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Metropolis: Reflections on the modern city Posted: 11 Mar 2013 04:26 AM PDT Image: Nicolas Provost, Storyteller. Copyright: the artist. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Anrwerp and Haunch of Venison, London Metropolis: Reflections on the modern city Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 23 March – 23 June 2013 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery present Metropolis: Reflections on the modern city, a major showcase of international contemporary artwork jointly collected by BMAG and the New Art Gallery Walsall and developed in partnership with Ikon Gallery, as part of the £1 million Art Fund International Prize. Now shown together for the first time, these works represent an ambitious and nationally-significant new collection for Birmingham and the West Midlands.  Metropolis offers visions of modern cities and urban life, containing around 35 works in a variety of media, created in the past decade by 20 artists of international standing including Miao Xiaochun, Zhang Enli, Grazia Toderi and Beat Streuli.    Several works in the collection are a response to different areas of Birmingham. Christiane Baumgartner uses video and woodcut to create the diptych Ladywood, inspired by reflections of a railway bridge onto the canal. Beat Streuli's video Pallasades follows the crowds walking up and down the ramp to the shopping centre on one day in 2001, the repetition of each individual's experience suggesting the universality of human experience while also highlighting its diversity. Ola Kolehmainen's Shadow of Church takes the iconic Selfridges building as its subject, highlighting the fusion of traditional and modern buildings in Birmingham city centre to offer an abstract rather than documentary image. Entrance to the exhibition is free.

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