Exhibition

A Ben Wilson Retrospective | Correspondences

22 Sep 2021 – 30 Sep 2021

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Wednesday
12:00 – 20:00
Thursday
12:00 – 20:00
Friday
12:00 – 20:00
Saturday
12:00 – 20:00
Sunday
12:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
12:00 – 20:00

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Hoxton Gallery

London
England, United Kingdom

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Encompassing giant wood installations, assemblages of litters, tiles transformed into intimate diaries, canvas, among others, Correspondences, a Ben Wilson Retrospective will display a very vibrant and heterogeneous body of work.

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From the 22 - 30 September, the Hoxton Gallery will host Correspondences, a Ben Wilson Retrospective. The exhibition, curated by Chiara Famengo, will guide the public into the art journey of Ben Wilson, best known as the Chewing Gum Man, from his very beginnings to the recent evolution of his practice.

Encompassing giant wood installations, assemblages of litters, tiles transformed into intimate diaries, canvas, among others, Correspondences, a Ben Wilson Retrospective will display a very vibrant and heterogeneous body of work. It will portray Wilson as more than a Chewing Gum Man that acts and reacts to the diverse materials he encounters. He works “with what is already there”, no matter at what scale or substance.

It will highlight his practice as fluid, open-ended, ever-changing, but also firmly bound together by the need of corresponding with the environment and the people who live and walk through it. Correspondences is a celebration of personal stories that gives expression to individual meaning while, at the same time, strengthening the social fabric of their communities.

Attention will be given to the grassroots feature of his practice.

In this light, accompanying the exhibition will be a series of artistic “interventions” in the Shoreditch neighbourhood. With a period of subversive activity in the run-up to the event, likewise, during the event itself, the artist in collaboration with the curator will create new artworks (chewing-gums and tiles) while connecting with the local urban area and its community.

The audience attending the show will be invited to explore and correspond both with the inside and the outside of the gallery space. Sometimes hiding peacefully in unnoticed corners, sometimes sitting happily in plain sight, Wilson’s artworks will be waiting to be discovered.

Corresponding with you: The public programme of the event

As part of the corresponding process, a programme of talks and events has been devised in collaboration with Ben Wilson to run throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Sunday 26th September, 11.30 am

The artist Workshop

Guided by the artist, the public creates microscopic artworks on tiles and chewing gums while sharing personal stories and meanings.

 Thursday 30th September, 6 pm

Artwork-hunting

Wilson in collaboration with the curator leads a walk exploring the hidden trail of pictures in the Shoreditch neighbourhood.

RSVP for Private View 6pm - 9pm 21st September 2021  

Exhibition 22nd - 30th September 

Hoxton Gallery 17 Marlow Workshops, Arnold Circus, London E2 7JN 

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