07/01/2014 Frameless Gallery, 6-9pm 'anime' group show
anime [à-ni-me] the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being regarded as immortal.Frameless Gallery is pleased to announce anime, a group exhibition of Italian emerging artists working in various media: Isabella Genova, Denise Rana, Giulio Gonnella, Filippo Bernabei, Martina Campici, Viola Zini and Franz Murtas.08/01/2014 Beers Contemporary, 6-8pm 'Non- Sequitur' group show
Somewhere on the outskirts of reality lies the realm of imagination and the subconscious. In this exhibition, artists Jorge Castellanos, Michael Fanta, Kate Lyddon, and Pawel Sliwinski each demonstrate a prevailing desire to reconcile the real with the unreal, and the conscious with the subconscious. All four artists have devised a cast of characters who represent the proverbial outsider. Whether these outsiders are isolated as a result of their own foolishness, or because they possess some elusive wisdom, their role holds both symbolic and psychological significance.
08/01/2014 Griffin Gallery and Charlie Smith London, 6:30-8:30pm 'Young Gods' group
The 2013 edition of annual exhibition Young Gods will take place simultaneously across two locations in west and east London. Selected and curated by Zavier Ellis, director of Shoreditch gallery CHARLIE SMITH london and co-founder of THE FUTURE CAN WAIT, the exhibition will be a multi-disciplinary presentation of London’s most exciting graduates from the summer of 2013. Young Gods is presented in conjunction with the Griffin Gallery, supported by fine art brands Winsor & Newton, Conté à Paris and Liquitex.09/01/2014 The Graffiti Life Gallery, 6-8pm ID Crew group show 'Surrounded by Idiots'
Heroes of the UK graffiti scene the ‘ID Crew’ have never followed rules or conventions.The collective comprises some of the most eclectic and prolific artists with each individual boasting what can be described as their own ‘signature’ style. Formed in 1996 by brothers ‘Shucks’ and ‘Tizer’ the ID crew was started as a collective of friends that they felt were not very well known and underrated. The letters ID after their name gave each member a drive to continually set the bar higher for themselves whilst carving a niche within the scene.09/01/2014 Hauser & Wirth, 6-8pm Alex Van Gelder 'Meat Portraits'
Van Gelder’s Meat Portraits is a series of visceral photographic studies of animal remains from a slaughterhouse in Benin, which upends traditional notionsof portraiture.
09/01/2014 Hauser & Wirth, 6-8pm Zhang Enli 'The Box'
Zhang Enli is a champion of forgotten spaces and objects. His practice is grounded in melancholic portrayals of objects or places from everyday life, through painting, sculpture or installation such as ‘Space Paintings’, in which he paints directly onto the walls, ceilings and floors of a room. For ‘The Box’, Zhang’s second exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in London, the artist will present his first-ever sculptural installation alongside a new series of paintings.
09/01/2014 Hauser & Wirth, 6-8pm Hans Arp 'Chance – Form – Language (and a FRANZWESTigation)'
Curated by Julian Heynen, this exhibition examines the relationship between form and chance in a selection of Hans Arp’s important but rarely seen sculptures from 1947 to 1965. In an unusual approach, Heynen positions Arp’s work alongside Passstücke (Adaptives) by Franz West, examining the shared creative principle of the two artists. A selection of Arp’s poetry will be installed on the walls and broadcast throughout the gallery.
09/01/2014 Espacio Gallery, 6-9pm Heaven and Hell
14/01/2014 Schwartz Gallery, 6-10pm 'Hangwoman:the arrested feminine' group show
Artists: Agnes Calf, Rowan Corkill, Beyond Duality,
Corinne Felgate, Patrick Hough, Chantelle Purcell, Michael Pybus, John Walter.
Hangwoman: the arrested feminine looks
into constructions of contemporary masculinity through word-play, image, video,
performance and object-making. Curated by Patrick Michalopoulos.
14/01/2014 Parasol Unit, 6:30-9pm Canan Tolon 'Sidesteps'
The first major UK survey of Turkish-born artist Canan Tolon. The exhibition provides an in-depth insight into Tolon's earliest paintings from 1986 to the present day.
14/01/2014 London Art Fair, Preview Evening 6-9pm (£25 book online)
The Art Fair that was in London long before Frieze, and the fair that kicks off the Art Fair year (at least in London). This year some of my favorite galleries are exhibiting that have delighted me with the quality of their shows through out the year, such as Maria Stenfors (they also have a PV on the 23rd January), Fold Gallery, Jealous Gallery, BEARSPACE, and
others. Definitely a great place for your collectors and art lovers.
others. Definitely a great place for your collectors and art lovers.
