SI Exhibitions - Costello

ALEXANDER COSTELLO / Lobby Display & Video Bar

September 14 - October 23, 2004

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The S I is pleased to present the work of emerging London-based artist ALEXANDER COSTELLO. Costello will create a new work for the lobby box and present a video series in the video bar. “All You Need To Know Right Now,” is a set of three videos in which the artist records, but does not witness, the destruction of three sets of English apartment complexes. Costello stands resolutely and absurdly, in the tradition of the great performance artists of Britain, as a challenger to the seemingly permanent structures of the gray English landscape. Costello has had recent exhibitions at London’s t1+2artspace, New Zealand’s Physics Room and the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Alexander Costello
b. 1976, Hampstead, London

EDUCATION
1999-2001 Slade School of Fine Art University College London (MFA)
1996-99 Middlesex University London (BA Hons. 1st Class)

EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2004 Perseverance The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2004 All You Need To Know Right Now, solo show, T1 + 2 Art Space, London
2004 The Block Galerie Une, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2003 Wish You Were Here Reinberger Galleries Cleveland Institute of Art U.S.A as Bruce & Joan
2002 Evidence Essor Project Space Essor Gallery London
2002 Snub OMSK 86 Brick Lane London as Bruce & Joan
2002 Du-racelle Deptford X Deptford London as Bruce & Joan
2002 Club Le Confort Moderne Poitiers France
2002 Beautiful Projects Ashley Gardens London
2002 Mostyn 12 Oriel Mostyn Gallery Llandudno
2001 New East Wing Collection Courtauld Institute of Art London
2001 Performance Haunch of Venison London with Bruce McLean & Ear Baratrauma
2000 Agglutinate of Pleasures 291 Gallery London

THEATRE DESIGN
2003 Claw by Howard Barker Greenwich Playhouse, London with Sarah Turner

BIBLIOGRAPHY
8/2004 "It's Only Words" iD Magazine
10/2003 Exhibition Catalogue Cathleen Chaffee 'Wish You Were Here' as Bruce & Joan
04/2002 What's On in London Magazine Morgan Falconer 'Beautiful Projects'
06/2001 4.28 Magazine ‘Gentleman’s Agreement & Hostile Takeover’
02/2000 Ape Magazine Michelle Williams 'Man & Umbrella'
12/1999 Independent on Sunday Duncan McLaren 'Pick of the Galleries'

AWARDS / BURSARIES
1999 Pocock Award Slade School of Fine Art