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This week A look ahead at the week's art highlights including Josh Lilley, Lisson Gallery, Rollo Contemporary and a More4...

Rob Dingle

TUESDAY

Often treading the line of the absurd, Tim Lee's latest solo show (opening this evening at the Lisson Gallery) re-imagines and reconstructs seminal moments in art history and popular culture. Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, Lee suggestively inserts himself into key moments in the history of his subjects' lives, drawing from varied fields and identifying important personal figures within his work like Glenn Gould, Buster Keaton, Merce Cunningham, Stanley Kubrick and Neil Young. In String Quartet, Op. 1, Glenn Gould, a four channel video installation sees Lee turn his attention to the year that the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould recorded both his seminal recording of the Goldberg Variations and published his first and only composition, written not for solo piano, but for a string quartet. Appearing as the four musicians playing the cello, viola and two violins in a performance that was recorded note by note, Lee reflects on our limited awareness of Gould as a composer while utilising innovative studio recording strategies that Gould perfected later on in his life as a performer

Featuring work by former murmurartists Sarah Lederman and Helen Carmel Benigson, ROLLO Contemporary presents Flux, the second exhibition in the three-part series The Body in Women's Art Now. Curated by Philippa Found, Gallery Director of ROLLO Contemporary Art, the exhibition series looks exclusively at artworks created by women artists since 2000, in which the body is central. Artists include work by Tracey Emin, Cecily Brown, Nathalie Djurberg, Tiina Heiska, Sarah Lederman and Helen Carmel Benigson (Princess Belsize Dollar)

SATURDAY

How often is it that we see outdoor sculpture pushing at the boundaries of conceptual art practice? That is the question being posed by a new exhibition opening this evening at Summarria Lunn. Exteriority provides a question that acts as a starting point for each of the artists practice, a catalyst for the works production. The exhibition brings together work by James Ireland, Littlewhitehead, Victoria Rance, David Rickard and Douglas White

SUNDAY

As one of the most popular summer exhibitions come to a close today remains the last opportunity to see Locate at Jerwood Space. The exhibition has produced three new commissions from Mel Brimfield, Sarah Pickering and Aura Satz. Each artist was asked to respond to the concept of 'site', be it a geographical location, institution, collection, a fictional or conceptual space. The selected artists then undertook a five month research project to develop their ideas and the resulting works have been exhibited at Jerwood Space throughout August

Donald Eastwood

TUESDAY

A recommendation for a night in on Tuesday, when More 4 shows a documentary by Waterside Project Space artist Stefan Constantinescu recently seen in their post-socialist, eastern European exhibition All that Remains... the Teenagers of Socialism. Channel 4, and particularly More 4, are the forerunners in showing quality feature documentaries and this looks to be no exception. My Beautiful Dacia uses the title's Romanian car brand as a vehicle (exclamation mark) to recount the country's transition from Communism to Capitalism. You can watch it on tv or on the 4OD website here, where you can also see John Maringouin and Molly Lynch's Big River Man for free for another ten days.

WEDNESDAY

Last week was the MA shows at Central St Martins and Chelsea, this week it is City & Guilds and Wimbledon. City and Guilds opens on Wednesday and Wimbledon on Thursday. Click on their names to go to the websites.

Also on Wednesday night as well as on Tuesday night, Rokeby hosts WITHSTORE_001, an exhibition by the art collective WITH, subtitled 'Off the Shelf: Promises, Intentions, Actions and Objects from the WITH Collective'. The manner that the collective treat their subjects, including brand marketing, self-help, individualism, vicarious identity and other pertinent contemporary matters is both brilliant and hard to summarise, so visit their website, and go to the private view. It will include a performance where WITH will accidentally break a glass on behalf of a client, apparently.

THURSDAY

This week at Edel Assanti in Victoria, the Wallis Gallery present Suburban Baroque a solo show of works by the RCA's Conran prize-winning sculptor Lucy May:

"Pebble dashing, domestic gloss and pearlescent car paints create a fantastical world of customised suburban baroque. Pound shop opulence flirts with the viewer, defying good taste and revelling in the deceptive seductiveness of the bargain bin."

See the Wallis Gallery website here.

Meanwhile in Fitzrovia, Josh Lilley presents the first UK solo exhibition of installation and video artist Clara S Rueprich. Waiting for Napoleon brings together four films from the Leipzig-based artist:

"Fundamentally, her practice is entwined with the notion of time passing; of a slow progression of imagery or events - that goes hand in hand with the expectation upon the viewer to induce themselves within the realms of the artist's production. The tension, or fine-line that becomes apparent in Rueprich's work between the interplay of a staged scene and one with a completely unpredictable outcome, is an equally important factor in her practice. Lastly, the painterly composition of the shots in her films are intended to bring about similar responses to those one might have from paintings; little explosive or strained moments within contemplative or seductive scenarios."

Josh Lilley website here.

FRIDAY

Lastly this week, The Woodmill presents Buzz or Howl- an exhibition that peers into production emerging from a collective energy. From Glasgow and inspired by German Expressionism and Dada, 85A 'come together around a shared vision of transgressive theatricality and cinematic brooding', while the more local collective involved in Zeus Throne will group around a kinetic centrepiece powered by a milking machine. Website here.

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