exhibition

TravellingLight London>VeniceBiennale 09

15.May.09 - 10.Jun.09
London: 15 - 28 May (Press 14 / PV Fri 15 May 6-9pm) Sat-Sun 12-6 or by appointment; Venice: 6-10 June, open daily 10-6pm, (Press Sat 6 June 10-6pm, PV Sun 7 June 3-9pm)

WW Gallery
London: 30 Queensdown Rd, London E5 8NN
Venice: 622 Fondamenta Bragadin, 30123, Venice, Italy
London E5 8NN
/ 07531342128
travellinglight09@gmail.com
http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com/travellinglight.htm, http://travellinglight09.blogspot.com/

Travelling Light is a joint collaboration between WW Gallery and Pharos Gallery. The exhibition will open in London 15th – 28th May and will be hung in Venice 6th – 10th June, within the orbit of the Venice Biennale, in a palazzo between the Accademia Galleries and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Intending to stretch the artistic imaginations of its artists through imposing size and weight constraints, the work will travel along the trade route to Venice, a path historically well-trodden by merchants, libertines and young men coming of age, attracted to the pleasure capital of Europe. With its gambling houses and beautiful courtesans, a trip to Venice represented, in the words of J J Cale, a “one way ticket to ecstasy…”

WW Gallery is an artists' run space in a converted Victorian terraced house in Hackney, East London. Running a series of fearless and ambitious shows, WW features an eclectic array of work that runs from the beautiful and ornate to the grotesque and unsettling. Breaking away from the tendency of their East End counterparts to show work with a dry and introspective concern with theory, concept and the politics of the art industry, WW looks outward by staging shows centered around wider social and cultural themes. The result is often dark, frequently humorous and at once democratic and challenging.
For more information visit http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com/

Pharos Gallery is an art collective based in the beating heart of London's East End art scene. Built from a manifesto which aims to decentralise the West End art system, Pharos functions at the most basic level as a forum for artist to network, communicate and share ideas. Working with local artists, upcoming talent and established artists on curated and themed exhibitions, Pharos aims to build bridges between the adventurous projects of the East and the more traditional, transactional setting of the West End.
For more information visit http://www.pharosgallery.com/

ARTISTS:
Alastair McInnes
Alex Booker
Amy McKenny
Annabel Tilley
Ariane Severin
Barry Cottrell
Beatriz Barba Calleja
Boa Swindler
Chantal Powell
Chiara Williams
David Rusbatch
David Wightman
Edith Dakovic
Eemyun Kang
Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin
Eleanor Moulsdale
Elisavet Kalpaxi
Ella Thumin
Emma Barrow
Enzo Marra
Eva Lis
Evi Lemberger
Evy Jokhova
Hannah Dakin
Infinity Bunce
Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Jarik Jongman
Jess Shepherd
Jessica Mallock
Julie Cassels
Kaori Homma
Karl England
Kate Davis
Katherine Lubar
Leigh Niland
Lorraine Clarke
Lucy May
Maria Chevska
Natasha Bailey
Natasha Bird
Nerys Mathias
Nishi
Oona Grimes
Paul Hazelton
Phil Illingworth
Priyesh Mistry
Rodrigo Pires
Roma Tearne
Russell Herron
Ruth Pringle
Sam Watson-Wood
Sardine & Tobleroni
Steph Wehowski
Sustasa
Taren McCallen - Moore
Tumim & Prendergast
Valerie Jolly
William Wright