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Battle Of The Eyes presents: Planet of the Jackanapes
Posted: March 9, 2012
This year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival have just announced their packed programme for this coming May and among the Visual Arts attractions is an exciting ‘Pop-Up Exhibition’ commission, which I am curating, by Savage Pencil (Edwin Pouncey) and Eyeball (Chris Long) working together as Battle Of The Eyes.
For their first solo show entitled Planet of the Jackanapes, the Art Gallery at Norwich Castle will become their studio during the festival and a public arena where you can watch their unique collaborative performances. Painting in response to each other, a dialogue in paint ensues as brushes and crayons are passed back and forth between the artists creating large, explorative paintings in acrylics and charcoal. Crossing the boundaries between fine art and music, comics and grafitti, the work is intensely collaborative and subversive in style. Take a look at this video of the duo in action.
In addition to all these newly penned action-paintings, the exhibition will also feature paintings from the Predatory Life series, projection of films of their performances, and there are plans for related taxidermy displays customised from the Castle’s Natural History archives.
See the Planet Of The Jackanapes takes shape LIVE during performances in the gallery on Saturday & Sunday May 12th & 13th, and 20th & 26th, from 1pm to 4pm, and on Saturday 19th from 5pm to 10pm as part of Museums at Night event. The exhibition runs at Norwich Castle Art Gallery from May 12th to 27th, open Monday to Saturday 10am-4.30pm & Sunday 1pm-4.30pm. Tickets cost £2, or £1 concessions.
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