PRESS RELEASE
Artist David Taborn will be giving a talk on his 'Bookmania' exhibition at the South Lambeth Library this Monday 23rd May at 7pm.
The works are a hybrid of painting and sculpture and the theme of the exhibition is the book as an 'endangered species' - and the libraries that house them.
'Bookmania' is part of the Lambeth Readers & Writers Festival and the event is free - to book a seat call 020 7926 1075 or email readersandwriters@lambeth.gov.uk.
Tate News: David Taborn Bookmania Exhibition & Talk
Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival
Exhibition open: 5 May - 30 June
Address: South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, London SW8 1QP, 5 mins from Vauxhall bus & tube station.
DAVID TABORN: ‘RE-CLAIMED’
PRIVATE VIEW: 2 Dec 2010 6pm - 9pm
EXHIBITION DATES: 2 Dec - 21 Dec 2010
LASSCO: Brunswick House,30 Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall, London SW8 2LG
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Read Prof William V. Ganis's review on David Taborn's "Homunculus" exhibition (critic & professor of art history, Wells College ("Homunculus", Robert Lehman Gallery at Urban Glass, New York City (April 11-June 6, 2008) Read more »
Joey the Musical Boy
My painting draws together references to Joseph Beuys, Sigmund Freud and Richard Wagner through the famous Bruno Bettelheim case study of 1959, ‘Joey the Mechanical Boy’, about an autistic boy named Joey who behaved as if he were a machine: “he could not drink, except through elaborate piping systems - liquids had to be pumped into him”.
Read Taborn's in-depth description of this work »
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