To submit an application for The Window Project visit:www.gazelliarthouse.com
Gazelli Art House is based at the heart of Mayfair’s Dover Street. It opened in 2012 with the exhibition Bodhi featuring works by Olympia Scarry, Jaume Plensa, Khanlar Gasimov and Shan Hur, the gallery continues to showcase work by a diverse range of artists hailing from countries including Korea, Italy, the US and Azerbaijan.
In addition to this the gallery sustains a number of supplementary activities including temporary installations, talks and workshops. One of the most successful is The Window Project, which gives artists the opportunity to take over the gallery façade of the building between the main shows. The application to take part is open to all and has already been awarded to both emerging artists and more established names who have previously completed ambitious public commissions.
Holly Stevenson was the most recent artist to have designed a bespoke display to adorn the windows of Gazelli Art House. Her project entitled
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Julia Vogl took part in The Window Project to coincide with the London Olympics 2012 in order to consider the impact of the movement of people throughout the city. Her interactive displays called Olympic Tides asked visitors to predict various results from weather to sporting outcomes. Using the data collected each day Vogl recorded the outcome on a glow-in-the-dark abacus on the ground floor and with colourful blinds arranged in the windows to form a bar chart on the first floor. This constantly changing flow of data was reflective of the influx of people into the city during the Olympic Games and also linked to the gallery’s exhibition at the time which explored movement in art. Vogl’s works often rely on collating opinions of the public, perhaps most famously in her work Where would you allocate £1,000,000 of public spending? at University College London.
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Henry Krokatsis has completed public commissions for the Big Chill Festival, Sudeley Castle and Attingham Park as well as jointly curating an exhibition at Hayward Gallery featuring works by Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger and Richard Long. His works often take elements of buildings out of their original settings and for The Window Project the artist explored this theme by reusing old materials within the contemporary gallery space. Entitled Leaded Light, the work was an amalgamation of pieces of found glass, built up over the course of two years. Each piece of glass dated back to various decades, some as old as the early 20th century and thus no longer in production. The fragments were then cut into lozenge shapes and joined with lead to create an intricate geometric pattern. Leaded Light filtered the daylight across the interior of the gallery, as well as acting as the point of intersection for lighting from within the space to spill out on the street.
To submit an application for The Window Project visit:www.gazelliarthouse.com
