exhibitions »
the current exhibition at the Hayward is Psycho Buildings, for which ten artists take on the architecture of the Hayward, transforming it with a series of installations.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-exhibitions/psycho-buildings
London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has an exhibition on at the Maureen Paley Gallery. It is free and on until 13th July.
installation view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2007
In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer to win the Turner Prize - a reflection of his influence in the way he shows his work, and the exploration of materiality and how we perceive images.
Blood on Paper - the Art of the Book starts tomorrow and runs until 29th June.
At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer, this exhibition aims to show the extraordinary ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past.
left: ‘Open Secret’ by Anthony Caro, right: ‘Danger Book: Suicide Fireworks’ by Cai Guo-Qiang
Two smaller exhibitions are also of interest: Certain Trees: the Constructed Book, Poem and Object, 1964-2008 and Mapping the Imagination (ends 27th April)
This month’s Friday Late on the 25th is in connection with the Blood on Paper exhibition, with talks, installations and events 6.30-10pm.
All exhibitions and events free.
‘No Man’s Land’ by Neil Wenman
left: ‘Air Routes of the World (Night)’ by Langlands and Bell, right: ‘Pattern of the World’ by Susan Stockwell
Evensong by Sophie Clements
The finalists’ exhibition for the new Jerwood Foundation prize in “digital moving arts” is on until 20th March. It’s free, at the Jerwood Space, Union Street, Southwark.
See all the shortlisted artists online: www.jerwoodmovingimage.org/shortlist.asp
Ash’s entry “Hoodies” won 3rd prize in the Arts Council and RIBA London ideas competition for an Arts Space of the Future and was exhibited at the National Theatre.