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Alexis Teplin 'It's My Pleasure to Participate'
- Sat, 26 Oct 2019 - Sun, 23 Feb 2020
- 11.00 AM - 6.00 PM
Alexis Teplin, Drag, Push, HOOT, 2016
Performance dates:
Fri 25 Oct 7pm, Sat 26 Oct 2-4pm, Sat 16 Nov 2-4pm, Sat 7 Dec 2-4pm, Sat 22 Feb 2-4pm
It's My Pleasure to Participate forms Alexis Teplin's most extensive exhibition to date, and features newly commissioned painting, performance and videos.
Teplin's new work is rooted in the discipline of painting, and her new large scale paintings stitched together from linens, canvas and decorative textiles take centre stage in this exhibition. Teplin uses blocks of colour to create seductive and elegant compositions. Weave your way around dramatic, freestanding paintings which will transform the gallery to create a new, encompassing architecture.
It’s My Pleasure to Participate will also feature new performance and video works, in which actors appear in painted costumes, interacting with the other artworks on display and performing fragments of poetic text borrowed from film and literature. Throughout the exhibition Teplin weaves together flm and painting, creating an atmosphere that compels us to reflect on the nature of painting, film and performance.
Friday 25 October
Gallery 6 - 9pm | Performance 7pm
Bar open throughout
Celebrate the opening of Alexis Teplin's largest UK solo show to date.
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Saturday 16 November
Gallery 3 - 4pm | Performance 2pm
Curator Adam Smythe leads a tour of Alexis Teplin's exhibition.
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Experience Alexis Teplin’s new live performances in her exhibition 'It's My Pleasure to Participate’.
Follow two performers as they make their way through the gallery, interacting with artwork whilst delivering a fragmented, poetic script that addresses our present moment of malaise, excesses and uncertainty.
Performances will take place in the gallery on the following days:
Sat 16 Nov, Sat 7 Dec, Sat 22 Feb
Performances are approx. ten minutes long, but will repeat between 2-4pm.
Free, drop in.
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Alexis Teplin in Conversation with Hettie Judah
Senior art crtic on the British daily paper The I, and contributor to Frieze, The Guardian, Vogue and The New York Times, Hettie Judah will join Alexis Teplin to talk about the themes of her exhibition.
Tickets £5/£4
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More about Alexis Teplin
Alexis Teplin is a Californian born artist based in London. Recent exhibitions include The most real thing: contemporary textiles and sculpture, New Art Centre, Salisbury (2018); The London Open 2018, Whitechapel Gallery, London(2018); Stretch Release, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands (2017); The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2016); Drag, Push, HOOT, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2015); sss T !!, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (2013) Costume : Written Clothing, Tramway, Glasgow (2013). Teplin currently teaches Painting at RCA London.