15/01/2014 Alison Jacques Gallery, 6-8pm Matter&Memory group show
Artists: A group show featuring: Helen Barff, Maria Bartuszova, Irma Blank, Philomene Pirecki, Charlotte Posenenske, Erika Verzutti
Alison Jacques Gallery is pleased to present Matter&Memory, a group exhibition of seven artists exploring the self-reflexive process of perception. Including work from the 1960s to present, the exhibition addresses an object's relationship to the environment in which it was produced, the performative process by which this production took place, but also the subjectivity which simultaneously enables and prohibits us from seeing it.
15/01/2014 P21 Gallery, 6:45-8:30pm Gaza Writes Back
Panel Discussion with Refaat Alareer, Yousef Aljamal, Jehan Alfarra, & Rawan Yaghi moderated by Victoria Brittain.Free RSVP https://podio.com/webforms/
15/01/2014 ASC Gallery, 6:30-9pm 'Notes on an Autobiography' group show
Artists: Rebecca Lennon, Ben Newton, Rob Lye, Siôn Parkinson, Tamsin Snow & Sarah Tynan.
Notes On An Autobiography is an exhibition that operates within the context of its own history and its potential future, a series of autonomous trajectories that consider what it might mean to collectively present work: to negate, reconsider, reassemble its own narrative and use the continuance of the project as a reactive curatorial anchor.
Notes On An Autobiography is an exhibition that operates within the context of its own history and its potential future, a series of autonomous trajectories that consider what it might mean to collectively present work: to negate, reconsider, reassemble its own narrative and use the continuance of the project as a reactive curatorial anchor.
15/01/2014 Ancient and Modern, Audrey Reynolds 'Thirteenth'
‘ThiRTEEnTh’
by Audrey Reynolds foregrounds a group of two-sided paintings, a form familiar
to Byzantine altarpieces and secular panel painting of the 13th and 14th
centuries through to the late modernism of the 1950s. With Reynolds’ titles
using nomenclatures such as ‘1395-1399’and ‘1863’, a reach into history is
implied therein.
16/01/2014 Carroll/Fletcher, 6:30-8:30pm 'Now Showing' a group exhibition of artists' film
16/01/2014 Pace Gallery, 6-8pm closing event Mingei 'Are You Here'
The show explores the legacy of Mingei, a Japanese folk craft movement led by philosopher and critic Sōetsu Yanagi and questions the presence of craftsmanship in contemporary art.
16/01/2014 Flowers Gallery, 6-8pm Michael Wolf 'Architecture of Density'
Flowers Gallery will be holding an exhibition of iconic works from acclaimed photographer Michael Wolf's series: Architecture of Density. The photographs depict the vibrant city of Hong Kong from an inimitable perspective and have never been present at this scale.
16/01/2014 Kate MacGarry Gallery, 6-8pm private view Josh Blackwell solo show
16/01/2014 Standpoint Gallery, 6-8:30pm group show (Un)natural Narratives: biophilia and belonging in a decentred world.
Discussed sporadically in the current surge of ‘new nature writing’ and continually in the heated debates around ecology, biodiversity and climate change in the press and blogosphere, is an acknowledged global crisis in our relationship to the nonhuman.
16/01/2013 Ambika P3, 6:30-8:30pm solo show Elizabeth Ogilvie 'Out of Ice'
Out of Ice by Scottish artist Elizabeth Ogilvie is a dramatic new exhibition comprising environments created with ice and ice melt, constructions, films and projections of ice systems. It is an exploration of the poetics of ice with much of it created through collaborations with Inuit in Northern Greenland, reflecting on their deep and sustaining relationship with ice. It also presents film from the scientific expedition from Antarctica, the Lake Ellsworth Consortium led by Martin Siegert and supported by the British Antarctic Survey.
16/01/2014 Payne Shurvell, 6-8pm closing event Peter Newman 'Circulation'
For almost twenty years British artist Peter Newman has been making photographs, sculptures, paintings and video installations that address the human relationship to space and modernity. Circulation is a play on the photographic process employed – whereby a scene is rendered into a circular panorama – but also references other forms of movement and systems – information, dynamics, biology, people, financial & atmospheric.
