Whitechapel Gallery - More Great Exhibitions for Summer 2009

Posted by Frances Spiegel Jul 11, 2009

There are lots of great shows on this Summer at the Whitechapel Gallery. I've already told readers about two of them, here are some more:

Patrizio Di Massimo

This is a video installation which examines Italy's colonial occupation of Libya. Di Massimo uses black and white archive material and footage from The Lion in the Desert (Mustapaha Akkad,1981) and overlaps it with chunks of his own footage shot on the streets of modern-day Tripoli and the historical ruins of Libya.

• Patrizio Di Massimo can be seen until 20th September 2009

MaxMara Art Prize for Women: Hannah Richards

This display features the video work of the winner of the MaxMara Art Prize for Women: Hannah Richards.

Richards takes natural phenomenon as her starting point. In Thunder (2005) a clap of thunder was transformed into a musical score, recorded by a sextet, and played back at a greatly accelerated speed.

The exhibition features a video installation based on spoken eye-witness observations of a city viewed over Lake Michigan during unusual effects caused by changes in temperature on the Lake.

• Hannah Richards can be seen in London until 23rd September 2009, after which it will travel to the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Whitechapel Gallery – Summer Exhibitions 2009 and Whitechapel Gallery – Shows for Summer 2009 provide more details about all these exhibitions.