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Viewing Dave White: Extinct

Travel back in time and head to Hampshire to wonder at the gigantic dinosaurs as contemporary artist Dave White presents ‘Extinct’ at Kiklo Spaces.
 
Breathing new life into a childhood obsession with Dinosauria, ‘Extinct’ is a series of works that have taken form through lifelong research and the imagination of White. Starting as a pencil to paper in small sketchbooks, White worked from skeletons and specimens. Developing these studies and harnessing their personality over time, White presents large-scale and rich oil paintings that span a lifetime from the artist and the world. 
 
“For the past decade I have created works that focus on the inhabitants of the natural world, their beauty is something we take for granted in the abstracted world we live in. Their fragility and scarcity and their fight for survival has been the catalyst and focus of my work.” – Dave White
 
Produced in secrecy over 18 months and hiding in the confines of White’s studio, these paintings now stand firm in a new environment at Kiklo Spaces. With some paintings standing over 7ft tall make way to Hampshire to stand in the presence of these immense reptiles, as White imprints the beauty of what could be lost in our world today.
 

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Dates
31 July 2023 — 09 September 2023

Doing Tate Play: Rasheed Araeen

Come and Play at Tate Modern.

Not to be missed, the immersive and interactive exhibition by Rasheed Araeen, ‘Zero to Infinity’. Part of the innovative Uniqlo Tate Play, ‘Zero to Infinity’ is an endlessly changing sculpture created to spark joy. Araeen invites the public to arrange and rearrange 400 brightly coloured cubes in a group activity staged in Tate’s Turbine Hall. Initially stacked as a grid, more participants equals more possibilities where the creative potential of the public comes to life before your eyes. First devised by Araeen in 1968, it has been displayed across the world, including the 57th Venice Biennale and is now on your doorstep.

For post play refreshments, head to Araeen’s ‘Shamiyaana IV’ (Food for Thought: Thought for Change). exploring the idea of togetherness and the collaborative act of creation. Featuring four colourful gazebos with tables and chairs inside, the installation encourages appreciation of the art of everyday life, such as cooking and eating food, playing, and reading. Gathering around the table to share food, participants are encouraged to exchange stories. As the rain continues, find joy and community through colour on Bankside.

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Dates
22 July 2023 — 28 August 2023

Viewing Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

Inmates, just mates and lovers. Find your row and fasten your seatbelt because Mathew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet prepares to land at Sadler Wells. Taking to the stage this August, be mesmerised by the parley of dance with music by PROKOFIEV. Feel the intensity of forbidden love, misused power, and obsession on stage through the tragic love story of this young couple.

Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the performance is set in an institution where the inmates are under close scrutiny and robbed of basic freedoms. Two young inmate’s eyes lock across the dance floor as they embark on their love story. Breaking the rules and confines of the institute, this well-known tragedy unveils the passion, explosion and pain of the thing called love. Touching down at Sadler Wells on the 1 August, be spun around by in this three-act performance. Tickets are selling like hotcakes, so snap them up while you still can.

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Dates
01 August 2023 — 02 September 2023
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