ARTIST ~
Andrew Mania + Daniel Rush
DATE ~
Friday, 24th April 7pm onwards
LOCATION ~
Renatos
ADDRESS ~
Renato's, 19 King St, Bristol, BS1.
SUBJECT ~
Waiter, waiter, there's a pencil in my pizza.
DETAILS ~
Opening ceremonies of The Drawing Exchanges Festival are provided by Andrew Mania and Daniel Rush who will host a night of parlour game fun upstairs at Renato's. Expect a series of playful drawing exercises - a cross between turn of the century bohemian party antics, drag dressing up and exquisite corpse(s) with games that include turning pieces of paper in a top hat. Should be good food for drawing, creating some seriously surreal and comical works. Buy your own Pizza and booze.
BIO~
Andrew Mania
Andrew Mania has been described as a "Collector of Curiosities". This is an apt description for the drawing, painting and object collagist who includes his unique European family history in projects such as his Chisenhale Gallery show Gogolin ( 2005) where he re-filmed .Top Hat. as a screening in a Russian Forest and filled a Dacha (Russian country cottage) with ornaments and portraits drawn on Vaneer. The artist studied Fine Art at Falmouth and later at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Andrew is represented by Vilma Gold.
Daniel Rush ~Daniel graduated from UWE in 2005 with a BA Art and Visual Culture. Group exhibitions since include This Is Art, This is Mail a touring group show exhibiting in Bristol, Bilbao, and Brader and Wigwam Bam at The Red Lodge, Bristol curated by Plan 9 and selected by Marcus Coates and Claire Barclay. Daniel is most notorious for his cross dressing, Linda Barker lookalike impersonator .Debbie Folan.. He has recently appeared at Fusion Festival Berlin and played a transvestite prostitute in an adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht play.