31 August 2010
Jacco Olivier fuses painting and filmmaking by repeatedly reworking paintings in generous casual brush strokes and systematically photographing each development. The various stages are combined into projected animations that are both enigmatic and experiential. Victoria Miro is delighted to announce Jacco Olivier’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. The new body of work represents a […]
31 August 2010
In IMT Gallery’s first exhibition of painting, Colombian artist Alejandro Ospina confronts the traditions of portraiture with the manufacture and dissemination of images in the digital age. In fotolog/, Ospina explores the conflict between history and language of portraiture as “high art” and the technology and circumstances of image making and dissemination in the 21st […]
31 August 2010
Hildebrandt Gregor, Holzapfel Olaf, Kwade Alicja, Lergon Daniel, Voigt Jorinde, Ziervogel Ralf The exhibition Between Nothingness and Eternity borrows its title from the eponymous live recording of the Mahavishnu Orchestra at New York’s Cental Park August 1973. Founded in 1970 by the English guitarist John McLaughlin, this eccentric fusion band famously celebrated the encounter of […]
31 August 2010
This autumn The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery will present a major exhibition of large scale outdoor sculptures by acclaimed London-based artist Anish Kapoor in Kensington Gardens. The free exhibition will showcase a series of major recent works never before shown together in London. Constructed from highly reflective stainless steel, the giant curved mirror surfaces […]
30 August 2010
Biography Born 1968, London, UK 1987-90 BA (Hons) Degree Fine Art, 1st Class, Kent Institute of Art and Design, UK 1990-93 Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performances FORTHCOMING Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care, Serpentine Gallery, London Implicit Sound,ESPAI 13/Fundació Joan Miró. […]
30 August 2010
Berlin based artist Sinta Werner featuring a site-specific installation as well as a new series of collages. Werner aims to interrogate our conventional ways of seeing and representing through elaborate fictitious environments. The creation of these architectonic works notably contributes to her exploration of virtual and physical boundaries, the indefinable notion of “in-betweens” as well […]
30 August 2010
There is a familial myth that my late Grandfather would not have survived being a Japanese Prisoner of War had the atomic bombing of Hiroshima not occurred. So it could be argued that I owe my existence to one of the most terrifying events of human history and the death of 110,000 people.’ – David […]
30 August 2010
Dreams of Desire: Daisy Delaney 08/09-11/09 Rational/Irrational: Daniel Rapley, Gary O’Connor, Ian Whittlesea 15/09-18-09 How am I Not Myself: Edward Vince, Matthew Robinson 22/09-25/09 Silencer: Alex Baker, Audio Research Editions, Corrado Morgana, Nye Parry 29/09 -02/10 In association with Neville Brody’s ADF (Anti Design Festival), PayneShurvell is pleased to present 4by4 throughout the month of […]
30 August 2010
The work of the Sean Branagan has a suggestion of the impossible, but plausible. He describes the world we know in contrarian communication methods, not the way we know from the comfortable traditional communicational methods of the social order. Sean breaches what’s real. As a vehicle for ‘time’, ‘light’ and ‘movement’ (elements as valid to […]
30 August 2010
Collaborators2 is an exhibition of editions and unique work by 28 artists. It is an opportunity for us to show work by artists we admire as well as those who have previously shown at the gallery. Private view/Opening Thursday 9th Sept, 6 – 9.00pm
29 August 2010
The successful 18@108 series continues to draw attention and following public demand, is now in its fifth and final year. Naked is the third of the three-part 2010 series and brings together six sculptors who explore concepts of exposure and vulnerability together with a rawness of materials that provokes a sensory response. Jane Benson examines […]
29 August 2010
Press release/invite: SEAN WORRALL – PAINTINGS, LEAVES, FRIENDS, SHAPES…. ADVENTURES IN KENSAL GREEN A show of recent paintings from Sean Worrall.. Friday 10th September until Wednesday 22nd September Opening night view, Thursday 9th September, 6.30pm – 10pm A collection of a recent paintings birthed in Kensal Green, to be shown at the Dissenters’ Chapel Gallery, […]
29 August 2010
This exhibition collaborates with the artists Richard Cramp, Mark Selby and Joe Watling whom experience and explore the dynamics of space in architectural. Each artist approaches new ways of engaging the viewer beyond a ‘static’ looking experience; encouraging the physicality of experience through their work. The Nunnery will be entirely reformed through a series of […]
28 August 2010
Dreams of Desire is a solo show of new work by British artist Daisy Delaney at PayneShurvell this September. Part of PayneShurvell’s 4by4 September exhibitions, Dreams of Desire is open from the 8th to 11th September, and is also part of iconic British designer Neville Brody’s Anti Design Festival, and the London Design Festival. Known for her subversion of […]
28 August 2010
Following the successful show in 2008 of new sculpture, the Directors of Marlborough Fine Art are delighted to announce a forthcoming exhibition of new paintings by ALLEN JONES one of Britain’s most distinguished artists. The Theatre, and its relationship to painting, fascinates Allen Jones. “Space in the theatre is activated by actors, in painting it […]
27 August 2010
Heidi Yssennagger would like to invite you to attend the Private view of her ‘One day only’ Solo exhibition.This is a unique chance to preview extensive major works of art by this emerging British Artist, including new unseen work. All welcome! Heidi Yssennager’s art concerns itself directly with issues relating to body image, identity, and […]
27 August 2010
