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Ikon presents the first UK exhibition of work by Swiss artists Andres Lutz and Anders Guggisberg; Impressions from the Interior.  A survey of video works, painting, installation and sculptural pieces, made since the two began their artistic partnership in 1996, and including much new work made in situ, it exemplifies Lutz and Guggisberg’s funny melancholy, their observations on an absurd universe.

An example of the work, Population (2007) pictured left, will feature approximately 200 birds both inside and outside the gallery building.

An artists’ book, a selection of black and white photographs made and modified by Lutz and Guggisberg, accompanies this exhibition.

Ruth Claxton Lands End (pictured left), 2 April – 18 May 2008
The first major museum exhibition by celebrated Birmingham-based artist Ruth
Claxton. Claxton’s uses sculpture and installation to examine the shift towards an increasingly dislocated, individualistic society through our passive consumption of information and the way we understand, interpret and question the world we live in.

Jürgen Partenheimer Discontinuity, Paradox, Precision, 2 April – 18 May 2008
Ikon presents a major solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed German artist Jürgen
Partenheimer, his first in the UK, comprising new and recent painting, works on paper and
sculpture, revealing the interconnectivity of his essentially Modernist practice.