The bn11 [Contemporary Art] Gallery began in November 2008 and has a wide ranging brief to reinvigorate this part of Sussex with contemporary sculpture, installation art, painting, drawing and digital media work. Recently awarded a Sussex Visual Art Gallery Award for exhibitions which have showcased Iain Macpherson, Alessandra Pisi & Agneska Krusovice. The work for July 2009 is Satoshi Takemura : Postboxes of BN11 [BRIGHTON AREA]. bn11 [Sussex Gallery of Modern Art] is a unique octagonal beach turret overlooking the beach and pier. This space is the only contemporary art venue in this part of the south coast, it has an eccentric Alice in Wonderland feel to it, the clock tells the time on all three faces, [nb the clock now tells the correct time for the first time in 5 years!!] just not the right time. Alessandra Pisi writes The humble origin of the artist's subject is unemployed to investigate the esoteric tenements of modernist art, and that prevents us from becoming formally over-determined, or lazy in its cultural observance. These important new works, the scale of which are determined by the extent of the artist’s physical epoch, evoke personal, metaphorical, and metaphysical influence orchestrated through dynamic gesture. By taking a position of absolutism, namely cosmological embeddedness and the affluence of nature on human life and society as a concept, this exhibit goes against the relativist granola. Functioning as liberal and metaphorical armature for an interrogation into the failed shlock and ore phenomenon of erection in which a sculptor has declared the possibility of continuing in that county for as long as we like, the installation refers to the concept of the state of expectation, which allows for art to occur. The artist's work is inspired by the increasing aesthetification of the destruction in the mass media and questions the relation between a form and a matter. Extract from bn11 catalogue : December 2008

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Clockwise from left to right works by: Iain Macpherson, Alessandra Pisi & Agneska Krusovice