This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton.

To coincide with his exhibition at the Gallery, the British artist gives a rare talk, discussing the work on view at the Serpentine and its relationship to his wider practice.

Talks and Events
Lecture Theatre
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

Tickets £8/6
Available from the Victoria & Albert
Museum Box Office:
+44 (0)20 7942 2211
www.vam.ac.uk/tickets

With a special screening of a new film by Amy Granat

Serpentine Cinema: CINACT is a series of monthly artists’ film screenings and events at The Gate cinema in Notting Hill. CINACT takes its name from American artist Henry Flynt’s 2007 cinema manifesto. Each programme focuses on two artists who investigate and experiment with the medium of cinema. Amy Granat will premier two new films and we are delighted that Melvin Moti will be joining us to screen The Prisoner’s Cinema.

The Prisoner’s Cinema (2008, 35mm), is named after the term used for visions of coloured lights and abstract patterns reportedly seen by prisoners or pilots after long stretches of visual deprivation. Moti’s protracted, mesmerizing film explores this phenomenon with the projection of subtly changing light filtered through a stained-glass window, while a scientist’s voice narrates the visions she experienced after many hours in a darkened room.

Melvin Moti, born in Rotterdam in 1977, studied at the Academie Voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilburg from 1995 to 1999 and worked at De Ateliers in Amsterdam from 1999 to 2001, where he now teaches. In 2006 he received the Charlotte Köhler Prijs and the J.C. van Lanschot Prijs. His works have been shown at the Frac Champagne in Reims, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Kunstverein Köln and elsewhere. He recently participated in the 5th Berlin Biennale. He lives in Rotterdam.

The Gate
87 Notting Hill Gate
London W11 3JZ
Tickets £6/£5
Tickets available from
The Gate 0871 704 2058 or
www.picturehouses.co.uk

Please check with the cinema for information updates

In association with sketch and Picturehouses

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton.

Free, no booking required

Richard Hamilton has embraced many different media since the 1950s, including painting, printmaking, installation, typography and industrial design. This major exhibition will reassess the nature of the British artist’s pioneering contribution, focusing on Hamilton’s political works.

The installations, prints and paintings on view take international politics, riots, terrorist acts and war as their subject matter, examining how these conflicts are represented by the media, including via television and the internet.

Hamilton has seen great changes in communication technologies throughout his working life. In 1969, he noted that: “In the Fifties we became more aware of the possibility of seeing the whole world, at once, through the great visual matrix that surrounds us, a synthetic ‘instant’ view. Cinema, television, magazines, newspapers flooded the artist with a total landscape.”

Through its fragmentation of images, manipulation of space and reference to different styles and genres, Hamilton’s work interrogates the representations that surround us. Yet his analysis of the image is counterbalanced by an underlying, allegoric lyricism, through which he reinvigorates the genres of portraiture and history painting.

This survey of Hamilton's political works also explores in depth the artist's working processes and the varied ways he uses photographic material. It investigates his continued interest in creating multiples of a single, iconic image as both a mirror and a critique of the visual overload created by the media.

Hamilton, born in 1922, was a leading instigator of Pop Art in Britain and a key member of the Independent Group, formed in the 1950s by a group of artists and writers at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held in the UK at the Hanover Gallery (1964) and Tate Gallery (1970 and 1992). Hamilton was Britain's representative at the 1993 Venice Biennale.

The artist has previously collaborated with the Gallery on projects including the Serpentine Gallery Interview Marathon (2006). Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters is a development of the exhibition Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2008).

BlueLabel introduces a new web-based standard of art information. Using a unique and innovative process, BlueLabel gives artists a platform to easily and securely record and publish details of their work and create their profile page.

The artists control the data and give the artworld unprecedented access to reliable, unalterable information.

Venue: Al Shishawi
51–53 Edgware Road
London W2 2HZ

Artists Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour with psychoanalyst Jacqueline Rose and local student activists discuss how Middle East politics resonate in London.

