Bluecoat Closes
TOPOPHOBIA’s final weekend at the Bluecoat – over 13,000 visitors have seen the exhibition in Liverpool. It’s sad to see it end here but we are really looking forward to seeing it installed at Spacex in the west country and Louise K Wilson’s new work commissioned for TOPOPHOBIA at Spacex.
PRIVATE VIEW AT THE BLUECOAT
TOPOPHOBIA attracted a great deal of attention as it opened at the Bluecoat in Liverpool on Friday 3 March 2012. Rich new works by Uta Kogelsberger, Almut Rink, and Louise K Wilson and the huge shift in architectural scale meant a stunning new experience of the expanded exhibition. In addition to all of this Emily Speed’s unhomely commission, Panoply, for TOPOPHOBIA at the Bluecoat had insinuated itself into the valuting ceiling of the gallery’s corridor. From time to time during the evening disturbing little glimpses of naked twitching legs, or hanging hair, were visible poking through small window cuts in the high structure.
The TOPOPHOBIA preview was also the moment chosen to introduce and celebrate the arrival of the Bluecoat’s new chief executive Mary Cloake, former director of Arts Council Ireland.
TOPOPHOBIA OPENS AT THE BLUECOAT – REVIEWS
See the Guardian online Art and Design mention and image.
TOPOPHOBIA’s themes have also prompted an essay by C James Fagan on the Double Negative website along with a review by Linda Pittwood.
See www.sevenstreets.com for the latest review.
And another strong review at www.manchestersalon.org.uk and Emily Speed interviewed on her TOPOPHOBIA commission for the Bluecoat.
Stephen Clarke reviews TOPOPHOBIA through the language of photography for Redeye.
Anneka French has just published the final review of TOPOPHOBIA at the Bluecoat for an Interface platform for critical writing.
Exhibition Overview
Matthias Einhoff
Emily Speed
Almut Rink
Almut Rink
Abigail Reynolds
Abigail Reynolds, Uta Kogelsberger and Emily Speed
Uta Kogelsberger
Emily Speed and Uta Kogelsberger
Louise K Wilson
Anne Eggebert
Polly Gould and Anne Eggebert
Marja Helander and Polly Gould
David Ferrando Giraut
David Ferrando Giraut
the Bluecoat
The exhibition build is well underway at the Bluecoat and Emily Speed is working on her new large-scale installation for the commission for this leg of the touring show. The exhibition opens on Saturday 3rd March during a weekend of VAIL (Visual Arts in Liverpool) arts events throughout the city. See the Bluecoat website www.thebluecoat.org.uk for a variety of talks and other events related to the TOPOPHOBIA exhibition.