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:431@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20151116T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20151116T120000 DTSTAMP:20151115T210313Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/cornerstone-conversation-exhibit ion-by-andrew-bick/ SUMMARY:Cornerstone: Cornerstone: 'Conversation' - Exhibition by Andrew Bic k DESCRIPTION:Von Bartha are pleased to announce a new solo exhibition from A ndrew Bick at Liverpool Hope University’s The Cornerstone Gallery entitl ed Conversation.\n\nExhibition runs Monday 16 November - Friday 18 Decembe r 2015\n\nThe exhibition also runs as part of The Cornerstone Festival. Th e title of the exhibition refers to Bick’s concern with dialogue\, which he describes as a desire to visually contain uncommunicable elements in h is art and its influences. To celebrate the exhibition\, the artist will a lso be delivering a public lecture at the Capstone Theatre\, part of Liver pool Hope University\, on Monday 23 November at 19.30.\n\nContinuing his o ngoing exploration of abstraction\, geometry and colour\, Bick is exhibiti ng a selection of wall paintings alongside six framed drawings. Inspired b y historical Constructivism and Concrete Art\, Bick creates abstract work which both adheres to Constructivist grid models and teases them apart.\n\ nSince 2008\, Bick has been working with two singular grid structures whic h have formed the basis for all his subsequent drawings and paintings. The artist begins with a digitalised grid format consisting mainly of triangu lar outlines\, which he projects onto the canvas as a start point for the new work. He then transfers the lines onto its surface\, choosing to keep some and remove others. As such the process is one of constant evolution i n which the most recent works are an incarnation of the ones before. This systematic process is not however devoid of the hand of the artist as was the work of the Constructivist and System artists. Instead\, Bick incorpor ates painterly elements into his multi-layered works\, so that gesture and geometry are held in balance.\n\nConversation also illuminates the way in which Bick paints with historic artistic models in mind\, placing them in a dialogue with his own creations. In particular\, his experience in cura ting has informed his investigations into the potentialities of Constructi ve Art. Using the ideas of art historical research as a platform from whic h to both animate his work and engage with the work of artists\, Bick deve lops responses that are at the same time generative\, methodical and hapha zard.\n\nAbout Andrew Bick\n\nAndrew Bick (born 1963\, England) creates mu lti-layered wax paintings that use various shapes in free and geneometric abstraction. The works contain numerous oppositions such as drawing and pa inting\, transparency and opaqueness\, line and plane\, colour and non-col our\, glossy and matt\, and yet are come together masterly in a multi-fact ered inscrutable whole.\n\nIn 2014 he co-curated Conversations with Marlow Moss\, for &\;Model Gallery\, Leeds\, in association with the Marlow M oss exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery. He has given papers for seminars at T ATE\, Leeds Art Gallery and Henry Moore Institute. Most recently Bick has delivered a paper for the seminar Staging Painting (ICA 21 July 2015).\n\n Recently his painting was included in NOW-ISM: Abstraction Today at the Pi zzuti Collection\, Columbus\, Ohio and other major public space exhibition s include Slow Magic at Bluecoat\, Liverpool in 2009 and Structures\, Will helmshaven Kunsthalle and Newlyn Art Gallery. Since 2008 Bick has been dev eloping projects based on research into British Construction and Systems A rt from the 1950s to 1970s initatied as a result of a Henry Moore Institut e Fellowship in 2007/08.\n\nHe has written for Art Monthly\, the Brooklyn Rail\, Kultureflash and Abstract Critical\, and is currently Chair of the board of Tannery Arts London and on the advisory board of Drawing Room\, L ondon. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2015/11/Cornerstone-Andrew-Bick-Conversation.jpg LOCATION:Cornerstone\, Hope Creative Campus\, Shaw Street\, Liverpool\, L6 1HP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.41279;-2.969096 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hope Creative Campus\, Shaw Street\, Liverpool\, L6 1HP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Cornerstone:geo:53.41279,-2.969096 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR