30th May - 29th June
Tim Ellis, Andrew Gilbert, Patricia Ellis, Joel Gray, Cary Kwok
Curated by Cedar Lewisohn
Best Haircuts In History
On the morning of February 2nd, I woke up from a vivid dream. In the dream I had staged an exhibition in a traditional men’s hairdressers in Soho, London. The work or artists in the show were not clear. Just the fact the show was in a hair dresser’s in Soho, London. I didn’t pay too much notice to the dream, but did for some reason decided to update my Facebook status with the details of the previous night’s dream. As soon as I posted the update, people from all around the world started commenting that I should do the show. All day it continued. I thought it was a funny idea, but didn’t really pay it much more attention. Then about two weeks later I was in Soho for a meeting and I happened to work past Gino’s hairdressers, on Dean Street. The old fashioned gents’ hairdressers looked very much like the place in my dream. So I thought I’d go in and have a look.
Inside I spoke to the manger and rather sheepishly told him about my dream. He said I should speak to the people down stairs. This is where I met the team from WE ARE CUTS. I told them about the dream and the idea of doing an exhibition in their place and they kind of liked it. We spoke a couple more times and eventually came up with the idea of a show about The Best Haircuts in History.
The idea of The Best Haircuts show is to take historic haircuts and have contemporary artists make works to celebrate these.
Cedar Lewisohn
BEST HAIRCUTS IN HISTORY. May 30th-June 29th. Ginos/We Are Cuts. 33A Dean Street London W1D 4PP---with Tim Ellis, Andrew Gilbert, Patricia Ellis, Joel Gray, Cary Kwok
Opening May 30th, 6.30pm-9pm with performances from mmmmm and Alice Holloway
The Dignitaries
2013
Acrylic, plaster, clay, perspex, wood, linen and plastic
65cm x 20cm x 15cm
