Since its inception in 2004, in the cafeteria of Goldsmiths, Truck Art has done many art miles. Staging temporary exhibitions in the back of a truck, this mobile gallery has pitched up outside various other galleries, including Vilma Gold, Stephen Friedman and Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd. Truck Art has also participated in Prague Biennale 2, Flash Art Fair, Milan and the Art Car Boot Fair, London. Artists who previously have participated in Truck Art exhibitions include, Brian Griffiths and Mark Leckey.

Truck Art is now launching a new programme of events for the summer. A series of pit stops the first of these will be outside b-store, Savile Row, Thursday May 31st. In the Truck Art gallery space will be exhibited works by Rachal Bradley, Joseph Fraser and Prem Sahib for one night only. The participating artists will leave as a remnant, further pieces within the shop. These artists have been brought together for their shared love of the flippant gesture. What seems to be works infused with irony are in fact plain and simple sincere offerings. Unashamedly art without a political uniform, the exhibition follows the sentiments of Friedrich Nietzsche expressed in The Gay Science “No Altruism! I see in many men an excessive impulse and delight in wanting to be a function; they strive after it, and have the keenest scent for all those positions in which precisely they themselves can be functions.” Working within the accepted remits of fine art, it is the nomadic collaboration with Truck Art that fosters a potentially transgressive context.

The future program of the Truck begins with this first temporary exhibition at b-store and continues to the following venues; June, an NCP car park in central London, July, outside a friend’s house, August, Blackpool promenade. Each exhibition will have a different duration, ranging from one night (b-store) to four separately curated one-week exhibitions in one month (NCP car park). Levelling out and raising onto a plateau, the East End gallery is spatially reterritorialised alongside the high-end fashion store and the car park, the public walk way of a decadent seaside town and the driveway of a mates’ house.

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