Galleries
Blooom
BLOOOM is the world's first interdisciplinary presentation platform for artists and art projects in the creative industries, taking place in conjunction with Art.Fair 2011. With more than 50 international participants – ranging from fine arts, design, music, performing arts, fashion and literature to radio broadcasting, architecture, press, advertisement, software, and games – presenting their latest creations and works in an amazing location in the heart of Cologne, Germany.
The DnA Factory collaboration with The New English first premiered in Toronto in the fall of 2011. The UK premier at Designersblock, then the wider European premier at this, the second Blooom International Creative Industries Art Show.
The inclusion of the sculpture 'With These Treasures Held Near' and the limited edition photographic print 'The Land Of Our Birth' alongside the exquisite porcelain collection, These Treasures Held Near, serve to emphasise the relationship between object, functionality and high art, with a particular focus on craftsmanship.
Photomontage: The DnA Factory
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Plus Art Projects: Neon & Vinyl
Plus Art Project’s Alternative Frieze show ‘Neon + Vinyl’ at the Londonewcastle Building with new work by over 30 leading artists including Tracy Emin, Matt Collishaw, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas, Franko B, Peter Ainsworth, The DnA Factory, Amanda Eliasch, Stik, Peter Lamb and Paul Hoskin amongst others.
The exhibition is unique in drawing together such a wide range of creative talent to work with media traditionally associated with street level advertising and industrial processes.
Curated and produced by neonist Kerry Ryan, artist Declan McMullan and Jessica Temple, ‘Neon + Vinyl’ is the 4th Frieze week show from Plus Art Projects.
Icon Image: Franco B
Photograph: 'Legion' courtesy of Plus Art Projects: Elizabeth Franks
Designersblock
Designersblock 2011 at the Farmiloe Building in Clerkenwell, London. A showcase of furniture, lighting, textiles from over 100 UK and International designers, including ung8, the best new Swedish design from Svensk Form. Ceramics from The New English. Concrete from Graphic Relief, textiles workshops from Puff&Flock, and work from the 10 most inspiring creatives from ARTS THREAD.
On display 'These Treasures Held Near' limited edition porcelain collection by The New English & The DnA Factory combining art and the everyday object in harmonious union.
Photograph: Courtesy of The New English
Open House
Since 2009, The DnA Factory have taken part in the Dulwich Open House, affording those who would not ordinarily frequent galleries or other art venues a chance to view their work within the comfort and intimacy of a domestic setting.
This pretext creates a vital exchange of views, reactions and information for both observer and exhibitor with theDnAfactory often previewing work which will later be seen on the international circuit.
Plus Art Projects
Open for 80 hours continuously with over 100 exhibitors, the Plus Art Projects exhibition event in the Atlantis building was the ultimate 'pop-up' for Frieze week. Exhibitors included amongst many others, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk, Franco B, Keith Tyson, Damian Hirst.
The DnA Factory exhibit: Slap One Pearl One (A Domestic Discourse) and The Saint Of Suburbia (2/3)
Booze Cooperativa
Booze Cooperativa inhabits a 1850s neoclassicism building, one of the oldest in Athens; it used to serve as dwelling house. In 1919 it was completely destroyed by a fire, later renovated, it housed one of the most famous dressmakers in Athens. Since 1989 with it's founding as an arts cooperative, the building has hosted art exhibitions, video installations, seminars, and theatrical performances, all of which have raised its profile among the arts and culture types and maked it a regular fixture on any self respecting Athenian’s agenda.
Human DeVices, a group show featuring sculpture, prints and paintings from The DnA Factory, Fani K and S&M.
Multispecies Salon 3: Swarm
Multispecies Salon was first organized by anthropologist Eben Kirksey and friends as an outshoot of the annual convention of the Association of American Anthropologists (AAA).
Multispecies Salon 3 will use art to address a series of interrelated questions about nature: Which species flourish, and which fail, when natural and cultural worlds intermingle and collide? What happens when the bodies of organisms, and even entire ecosystems, are brought into schemes of biotechnology and dreams of biocapitalism? And finally, with particular relevance to New Orleans: In the aftermath of disaster--in a blasted landscape that has been transformed by multiple catastrophes--what are the possibilities of biocultural hope?
The exhibition will take place in three gallery spaces: The Front, Kawliga Studios, and Ironworks, each with the themes "Edible Companion,", "Life in the Age of Biotechnology", and "Hope in a Blasted Landscape".
The DnA Factory exhibit 6 prints from the series This Human Condition.
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The Good Children Gallery
Works on paper by Brad Benischek, theDnAfactory, Heather Vinz,
John Henry Kelly, Kim Jenkins, Louise Riley and Generic Art Solutions.
Good Children Gallery and Generic Art Solutions present Strange Birds: Works on Paper, and Lucy Newman’s video installation Prehistoric Landscape. In the front gallery, five artists from the UK, two from the Arizona State Prison, and two New Orleans locals will be exhibiting a wide range of approaches to working on/with paper in their various habitats. Weather they be Jail Birds, Love Birds, Rare Birds, or Dirty Birds, they are a curious lot that have flocked together landing at Saint Claude Avenue’s own Good Children Gallery where they stretch their wings and show their colors. From intensely psychadelic graphite mindscapes to disjointed sexual collages to raw stream of conciousness storyboards to incarcerated haikus to interactive performance, this “bird and paper” themed exhibition knows no bounds.
The DnA Factory exhibit 4 prints from the series This Human Condition.
Contrasts Gallery
Excerpts from the catalogue forward by Pearl Lam:
'Contrasts Gallery presents Contrasts and Contradictions Chapter 1: Crossovers // Beyond Art and Design.'
'Crossovers uses as its' foundation the traditional Chinese concept of 'art' that defined creativity as artistic expression and made no hierachical distinction between 'fine art' and 'design'.'
'Adopting this Chinese traditional thinking, Contrasts Gallery has commissioned fine artists to design functional objects and designers to create non-functional works to re define creativity without boundaries as the artistic expression of the twenty first century.'
The DnA Factory were one of 25 international artists and designers invited by Pearl to participate alongside 25 Chinese artist in this challenging cultural and creative exchange.
The Crossovers exhibition is in conjunction with the 6th Shanghai Biennial.
David Gill
David Gill Galleries are known internationally for promoting excellence in contemporary decorative arts since 1987.
With one of the most impressive galleries in London, at 30,000 sq ft, David mainly shows limited edition work from his stable of designers including Zaha Hadid, Mattia Bonetti, Barnaby Barford and Fredrikson Stallard.
The DnA Factory worked with David throughout 2004 and 2005, exhibiting alongside Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons and the Chapmans, successfully establishing their work on the international art scene.
The Facility
The Facility is an award winning architecture and design practice based in London, committed to designing buildings, places and spaces that are as prepossessing and innovative as they are financially, environmentally and socially responsible.
The DnA Factory worked with The Facility over a number of years, notably on the project 'There Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City', an experiment in communication and interpretation resulting in the neon sculpture : The Future Echoes.
The exhibition, When Little Boys Play With Dolls (part one), installed over 2 floors of The Facility HQ is a dark and impassioned affair characteristically blurring fact and fantasy in an uncompromising critique of contemporary society. The viewer being challenged about accepted and acceptable notions of social reality, events and attitudes.
A superb soundtrack of original music by AMP which plays throughout this exhibition is available entitled, The Down Below.