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Monday 12 September 2011

V&A ANNOUNCES RACHID KORAÏCHI AS WINNER OF THE JAMEEL PRIZE 2011

Ira Cohen

October Gallery Artist Rachid Koraïchi has won the prestigious Jameel  Prize 2011 for  his work Les Maitres invisibles (The Invisible Masters), 2008.  Announced last night at an award ceremony the presentation was made by Martin Roth, Director of the V&A, Hasan Jameel and Ed Vaizey MP.

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El Anatsui Microsite



birth of a psychedelic culture
Conversations about Leary, the Havard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties



sorry we are closed

The Unity Stone sound sculpture, currently exhibited in the gallery courtyard.


sorry we are closed

A 60 minute documentary directed by Suzanne Campbell-Jones which tells the story of Chili Hawes, Director of the October Gallery and of how, with a team of artists and friends, she rescued a derelict building in London and turned it into a world renowned, pioneering gallery of contemporary art from around the planet.

For further enquiries about DVD’s please contact the Gallery 020 7242 7367 or www.mostlymovies.co.uk


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CURRENT EXHIBITION

19 April 2012 to 26 May 2012
ROBERT BEER: Visions of the Divine


FORTHCOMING EXHIBITION

31 May 2012 to 23 June 2012
MASTERS of the TRANSVANGARDE


MOST RECENT EXHIBITION

09 February 2012 to 14 April 2012
LAILA SHAWA: The Other Side of Paradise




FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Friday, 18th May, 2012

GALLERY TALK:
Wrathful Deities and their Symbolism, an introduction.
(in conjunction with Museums at Night)

Entry £Free (donations welcome)
6:30 pm

Rahula and his Retinue.
Detail of wall painting from the Great Stupa of Mindrolling, Dehradun, India, 2001. Photo courtesy of Gabriel Berde, New York.

 

Robert Beer leads an illustrated talk which will introduce the dark symbolic imagery displayed upon ten magnificent gold-on-black wall paintings from Mindrolling Stupa in India, The vivid and innovative depictions of these ferocious protector deities reveal much of the Indo-Tibetan genius for encapsulating the most subtle Buddhist concepts within the most terrifying imagery.

Book online at:
http://visionsdivinewrathfuldeities.
eventbrite.com/

 




Saturday, 26 May, 2012

GALLERY TALK:
The Legends of the 84 Mahasiddhas of early Indian Buddhism

Entry £Free (donations welcome)
3 pm

Assembly of Six Mahasiddhas.
Detail of wall painting from the Great Stupa of Mindrolling, Dehradun, India, 2001. Photo courtesy of Gabriel Berde, New York.

 

The Mahasiddhas, literally the ‘Greatly Attained Ones’, lived in India between the 8th and 12th centuries and were the instigators of the highly esoteric Yoga Tantra systems that were finally transmitted into Tibet. The Mahasiddhas came from all walks of life, and the diversity of their often-outlandish legends reveals much about the different approaches to enlightenment.  Robert Beer gives this illustrated talk which will explore some of their pithy life stories.

Book online at:
http://visionsdivinemahasiddhas.
eventbrite.com/

 





Tuesday, 29th May, 2012
The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lecture series, in association with the Scientific and Medical Network presents:
Solve et Coagula: An Orphic Mystery Play
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

Entry £7 /£5 Concessions, Arrive 6pm for a 6:30pm Start - Wine available

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Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

The Ancient Greek bard Orpheus can never return to the Underworld after seeking his lost love there. Immortalised yet unable to appreciate His eternal body, he was torn limb from limb by the Maenads… A head, adrift on the elements, found by the Knights Templar and become their oracle, desires to make a new body... The ecology of individual and collective is explored in this ritual theatre. Live song and dance is accompanied by a stop-animation film of the coagulation of a life-size statue (created by Orryelle in 2011) which is a coagulation of 31 smaller wax figures which interlock to form a larger composite figure. After the performance Orryelle will talk about the interior meanings and processes involved, with a Q&A session. Further info at http://www.crossroads.wild.net.au/morph.htm

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is a prolific multimedia artist and the director of the Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company, dedicated to the wo/manifestation of the Wyrd in the realms of the flesh. Orryelle's current creative foci are the Tela Quadrivium, a fourfold alchemic bookweb being progressively published by Fulgur Limited (Conjunctio 2008, Coagula 2011, Solve 2012…); the completion of a series of group Global Chakra Workings at sacred sites around the planet; and the culmination of the Orpheus Working in various media.

This lecture is part of a series to be held at the October Gallery on the last Tuesday of each month. Please check back to these pages for further details of the upcoming programme or email drdluke@gmail.com to be added to the series' mailing list.


Wednesday, 13th June, 2012
ART IN THE CAPITAL presents:
Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude
with Lydia Bauman



Entry £10 /£8 Concessions, Arrive 6pm for lecture at 6:30pm

Lydia Bauman presents Art in the Capital, at October Gallery an illustrated lecture and alternative look at major exhibitions in London's most prominent institutions.  This month Lydia looks at the Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude exhibition. 

Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude
Turner created a revolution in painting at the beginning of the 19th century, responding to a modern industrial landscape with a freer style and new approaches to composition. Yet a lasting dialogue with the 17th century painter Claude lay at the heart of these developments.

Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude (showing at the National Gallery) compares closely related works by Turner and Claude and discovers to what extent Turner was inspired by Claude's mastery of light and landscape.

Tickets come with a complimentary glass of wine or juice, which can be enjoyed before the lecture in the October Gallery, where our current exhibition is Masters of the Transvangarde.


To book tickets online visit http://turnerinspiredlecture.eventbrite.com/
For all enquiries please ask for Jo Walsh 02078311618

 


 
 
 

 

October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL
Tel: + 44 (0)20 7242 7367 Fax: + 44 (0)20 7405 1851

Director - Chili Hawes; Artistic Director - Elisabeth Lalouschek; Special Projects - Gerard Houghton;
International Sales - Rosalind King; Registrar and Exhibitions Coordinator - Margaree Cotten;
Press Officer - Alana Pryce Tojcic; Rentals Manager - Jo Walsh; Education Co-ordinators - Ella Philips & Beth Atkinson;

The October Gallery is open from 12:30 to 17:30, Tuesday to Saturday.
The Gallery is closed during official holidays and for the entire month of August.

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