exhibition

BOAST

Daniel Lehan

04.Oct.07 - 07.Oct.07

Wiebke Morgan
6 Cyprus Street
London,
London E2 0NN
02089830708
info@wiebkemorgan.com
Tube Bethnal Green, Hackney / Bethnal Green

Daniel Lehan : BOAST

Thursday 4 October to Sunday 7 October (12 noon to 6 pm)
with live work by Daniel Lehan Thursday 4 October (6pm to 8.45pm)

Drawn from his studio by the street life he saw through the window, Daniel Lehan has created a three-year series of 'street-level' artworks, with strong participatory and performative elements. On display in the gallery, the pieces exchange one type of interactivity for another, raising questions around the siting and contexts of artworks, the body and its absence, relational aesthetics, and the political economy of the artworld. As well as providing a retrospective of this strand of Lehan's practice, the show will contain a new 'sandwich board' piece created especially for the event. Visitors will be able to try on the ‘pret-a-porter’ works for a closer imaginative engagement with the physical, almost ‘endurance’ aspects of Lehan’s practice, as well as to appreciate its painterly and conceptual pleasures.

As part of our participation in First Thursdays, from 6.00pm to c.7.30pm on Thursday 4th October visitors will be able to join the artist as he takes BOAST, his new set of unreliable pigment utterances, into the E2 evening. Lehan once obsessively compared an entire year of his diary entries with the astrological predictions made for him over the same period, and subsequently developed his own predictive system 'Daniel Knows', which visitors will be able to try out back in the gallery itself between c. 7.45pm and c.8.45pm