Should you find yourself in the West Country at the end of the summer, Jonathan Velardi is exhibiting his specially commissioned work by Devon County Council and Double Elephant Print Workshop for Politics in Print, at the launch exhibition at The XCentre in Exeter, Devon. Documentation of research and production throughout the commission for his hand printed […]
27 August 2010
Max Wigram Gallery is proud to announce their first solo exhibition of artist Edwin Burdis: Edwin Burdis presents Back, Sack and Crack (a work) and Home (a performance). Composer, performer and artist Burdis is mainly known for his groundbreaking art and experimental pop music bands, exploring a unique and extravagant fusion between art, music and […]
27 August 2010
Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most significant and original painters of our time. This Sunley Room exhibition focuses upon her most recent paintings and will enable visitors to investigate how Riley’s work relates to the National Gallery CollectiTwo of Riley’s works will be made directly onto the walls of the exhibition space. […]
27 August 2010
Working with photography, video, text and sculpture, Tim Lee’s work both replicates and reimagines seminal moments in art history and popular culture. With sources that range from Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Martin, Dan Graham, Public Enemy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Ted Williams, Lee suggestively interpellates himself with the history of his subjects by loosely reconstructing specific […]
27 August 2010
David Spiller (b 1942) is the ‘Peter Pan’ of today’s post-Pop art scene. Beginning his career in the 1960s, he occupies a unique position in the contemporary art world: he belongs to the Pop tradition but is not a Pop artist. He is more than that. His work draws on the iconography and […]
27 August 2010
White Cube Hoxton Square is pleased to announce ‘Festum’, an exhibition of new work by the Belgian artist Kris Martin. Taking the Latin for ‘festival’, Martin’s work celebrates the ambiguity of the term, how it embodies our attitudes about both life and death, both jubilation and the fragility of our existence. At the entrance of […]
27 August 2010
White Cube Mason‚s Yard is pleased to present an exhibition of new works entitled ŒThe Principle of Moments‚ by British artist Darren Almond. Known for works that meditate on notions of time, landscape and travel, as well as political and historical memory, Almond brings these themes together in two bodies of work: a series of […]
27 August 2010
Maria Stenfors is proud to present Yasmin Müller’s first solo exhibition in London – ‘Denim Cardin’. Yasmin Müller is born 1977, lives and works in Berlin and was educated in Karlsruhe, Germany. Yasmin Müller’s work brings forward a gentle questioning of the chaotic mix that is cultural identity. In particular, Müller deals with a landscape […]
26 August 2010
GASPARE MANOS REPRESENTS ITALY AT OPEN 13 – INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF SCULPTURES AND INSTALLATIONS AFTER EMILIO VEDOVA AND SANDRO CHIA. L’ARTISTA GASPARE MANOS PARTECIPA A OPEN 13 – ESPOSIZIONE INTERNAZIONALE DI SCULTURE ED INSTALLAZIONI VENEZIA 2010 . L’OPERA DEL MANOS ESPOSTA HOTEL EXCELSIOR, VENEZIA DAL 1 SETTEMBRE 2010. Per ulteriori informazioni : info@artecommunications.com Tel. +39 041 5264546 L’artista Italiano […]
25 August 2010
John Maeda, digital art pioneer and current President of Rhode Island School of Design, follows up his groundbreaking 2008 Maeda/MySpace project at Riflemaker with a ‘live’ exhibition about wisdom, luck and information-getting. Maeda (b1966 Seattle, Washington) is The Fortune Cookie; and he will relay his short and sweet messages twitter-style to the audience using a […]
25 August 2010
Riflemaker presents 80 coloured ink paintings made by King over the last five years. These full-length portraits, and often distressing texts that frame them, express some of the confusion and isolation of her illness. Yet, rather than being depressing, the work is intimate and inspiring. The paintings fuse the decorative aspect of King’s previous ceramic […]
25 August 2010
Cole Contemporary is proud to present Breaking Wheel, a new exhibition by Robert Nicol. Nicol’s paintings and drawings draw on a variety of sources, ranging from Goya, Canaletto, Dutch Genre painting and American Folk art. This compendium of sources results in the creation of an imaginary world that parodies our own, inhabited by an array […]
25 August 2010
An open submission exhibition featuring a wide range of art work by different artists and makers, including painting, printmaking, drawing and photography. Featured artists: Alan Hardcastle, Alan Melling, Alison Thompson, Angela Hardwick, Angyl Roper, Bev Elliott, Bill Pinson, Bryan Hible, Caroline Quincey, Christine Darley Gibson, Damien Constantine, David Lloyd, Emily Harvey, Enid Wadsworth, Helen Booth, […]
24 August 2010
This is the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s death in London The Handel House Museum celebrates and explores the London life, music, performances and legacy of the musician, who moved into the top floor flat of 23 Brook Street in 1968 the former home to the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until […]
24 August 2010
In her first major exhibition in the UK, co-produced with Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Klara Lidén will present a series of installations, both existing and new films displayed within the context of architectural interventions in the gallery spaces, as well as works on paper. Lidén has, in earlier projects, built a house with discarded materials on […]
24 August 2010
The next commission in The Curve will be an ambitious installation by acclaimed Mexican artist Damián Ortega. For 31 days Ortega has set himself the challenge of creating a new sculpture over 24 hours. Each sculpture will be inspired by an item culled from the newspaper of that day: whether a news story, a photograph, or a […]