CHRISTMAS may be over, but Llandudno's Mostyn gallery continues to offer art lovers the perfect antidote to the winter blues.
Ha Ha Road is a group show of work by 25 artists who explore the use of humour in contemporary art and features renowned artists such as Pipilotti Rist, Ceal Floyer and Erwin Wurm as well as North Wales' own Bedwyr Williams, winner of the Fine Art Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham earlier this year.
Curated by two Berlin based artists Dave Ball (from Swansea originally) and Sophie Springer, the show takes its title from the name of a street, the exhibition playing on its double meaning.
Apart from its connection with laughter, the "ha-ha" also refers to a type of sunken boundary, wall or fence and this invisible frontier serves as a neat metaphor for our relationship to the world of laughter.
The artists in the exhibition invite us to look at the world from the other side of the fence.
The show includes painting, installation, film, photography, sculpture, a good few jokes... and if you’re very lucky a free packet of crisps from a dispenser that spits out packets according to how many words linked to the economy are used in BBC RSS feeds.
Also opening last month was Bruegel Boogie Voogie, which takes it title from a series of small paintings by Georgian artist Misha Shengelia, where he casts a timely and sardonic eye on the mundane everyday things in his life as well as an incisive commentary on culture and events in world politics.
Each small painting is a visual postcard - structured to include an address and postage stamp, and fittingly displayed in gallery 5, which, prior to Mostyn's expansion, was part of Llandudno Post Office.
Also still on display is a range of works on paper by one of the most significant German artists, Anselm Kiefer, and small constructions from found materials on the theme of shelter made by artists from Wales and beyond.
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For more information on exhibitions showing at Mostyn, visit the website at www.mostyn.org