by the artist\, which will see the performer s interact with the artworks on display. The seductive quality of Teplin ’s painting flows into her performance works. The sense of patchwork als o follows into Teplin’s performances through a fragmented script. Gestur es\, movements and dialogue from avant-garde European film are woven in wi th poetic phrases borrowed from modernist literature and everyday dialogue between people. Conversational phrases are mixed together with the glamou r and exquisite phrasing of the silver-screen. Like her paintings\, Teplin ’s performances hint towards the familiar and recognisable whilst consis tently pushing into abstraction and alluring rhythms.\n\nTeplin will also premiere three new video works in the exhibition\, situated within an inst allation of her paintings and objects. These video works tie her performan ces to the history of cinema from which she borrows dialogue and movements \, as well as including references to other artworks within the exhibition . As with painting\, cinema carries the weight and baggage of its own hist ory\, conventions and tropes.\n\nThrough Teplin’s exhibition\, the mediu m of film and painting are brought into dialogue\, reflecting the inherent qualities of each other\; the composition of the films following the comp osition of paintings\, discrete gestures\, acts\, brush strokes and phrase s combined to form an atmosphere that compels the viewer to reflect on the nature of painting\, film and performance.\n\nAlexis Teplin: It’s My Pl easure to Participate will open with a special launch event on Friday 25t h October\, from 6-9pm at Bluecoat. A performance devised by the artist w ill take place at 7pm. \n\nPerformances take place within the exhibition at 2pm on Sat 26 Oct\, Sat 16 Nov\, Sat 7 Dec\, Sat 22 Feb\, and will be a pproximately ten minutes in duration.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/02/Alexis-Teplin-Arch-The-Politics-of-Fragmentation-20th-Biennale-o f-Sydney-2016.-Photo-by-Document-Photography-e1571407223613.jpeg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR