Saturday 1 February 2014

Art Map February



All events listed in Art Map London are free, open to the public, and do not require RSVP, unless otherwise stated.


SATURDAY 1 Feb


David Zwirner, 11:30am gallery talk with Ulrich Loock

Ulrich Loock is a Berlin-based art critic and curator. He is also a lecturer at the University of the Arts, Bern. From 1985 to 2010, he served as the director of Kunsthalle Bern, the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, and the deputy director of Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
Space is limited. To RSVP, contact Electra Soutzoglou at 02035383165, electra@davidzwirner.com
Layson a Stick (Blue Balls), 1992 Wooden broomsticks with enamel paint, wire, and plastic leis 90.2 x 71.1 x 99.7 cm 

MONDAY 3 Feb


Parasol Unit, 7pm Lecture 'Collections in Context' by Dr Venetia Porter (£6/£5)

Venetia Porter, Middle East curator at the British Museum, will discuss the British Museum’s recent acquisition of Canan Tolon’s body of work ‘Futur imparfait’, within the wider context of the museum’s acquisitions of works by Turkish and other Middle Eastern artists.


TUESDAY 4 Feb


Frameless Gallery, 6-9pm private view Jack Spencer Ashworth 'Dichotomy'

Jack’s work reconciles his passion for painting and preoccupation with the human form, with his interest in architecture and takes the form of large oil paintings of figures distorted and abstracted within architectural space.
Frameless is pleased to host Jack’s first solo exhibition, bringing together a mixture of paintings and drawings - old and new - as well as sculpture: a medium which the artist has been experimenting with recently.
Digital Haemorrhage II, Biro on Paper, 76.3 x 56.3, 2013

Marlborough, 6-8pm private view Stephen Hannock 'Moving Water, Fleeting Light'

Stephen Hannock began his career as an apprentice to Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) while studying art on exchange at Smith College. Early mentors also included the Massachusetts curators and art historians Elizabeth and Agnes Mongan of the Smith College Museum of Art and the Fogg Art Museum, respectively. After developing a novel technique using unstable phosphorescent acrylic paints in the 1970s to explore illuminative effects, in the early 1980s Hannock moved to Manhattan and fully engaged with the downtown contemporary art scene. He returned to Massachusetts in 2003. Landscape has since been his predominant motif, coupled with an evolving mastery of technique resulting in pictures that appear to glow from within.
Great Falls at Dawn for Xu Bing, 72 x 144, 2013
In conjunction with the current exhibition 'Now Showing', Berlin based artist duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz will be in conversation with Irene Revel, Director of Electra and Fatima Hellberg, Curator at Cubitt, about their research based approach to film making, which they term 'queer archaeology', deriving their films from archival documents that would otherwise remain unseen.


Cob Gallery, 6-9pm book launch Miriam Elia 'We Go To The Gallery'

The Cob Gallery is delighted to announce the launch of We Go To The Gallery, Miriam Elia’s new take on a 1960s Ladybird book. Peter, Jane and Mummy go to a gallery and learn about sex, death and contemporary art. Have you taken children to a gallery recently? Did you struggle to explain the work to them in plain and simple English? Well, those awkward moments are now over. Miriam Elia has created a colourful new ‘Harlequin Ladybird book,’ for parents and young children to understand contemporary art (but mainly parents) .

Rob Tufnell Gallery, 6-9pm private view Tm Humphreys 'Casa Particular'

Trained as a sculptor, Tom Humphreys’ work is often discussed as painting but retains a sculptural sensibility. Conventional supports such as paper and canvas, and more unusual materials such as ceramic dinner plates, are variously collaged, painted or printed or drawn upon and assembled into improvised frames. He uses both industrial materials and those of the artisan – emulsion paint and artist’s pigment, permanent marker and charcoal. Works may also employ photography, upholstery foam and, most recently, neon lights. The title of the exhibition is appropriated from the phrase used for private guest houses in Cuba.



THURSDAY 6 Feb


Luxembourg & Dayan, 6-8pm private view Lucian Freud 'A Not So Still Life-Naked Portraits'

Lucian Freud created an entirely new genre in the depiction of the human figure. His ‘naked portraits’ present subjects as pure animal forms not dissimilar from inanimate still life objects, while at the same time rendering painted flesh with an extraordinary, penetrating humanity. ‘A Not So Still Life’ presents Freud’s late large paintings ‘Naked portrait in a red chair’ (1999) and ‘David and Eli’ (2003–4).


