{"id":8757,"date":"2019-06-10T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2020-02-25T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:55:21","slug":"keith-wilson-puddle-ikon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/keith-wilson-puddle-ikon\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Aerodrome’ exhibition dedicated to Michael Stanley at Ikon Birmingham features Keith Wilson’s ‘Puddle’"},"content":{"rendered":"

01 September 2019 Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Aerodrome\u00a0<\/em>was also reviewed by Neil Zakiewicz in the September edition of Art Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

03 July 2019 Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition was recently reviewed – read more here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keith Wilson’s\u00a0Puddle<\/em>, a piece from more than twenty years ago, was recently permanently installed at Ikon Birmingham<\/a> as part of a tribute exhibition to Mike Stanley. Stanley originally commissioned\u00a0Puddle<\/em> for Preston City Council.<\/p>\n

\"WILSON<\/a><\/p>\n

Keith Wilson\u2019s Puddle<\/em> (1999) was originally proposed by Stanley whilst working for the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in offering \u201call the usual puddle-related benefits (reflections, splashes, etc.) as well as costs (potential wet feet, splashes, etc.)\u201d. The work was rejected by Preston Council, however was subsequently realised in Birmingham and is now installed outside Ikon\u2019s main entrance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Aerodrome \u2013 An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\n12 June \u2014 8 September 2019<\/strong>
\nIkon Birmingham<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley, Curator of Ikon before becoming Director of Milton Keynes Gallery and then Modern Art Oxford, who died tragically in 2012. Co curated with David Austen and George Shaw and structured loosely on Rex Warner\u2019s 1941 wartime novel\u00a0The Aerodrome<\/em>, a book that made a great impression on Stanley, it includes many of the artists he worked with, all of whom held him in great affection and regarded him as one of their own. Jenny Saville, for example, whose first solo show in a British public gallery took place at MAO in the year of his death, describes Stanley as someone who \u201cwasn\u2019t scared of history or of being radical. He was as likely to be enthusing about working with a sculptor in his nineties, [as] raising funds to facilitate a young filmmakers\u2019 vision. His poetic sensibility, combined with a can-do attitude where everything\u2019s possible, is what made him so magnetic and convincing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warner\u2019s\u00a0The Aerodrome<\/em>, written during the Second World War, is an allegorical novel whose young hero is faced with the disintegration of certainties about his loved ones and with a choice between the earthy, animalistic life of his home village and the pure, efficient, emotionally detached life of an airman. Its dystopian vision was very influential on writers such as Orwell, Burgess and Ballard. In fact it is full of the imagery we think of now as Ballardian: modern dystopias, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments. In light of current affairs world-wide, including the rise of terrorism, listening secret states and drone warfare \u2013 symptomatic variously of a serious challenge to the democracy we too often take for granted \u2013 a rereading of Warner\u2019s book, as the point of departure for such an exhibition, could not be more timely.<\/p>\n

The Aerodrome is accompanied by a fully\u00a0illustrated catalogue<\/a>\u00a0published by Ikon and Modern Art Oxford, featuring essays by artists David Austen, George Shaw, Carrie Stanley and Ikon\u2019s Director Jonathan Watkins.<\/p>\n

Artists: Phillip Allen \/ Polly Apfelbaum \/ David Austen \/ Karla Black \/ Simon & Tom Bloor \/ Boyd & Evans \/ Marcel Broodthaers \/ Marcus Coates \/ Nathan Coley \/ Phil Collins \/ John Constable \/ Michael Craig-Martin \/ Abraham Cruzvillegas \/ Shezad Dawood \/ Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane \/ dRMM Architects \/ Alec Finlay \/ Anya Gallaccio \/ John Gerrard \/ Siobh\u00e1n Hapaska \/ Roger Hiorns \/ Lonnie Holley \/ Thomas Houseago \/ Langlands & Bell \/ Elizabeth Magill \/ Aleksandra Mir \/ Jean-Luc Moul\u00e8ne \/ Paul Nash \/ Hayley Newman \/ Adrian Paci \/ Susan Philipsz \/ Paul Ram\u00edrez Jonas \/ Kristian Ryokan \/ Michael Sailstorfer \/ Jenny Saville \/ George Shaw \/ Michael Stanley \/ Linder Sterling \/ Graham Sutherland \/ Phoebe Unwin \/ Wolfgang Weileder \/ Cathy Wilkes \/ Stephen Willats \/ Keith Wilson<\/a> \/ Richard Woods \/ Gilberto Zorio<\/p>\n

The exhibition is supported by\u00a0The Ampersand Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0Gagosian<\/a>,\u00a0Henry Moore Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0Modern Art Oxford<\/a>,\u00a0Outset Contemporary Art Fund<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Thomas Dane Gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Keith Wilson<\/a>\u00a0is a Professor of Sculpture at Sheffield Hallam University and is currently working between Sheffield, London and the\u00a0Graduate Centre<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0City University of New York<\/a>\u2018s Centre for the Humanities as Acting Executive Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

01 September 2019 Update: The Aerodrome\u00a0was also reviewed by Neil Zakiewicz in the September edition of Art Monthly.   03 July 2019 Update: The exhibition was recently reviewed – read more here. Keith Wilson’s\u00a0Puddle, a piece from more than twenty years ago, was recently permanently installed at Ikon Birmingham as part of a tribute exhibition to Mike Stanley. 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