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What's on this week Several high profile shows open this week, plus must-see films and talks...

Rob Dingle

This weeks programme of exhibitions and events focuses on combining several big name openings, artists' talks as well as the launch of a brand new studio / gallery and project space in Bermondsey supporting young and emerging artists.

TUESDAY

Join artist Liane Lang at SSEES Centre for Southeast European Studies from 6 - 8pm, as she presents her work from the Residency at Memento Sculpture Park in Budapest, Hungary.

If you are looking for an exhibition opening this evening why not head over to the Showroom to catch Emily Wardill's new show Game Keepers Without Game. The opening is accompanied by a screening at 7pm. Click here for more info

WEDNESDAY

Changing his name to Arshile Gorky after fleeing his homeland from persecution and arriving in the US in 1920, Gorky went on to become one of the most prominent and powerful American painters of the twentieth century. Opening this evening at Tate Modern is a retrospective of the artist examining paintings and drawings from across his career, and a handful of rarely seen sculptures.

THURSDAY

Continuing his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space Florian Hecker's new exhibition opens this evening at the Chisenhale. As his first major solo exhibition in a UK public institution, Hecker's new installation of four independent sound pieces (co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham) examine 'idiosyncratic psychoacoustic' propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception.

FRIDAY

Opening its doors for the very first time this evening is The Woodmill in Bermondsey. Billed as a large-scale artist studio and gallery complex the Woodmill houses three gallery / project spaces and is dedicated to the provision of affordable studios for 50 artists. This evenings launch event is a group show including work from all the artists currently in residency.

SATURDAY

For most painters it's less a case of the past being present and more a question of how it is to be interpreted. Dissembling masterpieces from the past and reconfiguring them in to new forms is Filippo Caramazza's show at Hales Gallery, which closes today.

Louise Collins

ONGOING

Philip Guston's works are still showing at Timothy Taylor, but time is running out. If you haven't already visited this exhibition, which traces the artist's development on paper from the 1950s through to 1980, slap Works on Paper in your filofax and be sure to pay homage before the show's close on the 20th.

TUESDAY

It's the London premiere of Emily Wardill's Game Keepers Without Game tonight at the Showroom: a feature-length film, shaping a contemporary revision of the seventeenth-century Spanish play Life is a Dream by Calderón de la Barca. There are good reviews for this, so if you're near to Edgware Road tonight, get to the film's preview at 7pm. .

Film & Video has also just opened at The Russian Club Gallery. Reflecting on the development of artists' film in the UK and abroad over the last two decades, this show interrogates the relationship between the documentary or essay-film tradition and experimental structuralist film. Diverse works by Knut Åsdam, Lucy Clout, Phil Coy, Grant Gee, Richard Grayson and Juneau Projects (Phil Duckworth and Ben Sadler) are all on show.

THURSDAY

The Whitechapel Gallery's Living Clay event is at 7pm tonight: the finale to a series exploring art writing. Maria Fusco co-hosts the discussion with Will Holder, editor of F.R David journal: a publication, which spotlights the status of writing in contemporary art. Go on, click for more.

Elsewhere, John Cussans, London-based artist, writer and teacher, whose current research explores the historical relation between psychological models of mind - especially those concerned with memory, consciousness and perception - and the evolution of media technologies, is at Goldsmiths, to speak about his film project Invisible Mirrors. Goldsmiths says 'The film explores the relationship between black and white magic, technology and spiritualism and the magical warfare that the UN are covertly utilizing in Haiti.' Looks good, starts at 5, go here for details.

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