Kingstonfirst - Whats On - 10th January 2010

THE END OF LOVE - A NEW FILM BY DAVID AUSTEN

David Austen is a visual artist whose diverse practice fluently encompasses paint, print, drawing, sculpture and, more recently, moving image. His most ambitious film work to date, The End of Love, is a vaudeville performed at the end of the world. The location is the stage of a London theatre. There is no audience.

There are 12 characters, eight men and four women: a dark angel, a betrayed Cyclops, a love-sick dandy, a love-less fat man, an ancient moon, a homeless man, a pair of romantic criminals, a trapeze artist, a lonely astronaut, an imprisoned woman and an aged Jack the Giant Killer. Each scene is delivered in the form of a love letter, employing richly intense language full of contrast and contradiction; from light sweet sentiment to fear and violence, from comedy to sadness, artifice and dream to dark brutality.

This exhibition is accompanied by a concurrent display at the Rose Theatre, Kingston

Stanley Picker Gallery

2nd Dec 6pm - Artist talk
6.30pm - 8.30pm - exhibition launch

Phone: 020 8417 4074

Link: www.stanleypickergallery.org

From:2nd December 2009

To: 30th January 2010