A new music and art event is launching in London's East End this October called Concrete and Glass.
30 alternative-site exhibitions, 18 music venues, 100 bands, and numerous local gallery exhibitions will open to the public on 2 October. Concrete and Glass will showcase some of the best talent in music and contemporary art, taking the creative hub of Shoreditch and the East End as its inspiration.
Tapping into the unique infrastructure of spaces in the East End, the art strand of the festival will feature
over 30 projects in disused warehouses, outdoor spaces and empty shops in collaboration with curators, artists and galleries. Saatchi Online will be showing a selection of London-based artists in a selling exhibition at Cosa Gallery above the bar and restaurant Beach Blanket Babylon on Bethnal Green Road.
In the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall, an open-submission exhibition entitled 'Heart of Glass' will feature new, site-specific work by 25 artists. Other art events inclue performance pieces by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, a film installation by renowned film-maker Gerry Fox, a "sonic fantasy" by Riflemaker artists including Gavin Turk, Andrey Bartenev and Julie Verhoeven, a group show of kinetic artists organised by Kinetica Museum, a sound installation by Thor McIntyre-Burnie made for the bandstand at
Arnold Circus, a photography show by Dominic Berning, featuring new takes on landmarks of the Spitalfields area, and an exhibition of new paintings by Sarah Douglas and Sarah Dwyer.
In partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery and Time Out First Thursdays, local galleries will be
hosting late night viewings during the launch of Concrete and Glass on 2 and 3 October.
Saatchi Online Artists exhibition
2-19 October
Cosa Gallery
19 - 23 Bethnal Green Road
London, E16JU
www.concreteandglass.co.uk
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