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Correspondence News and notes Yorkshire Arts Association, Bradford Telegraph
& Argus, Bradford Area Development Associa-
An open letter to APG tion (BADA), The Giles Bequest, Lund
Thank you for sending us a copy of the Humphries Limited, Field Sons & Company
publication APG Research Ltd. (published by Limited, Grattan Warehouses Limited, Brad-
Artist Placement Group), which we read with ford University, The Friends of Bradford City
interest. Action Space now has three buildings at Art Gallery and Museums, The Oxford Gallery
Over the past four years we in the Visual 65 Harmood Street, NW1 at a nominal rent and The Anthony Parton Gallery. Observer Art
Communication Section at Sunderland Poly- from Camden Council. These buildings will be are awarding a special publication prize by com-
technic have been engaged in an enterprise the used to build, maintain and develop Action missioning an exhibiting printmaker to produce
aims of which, in the broadest sense, are similar Space structures and projects which are used a large-edition print to be distributed through
to yours : That is, we believe our rotten society with children and adults in parks, playgrounds, the Observer colour magazine, and Editions
would be better served if artists could achieve theatres, schools and clubs. There will also be Alecto will award a commission prize in a similar
positions of influence in organizations. At the studio space available to art and design students way. The international jury will include Edward
moment it is painfully apparent that artists are who wish to work on projects for use in the Lucie-Smith and Michael Rothenstein. The
not being used in any truly functional way. community arts field; and rehearsal rooms exhibition will continue until the end of
Artists today are the court jesters of society. where regular workshops in music, movement September and afterwards a selection forming a
Their influence is minimal and their potential is and event structures will take place. These travelling exhibition will be shown at a number
unrealized. workshops will be open to young adults who of centres including the University of East
It seems that your methods differ greatly wish to develop techniques of group work Anglia, the Oxford Gallery and the Durham
from ours in that you favour a full frontal attack, through creative involvement; A/S is Arts Centre.
treating industry and commerce as the enemy experimenting with alternative means of study. Entries from printmakers are expected to
to be browbeaten into submission. You naively The building is being put in order with the exceed 2500 prints and, as in previous biennales,
expect your artists to be offered contracts to 'do aid of a grant from the Arts Council, donations more than sixty countries will be represented.
their own thing'. As indicated by your own of materials and voluntary labour. If any Similar exhibitions are held in major art centres
results your lack of success is not surprising. It readers would like to offer help in the form of in Tokyo, Cracow, Paris and Ljubljana. The
seems to us that you expect all the compromises labour, cash or project proposals, Action Space Bradford exhibition is unique in being a
to come from industry and none from the artist. would like to hear from them. The workshop genuinely open exhibition without official nomi-
To be more specific it is an arrogant assump- sessions take place on Saturday afternoons at nations from individual countries.
tion which suggests that the 'artist' whoever he 2.3o. Telephone number is 01 485-9467 or The advisory committee includes : Peter
may be has a monopoly of the so-called 'Delta 01-435 8368. Bird, Ian Colverson, Gerald Forty, Pat Gilmour,
component.' It might be more rewarding to Galerie La Salita, has moved to new premises. Anthony Gross, Graham Reynolds, Michael
investigate to what extent it already exists in The new address is 86 Via Garibaldi, 00153 Rothenstein, Rosemary Simmons, Birgit Skiold,
industry and use that as a basis for expanding its Roma, Italy. Gillian Tresidder, John Thompson.
influence. That is assuming that: (a) it is capable The Marjorie Parr Gallery is holding a The German Institute, London plans to
of being investigated (you will have to do one-man exhibition of the metal sculpture of display graphics published by German art
better than 'a unit of attention' as a definition Jesse Watkins, from 7 January to 29 January. galleries/publishers at the Institute throughout
to make that possible), (b) that the real objective Janina Baranowska is holding an exhibition the year. The first gallery to exhibit will be
is to increase the role of the 'Delta component' called 'New Phase' at the Grabowski Gallery, `Art in Progress' Ingvild Vogel Konstanz. They
and not simply provide sinecures for socially 84 Sloane Avenue, London SW3 from will be showing twelve works in limited editions,
misplaced art college graduates. 9 December to 29 January 1972. signed by the artists, in January and February.
Your policy contains, to us, cheap and The Hampstead Everyman Gallery is The Pasadena Art Museum is holding an
unacceptable recourse to moral pressures. We holding an exhibition of the work of Barbara exhibition of the work of Claes Oldenburg, open
quote : 'Wealth in delta terms is measured in Delaney from 4-3o January. until 6 February, 1972. The show concentrates
principle only but becomes evident in £np in The Park Square Gallery, Leeds, through a on the artist's work since the mid 6os, drawing
retrospect'. Make up your mind whether you grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Founda- heavily on his proposals for monuments in draw-
want quantity or quality because they do not tion, has opened a new extension which greatly ing and model form.
necessarily relate. increases the exhibition area. It is planned to Galeries du Centre National d'Art
Your methods are not significantly different hang large paintings there and to have a Contemporain, I I rue Berryer, Paris 8, are
from those of any commercial art gallery. The permanent display of small sculpture, modern holding an exhibition of the work of Spoerri
artist's social role is in no way changed by jewellery, glass and prints, and a picture lending from 28 January until 6 March.
changing his paymaster. library in the smaller gallery. The Fieldbourne Galleries, 63 Queens Grove,
If we discount social revolution then social The Society of Typographic Designers is London NW8, opened in December with an
change can only be achieved by compromise. holding a meeting on 27 January, at Overseas exhibition of Seven Contemporary Artists.
The basis for effective compromise is informa- House, Park Place London SW1, when Colin Their next show, opening on 15 February, is of
tion and understanding. Cheeseman will talk on Film and TV Graphics. the work of Charles Gebhard.
Our approach has been to give the artist a A Mark Rothko exhibition was held in `De Chirico by De Chirico', is the title of an
modus operandi comensurate with both the Rotterdam from 19 November — 2 January, exhibition opening on 19 January at the New
demands of industry and commerce and with 1972, at the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. York Cultural Center, 2 Columbus Circle, New
the artist. We have integrated the methodologies It is planned to transfer the exhibition to London York 10019. It will be the first US museum
of the Behavioural Sciences with those of the early in the new year. retrospective of the artist's work in thirty years.
designer. This allows the artist/designer to The Third British International Print The Arts Review Tour to Denmark, starting
operate within a real social context, the para- Biennale will be opened in Bradford at the Art April 1972 from Newcastle U.K, is $298 and the
meters of which will yield to definition. Gallery and Museum, Cartwright Hall on 3o June, Tour to Norway, Sweden and Denmark starting
PETER WELTON, DAVID SLESS 1972. The exhibition is financed by Bradford May 1972 from London is $370. Full details
Visual Communication Section City Council with a grant from the Arts Council. from Arts Review 8, Wyndham Place, London
Sunderland Polytechnic Prizes have been donated by the Arts Council, WI.
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