Monday, 31st October 2011
5:04pm
Two Temple Place is a neo gothic architectural gem hidden along London’s embankment, originally built for William Waldorf Astor in 1895. The space, with the help of The Bulldog Trust, is now open to the public for free and is to house a series of exhibitions celebrating publicly owned art from UK regional collections.
The inaugural exhibition is a selection of highlights from the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, which is currently under renovation. ‘William Morris: Story, Memory, Myth’ takes exquisite prints, textiles, stained glass and sketches by Morris and his associates related to his love for literature....
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Monday, 24th October 2011
5:41pm
‘Gerhard Richter: Panorama’ is a major retrospective that groups together significant moments from five decades of, arguably, the most important living artist’s career (b.1932, Deresden).
Coinciding with the Richter’s 80th birthday, ‘Panorama’ presents an overview of the artist’s wide ranging practice and includes many of his most iconic paintings, such as Candle (1982), a figurative representation of the highly charged and symbolic object often portrayed in traditional history paintings, and his abstract squeegee series (1990s), which are bright and almost acidic. Also exhibited are his more experimental works inspired by Duchamp, such as 4 Panes of Glass (1967), and...
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Friday, 21st October 2011
4:26pm
Over the next few months, Galerie Boulakia presents a rare opportunity to see 40 works on paper by Pablo Picasso that he produced throughout his lifetime (1881-1973) and which have been largely unseen to date. This major show also marks Galerie Boulakia’s 40th anniversary.
‘Journey to the End of the Line: 40 Drawings by Picasso’ (until 17 December) hopes to reaffirm drawing as an essential part of the artist's creative practice. Picasso had a complex relationship with the worth of his own sketches; he was an admirer of Ingre’s principle: “First, the drawing; then, afterward only, the colour.” And...
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Monday, 10th October 2011
5:43pm
In it’s fifth year, the Pavilion of Art & Design (PAD) brings together 60 galleries from 11 countries to Berkeley Square, which opens this week from 12–16 October 2011. PAD’s rigorous selection process means that only the best dealers from Europe and North America within Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography and Tribal Art from 1860 to today will be exhibiting. Highlights include Luxembourg & Dayan (USA) gallery who have just opened a new London space to coincide with the fair. They will be debuting with works of modern art by Alexander Calder, Steven Parrino and Anselm Kiefer. Their...
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5:51pm
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962) is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Establishing her self in the 1980s as a pioneer of video art, her mesmerizing installations, comprised of dazzling, dilated colours projected among womb-like boudoirs, continue to seduce the viewer. Having previously exhibited major solo shows at Centre Pompidou, Paris, and MoMA, New York, ‘Eyeball Massage’ is, remarkably, her first major public survey show in the UK. 30 videos, sculptures and installation works spanning her career are exhibited alongside her best-known piece, Ever Is Over All (1997). This is an audio video diptych comprising two endlessly...
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Wood carving flourished in Southern Germany in the late 15th century onwards, resulting in exquisitely crafted devotional sculptures. Today, these figures and reliefs may be found for as little as £5,000, though the best examples command high prices.
