Hours of Patience FREE event

Following rules and systems to produce unexpected results is such an important element of current exhibiting artist Tomoko Takahashi's practice, it is therefore not surprising that she has a love for playing games.

Takahashi and artist Ella Gibbs will be reprising her participatory Hours of Patience event first seen at the Belt Space Inbetween in 1999.

This is an entire day devoted to the organised playing of the card game Patience with instructors to help you and a free booklet containing over 300 games designed and illustrated by the artist herself.

Anyone is welcome to come along and play Patience for as long as they wish. The player who plays for the longest period of time, uninterrupted, receives a special prize!

The event is totally free of charge and will be a fun, absorbing and totally addictive alternative activity to football fever!

To find out more about Tomoko Takhashi's amazing exhibition click here

Tomoko Takahashi exhibition opening a great success!

...and what a fantastic day it was! Approaching the De La Warr Pavilion in all its splendour on a sunny Saturday, it was a truely spine-tingling sight to see the sun terrace teeming with people enjoying DJ NIKKI BEATNIK's chilled-out tunes and heartily discussing Tomoko Takahashi's exhibition with broad smiles. People meandered round the Antony Gormley sculptures on the roof terrace and waved to friends and family dancing and chatting below. Others chilled out on deck chairs bathed in sunshine, a cold drink in hand. An inspiring exhibition celebrated in beautiful informal surroundings - a perfect summer day all in all.

"What a fantastic vibe this afternoon.....excellent to dance to the amazing tunes in the wonderful sunshine"

"What an amazing afternoon. Thank you to Tomoko, Nikki and the event organisers. Please do it again sometime!"

Pics of the event will be uploaded shortly. Please put up your pics too!

Visit the website for more information on Tomoko Takahashi
http://tiny.cc/tomokodlwp

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Tomoko has written all the information labels for her exhibition by hand and she has included lots of extra interesting information. It looks lovely.

The new show

The installation of our new exhibition Introspective Retrospective by Tomoko Takahashi is nearly finished and it looks fanatastic. The boys are all getting pretty weary after 15 days of hard slog. Tomoko seems to be pretty happy with the end results. She has been living and working in Bexhill for the last three months and has produced two entirely new works for the DLWP - one engaging Japanese manga comics and the other with the Stade in Hastings. Tomoko embraces all. We are all looking forward to the opening party at 3pm on Saturday 3rd which is an informal affair with a DJ on the South Terrace, drinks and hopefully dancing. EVERYONE WELCOME!

Save the Date - Exhibition Preview Party

TOMOKO TAKAHASHI

Introspective Retrospective

We would like to invite you to a special preview party to celebrate the opening of our next exhibition, Tomoko Takahashi - Introspective Retrospective. Come along on Saturday 3 July from 3pm where you will be treated to an eclectic selection of musical delights, courtesy of DJ Nikki Beatnik, “easily the best female DJ in the UK” (Time Out). Soak up the atmosphere and browse the exhibition at your own pace during this one-off event. Bar open until 8pm.

"DJ Nikki truly rocked the party”

(Elle Magazine)

“The female Mark Ronson”
(The Telegraph)

http://www.djnikkibeatnik.com/

Galvanizing opinions

This week's Saturday Perspectives and Thinking Aloud sessions were facinating, with intense discussion, generated by the exhibition, as to who determines what the 'value' of art works is, and where we as viewers think that value lies. At one stage within the gallery there was quite a fierce discussion that attracted input from others who had not started off with the session, but were drawn in by the strength of feeling being voiced. The oft-repeated exclamations of "I could do that" are easily applied to some of the pieces, particularly in reference to those pieces where there is an element of supposed 'randomness' in the execution, the 'gestural' work (as described by Lutz Becker) taken to its furthest expression. The strength of feeling, both in challenging and in defending the work, was a timely reminder of how important getting to grips with the nature of "art" feels to many people. Context was identified as being terribly important when attempting to assess the impact of individual pieces; many people in the gallery yesterday expressed their delight at the opportunity the exhibition gives for a wide range of pieces to "speak to" each other. One man said it was like viewing a private collection and that for him that felt like an unusual experience in a public gallery. It was generally felt that the strength of Modern Times lies in the juxtaposition of the different works, and if one had quibbles with individual pieces the collection as a whole is surprising and challenging, offering a pluralism of voices (and responses) that is apposite as a reflection of Modern Times (both 20th Century and into the 21st.)

Beautiful Gormley slideshow from the Guardian

Check this out - it is absolutely gorgeous footage of the installation of the Gormley sculptures and the challenges our curatorial team faced to get it right...

http://tiny.cc/GormleyGuardian