AICON Gallery Announces Their Upcoming Events

London's AICON Gallery has announced its upcoming events through May 8th. They include Undivided and Indivisible, Above and Beyond, Artist Panel Discussion with Shezad Dawood and David Blandy, and Book Launch of 'Bollywood Weddings' by Kavita Ramdya.

Undivided and Indivisible
Simon Tegala Solo Show

'Undivided & Indivisible is a solo exhibition by London-based artist Simon Tegala. In the show Tegala explores life systems and the nature of humanity. He often employs new complex technologies to elegantly display classical ideas around life and death. The show includes the major installation 'A Matter of Life and Death' that takes the form of a pairof transparent polycarbonate spheres each containing a spinning water vortex. It also includes his provocative work 'Murder with Impunity'. Since graduating from Goldsmiths Tegala has exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery and the Kunsthallen Gothenberg. He has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

Exhibition Dates are 9th April- 8th May2010.

Above and Beyond

'Above and Beyond' focuses on the work of three modernist Indian artists who all reference the idea of the transcendental in their work: S.H.Raza, G.R.Santosh and Ganesh Haloi. All three have their artistic roots in landscape but developed that to explore the ideas of transcendance and the sublime. They move from works depicting exterior landscapes to what can be understood as interior, psychological landscapes.

Exhibition Dates are 9th April- 8th May2010.

Artist Panel Discussion with Shezad Dawood and David Blandy

Shezad Dawood and David Blandy talk about translation, mis-translation and cross-cultural misunderstandings, and how these all feed into their own art practice.

Both artists have used the creative potential and the perils of cross-cultural communication in many different ways in their art. Dawood has appropriated and re-contextualised words such as a takeaway sign saying 'Tandoori' as well as 'translating' Hollywood film posters through the hands of Karachi billboard painters. Meanwhile Blandy has pursued multi-layered project over a number of years as 'The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim', an alter ego whose roots lie in Japanese culture and super-heroes.

Dawood and Blandy are both exhibiting in the Aicon Gallery's current show 'Royale With Cheese'. In addition Dawood is currently showing in 'The Empire Strikes Back' at the Saatchi Gallery whilst Blandy has a large-scale installation work being exhibited at 176 Gallery.

The discussion will take place Wednesday 31st March from 6pm to 7pm.

Book Launch of 'Bollywood Weddings' by Kavita Ramdya

Celebrate the vibrance of Indian popular culture and the arts at Kavita Ramdya's "Bollywood Weddings" book launch at Aicon Gallery London on Thursday, 1 April from 6-9pm. Meet Kavita Ramdya who will speak to how popular culture from the Indian subcontinent influences ethnic Indians' conceptions of love, romance and weddings abroad as described in her book "Bollywood Weddings". Finally, here's your last chance to view "Royale with Cheese", works by contemporary, modernist South-Asian artists similarly invested, interested and inspired by popular culture.

The launch will take place Thursday 1st April from 6 - 9pm.

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