Studio1.1 Gallery, 6-9pm Art/converters

When we first launched our Art/Converters fund-raiser in 2012 we were astonished and incredibly touched at the response, and didn't dare presume we could call on such generosity more than once. But circumstances - as ever - and also the encouragement of fellow artists and friends have allowed us to hope this could be a regular biennial event.


Schwartz Gallery, 6-9pm First Thursday '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.


Anise Gallery, 7pm (doors at 6:30pm) Architectural Photography panel discussion hosted by Miniclick

Miniclick is heading back to the Anise Gallery in London for our second panel discussion with them, in what we hope will become a pretty long series. Back in October 2013 we curated a panel on contemporary British landscape photography to coincide with Marc Wilson’s beautiful exhibition of his Last Standwork.
The gallery has a strong architectural leaning and in February, whilst Paul Raftery’s fantastic “Berlin Voids” exhibition is on, they’ve invited us back to put together a panel on architectural photography. Photographing architecture is an odd thing – creating two dimensional images of someone else’s work of art that is inherently intended to be experienced in three dimensions. Most buildings are seen by more people on the pages of magazines, or on blogs, than they are in person. It also has a history of being photographed empty, devoid of the people who the structure is intended to be used by in the first place. We’ll be discussing these points, and many others as we look into how and why architecture is represented in imagery the way it is.


IMT, 5-9pm First Thursday 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.


Narrative Gallery, 6-8pm private view Mahmoud Bakhshi 'Talk Cloud'

Narrative Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Mahmoud Bakhshi, the first of his in a commercial gallery space in London. Bakhshi’s art deals with a visual aesthetic that developed in Iran in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He reflects on the recent history of Iran through a recontextualisation of the official symbolism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and uses deeper historical and traditional formal references to ground this recent history within the larger context of Iranian identity.
Mahmoud Bakhshi, Untitled, 91-10 (Hard copy series), 2012

Boxpark, 6-9pm Instagram Exhibition Launch

For February, we're celebrating mobile phone cameras, digitalised retro-filters and…us!
We'll be choosing the 80 greatest ever Instagrams that have been tagged with #boxpark to be printed and displayed for an entire month! We'll cover our gallery in your pics from our events and lunches, your lunches and new purchases with probably a good few general 'shipping container mall' shots for good measure…
The launch of the night will see our upper deck taken over by the Instagramming community
along with some DJ's and free drinks - head down!


Charlie Smith London, 6:30-8pm finissage 'Young Gods' group show

Artists: alph Brealey (Chelsea College of Arts), Jelena Bulajić (City & Guilds of London Art School), Mr & Mrs Phillip Cath (Goldsmiths University of London), Yussef Hu (Slade School of Fine Art), Virgile Ittah (Royal College of Art), David Lane (Chelsea College of Arts), James H Robertson (Royal Academy Schools), Molly Rooke (Royal College of Art), Mitra Saboury (Goldsmiths University of London), Marie von Heyl (Royal Academy Schools).


Frameless Gallery, 6-9pm private view 'Repentista #1 Emerging Contemporary Artists from Brazil'

Artists: Tulio Pinto, Rodrigo Sassi, Sofia Borges, Rodrigo Bueno, Felippe Moraes, Guilherme Dable, Ana Holck , Gabriel Netto, Pedro Varela, Chico Togni, Luis Roque and Rodrigo Matheus
A known figure in Brazilian popular culture,Repentista is a poet, an artist of words and improvisation. Using the challenge to the other as the starting point of his creations, he appropriates situations, words, gestures of people standing around to engage audience and stand out from the others. In this show, Repentista represents the mastery and technique necessary to perform any activity in order to seem sudden, when in fact there is a very elaborate work behind it. Repentista is a collaborative effort that aims to develop a platform to showcase Brazilian contemporary artistic production. 
Rodrigo Bueno, Eyewitness, after Harald Schultz, 2013
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.
Variable Shift Machine No. 1, 1963, Wood, glass, tin, paint and electronic components 78 x 47 x 22.5 cm, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro,  London

Pace Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm private view James Turrell solo show

Pace London is honoured to present an exhibition of work by James Turrell from 7 February to 5 April 2014 at 6 Burlington Gardens. Turrell is among the most influential artists of the past fifty years and Pace is proud to continue its long commitment to the artist stretching back to 1967. This is the gallery’s sixth exhibition of his work following his unprecedented concurrent museum exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA, on view until 6 April 2014), and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.


