Exhibition
Charlie Warde - Playtime
12 Nov 2021 – 6 Feb 2022
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 14:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- 8 Submarine Cable Depot
- (Bottom of Warspite Road & turn right into industrial yard)
- London
England - SE18 5NX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nearest Bus Stop: Warspite Road. Busses 177, 161, 180, 472 from Greenwich and North Greenwich
- Nearest train station: Woolwich Dockyard. Trains regularly from London Bridge
Cable Depot presents Playtime, an evolving exhibition by Charlie Warde reimagining the potential of our built environment. Featuring curatorial interventions by Amikan Toren, Camilla Cole, Gianni Botsford, Henri Guette, Karl England, Mike Davies, Paul Carey-Kent, Christopher Raeburn and Tim Travis.
About
Private View : Friday 12 November 2021, 6-10pm
Exhibition continues until 6 February 2022
Broadcasting live via Instagram and Cable Tv:
Friday 19 November Paul Carey-Kent
Friday 26 November Amikam Toren
Friday 3 December Gianni Botsford
Friday 10 December Mike Davies
Friday 17 December Henri Guette
Friday 14 January Tim Travis
Friday 21 January Camilla Cole
Friday 28 January Christopher Raeburn
Friday 4 February Karl England
Cable Depot presents Playtime, an evolving exhibition by Charlie Wardereimagining the potential of our built environment. Featuring curatorial interventions by Amikan Toren, Camilla Cole, Gianni Botsford, Henri Guette, Karl England, Mike Davies, Paul Carey-Kent, Christopher Raeburn and Tim Travis.
Playtime is an attempt to readdress Jacques Tati’s eponymous 1967 critique of Modernism in which Monsieur Hulot bumbles his way through a cold, immovable and unrelenting Modern Paris. Over a 3-month period, Warde will invite 10 artists, architects, curators and art writers to play with his modular paintings and sculptures. Unsquare Dance, 16 magnetically backed “Wall Paintings”, each depicting a hyper realistic, three-dimensional slab of recently demolished Robin Hood Gardens concrete in varying states of neglect, can be arranged in any number of configurations by the players. The sculptures, or “Free Standing Paintings”, made according to Le Corbusier’s Modulor Rule, are also interchangeable. All of the elements will be rebuilt on a weekly basis to explore different possibilities and outcomes, the results accessible live, 24/7, on www.cable-depot.com via high definition CCTV cameras.
“Charlie Warde represents an upsurge in interest in Brutalism and the period’s social housing, at a time when Britain is rapidly divesting itself of its ‘failed’ Brutalist heritage and housing stock. He takes Brutalism as a source material – something to be observed, quoted, appropriated – a part of art history.”
Iavor Lubomirov
“Warde’s paintings depict and mourn the decline of the physical integrity of the social-housing schemes conceived fifty years ago, while retaining enough of their innovative aesthetic to celebrate what they were. No stone, no sand, no concrete was harmed in the production of these facsimiles. Warde wants to push painting as far as it will go: first he sets up the archetypal response to contemporary art – why, anyone could grab a chunk of wall! – Only to pull away the rug of scorn – wow, the work in that, and the skill!”
Paul Carey-Kent
Three of Charlie Warde’s works can be found in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum. He also features in the collection of 2 Willow Road.
____Players
Gianni Botsford (Architect)
https://www.giannibotsford.com
Paul Carey-Kent (Writer/Curator)
https://fadmagazine.com/author/paul/
Camilla Cole (Curator)
https://www.coleprojects.co.uk/presspage/
Mike Davies (Architect)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davies_(architect)
Karl England (Artist/Writer)
http://sluice.info/
Henri Guette (Writer/Curator)
https://jeunescritiquesdart.org/author/hguette/
Iavor Lubomirov (Artist/Curator/Director of Cable Depot)
https://www.dailyserving.com/2012/11/fan-mail-iavor-lubomirov/
Amikam Toren (Artist)
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/amikam-toren-16792
Tim Travis (Curator/Writer)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelinavillaclarke/2020/12/03/a-new-book-by-the-va-reveals-the-meaning-behind-our-colourful-world/
Christopher Raeburn (Fashion Designer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Raeburn_(designer)