MK Gallery

Join Marcus Coates and Gallery Director Anthony Spira for an informal discussion about the artist's work. "…my work is all about our relationship with animals and nature… There is humour in the work, but a serious side explores how we use our relationship with animals to define our humanness." Marcus Coates

This exhibition is the first survey of Marcus Coates’ work in a public gallery in the UK and it includes early film pieces, sculpture, sound, costumes and photographs as well as new work.

Taking place within the Gallery, this discussion explores themes related to Mohamedi's work, including calligraphy, geometry and urbanism. Born in Karachi, India (now Pakistan) in 1937, Mohamedi created a highly developed language from the 1950s to the 1980s. Early drawings often suggest plants and trees, before the artist focused on creating variations around the grid format; later works present free-floating geometric forms that evoke futuristic, mechanical or architectural devices.

Join Vicente Todolí, Director of London’s Tate Modern and Jon Thomson, artist and Head of MA Fine Art at Middlesex University as they discuss the work of James Lee Byars with Michael Stanley, former Director of Milton Keynes Gallery.

Join Polly Apfelbaum and David Batchelor as they discuss Apfelbaum’s work. David Batchelor is an artist and writer (author of the book Chromophobia, 2000) and participated in the Folkestone Triennial, 2008.

In this exclusive talk, Gilberto Zorio discussed his work and practice with Germano Celant and Mark Godfrey. Celant is a curator and art critic and at the time of recording, was Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Celant is well known for his theory on Arte Povera (introduced at the Bertesca-Masnata Gallery, Genoa, 1967). He has regularly contributed to the magazines Artforum and Interview. Mark Godfrey is a former Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Art, London and a curator at Tate Modern.