17/01/2014 Fold Gallery, 6-9pm solo show Dominic Beattie 'Albeit'
Dominic Beattie’s work emerges out of the most basic materials – scraps of plywood, sheets of stickers, marker pen and spray paint – through a process of improvisation and thinking on the spot. Ordinary objects beget compositional forms that nod to the classic modernism of Tatlin or Lissitzky. Perforated plastic becomes a cut price Bridget Riley; Ellsworth Kelly returns in a sliver of wood. Beattie’s practice is, as with any tinkerer, born of a kind of looking: the world of things is a scrapyard of potential transcendence. The tinkering transforms. Look closely at any one of his works: Beattie’s learned sense of compositional rightness generates the visual charge of an abstract painting, and his willingness to let things be – that tinkerers’ trust in his own judgment – allows the component parts to call back to their origins, to carry their past in the forms of the present. Each work operates somewhere between the matter-of-fact bluntness of its component parts and the fizzing visual energy of its arrangement.21/01/2014 Blacks Members Club, 6-10pm group show 'La Petit Mort et la Grande Hysterie'
21/01/2014 Breese Little, 6-9pm group show 'Old Tin Cutlery before the Invention of the Fork'
Artists: Clarisse d’Arcimoles, David Burton, Douglas Pérez Castro, Armen Eloyan, Paa Joe, Freya Pocklington, Mino Maccari, Mehreen Murtaza, Robert Nicol, Elio Rodríguez and Rose Wylie.
Old tin cutlery before the invention of the fork brings together a selection of emerging and established artists whose work is loosely comparable through its unusual handling of loaded subjects. Hierarchies and conventionally agreed approaches are set aside for new methods of discussion and appropriation. This spectrum includes the direct address of taboo to a slighter manipulation of expectation or reality. Often the effect is that contained, individual visions speak of larger concerns, with a subtly critical eye trained on politics, religion, gender, race, community or identity.
21/01/2014 Breese Little, 6-9pm For All Mankind: Vintage NASA Photographs 1964 – 1983
This exhibition comprises an overview of space exploration from 1964 to 1983, providing a comprehensive selection of over 100 rare and vintage NASA photographs.
21/01/2014 Vitrine Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm Leah Capaldi & Stephanie Saade 'Witness Matter'
A two-person exhibition from British artist Leah Capaldi and Lebanese artist Stéphanie Saadé, whose practices explore the performativity of objects and display.21/01/2014 Vitrine Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm Gaillard&Claude 'Troubles for a French horn and a bongo'
‘Troubles for a French horn and a bongo’ is part of a series of formal researches entitled “Le groupe et la famille”, started by the artists in 2010. It questions the relationships between different ensembles of individuals that swing from the personal to the impersonal and vice versa.22/01/2014 Raven Row, 6-8pm Control Stephen Willats. Work 1962–69
Stephen Willats was introduced to art as a teenage gallery assistant in 1958. By 1962 he was identifying himself as an artist, and producing drawings which embraced the vibrancy, idealism, and transdisciplinarity of sixties culture. Willats juggled the roles of social scientist, engineer and artist. He was especially interested in studying social interaction, using models derived from cybernetics, the hybrid post-war science of communication.
22/01/2014 The Nunnery Gallery, 6-9pm Matthew Krishanu and Cara Nahaul 'Another Country'
Another Country is an exhibition of new paintings by Matthew Krishanu and Cara Nahaul that explore contrasting notions of familiarity and strangeness. Opening at the Nunnery Gallery in January 2014, the show presents two different approaches to painting that look at themes of travel, dislocation and memory.
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10am-8pm
A chance to get that lusted after book for no price!
23/01/2014 Maria Stenfors, 6:30-8:30pm Dean Hughes solo show
The new series is comprised of hand dyed, stitched calico shapes composed upon identical wooden slats. Calico, being unbleached and not fully processed, absorbs colour easily into the threads of equal weft and warp. Once the fabric is saturated with dye, it does not return to its original flat and uniform appearance and shows the definition and contours of the lines of dots and dashes that constitute the fabric. The geometry is allowed to relax and demonstrate the nature of the material. The work does not focus on its physicality but what the material reveals.
23/01/2014 ARCADE Fine Art, 6-8pm Caroline Achaintre 'Drawings'
23/01/2014 IMT, 6-9pm Lotte Rose Kjær Skau United We/l Stand etc.
United We/I Stand etc. is the first solo exhibition of work by Danish sound artist and musician Lotte Rose Kjær Skau. Using video, installation and sound Kjær Skau produces replications of the instances of vanity, fragility and serendipitous beauty found amongst user-generated content on the World Wide Web.
