He Xiangyu, Wisdom Tower (2012-2013), all images courtesy White Cube Bermondsey
At White Cube Berdmonsey’s North Galleries is the first UK exhibition of work by Chinese artist He Xiangyu, composed of installations and multimedia sculptures meant to express cultural and social concerns while maintaining an ongoing interest in the body and its place in exchanges between the two.
A massive Antony Gormley sculpture, his largest to date, will go on view at White Cube next week. It is so enormous that visitors enter through one of the sculpture’s feet. It is a direct response to the space afforded by White Cube’s South Galleries at Bermondsey. (more…)
Theaster Gates – Raising Goliath (2012), courtesy White Cube Gallery
The work of Theaster Gates addresses social engagement using shared images of American life as a way to challenge cultural norms and to subvert singular readings of American history. White Cube Bermondsey is hosting a major installation by the Chicago-based artist, entitled “My Labor is My Protest.” Blending the cultural, social and personal, the show is a bold statement on the roles of identity and meaning in the construction of history and art history.
Theaster Gates – My Labor Is My Protest (Installation View) (2012), courtesy White Cube Gallery (more…)
White Cube announced that it will close its East London Hoxton location (established 2000) at the end of 2012. The gallery plans to focus on the Mason’s Yard, Mayfair and the Bermondsey Street locations. The gallery says that “no decision had been taken on the future of the former industrial building.” (more…)
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Inside the Bermondsey Street warehouse, via NovaLoca
London art dealer Jay Jopling has just announced that the former Recall warehouse in Bermondsey Street will soon be converted to a gallery under his White Cube umbrella. Jopling, through White Cube, represents such artists as Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Marc Quinn and his former wife Sam Taylor-Wood, among others.
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Jay Jopling, via The Rich Life
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