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CHARLES DANBY

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Exhibition at Siobhan Davies Studios
GUY SHERWIN:
Movements in Light
Curated by Charles Danby
Siobhan Davies Studios, London SE1
16 September – 25 November 2011
Private View: Thursday 15 September (6pm-9pm)
Admission free
www.siobhandavies.com/guysherwin

This September, celebrated experimental film artist Guy Sherwin presents an exhibition of new and rarely seen works at Siobhan Davies Studios. Sherwin has occupied a central position within experimental film culture since the mid 1970s. His works are best characterised by their use of movement and light, both within the films and within the processes he sets up in making them. Here he presents a new three-screen work Staircase (2011) filmed at Siobhan Davies Studios, alongside older works including rarely seen drawings and mechanical pieces. Guy Sherwin: Movements in Light opens at Siobhan Davies Studios on 16 September and admission is free.

For Staircase (2011) Guy Sherwin has drawn reference from his early film work Musical Stairs (1977), working directly from one of the central internal architectural features of Siobhan Davies Studios, its suspended staircase. Sherwin’s new work approaches the structure of the stairs through current spatial pre-occupations of mirroring, movement and replicated environments.

Movement, light and line are the binding features of other works in the exhibition. Sherwin examines these often through peripheral urban landscapes, mapping environments and territories by the traces of human presence within them.

Staircase (2011) will be presented alongside a newly installed version of Film with Window (1976), Film with Window #2 (1975/2011), a single screen projection on to suspended glass. Also shown will be drawings from the works, Tree Reflection #2 (2011), Sound Cuts (2007), and the motorised sculptural work, Tree Reflection (Rotation) (2011). Three film works will also be shown: Coots (c1998) Metronome (c1978) and Bicycle (c1978).

Guy Sherwin’s Movements in Light is the first of a series of new commissions, Animated Environments, curated by Charles Danby for Siobhan Davies Studios. This programme investigates images as still frames of time, within the fields of photography, film and performance.

About Guy Sherwin
Guy Sherwin (b.1948) studied painting at Chelsea School of Art and lives and works in London. In the 1970s Sherwin helped establish Fine Art Film at the North East London Polytechnic as well as teaching printing and processing at the London Filmmakers' Co-op (now LUX). Sherwin’s film works have been shown internationally in exhibitions and film festivals and he continues to teach, currently lecturing at the University of Wolverhampton and Middlesex University.

About Siobhan Davies Studios
Siobhan Davies Dance is one of the country’s most outstanding and innovative dance companies and choreographer Siobhan Davies advocates for the wider recognition of dance as a significant and extraordinary art form. The Company’s RIBA award-winning building, Siobhan Davies Studios in Southwark, South London, provides a local, national and international resource for learning about movement and dance, and a meeting ground to discuss new ideas. It presents a varied programme of events, performances, talks, artists’ sharings and visual art exhibitions.

Siobhan Davies Studios
85 St George’s Road, London SE1 6ER
T: +44 (0)20 7091 9650
Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle, Lambeth North
www.siobhandavies.com
Admission free

Exhibition opening hours:
Mon-Thu 10am-8pm
Fri-Sat 10am-5pm
Sun 10am-2pm

Artist Performances and Panel Talk
Venue: Siobhan Davies Studios
Sherwin presents a special programme of four live performance works: Sound Cuts (2007) performed with artist Lynn Loo, Wires (2004/2009), Bay Bridge from Embarcadero (2002/2006), and the seminal Man with Mirror (1976/2006). This programme is followed by a panel talk in which the artist will be joined by Joy Sleeman (Head of Art History, Slade, UCL) and Steven Ball (artist and film researcher). They will discuss ideas of ‘environment’ in response to Sherwin’s performances, from the working environment of the projectors, to the depicted environments of the landscapes within the work.

Dates Fri 7 Oct 2011
Times 7pm (approx. 2.5 hrs including interval)
Tickets £7/£5 (concessions)
Book tickets on 020 7091 965
Installation
Venue: Siobhan Davies Studios
Showing throughout the weekend 7 - 9 October, Sherwin will install Tree Reflection #2 (2011), in which a single strip of film runs in opposite directions through two interlocked 16mm projectors. Facing each other in the centre of the room, mirrors project the images (of trees reflected in water) onto opposing walls.

Selected films from the LUX archive
Venue: South London Gallery
In conjunction with Movements in Light at Siobhan Davies Studios, Guy Sherwin will select a programme of films for a special screening at the South London Gallery.

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Dates Wed 9 Nov 2011
Times 7pm
Tickets £5 / £3 (concessions)
Book tickets through South London Gallery

Books, with DVDs included, by Guy Sherwin are available to purchase from Siobhan Davies Studios
Optical Sound Films 1971-2007 - £20.00
Messages - £20.00
Please call reception on 020 7091 9650 to order