The Graffiti Life Gallery, 6:30-8pm private view 'Sail' group show

Artists: Agent, Adam Brazier, Benjamin Badbones, Curtis Hylton, Olivia Skalkos, Street Creep, Tors.
The show includes a glimpse at pieces from the gallery’s permanent collection, along with an exclusive ‘Last Chance to Buy’ section; showcasing popular art from previous shows for the very last time.
This month’s show also includes the launch of an exclusive print range, featuring risograph prints from 6 of our best graffiti artists. The Last Chance to Buy section will offer a final chance to get your hands on pieces from the StreetCreep, Darren John, Ventza and many others. 



FRIDAY 7 Feb


Jealous Gallery, 6:30-9pm private view Dada Collective 'Another Man's Life: so it goes'

What happens when you come across a plastic bag filled with another man’s life revealed through a collection of discarded family photographs? The park bench with a blank plaque, an open book left on the seat, framed pictures on the wall and a selection of photographs showing moments of another Man’s Life. In this new installation by Dada Collective these elements are a catalyst for exploring our acceptance of the photograph as a souvenir and aide memoire. Rather than using these found photographs to piece together a puzzle for an unknown protagonist Dada Collective explore our common need to punctuate and archive moments in our lives. Stripped from any personal emotional attachment we can look at these photographs dispassionately and to see them for what they are, at times funny, intimate, charming, telling or even surreal. A glimpse into someone else’s life that is fundamentally no different from our own.


SUNDAY 9 Feb


Parasol Unit, 2:30-4pm Sunday Family Workshop: Photographic Transformations

This workshop will explore architecture through photography and collage, blending the borders of documentation and imagination. Beginning with a walk outside the gallery, participants will use cameras to capture different buildings, and these images will then undergo exciting transformations…
£5/ Family, Suitable for ages 5-15yrs


MONDAY 10 Feb


Massimo de Carlo, 6-8pm private view Yan Pei-Ming 'Innocent'



Pace Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm private view Pavel Pepperstein 'Debris of the Future'

Pace London is pleased to present an exhibition of new drawings and paintings by Pavel Pepperstein from 11 February to 15 March 2014 at 6-10 Lexington Street. Debris of the Future will be Pepperstein’s first exhibition with Pace and coincides with the UK-Russia Year of Culture programme initiated by the British Council and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At once intriguing and confounding, Pepperstein’s pictorial language appropriates the Suprematist iconography of the Russian avant-garde, impregnating its minimalist forms with mysterious figures drawn from Russian folklore, Hollywood films, science fiction and the artist’s own ingenious fantasies.Self-titled “psychedelic realist”, Pepperstein’s practice develops out of a desire to forge a new Russian representative style that will salvage the remnants of a rich cultural history being woefully destroyed in the name of progress.
 

Simon Lee, 6-8pm private view George Condo solo show

Blurring the line between comedy and tragedy, the grotesque and the beautiful, the critical and the empathetic, Condo has developed a provocative and adventurously imaginative pictorial language, which has helped make him one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. Since first gaining attention in the early 1980s with his ‘fake Old Master’ paintings, Condo’s oeuvre has encompassed an incredible diversity of styles and media. In painting, drawing, sculpture and print, his works have been informed by an art historical trajectory spanning from the Renaissance and the Baroque through to Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Speaking to the
multiplicity of sources from which his work derives, Condo himself has stated, ‘The only way for me to feel the difference between every other artist and me is to use every artist to become me’. 


WEDNESDAY 12 Feb

Artists: Fred Butler, Jonjo Jury, A Man to Pet, Cassandra Yapp.
This February curators Ryan Lanji & Saskia Wickins unveil a two-part exhibition celebrating some of Dalston’s cultural icons through a modern interpretation of Andy Warhol’s iconic screen tests.
Dalston Screentests will act as a two-part exhibition inviting eight of Dalston’s most iconic creatives to Stunt Dolly hair salon where they will be captured in a screen test. The silent film portraits will then be unveiled in Stunt Dolly and continue to Dalston Superstore where screen printer Cassandra Yap will transform the short portraits into artworks fusing Warhol, Dalston and it’s championed creatives.
The private view consists of two parts, the second part will take place in Dalson Superstore.
MUST RSVP TO: info@stuntdolly.com

Dalston Superstore, 9pm-till late private view Dalston Screentests Part II

Artists: Fred Butler, Jonjo Jury, A Man to Pet, Cassandra Yapp.
This February curators Ryan Lanji & Saskia Wickins unveil a two-part exhibition celebrating some of Dalston’s cultural icons through a modern interpretation of Andy Warhol’s iconic screen tests.
Dalston Screentests will act as a two-part exhibition inviting eight of Dalston’s most iconic creatives to Stunt Dolly hair salon where they will be captured in a screen test. The silent film portraits will then be unveiled in Stunt Dolly and continue to Dalston Superstore where screen printer Cassandra Yap will transform the short portraits into artworks fusing Warhol, Dalston and it’s championed creatives.
The private view consists of two parts, the first part will take place in Stunt Dolly Hair Salon.


The Griffin Gallery, 6:30pm private view 'Water + Colour' curated by Rebecca Pelly – Fry
Artists: Barbara Nicholls (UK), Stephanie Tuckwell (UK), Alf Lohr (UK/GER), Freya Douglas-Morris (UK), Peter Haslam Fox (UK), Laura Ball (USA), Kim McCarty (USA), Amy Park (USA), Emilie Clark (USA)
Water + Colour is a group exhibition showcasing the breadth and variety of contemporary use of water-based colour, such as ink, watercolour and acrylic.Watercolour, in particular, is a much misunderstood medium and this exhibition aims to surprise the audience through showcasing spectacular contemporary artwork in a range of styles.


Eagle Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm private view Carolyn Thompson 'Great Loves and Other Works'

Carolyn Thompson’s first solo exhibition with the Eagle Gallery focuses on a series of recent works that use Penguin’s Great Loves publications as the source for re-readings of the original texts. Thompson’s work plays in conceptual ways with the context and tone of the books, which include Boccaccio’s The Eaten Heart, Freud’s Deviant Love and Kierkegaard’s The Seducer’s Diary.
What makes you think you're so special 2013

Richard Saltoun, 7pm tour of the exhibition with drag performer and writer Jonny Woo.

Jonny Woo has been a central figure for reviving the cabaret scene and for taking alternative drag performance to mainstream audiences since 2000. He has performed at the ICA, Bistroteque, Soho Theatre, and in a variety of international festivals, also curating events for MTV, Selfridges and The Royal Opera House.
Free RSVP essential: giulia@richardsaltoun.com
Image courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery

Parasol Unit, 6-9pm Material Matters: Adult Creative Writing Workshop with Simon Pomery

How many stories can you create from the work of Canan Tolon? Can you invent a biography for any of the materials she uses: rust, mold, coffee grounds, grass? Your subject, story, angle, and form are up to you. To borrow a phrase from Zibigniew Herbert, let’s go build a world “not from atoms/but from remnants”.
£10/£8 (Includes a glass of wine)


Charlie Smith London, 6:30-8:30pm private view The Great War

Artists: Harold de Bree, Florian Heinke, Eric Manigaud, Hugh Mendes
Charlie Smith London presents four European artists to mark the centenary of the beginning of The Great War. Working across mediums in installation, drawing and painting, Harold de Bree (Netherlands), Florian Heinke (Germany), Eric Manigaud (France) and Hugh Mendes (United Kingdom) have made new work in response to the brief. Each artist was specifically invited by gallery director Zavier Ellis for their ongoing investigations into world war, with it being a dominant theme in all of their practices. Hailing from European countries that played significant roles between 1914 and 1918, each artist approaches the theme with profound and reflective endeavour.
Hugh Mendes 'Sgt Stubby', 2013 Oil on linen 30x20cm

POLYply, 7pm poetry readings and artists' videos '28 Looking Askance'

Artists: Jennie Cole / Richard Crow / Angharad Davies / Allen Fisher / Douglas Park / NaoKo TahaHashi
POLYply is a series of events foregrounding cross-genre writing through performances, poetry readings, film screenings and installations, by participants including poets, artists, musicians and architects. The aim of POLYply is to promote dialogue and discussion amongst creative practitioners writing in an expanded field, by providing a space for the dissemination of new work within poetic practice.


Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, 6:30-9pm private view 'Arcana' group show

Artists: Gemma Nelson, Martine Poppe, Amy Stephens
You are surrounded by colour, vivid photographs, vibrant canvases and shiny, copper sculpture. And then, amongst this sea of visual stimulation, there is non-colour, pastel, and cream working their way in, their sheer contrast as striking as their neighbours. Symbols and shapes vie with each other for your attention – some obscured, others arresting, and yet more hidden in plain sight. Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery is pleased to present ARCANA, a group show bringing together the works of Gemma Nelson, Martine Poppe and Amy Stephens. Running from 14 February – 16 March 2014, the exhibition draws on the mystic origins of the word ‘arcana’ as a celebration of secrets and mysteries, and a reflection upon positive spiritual sensitivity. Imagine the scene: a lonely fair ground waits patiently in the night, the word ‘Baloonride’ [sic], lighting up the surrounding desert darkness like a soft beacon of memories and days gone by. Nearby, a tondo painted in vibrant inks is witness to intricate shapes, a myriad of colours and forms blooming across the canvas, stretching out and multiplying to create a psychedelic universe. 


FRIDAY 14 Feb


Daniel Blau Gallery, 6-8pm private view 'Eyewitness: Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs'

The exhibition is composed of original vintage prints of famous photographs, many of which have documented and shaped our history. The show includes Robert H. Jackson’s photograph of the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald and Paul Vathis’ “Two Men with a Problem”, amongst many others. We believe that the value of these photographs is found in their cultural and artistic significance as well as in the historical nature of the prints themselves.
Image courtesy of Daniel Blau gallery. 

Chelsea Space talks, 11am-5pm screening, performances relating to the works of Derek Jarman

Working with specialists, friends and fellow artists the day will examine the space produced by Jarman’s work, whether it be through works on paper, painting and film, or his connection and influence on choreography and performance. Speakers include Philip Hoare, James Mackay, Christopher Hauke, Peter Fillingham, Jo Melvin and a panel discussion chaired by Donald Smith with Stephen Farthing, Ed Webb-Ingall and friends and colleagues of Derek Jarman. The event includes a screening of films by Derek Jarman and Joachim Koester and a performance by Patrick Staff.
For more information and further programme details, contact Karen Di Franco: info@chelseaspace.org
BOOK via the UAL website http://ual.force.com/apex/EventFormPage?id=a0RD0000009ZNg8MAG&book=true
This event, and our gallery exhibition, are part of a year long celebration of the the life and works of Derek Jarman (1942-1994). Go to www.jarman2014.org to see more.
Derek Jarman, Avebury Series No.4, 1973. Northampton Museums & Art Gallery

Herrick Gallery, 6-9pm private view Maria Teresa Gavazzi 'Abbracciamoci' 

Herrick Gallery is happy to present a new interactive installation by Maria Teresa Gavazzi with sound designed by Riccardo Spina.
Sometimes we feel blue, sometimes we feel happy,
sometimes we feel lost… sometime we need a hug!
A huggable experience especially for you on Valentine’s Day.
Blow into it your deepest desires and get in the mood for cuddles!


Ben Oakley Gallery and Kevin Threesauds, 6:30-9:30pm private view 'Room to Let'

Artist: Ray Richardson, David Bray, Ben Oakley.
Following on from the Kevin Threesauds sell out exhibition in 2013, where the Ben Oakley Gallery was transformed into ‘Kevin’s’ Local Pub, which included a real bar, dart board, roaring fire, piano player and the canapés were pie n mash and jellied eels. This annual event has taken another creative twist, entitled 'ROOM to LET', the Gallery will be transformed into Kevins bedsit with fifteen paintings loosely based on Kevins family and life, five from each artist.