In collaboration with
Artsadmin
Live Art Development Agency

Edgware Road
Artists work with residents, shop-owners and students in this distinct London neighbourhood. Participating artists include: Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew, CAMP, Susan Hefuna, Lamia Joreige, Hiwa K, no.w.here, Marwan Rechmaoui, Rania Stephan, Ultra-red

Further information
Janna Graham, +44 (0)20 7298 1535
jannag@serpentinegallery.org

http://www.falafelroad.blogspot.com/

Between 1968 and 2001, Hamilton invited his artist friends to take a photograph of him with a Polaroid camera. The 128 Polaroids capture Hamilton and the artists behind the camera, a near-definitive list of the world’s greatest post-war artists, including Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Joseph Beuys and Gilbert & George.

As the polaroids have deteriorated over time, Hamilton has created a ‘restoration’ of each work from the originals and previous reproductions.

Further information
+44 (0)20 7298 1511
editions@serpentinegallery.org

The fourth issue of the literary journal TO HELL WITH JOURNALS, edited by Charles Arsène-Henry and Hans Ulrich Obrist, features 16 visual artists dealing with the word, Fiction. Their contributions take the shape of a Photographic-story, a Joke, a Script, a Performance instruction, an Interview, a set of Patterns, a Short story, a Portrait, a Frozen moment, an Epiloge, a Diary, a Hidden Text, an Essay, a Hyper-reduced legendary novel, a Two-handed story, an Image.

With

Charles Avery, Paul Chan, Keren Cytter, Paul Elliman with the Pattern Foundry, Hu Fang, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Joseph Grigely and Amy Vogel, Miranda July, Terence Koh, Philippe Parreno, Raqs Media Collective, Pamela Rosenkranz, Tino Sehgal, Jalal Toufic.

The Studio of Giles Round
12 March–25 April

London-based artist Giles Round relocates his studio to the Gallery's Sackler Centre for Arts Education,
where he will be in residence and working with the public.

In association with Vitsœ

Vitsœ (pronounced 'vit-soo') is the British company that makes Dieter Rams's 606 Universal Shelving System.

Available worldwide at www.vitsoe.com

The Studio of Giles Round
Friday 12 March–Sunday 25 April
The Sackler Centre for Arts Education

For the duration of the Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters exhibition (3 March – 25 April 2010) London-based artist Giles Round will bring together new & previous works to create a studio at the Serpentine Gallery where he will be in residence.

The Studio of Giles Round is a project developed from the artist’s practice and interests and will for the duration be a space not only for the production of new work but also for research, discussion and social interaction.

Round’s work utilises the formal language of modernist and minimalist art and design and explores the interaction of structure and ornament that references the homemaking of such pioneers of art and architecture as Dieter Rams, Donald Judd and Ernö Goldfinger. In The Studio of Giles Round he will explore conserving and recreating the 20th century, forgotten design and design processes, geometric pattern and typography through a series of workshops and events.

Events

Serpentine Late:
Open Studio and Publication Launch
Thursday 11 March
6.30–8.30pm

An evening opening of The Studio of Giles Round is accompanied by the launch of The Limit, the first limited edition artist's book by Mexican artist Laureana Toledo, and the fourth issue of the literary journal TO HELL WITH JOURNALS, edited by Charles Arsène-Henry and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Seminar: Pattern in the 20th century
Tuesday 16 March
11 – 4pm

Free, booking is essential as places are limited.

Masterclass workshop: Floorcloths
Tuesday 23 March
11 – 4pm

Free, booking is essential as places are limited.

Workshops: Making Floorcloths
Session 1: Tuesday 30 March
Session 2: Tuesday 6 April
Session 3: Tuesday 13 April
Free, booking is essential as places are limited.

Family Day
Saturday 10 April
12 – 5pm
Free, no booking required for this drop in event

Seminar: Conserving and Recreating the 20th Century
Tuesday 20 April
11 – 4pm

Free, booking is essential as places are limited.

