Art Tour
Last Night of the Bal Tik Tak
31 Aug 2023
Bobinska Brownlee New River
London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Bal Tik Tak: Jacob Wolff
15 Jun 2023 – 30 Jul 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 13:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 38 Tower Court
- London
England - N1 2US
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 38, 56, 73, 476
- Angel or Highbury & Islington
- Essex Road rail station
Event map
Royal College of Art alumnus Jacob Wolff presents an installation in homage to Giacomo Balla's wall paintings in legendary 1920s futurist cabaret and nightclub Bal Tik Tak in Rome.
About
Almost a century after it was painted, a mural by Giacomo Balla was discovered under wallpaper in a building on the Via Milano in Rome. This was the site of the Bal Tik Tak, a Futurist nightclub from 1921.
Jacob Wolff was invited to visit the mural while it was being restored. This experience, along with the surviving photographs and sketches of Balla’s designs provide the framework for this exhibition.
Wolff’s work combines pattern and chance with techniques he has developed using glass and spray paint. His work is concerned with how forms come into being, manual intelligence and crystallisation of time.
Jacob Wolff (b.1986, Winchester) studied at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, before receiving an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2015.
In 2019 he was awarded the Fellowship in Contemporary Art at the British School at Rome.
Recent group exhibitions include New Breeders , Grölle Gallery, Wuppertal and Rainbow’s Edge , Tin Man Art, London.
His work has been shown at the New Art Centre at Roche Court, Camden Arts Centre and Museion, Bolzano.