23/01/2014 Parasol Unit, 7pm Lecture by Dennis Duncan and Gill Partington, Birkbeck 'Trauma, Humour and Repetition' (£6/£5)
Gill Partington and Dennis Duncan look at two very different literary representations of repetition: Tom McCarthy’s 'Remainder' and Raymond Queneau’s mid-century classic, 'Exercises in Style'.
23/01/2014 Anise Gallery, 6-9pm 'Berlin voids 25 years after the wall'
24/01/2014 Danielle Arnaud Gallery, 6-9pm Uta Kögelsberger 'Off Road'
Off Road was developed at a state vehicular recreation area on the coast of California; a landscape of Sahara-like sand dunes regularly covered in a heavy fog. On a weekday the location is fairly empty and then, on a weekend, thousands of people arrive with their trailers, SUVs, self- built cars, quads and bikes.The artist’s interest in the location developed out of a fascination with these controlled 'pockets of freedom', as being particularly emblematic of North American culture; places where people go to leave the constraints of everyday existence behind to live out a fantasy of autonomy and freedom. A fantasy that is also instrumental in sustaining the political system that houses it.
25/01/2014 The Nunnery Gallery, 2-3pm Artist's Talk Matthew Krishanu and Cara Nahaul 'Another Country'
FREE and Booking required http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artists-talk-another-country-matthew-krishanu-cara-nahaul-tickets-9402917379
26/01/2014 Lima Zulu, 6pm QUEER CITY VHS: Lo-Res clips from vibrant queer life in NY, Manchester and Berlin, 1984-1994
Huw Lemmey and Andy von Montana introduce a bunch of youtube clips and mp4s profiling queer and gay subcultures from urban areas in the late 80’s and early 90s, focusing on the struggles and strife of activists, drama queens and dreamers of the day, from the AIDS crisis and the Miners’ Strike to German reunification.
26/01/2014 Parasol Unit, 2:30-4:30pm Family Storytelling: What Shape Is Your Story? (£5 per family)
Is a story a straight line with a beginning and an end? Join artist Judith Brocklehurst to investigate the archaeology of a story, creating narratives by building up layers of material and projection.
28/01/2014 Chelsea Space, 6-8:30pm Almost Bliss: Notes on Derek Jarman's Blue
'Almost Bliss' is a contemplation on the filmmaker, artist, writer, and activist Derek Jarman. This blue-lit installation centres on a set of Jarman’s hand painted and carefully written notebooks, giving insight into the artist’s creative thinking towards his seminal late film work, Blue. The dates of the exhibition encompass both the date of Jarman’s birth on 31st January 1942 and the date when he died, February 19th 1994, sadly marking the 20th anniversary of the artist’s death.
29/01/2014 Hus Gallery, 6-8pm private view Howard Tangye solo show
30/01/2014 David Zwirner, 6-8pm private view Al Taylor solo show
The exhibition will focus on early works, executed from the mid- to late-1980s, which marked the artist’s move from painting on canvas to creating makeshift objects constructed out of humble and sometimes humorous materials—such as old broomsticks and carpentry scraps—that he found in the trash. Taylor’s drawings and idiosyncratic assemblages offer a multitude of distinct viewpoints as they vacillate between three and two dimensions with their painterly exploration of line, shadow, perspective, and their precise use of color. As described by Klaus Kertess in the catalogue for Taylor’s first solo show in 1986, which included a number of these works, “Al Taylor’s sleight of hand eschews all bravado in favor of a casual clarity and directness. His modest materials and means succeed in constructing new tools for vision.”30/01/2014 Richard Saltoun, 7pm screening and talk 'The Cockettes' Elevator Girls In Bondage
Elevator Girls in Bondage (1972, 57’ colour, dir. Michael Kalmen), starring The Cockettes’ members, including Rumi Missabu and Hibiscus (Angel of Light). Followed by a talk by Cambridge lecturer Evie Salmon.The underpaid staff of a seedy hotel rise up in revolt when head Elevator Girl Maxine (Rumi) starts a Marxist-Feminist secret association to liberate the girls, followed by explicit sex scenes. The problem of economic and sexual exploitation are raised in this film with a surreal and fun cynicism. Not to be missed.
Free RSVP essential: giulia@richardsaltoun.com
31/01/2014 Arcadia Missa, 6-8:30pm Eloise Bonnevio 'The Meditative Relaxation Cycle'
The work consists of a specific designed device displaying the drawings of different artists - as an exercise they were invited to perform a series of 6 digital automatic drawings on pads or tablets - these artists include Ada Avestit, Ilja Karilampi, Anne de Boer, Juliette Bonneviot, Aude Pariset, Martin Kohout and more.
