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Many artists in the 1980s and 90s travelled by train from city to town across Europe, visiting art collections, architecture, landscapes and people; usually in a concentrated month that changed their lives. Paul Ryan's sketchbooks archive several of these journeys, and will be displayed alongside curated artworks, tickets, manuscripts, photographs, postcards, mementos and reminiscences from other UK based EU artists who also 'InterRailed'. Ryan has made sketchbooks the centre of his art practice, highlighting their unfinished and portable qualities.
Birgit Püve
The human face is the best document of time. As a native Estonian herself, photographer Birgit Püve explores Estonian faces with an aim to portray this Northern European nation as a whole. Estonia’s existence hasn’t always been that evident. After a period of independence Estonia was caught up in the tragic events of the 20th century and lost its independence. Now more than 25 years have passed since Estonia regained its independence and Estonians have searched for their new personal and national identity. Through the portraits of known and unknown Estonians Püve aims to treasure the psychological state of one country that has gone through dramatic changes in a relatively short period of time.
In this exhibition, Still life and portraiture come to life through a refined use of light and colour to give the viewer a realistic yet impressive work of art.
Solo exhibition by Raluca Popa, curated by Simona Nastac
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was one of the pioneering figures of modern sculpture and one of the most original artists of the twentieth-century. His serenely simplified sculptures ‘Bird in Space’, ‘Mlle Pogany’ or ‘Sleeping Muse’ are unanimously recognised as icons of modernism and looking at his art now, it is almost impossible not to see him as a precursor to surrealism, and to more recent work as diverse as that of Hepworth and Moore, Anish Kapoor and Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Louise Bourgeois. He was a remarkably protean figure, also a close friend to leading avant-garde artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Erik Satie among others, yet he remains one of the most elusive, with an aura of otherness still intriguing today.
Registration is now open for Translating Theatre: ‘Foreignisation’ on Stage, a one-day symposium bringing together scholars from theatre and performance, literature and translation studies to reflect on the ethics and practice of translating for the stage.
by John Sadovy
Curator: Colin Ford CBE
To mark the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, the Hungarian Cultural Centre presents a unique exhibition of John Sadovy's photos, many of them previously unpublished, in collaboration with the photographer's daughters Yvonne and Jane Sadovy.
UK's biggest trade fair for the language sector, Language Show Live, returns to London Olympia.
The event is a meeting place for learners, teachers and language professionals of all kinds. The European IMF will be present at the Show in various forms.
In the exhibition area, across all three days of the Show, staff from the Commission's translation service, DG Translation, will join colleagues from other European Union institutions to provide information about the EU's language services, including careers opportunities (stand 200). Nearby, staff from the Commission's Representation in the UK will be offering general information about the EU, including free teaching resources in various languages (stand 210).
On Saturday 15 October at 13.30 the Commission is organising a panel discussion event on translation tools and technologies, together with the Chartered Institute of Linguists and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting.
The event is the latest in the Translating Europe series.
Commission and other EU staff will also be giving separate presentations on career opportunities with the European Union as part of the Show's Careers Zone
Among the many other events taking place at the Show, a highlight will be the Speak to the Future symposium on Friday 14 October: Speaking to a Global Future: the Languages Landscape Post-Brexit.
Spain NOW!, the annual season of contemporary art and culture from Spain, is pleased to present the work of Adrián Navarro and Silvia Lerín: two Spanish artists who take the abstract-geometric tradition as a starting point, but whose respective artistic practices respond to different conceptual and formal interests. This exhibition offers a small taste of Navarro’s and Lerín’s extensive body of work and acknowledges the increased interest by the contemporary art world in their professional trajectory.
Tom Teasdale
Scotland, north of the Highland divide is a desolate area, one of the least populated in the European Union.
The Scottish government classifies it as ‘rural and remote’. It bases this assessment on how far is the nearest settlement of 10,000 people. The Ordnance Survey defines ‘remote’ as how close is the nearest road. The English dictionary defines ‘remote’ as ‘out of the way’.
Geiste Marija Kincinaityte
The idea of the project emerged in the process of observing the increasingly intensifying intervention into extra-terrestrial territories through technology and images.
