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Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
14 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
T + 44 (0) 207 490 7373
F + 44 (0) 207 490 7775
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Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is an independent educational charity devoted to promoting contemporary art for the benefit of the public. The core activity of the foundation is to showcase the work of contemporary leading and young international artists in various media. Each year Parasol unit mounts four exhibitions in various media, and each is usually accompanied by a publication. In order to encourage the widest possible access to its exhibition programme, Parasol unit does not charge admission fees.
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Gallery opening times: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am-6pm and Sunday, 12-5pm
Admission: Free
From Angel tube, turn left out of the station and onto City Road. Continue down City Road for ten minutes and turn left onto Wharf Road before the Texaco Service station.
From Old Street Tube, leave the station from exit 1 and walk up City Road for five minutes. Turn right onto Wharf Road after the Texaco service Station.
Buses 43, 205 and 214 all travel down City Road
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Almine Rech Gallery Paris presents JAMES TURRELL
1 June - 27 July 2013
"I use light as a material to work the medium of perception, basically the work really has no object because perception is the object. And there is no image because I am not interested in associative thought."
- James Turrell
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PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, London presents RUTH CLAXTON - Specular Spectacular
7 June - 6 July 2013
Specular Spectacular is a complex maze that occupies the 'centre stage' of the gallery.
Interconnecting structures hold mirrors that both become part of and reflect the installation itself.
Worlds within worlds are housed here, and inhabited by found figurines that are themselves swallowed up by amorphous reflective masks.
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i8 Gallery, Reykjavik presents OLAFUR ELIASSON - Tiltru
6 June - 17 August 2013
Icelandic nature is prominent in Eliasson's work, and his artistic relationship with it often involves collection or documentation that is scientific in tone. The country becomes a sensory laboratory where ideas can be developed and evolved into art, as evidenced in the multiple photographic series that would seem to witness a near compulsive need for collecting.
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