The March Performance Group

The March Performance Group - First Wednesdays

Known for their provocative site-sensitive performance projects, this lively performance group managed to playfully animate the creative environments and audience of West London’s First Wednesdays!

They are indeed set to bring more inventive mayhem with...

 *AN EVENING OF SELF LOVE*

 FEBRUARY 14 @ 7:30 PM

The basement of Le Regal, (5 minute walk Farringdon Tube)

Whether you're in love with yourself or with another, make this Valentine’s day special  featuring live music by special guest artists performance by march performance group and exquisite French cuisine .

TWO SEATING OPTIONS:

1. 3 Course Dinner, Champagne, Wine, and Premiere Performance Seating (50  pounds + VAT per person)

2. Light Nibbles, Champagne, and Performance (25 pounds +VAT per person)

Reservations and pre-booking required as seating is very limited for this intimate event.

*For booking please contact : katemarch14@gmail.com

For more information about the March Performance Group please visit: http://marchperformancegroup.blogspot.com/

A TASTER of FIRST WEDNESDAYS

Caught on camera by Kalam Ali last wednesday - the Salon team enjoying some First Wednesdays still life drawing in the gallery! Totally natural, humm...!!

Happy 2011 Everybody

So here we are in 2011, after the hype of christmas and new years has ended, reality has finally kicked in again, leaving us feeling prosperous as ever and ready to see how long we can keep our resolutions going. Optimistic and thrilled for the new year to unwind into something spectacular, what with all the excitement going on in the gallery with superb new artists on board and new projects steady underway.  Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for what Salon Contemporary has awaiting in store. 
To jump-start the new year off in good spirit and (naturally) in good style, we're adoring Andreia Chaves new concept shoes. 

'The amazing footwear concepts of Andreia Chaves are at once artistic and mathematic.  While studying form, texture and visual effects in Florence, Italy, Chaves created a range of wildly geometric shoes from unconventional materials.  The “Invisible Shoe”, above, is an asymmetrically mirrored low-cut boot, reflecting its surroundings and making the color of the world a part of your wardrobe.  The rest of Andreia Chaves’ work is just as interesting, a collection of footwear concepts truly on the cutting edge of fashion.  We’re excited for future concepts from Ms. Chaves, as well as the prospect of seeing her current work take form in the fashion marketplace.' 
Watch this step..


Thanks for your "likes", we'd love to hear any feedback from you that you may have and stay tuned for more fun and design coming soon at Salon Contemporary's Blogspot.

 














Artist of The Week runner up Helen Gorrill at SAATCHI ONLINE. 

Handprinted ball-gagged pope series with tiny individual confessions. On exhibition at Salon Contemporary, Notting Hill London until 30th January 2011 (and whilst there you're invited to submit your own, anonymous confession to be part of my huge confessional quilt!)

Category:

Mixed Media

Date Created:

December 1, 2010

Dimensions:

15 cm x 15 cm

Season's Greetings!

Good Afternoon Everybody, 

The team at Salon Contemporary wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous and Happy New Year! It’s been an exciting year and with the launch of Debut Contemporary, 2011 is looking more exciting than ever. Please check our new website www.debutcontemporary.com which was launched a couple of days ago and will be completed with the selected artists and online shop in the run up to the February launch. Pass on the information to any ambitious and talented artists you may know and urge them to apply for a mentoring scheme place asap as we are already half way through the full occupancy.

As I am sure you all know, this month's exhibition in Salon Contemporary consists of four female artists.

Therefore we've been feeling the girl power to get us through this icy-cold month, eagerly awaiting for christmas to arrive so that we can get warm and cosy with our loved ones over a giant turkey!  

It's not often that female artist's get the recognition that they deserve, so to showcase four talents at once raises the bar even higher and awareness of raw talent amongst women.

So here at Salon Contemporary, it could be partly due to the weather conditions (:S) or just simply because we have 'girl-fever' going on, but we're obsessed with this four-piece, girl band called WARPAINT.

Described by the BBC as the sound of 2011 and by matching the moods inside the gallery and the temperature outside, Warpaint is an experimental art rock group from Los Angeles, who formed in 2004 on Valentine's Day. 

 The band played in the LA area for three years, gaining fans and writing songs such as "Stars", "Beetles", and "Elephants", which would eventually comprise their debut EP, Exquisite Corpse. Take a listen to it.

We loved all of their songs but we wanted to play you a favorite of ours called 'Undertow'. 

The album might be slightly meloncholic but the soft melodies and gentle build up leave us wanting to hear more.

Enjoy!

CURATOR'S TALK

          

  CURATOR OF THE MONTH WINNER

             CELINA LANGEN                  

Discussing Helen Gorrill's "Benedict Re-bound Confession"

 Salon Contemporary was thrilled to announce Celina Langen as the first winner of our new and very exciting ‘Curator of the Month’ competition launched back in November. ‘Curator of the Month’ offers young talents the chance to curate an exhibition of the nation’s aspiring contemporary artists in the artistic hub of Notting Hill.

Celina took this in her grasp, curating a magnificent exhibition comprising of works by previous Artist of the Week Winners, Helen Gorrill, the art collective Akleriah, Dragana Jurisic and Alyona Larionova; the preview night being a late night opening of Salon Contemporary for the First Wednesdays event, a very well received launch at the beginning of the month.


Celina discussed what her ideal exhibition would be to curate, her ideas about the emerging contemporary art within London and how the wealth of promising talent from graduates every year enables new possibilties in terms of curation and also the experience of indefinite types of artwork.
 

Due to the success of this show, the exhibition has been extended until Januray 30th 2011 until DEBUT Contemporary is launched early next year.  

CURATOR'S TALK

Curators Talk with Celina Langen.

Following the success of the recent Artist of the Week programme, Salon Contemporary has introduced a thrilling competition for all the budding, creative and visionary curators out there!


This Wednesday will see the return of our first ‘Curator of the Month’ winner CELINA LANGEN, who will grace Salon gallery once more to give a very special Curator’s talk.


As a result of the competition, Celina has helped to curate the Artist of the Week exhibition, a show filled with talented, contemporary artists, all winners of the Artist of the Week competition held by Salon Contemporary, with First Wednesdays as its opening night. In a recent interview Celina shared with us the excitement of being involved with the exhibition 'Who Knows Tomorrow' at the museum Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin “Displaying contemporary African art in the German capital was not only an exciting aesthetic endeavour but also had tangible political significance“.

With such experiences behind her, the Curator’s talk on Wednesday evening will be a perfect way to meet our Curator of the month and see what interesting news, artistic approaches and possibilities she has to offer.

Curator's Talk
Wednesday 15th December
7pm - 9pm

Celina Langen