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Viewing Richard Deacon & David Batchelor: Colours In The Air

The Wick Culture - Installation Shot of Richard Deacon David Batchelor 'Colours In The Air', courtesy of Handel Street Projects.

Above Installation Shot of Richard Deacon David Batchelor ‘Colours In The Air’, courtesy of Handel Street Projects.

Richard Deacon & David Batchelor: Colours In The Air
Handel Street Projects

24 February – 31 March 2023
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Handel Street Projects in North London is pleased to present a collaborative exhibition of works by David Batchelor and Richard Deacon with contributions from curator Fedja Klikovac.

When I was sixteen I was allowed to paint the small room I slept in whatever colour I liked. I painted it purple with orange woodwork. It was awful, like sleeping in a nightmare. Painted it white again after a few days. Should have used blue and yellow. (Richard Deacon)

I would become Ukrainian just for the colours of their flag. (David Batchelor)

A month after the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, Handel Street Projects started a conversation about a possible collaborative project, knowing that both artists share a strong interest in colour. As a result of ‘two guys just noticing things as they go along who were sometimes worried and sometimes not but have a background preoccupation (as we all do)’, The two artists began a visual correspondence of messages between each other – pinging back and forth visual references and over time the body of work seemed to evolve including the two colours of the Ukrainian Flag, from the Café Cafe at Hebden Bridge Station to the Beringen Lorry.

Since the shocking and brutal attack by Russia on Ukraine started on the 24 February 2022, 240,000 people have been killed. Millions have been displaced and this exhibition is dedicated to all Ukrainian people fighting for the freedom of their sovereign state.

Viewing Dalai Lama

The Wick Culture - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, The Art of Hope © CIRCA 2023. Photography - Clover Green Studio, courtesy CIRCA 2023 @clovergreenstudio

Above His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, The Art of Hope © CIRCA 2023. Photography – Clover Green Studio, courtesy CIRCA 2023 @clovergreenstudio

Dalai Lama
CIRCA

11 — 31 January 2023 at 20.23
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Tune into CIRCA at 20.23 local time until 31 January to see a new three-minute animation, The Art of Hope, created by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in collaboration with The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA) in London. The message of hope will also be broadcast across a global network of screens in London, Los Angeles, Berlin and Melbourne.

In this commission — a response to CIRCA’s 2023 manifesto Hope: The Art of Reading What is Not Yet Written — the 87-year-old spiritual leader calls on the world to consider hope and the oneness of humanity:

‘We must continually consider the oneness of humanity, remembering that we all want to be happy. Along the way we may be faced with problems, but we must not lose hope. We must keep up our determination without being impatient to achieve quick results.’

A limited-edition screen print, The Art of Hope, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be available to purchase on the CIRCA website for £150 until 31 December 2023. Proceeds will go towards the Tibet Hope Centre and #CIRCAECONOMY, a circular model that supports the CIRCA free public art programme and creates life-changing opportunities for the wider creative community.

Viewing The Lost Rhino: An Art Installation with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

The Wick Culture - Installation view of The Substitute in 'Apocalypse -End Without End' at Natural History Museum, Bern, 2022. Photograph: Nelly Rodriguez.Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Video still from The Substitute, 2019, paired video installation (projections), 6 min 18 secs. © Alexandra Daisy

Above Installation view of The Substitute in ‘Apocalypse -End Without End’ at Natural History Museum, Bern, 2022. Photograph: Nelly Rodriguez.Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Video still from The Substitute, 2019, paired video installation (projections), 6 min 18 secs. © Alexandra Daisy

The Wick Culture - Taxidermy southern white rhino © The Trustees of The Natural History Museum, London,2022. All Rights Reserved.

The Wick Culture - The Rhinoceros', Albrecht Durer, Germany, c.1515 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Above The Rhinoceros’, Albrecht Durer, Germany, c.1515 © The Trustees of the British Museum

The Wick Culture - Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Above Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

The Wick Culture - Exhibition The Lost Rhino 3 © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London

Above Exhibition The Lost Rhino 3 © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London

Above Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

The Lost Rhino: An Art Installation with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Natural History Museum, London

Until 19 March 2023
www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/the-lost-rhino

When Sudan, the last surviving northern white male rhino, died in 2018, the extinction of the subspecies seemed certain. While two of his female relatives, Najin and Fatun, still survive, neither can carry a pregnancy to term.

But there is hope for the northern whites yet. Scientists who collected semen and eggs from the last living members of the subspecies hope to implant embryos into a female southern white rhino as part of a repopulation programme. If the project is successful, it will change the fate of endangered species around the world. But the plan has raised challenging questions around the ethics of de-extinction.

All of this and more is explored in The Lost Rhino, a free art installation conceived by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg that explores extinction, conservation and advanced new reproductive and genetic technologies at the Natural History Museum. You’ll come face to face with a digitally recreated, life-size northern white rhino, prompting you to question the paradox of our preoccupation with creating new life forms, while neglecting existing ones. This is art at its most urgent. Go before it’s too late!