SATURDAY 15 Feb


Standpoint Gallery, 4pm a discussion with 'dark ecologist' Paul Kingsnorth 'How to Live Now'

Paul Kingsnorth co-founded the Dark Mountain Project in response to his acceptance that a campaigning, politicised approach to preventing “the onward march of the human economy”, with its apparent commitment to “a denuded future in a much poorer world” was doomed to fail. What, then, replaces it? His talks and publications over the last several years have built a theoretical framework and a material support structure in which meaningful work and ideas can be made and shared.
Some of the areas that will be discussed are: what we have lost, and are starting to forget that we have lost; post-nature ecology; vital materialism; what challenges to global capital are thinkable; what embracing despair can offer; logos versus mythos; what place art/writing/music can hold in ecological thinking and action; and how rational are human beings, really?


TUESDAY 18 Feb

Frameless Gallery, 6-9pm private view 'Czech Postmodernism - Lone Rangers'

Artists: Stanislav Diviš, Jiří David, Antonín Střížek, Petr Nikl, Jiří Surůvka, Tomáš Císařovský, Petr Písařík and Karel Štědrý.
The key focus is the generation that emerged in the 1980s, a time when the international phenomenon of Postmodernism was radically changing perceptions about the way art is created and interpreted. The search of the young artists to define oneʼs identity and the expression of critical views of societyʼs ritualistic and repressive ʻnormsʼ that characterise the spirit of Postmodernism took on even sharper meaning in the reality of late-Communist Czechoslovakia. Conjuring the image of a paradoxical posse of solitary figures, the title of the show, Lone Rangers, can be interpreted as a reference to the reflective, occasionally romantic and often self-ironic way these artists have found ways of engaging directly with the society they live in. 
This exhibition ties in with the launch of the book Pictures of Czech Postmodernism by Jiří Přibáň, Professor of Law at Cardiff University.
Jiří Suruvka, Uplne cela MM II (Marilyn Monroe) collage series

WEDNESDAY 19 Feb


Drawing Room, 6-8:30pm private view 'Abstract Drawing' curated by Richard Deacon

Artists: Tomma Abts, Roger Ackling, Anni Albers, David Austen, David Batchelor, Victor Ciato, Garth Evans, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, John Golding, Lothar Götz, Frederick Hammersley, Victoria Haven, Susan Hefuna, Eva Hesse, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Anish Kapoor, Hilma af Klint, John Latham, Bob Law, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Kazimir Malevich, Emma McNally, Sam Messenger, Nasreen Mohamedi, Jackson Pollock, Dorothea Rockburne, Mira Schendel, Richard Serra, Kishio Suga, Darrell Viner, Alison Wilding, Richard Wright.
6 – 6.30pm Directors’ Tour of exhibition (open to all)
6.30 – 8.30pm Private view
Alison Wilding Crate 3, 2001 Gouache, inks and charcoal on paper, 55.5 x 76 cm © Alison Wilding 2013. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the artist and Karsten Schubert, London

Standpoint Gallery, 6:30-8pm screening and artist talk Tom Varley

During his residency at Standpoint, Tom has been developing new work exploring speech perception and ‘multisensory-integration’; the way information from the different senses is integrated by the nervous system.


THURSDAY 20 Feb


Alison Jacques Gallery, 6-8pm private view Ryan Mosley solo show



Beers Contemporary, 6-9pm private view Scott Carter: 'The Shape of Things'

Beers Contemporary is proud to present The Shape of Things, a solo exhibition by American artist Scott Carter including sculptural works and unique installations. Carter's artistic practice encompasses a wide artistic discourse, including art, design, architecture, and even sound, but always relate to the nature of space and its relationship to the individual. For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Carter will engage in a brief 'residency' on-site at Beers Contemporary, transforming the gallery space in the week prior to the opening of the exhibition, creating an immersive installation and numerous sculptural pieces using only the materials that are encompassed within - and sourced from - the walls of the gallery itself.


The Outsiders Gallery, 6-9pm private view Emma Richardson 'Feast'

The Outsiders are pleased to welcome Southampton- based artist Emma Richardson for her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Feast, the showcase, comprising large-scale paintings and drawings, explores the jungle of the subconscious and the unconscious imagination.


