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Exhibition: Towards and New Socio-Painting

31 May - 22 June 2014

Nathan Eastwood / Nicholas Middleton / Narbi Price / David Sullivan

 

Using this group exhibition as a vehicle the aim is to renew the conceptual and aesthetic of social realism; creating a space for contemporary debate and discourse around the functionality and intentionality of this conceptual and aesthetic paradigm.  Each artist in the show will bring together a series of paintings that in some way or another operates with the allegorical, political or social that reflects society.

 

 

 

 

Panel Discussion: Towards and New Socio-Painting

Sat 14 June 2 -3.30pm

Hosted by the Nathan Eastwood and Alex Michon

 

Speakers: David Tucker / George Vasey / Paul O'Kane / Nathan Eastwood / Alex Michon

 

Socio-realism, what does it mean today, how has it changed in relation to its historical context, how does this aesthetic question and evaluate contemporary class systems today? What does working class look like today, do we still have a class system; is today’s equivalent to working in a field working in a call centre? How can painting as a material language define this series of social questions today?  How does painting today deal with the social and allegorical?  The Panel discussion will attempt to answer these questions and allow a new discussion concerning the possibility of a new socio-real aesthetic and conceptual framework.