Tim Beeby
Loopholes:
90 Loopholes, 2019 / 2020
90 stretched canvases, cut and extracted circles
50 x 35 cm, in total 250 x 630 cm
Inks:
Info:
Tim Beeby is a visual artist and translator for galleries and art museums based in Essen, Germany.
He studied at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) Cambridge, UK, and Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), Leicester, UK. In 2000 he was awarded a European Painting Prize in Ostend, Belgium, leading to a solo exhibition at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ostend the following year. His abstract work debuted in Second Nature, a group show he co-curated for Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany in 2014.
His project Unsigned Untitled Undated has, to date, been shown in a series of four-day events in Berlin (November 2017), Vienna (June 2018), and Cologne (September 2018), leading to extensive coverage in the German language press, including an article in the prestigious weekly German broadsheet DIE ZEIT and a comprehensive 10-page interview in the German art magazine Kunstforum.
In October 2022, Unsigned Untitled Undated made its debut in a museum, at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany. In March 2023 it was presented for the first time in a Kunstverein, at Kunstraum München in Munich. Unsigned Untitled Undated subsequently featured in Kunstforum again, in the introductory essay to its Nov.– Dec. 2023 issue.
As a translator he has made extensive contributions to the catalogues for Skulptur Projekte 2017 Münster, Germany; and A-Z. The Marzona Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017); as well as translating the complete catalogue for 10 Americans. After Paul Klee, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2017) / Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2018). In 2021, his essay Working with Artists and Curators: translating for the contemporary art world, co-authored with Sabine Bürger, appeared in Translation – Kunstkommunikation – Museum, Barbara Ahrens et al. (eds.), published by Frank & Timme Verlag, Berlin. Most recently he has translated texts for Gaming (2022), an exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist for the Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf, and all the texts for Taking Stock. Gurlitt in Review (2022) at Kunstmuseum Bern, as well as for Materializing. Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland (2023) at the the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
CONTACT:
E-mail:
tim.beeby@t-online.de
Okt. | Oct. 14, 2022
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur
Münster
Unsigned-Aktion am 14. Oktober 2022 im LWL-
Museum Münster, Videoclip 9:30 Min. (ohne Sound)
Unsigned event on 14 October 2022 at the LWL- Museum Münster, video clip 9:30 min. (no sound)
Unsigned Untitled Undated
Surfaces & Supports:
Surfaces & Supports #1a, 2023
6 pre-primed canvases, wooden stretchers, staples, screws
1x 200 x 140 cm, 1x 140 x 100 cm, 1x 100 x 70 cm, 1x 70 x 50 cm, 2x 50 x 35 cm
in total 200 x 280 cm
Surfaces & Supports #2b, 2023
5 black pre-primed canvases and 1 reverse side, wooden stretchers, staples, screws
1x 200 x 140 cm, 1x 140 x 100 cm, 1x 100 x 70 cm, 1x 70 x 50 cm, 2x 50 x 35 cm
in total 200 x 280 cm
Surfaces & Supports (ensemble 7), 2023
2 black pre-primed canvas and 1 reverse side, wooden stretchers, staples, screws
1x 100 x 140 cm, 1x 30 x 30 cm, 1x 200 x 20 cm
installation dimensions variable
Untitled (digital drawings):
Roll #1 (detail 43.2 cm x 2 m), 2022
inkjet print on a roll of Epson Enhanced Matte Paper
in total 43.2 cm x 30.5 m
Roll #2 (The History of Modern Art), 2023
inkjet print on Epson Enhanced Matte Paper
detail 43.2 x 60 cm, in total 43.2 x 1400 cm
Ink Diagram #5a, 2023
inkjet print on Epson Archival Paper
59.4 x 42 cm
Square Loophole #4, 2022
8 stretched canvases, cut and extracted circles
210 x 210 cm
A conceptual exhibition with works on canvas
by Tim Beeby
Unsigned Untitled Undated enables visitors to the exhibition to select an unsigned work on canvas to take away with them free of charge. Alternatively, they can have the canvas signed by the artist and acquire it at the standard market price.
The project was most recently shown at LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster in October 2022 and Kunstraum München in Munich in March 2023.
Eine konzeptuelle Aktion mit Arbeiten auf Leinwand von Tim Beeby
Unsigned Untitled Undated ist das Angebot an die Besucher, ein unsigniertes Werk aus der Serie Inks kostenlos mitzunehmen. Interessenten können die Leinwand alternativ vom Künstler sig-
nieren lassen und sie dann zu den üblichen Konditionen ankaufen.
Zuletzt wurde das Projekt im Oktober 2022 im LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster und im März 2023 im Kunstraum München gezeigt.
Black Wall Paintings, studio installation view, February 2024
Unsigned Untitled Undated
ink on pre-primed canvas
110 x 75 cm
Unsigned Untitled Undated
ink on pre-primed canvas
140 x 100 cm
Unsigned Untitled Undated
ink on pre-primed canvas
40 x 30 cm
Untitled (digital drawing) #150, 2023
inkjet print on Epson Archival Paper
59.4 x 42 cm
Rolls:
Ink Diagrams:
90 Loopholes, 2019 / 2020
no. 20 Gospel-Back (Nero-Front)
stretched canvases, cut and extracted circle
50 x 35 cm
Black Wall Paintings:
