Welcome to the sixth of our regular newsletters which aim to keep you informed of all activity and developments at Street Level.
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Pavel Büchler : Small Sculptures
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Friday 17th April - Saturday 30th May
Weds - Sat: 12 til 5pm - Free
Artist talk - Saturday 25th April, 3pm at Street Level. Free.
'Small Sculptures' is a selection of pictures depicting small artworks, all found objects or assisted 'ready mades' that are accompanied by short texts. Originally produced as postcards, they are now presented as large prints, lifted from the comforts of their modest proportions to an almost monumental scale, the pictures once again become objects.
An artist, teacher and occasional writer, Pavel Büchler is interested in what art makes possible to realise: both to think and to do. Summing up his own practice as "making nothing happen", he is committed to the catalytic nature of art, its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange, and creating the conditions, "like an incompetent electrician", to short-circuit incompatible perspectives. Find out more here.
Street Level are participating in Glasgow Galleries Weekend between Thursday 16th and Sunday 19th April. This will see a concentrated series of openings, talks and events focussing on Glasgows diverse contemporary art galleries. For more info you can download a PDF listing sheet from our website.
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On Photography:
Photography As A Collectable Art Form
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Friday 24th April 2009 - 12.30pm and 2.30pm
Glasgow Art Fair, George Square
Pavel Büchler will also be one of four speakers when Street Level Photoworks returns to the Glasgow Art Fair with a two-part series exploring the increasing interest in collecting photography.
In collaboration with visual arts commissioning agency Pavilion, these talks will focus on the growth in photography specific art fairs and how photographs have become a highly desirable and collectable art form.
Joining Pavel will be Laura Noble, author of The Art of Collecting Photography and Co-Director of Diemar/Noble Photography Gallery, London. Jo Longhurst, an artist and current Leverhulme Fellow at the European Centre for Photographic Research (eCPR) University of Wales, Newport. Dr Sara Stevenson, chief curator of the Scottish National Photography Collection at the National Gallery of Scotland.
To find out more and how to book tickets click here.
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| multi-story: Red Road Camera Obscura
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Developed with the support of the Red Road Project, an initiative devised by Culture and Sport Glasgow and Glasgow Housing Association, multi-story artist Iseult Timmermans has converted various empty flats in the Red Road estate into camera obscuras.
Making large format images of the local area, multi-story delivers a workshop programme that enables local residents to view the camera obscura and make their own pinhole cameras from old tins and boxes.
To see pictures of the camera obscura and to find out more click here.
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Recents News and Events
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