FRIDAY 21 Feb


Domobaal Gallery, 6-8pm Christipher Hanlon Chamber solo show

Chamber, a word that suggests enclosure, has an expansive field of meanings: cloud chambers, brooding chambers, chamber pots, chamber music, bullet chambers, dark chambers, chambres claires. Christopher Hanlon's chamber presents us with rubber plants, heads of hair, poly–satin and velvet pile. His motifs are interior, accumulated, and mute except for their quiet introverted chatter once our backs are turned. These paintings present us with their posterior challenging us to find the right words to describe them with. An empty podium dressed in fabric. A velveteen oxblood rondel that offers no point of entry. It hovers slightly above the floor, incorporating in its wefts (or woofs) and warps decades of dust and follicles. A rubber plant. Rubber plants yield a milky white latex, irritant to the eyes and fatal if taken internally. A rubber plant is tough love. The back of a shiny marble head with a strand of hair twirled into place by whom exactly?
Rubber Plant oil on linen stretched over board 60×50.3cm 2014, studio shot.

SUNDAY 23 Feb


Boxpark, 1-4pm Live Art and Q&A with The KrahQ&A: 1pm - 3pm, DJ and Drinks: 3pm - 4pm

The Krah was born in the UK and raised in Athens. In his teens he started painting in the streets of Athens. Doing his first murals with spray paint in 1997, he quickly became one of the most noted Greek street-Artists, not only in Greece, but internationally through his tours around Europe and Asian countries such as Japan and Thailand.
He started his working career doing murals, before moving on to illustrating magazines and books, and then working for advertising agencies. Later he moved on to working for fashion companies. It remains clear that his passion for street art underpinned all of his work and led him into creating work for galleries. Now he lives in East London and works as a freelance artist/illustrator. The Krah's work is in a range of private collections and he creates art shows in London and worldwide.


TUESDAY 25 Feb


Gazelli Art House, 6-8pm panel discussion on the cross-disciplinary movement in the arts

Guest Speakers:
Caroline Till - Director of FranklinTill and Course Director of MA Textile Futures at Central St. Martins
Alex Newson - Curator, Design Museum
Rory Blain - Director - S edition
Inspired by the diverse disciplines of Aziz+Cucher applied to their work through their collaborative years, we critically explore and question the necessity of the current approach to the strict separation of mediums.
Please RSVP to rsvp@gazelliarthouse.com

181 contemporary artists, from 51 countries, have individually reinterpreted the Mona Lisa for The Gioconda Project. Their art will completely fill the W3Gallery in Acton, London, from 25 Feb 2014 to 05 March. The exhibition is free to attend. Through their inspired creations, all contributing artists have joined a not-for-profit experiment to bring Contemporary Art to everyone through one of the most famous works of art in history “La Gioconda”.


WEDNESDAY 26 Feb


Breese Little, 6-9pm private view Jan Manski 'Possesia'

Possesia introduces Jan Manski’s current project, an uncompromising body of work whose evolution reveals a ritualised re‐awakening of the destruction that spread across Europe 100 years ago. An atmosphere of shamanistic ritual is set against striking metaphors for supremacy and intimidation. Manski presents a lexicon of cruelty in POSSESIA, introducing a pagan world of the occult merged with a God‐sent plague.



Herrick Gallery, 6-9pm private view Aly Helyer 'Soft Subversions'

Herrick Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of works by Aly Helyer, featuring a series of recent gouaches on paper and new drypoint prints.
Helyer’s paintings are an explosion and re-imagining of mythological figures, universal archetypes, monsters, amorphous hybrid creatures, deities, bogey men, child gods, the iconic, tricksters, magic, voodoo...primordial images built up from ancestral and shared cultural experiences that surface by night in our dreams. Helyer says she is curious about what lurks in the woodshed and who is whispering under the floorboards or in the shadows. She seeks to capture fleeting impressions of these monsters and gods by painting with a mixture of conscious and unconscious decisions, chance happenings and a stream of conscious episodes. The world these creations inhabit is the other side of the hall of mirrors, she takes chances with them, ruins them and then desperately tries to claw their precious faces back from the mud, employing the skills of an alchemist.
An exhibition of new work by A. K. Dolven, featuring paintings and sound work. The exhibition will span both the upper and lower gallery spaces.


THURSDAY 27 Feb

London-based collective ‘Intercapillary Places’ brings us an evening of poetry and critical discussion on urbanism, repetition, the absurd and common space. With presentations from contemporary poet Sean Bonney, and writer and journalist, Owen Hatherley.


