Plaster Shoots: Alex Margo Arden at Auto Italia
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Thursday night was one to remember on the art gallery circuit. Auto Italia kicked off the new year with the opening of Alex Arden’s new solo show, ‘Safety Curtain’
Alex Arden at the opening of her show ‘Safety Curtain’ at Auto Italia
Beating away the January blues in Bethnal Green, Auto Italia hosted the opening of Alex Margo Arden’s solo show ‘Safety Curtain’ last Thursday. The exhibition, comprising sculptures, paintings, photography and installations, references artworks that have been the subject of recent political activism. Arden interrogates the retelling of histories using what she calls “evidence recovery.” Working from images found online of artwork vandalised through protest – from the Suffragettes to Extinction Rebellion – she embeds the damage into the fabric of the image.
Isabel MacCarthy captured the vibrant crowd, including Soft Opening’s Antonia Marsh and artists Rene Matić, Jenkin van Zyl and Lulu Bennett. Were you papped?
Alex Margo Arden
Theodore Pantelopoulos, Amelia Webb and Jenkin van Zyl
Auto Italia team: Clara, Rachel, Milda and Maggie
Freddie Powell
Olivia Allen, Plum and Lydia Eliza Trail
Rene Matić
Biogal and Lulu Bennett
Alex Margo Arden
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Genn Nomie and Molly Rosenberg
Alexei Izmaylov
Alex Margo Arden
Antonia Marsh
