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Living is a Problem opens Thursday 14th March and runs until Saturday 30th March 2019.
Working across a broad selection of disciplines including painting, performance, sculpture and installation, the showcased artists are currently living and working in the UK, throughout some of the most challenging and uncertain political times of a generation.
Addressing themes of education, work, time, survival and mortality, the artworks presented reflect on the relentless struggle and joy of living – each artist adapting and shaping their practice to find new creative solutions and possibilities within a constantly shifting socio-economic landscape.
The exhibition has been curated by Dave Hanger, an artist, collector, artists’ assistant and gallery technician who has been contributing significantly to the continued development and success of a number of artists and organisations within London for more than a decade.
"As Rauschenberg famously implied, artists work in the gap between art and life, precariously balancing the problematic demands of both. Over the years I have followed the trajectory of the artist/curator of this exhibition as he cannily and critically educated himself as a highly skilled and sought after gallery technician by immersion at multiple levels in the practical, ethical and aesthetic ambiguities of the field of cultural production that we collectively call ‘the art world’; accruing hands on experience, whilst at the same time gradually acquiring work as a serious and committed collector. I await the pleasures of this curatorial début with great anticipation."
- Roger Cook, Art historian and writer on contemporary art, London
Title: Living is a Problem
Address: 55 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8EG
Website: www.piartworks.com
Dates: 15 March - 30 March 2019
Private View: 14 March 2019, 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 6pm, Saturday 12pm to 6pm
Travel: Oxford Circus Tube Station