All events take place in The Sackler Centre for Arts Education at Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens London W2.

Further Information
Eleanor Farrington
+44 (0)20 7298 1516
eleanorf@serpentinegallery.org

In association with Vitsoe, London.

Families are invited to work with artists to create art in response to the work of Richard Hamilton.

No booking is required for this informal drop-in event.

All ages are welcome and children must be accompanied by an adult.

Education events are free

Further information
Eleanor Farrington
+44 (0)20 7298 1516
eleanorf@serpentinegallery.org

The Sackler Centre for Arts Education at Serpentine Gallery.

Free, booking is essential as places are limited.

Further Information
Eleanor Farrington
+44 (0)20 7298 1516
eleanorf@serpentinegallery.org

The Studio of Giles Round
Friday 12 March–Sunday 25 April
The Sackler Centre for Arts Education

For the duration of the Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters exhibition (3 March – 25 April 2010) London-based artist Giles Round will bring together new & previous works to create a studio at the Serpentine Gallery where he will be in residence.

The Studio of Giles Round is a project developed from the artist’s practice and interests and will for the duration be a space not only for the production of new work but also for research, discussion and social interaction.

Round’s work utilises the formal language of modernist and minimalist art and design and explores the interaction of structure and ornament that references the homemaking of such pioneers of art and architecture as Dieter Rams, Donald Judd and Ernö Goldfinger. In The Studio of Giles Round he will explore conserving and recreating the 20th century, forgotten design and design processes, geometric pattern and typography through a series of workshops and events.

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton.

The Sackler Centre for Arts Education at Serpentine Gallery

Free, booking is essential as places are limited.

Further Information
Eleanor Farrington
+44 (0)20 7298 1516
eleanorf@serpentinegallery.org

The Studio of Giles Round
Friday 12 March–Sunday 25 April
The Sackler Centre for Arts Education

For the duration of the Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters exhibition (3 March – 25 April 2010) London-based artist Giles Round will bring together new & previous works to create a studio at the Serpentine Gallery where he will be in residence.

The Studio of Giles Round is a project developed from the artist’s practice and interests and will for the duration be a space not only for the production of new work but also for research, discussion and social interaction.

Round’s work utilises the formal language of modernist and minimalist art and design and explores the interaction of structure and ornament that references the homemaking of such pioneers of art and architecture as Dieter Rams, Donald Judd and Ernö Goldfinger. In The Studio of Giles Round he will explore conserving and recreating the 20th century, forgotten design and design processes, geometric pattern and typography through a series of workshops and events.

Donya Restaurant, 436 Edgware Road,
London W2 1EG

Artist in residence, Hiwa K, will collaborate with his mother and a team of global researchers via Skype to share findings from their investigation into the 1970s, a period of intense cultural exchange.

Free, booking is essential as places are limited.

For more information and to book contact:
Amal Khalaf
amalk@serpentinegallery.org

Hiwa K
Artist Hiwa K in Residence
6 February–15 April
Hiwa K is a visual artist and musician, born in Iraq and living in Germany. This spring, Hiwa K works with local musicians to stage a series of events exploring music and the politics of London and the Middle East in the 1970s.

Edgware Road

Artists work with residents, shop-owners and students in this distinct London neighbourhood.

Participating artists include: Khalid Abdalla and Cressida Trew, CAMP, Susan Hefuna, Lamia Joreige, Hiwa K, no.w.here, Marwan Rechmaoui, Rania Stephan, Ultra-red

Further information
Janna Graham, +44 (0)20 7298 1535
jannag@serpentinegallery.org

with:
Omni Colour
Westminster Arts

Edgware Road is in collaboration with:
Ashkal Alwan: The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut Townhouse Gallery, Cairo

This spring, arists, critics and curators discuss themes connected with the work of Richard Hamilton.