As the first major European fair after the summer, the art world has been watching Frieze very closely, as a barometer of the art market in the wake of Brexit and of general uncertainty in a variety of sectors. Therefore, there was a climate of caution and the mood could have been very subdued at [...]
Author: Yoli Terziyska Artvisor and Presenza have come together with the launch of the group exhibition Alchemical Imagination. Currently on display at LIBRARY, a private members club in London, are 27 works by 10 international artists working in different media. Some of the artworks are by promising emerging talents, others are made by mid-career or established [...]
Born: 1936 in Turin, Italy. Lives and works in: Turin, Italy. Upcoming exhibition: A Continuous Becoming. 26 January – 8 April 2018. Camden Arts Centre. Having just shown at his third Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, Giorgio Griffa’s celebrated abstract paintings will soon be exhibited in London’s Camden Arts Centre. A Continuous Becoming includes works that [...]
Author: George Greenhill This Week In Art, London: Monday 4th – Sunday 10th December What’s happening around the world this week Everyone is in Miami! Here is the Art Newspaper’s top ten shows to see there [The Art Newspaper] JFK painting outshines Donald Trump’s sketch at Heritage Auction Texas [New York Post] Lubaina Himid becomes [...]
Author: George Greenhill Top 10 Art Exhibitions of 2017 In alphabetical order: Hannah Black Some Context, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 22 September – 10 December The Situation, a book composed of conversations between the artist and her friends about theories of subjectivity and collectivity, provide structure to the assortment of multifarious objects in the exhibition. These new [...]
Born: 1976, Dunaújváros, Hungary Lives and works in: Budapest, Hungary Upcoming exhibition: Sci Fi Agit Prop at De Appel, Amsterdam, 27 January – 01 April 2018. Netwerk Aalst, Belgium 03 February – 01 July 2018. Tamás Kaszás’s exhibition, Sci Fi Agit Prop, will propose an imagined future, a dystopia in which our current economic system crashes [...]
Cardi Gallery, London 23 January 2018 - 30 March 2018 Curated by: Piero Tomassoni The intensity and depth of colour radiating from Claudio Verna’s (b.1937) paintings have transformed Cardi Gallery’s exhibition space. Verna’s pictures hold a gravitational force. They pull its viewers inward; a phenomenological interaction that vivifies each of the rooms they inhabit. It [...]
Born: 1965, Venice, Italy Lives and works in: Berlin, Germany Current exhibition: '3612,54m³ vs 0,005m³' at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, 16 September, 2017 - 26 February, 2018 Monica Bonvicini’s solo exhibition ‘3612,54 m³ vs 0,005 m³’ at the Berlinische Galerie has been on display since September and will be closing at the end of February. The show opened [...]
Founded: London, January 1998 Current Exhibition: ‘The Enchanted Room: Modern Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera,’ Estorick Collection, 24 January 2018 - 8 April 2018 The only gallery in Britain devoted to Italian modernism has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. To mark this momentous occasion, the museum has curated an exhibition with works from one [...]