Spring is beginning and the light around us is changing. Perhaps in reflection of this, the second exhibition to be presented by BAIBAKOV art projects within the former Red October Chocolate Factory in Moscow is entitled "Natural Wonders: New Art from London". The show seeks to capture the energy, vitality and diversity of practice of over twenty artists who have taken centre stage in London in recent times. Their ages, nationalities and ethnic backgrounds are varied but they are united principally by the fact that they live and work in London, where they participate in and form part of one the city's most vibrant and globalised subcultures. The show features over twenty London based artists including Tim Braden, Shezad Dawood, Idris Khan, Mark Leckey, Eloise Fornieles, Conrad Shawcross and Douglas White.

20 February – 5 April 2009

BAIBAKOV art projects
"Red October" Chocolate Factory
6, Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, 3rd Floor
Moscow


We are also very priveledged to be able to give you a preview of ceramic artist Derek Weisberg's new exhibition "Olam Haba" (Hebrew for "the world to come"). Oakland based Weisberg has promised to transform the entire space of Rowan Morrison gallery into a candle lit catacomb. The installation will include over 35 hand-sculpted pieces ranging from wall-mounted portrait busts to standing full figures in the round. During the event the entire exhibition will be illuminated only with the use of candles mounted into the sculptures. The use of candlelight plays a key roll in the transformation of the space as well as being a thematic element, a symbolic metaphor for life.

February 21st – March 28th, 2009

Rowan Morrison Gallery
330 40th Street
Oakland, California 94609
www.rowanmorrison.com