Cell Project Space, event performance by MHSR Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper

MSHR, Detail, Ceremonial Chamber, 2013

The film features Andy Warhol's Superstars Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn.
Gavin Butt is professor of Visual Cultures and Performance at Goldsmiths University, London. He explores art and performance practices across high and popular cultures and within underground and subcultures. He organized the 3-year project Performance Matters (2009-2012) and co-directed the film This is Not a Dream (2012). He is writer and editor for visual cultures and queer studies.
The evening is curated and introduced by Giulia Casalini.
Free RSVP essential: giulia@richardsaltoun.com
Image courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery

Campbell Works, 6:30-9pm private view 'Shadow Worlds'

Artists: Harriet Murray, Neil Taylor, Belfast Road Residents
As part of the Our Museum project funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Campbell Works has been commissioned by Hackney Museum to create Shadow Worlds, a site specific installation in Belfast Road in the Spring 2014
As many of you have had acquaintance with Belfast Road over the years, we invite you to take part in this next project through the autumn.
Working in partnership with Hackney Museum and Hackney Archives we will be exploring the history of Belfast Road, formerly Stamford Terrace, interviewing residents and business’s and recording many stories from the street. The project will culminate in an ambitious installation to be exhibited at Hackney Museum and in Belfast Road in February 2014.

Carl Freedman Gallery, 6-8pm book launch by Armando Andrade Tudela

To celebrate the launch of Armando Andrade Tudela’s new publication, a survey of work from 2003 - 2012, Carl Freedman Gallery are launching a limited edition of four C-type photographs.

FRIDAY 28 Feb

Chisenhale Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm private view Camille Henrot 'Pale Fox'

The first UK solo exhibition by French, New York based artist Camille Henrot who works across sculpture, drawing and video. This new commission follows Henrot’s presentation at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), for which she received the Silver Lion for most promising young artist, and develops from her recent residency at The Smithsonian in Washington DC, where she explored the museum’s extensive collection of artefacts. This new body of work makes links between the history of the universe and the universe of the artists’ studio, the construction of knowledge and its relationship to haptic experience.
Camille Henrot Grosse Fatigue, 2013, Video (color, sound); 13 min, Courtesy the artist, Silex Films and kamel mennour, Paris


Arcadia Missa, 6:30-8pm Viktor Timofeev 'Palace of Peace'

Viktor Timofeev's Project Palace of Peace is drawing to its conclusion at Arcadia Missa Gallery, after touring many venues and countries throughout 2013. The private view will feature work and performances throughout the evening, from: Cindie Cheung, Viktor Timofeev, Simon Werner, and Clifford Sage/Rescund. And a unique artist edition, by Viktor Timofeev.
http://palaceofpeaceandreconciliation.tumblr.com/
Image courtesy of Arcadia Missa.

ASC Gallery, 7pm 'Screening' (The third)' with Beth Collar, Rebecca Lennon, Peter Sant, Tessa Power, Rob Lye, Chooc Ly Tan and Nicholas Brooks

Notes On An Autobiography is an on going project with the same artists occupying different spaces, durations and modes of presentation over an undetermined amount of time.
The inaugural exhibition was held in 2012, as an exhibition presented as an event, a linear unravelling of works presented within a one hour timeframe at a one night event at Limoncello (London). This, the second phase of the project, is an exhibition with correlative audio works available online at www.notesonanautobiography, a publication and two events that expand upon aspects of the static exhibition at ASC Gallery (London).
Image Courtesy of ASC Gallery.

Enclave Gallery, 6-9pm private view Sue Cohen 'Gilda's House'

Gilda a fictitious character is the focus of my work that has presented itself in sculpture, painting and installation.
A continuing series of works that explore the stories and events through a narrative that often has a shady undercurrent. Eventful and sometimes dangerous Gilda’s life is a masterpiece of survival. She is the reference to assimilation, survival, departure ‘The Other’. Othering is imperative to national identities, where practices of admittance and segregation can form and sustain boundaries and national character. Othering helps distinguish between home and away, the uncertain or certain. It often involves the demonization and dehumanization of groups, which further justifies attempts to civilize and exploit these 'inferior' others. The connection between Gilda’s House and the ‘Other’ manifests itself in the narratives of Gilda life which crosses boundaries conventions and morals. However this is not a story board of events but a political commentary on the lives of the ‘other’ the people born outside normal society that take a voyage through life that is troubling but triumphant in survival.



















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