WHERE Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building
WHEN Friday 18th 11:00-17:00, Saturday 19th 12:00-19:00, Sunday 20th 12:00-19:00
This exhibition features works by Grete Marks (1899-1990), a Bauhaus-trained ceramicist and artist who established the successful German pottery factory Haël Werkstatten in 1923, but was forced to sell her business and eventually flee the country following Nazi persecution.
Alongside this work Laure Prouvost’s Turner Prize-winning video Wantee is being shown. In a strange, unsettling, and inescapably funny fifteen-minute piece, Prouvost imagines a version of iconic German artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District. Schwitters (whose work was declared degenerate, as was Marks’) ended up settling in England where he supported himself by painting still-lifes and portraits. Prouvost examines this legacy through the character of her fictional and absent grandfather, a former conceptual artist and friend of Schwitters, and questions the implications of a displaced avant-garde.
The exhibition continues until 24 March. http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/studio3gallery/