Milton Keynes Gallery, Thursday 26 August at 6.30pm, Admission free
Classical music meets contemporary art at Milton Keynes Gallery this week, when Craig Greene, a Stantonbury Campus graduate and past soloist with Milton Keynes City Orchestra will be playing a selection of classical music pieces on a grand piano, which has been gracing the middle room of MK Gallery for the last couple of months as part of the current exhibition THE THE THINGS IS (FOR 3). The Live Music Event forms part of MK Gallery’s alternative ‘Scratch Nights’ series, which occur every Thursday evening at 6.30pm. Admission to the exhibition and the recital is free and there is no need to book.
The grand piano Craig will be playing is unusual in that its lid bears the scars of chance whip marks received during a commissioned performance at the exhibition preview from the Marseille-based professional whip-cracker Fanny Tourette.
The exhibition THE THE THINGS IS (FOR 3), now in its final weeks (closing 12 September 2010) is presented by a deliberately unnamed London-based artist who works with sound, performance, collage and photography, to create systems that playfully experiment with language, identity, geometry and chance.
