Friday, 15th October 2010
11:11am
It’s that time again when the international art world descends upon London for Frieze Art Fair. Frieze is a unique opportunity to catch hundreds of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, from New York to New Zealand and emerging territories such as Asia and South America, all showcasing the best of their represented artists under one vast temporary roof in London’s Regent’s Park.
Frieze Art Fair was established in 2003 by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, who also own frieze the magazine. They now take a step back from curating and directing the fair but continue to watch it...
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12:38pm
Getting into the spirit of the approaching madness that is Frieze Art Fair is one of London’s oldest and most prestigious dealerships in old masters, Colnaghi. To coincide with the contemporary art fair, Bernheimer Fine Art Photography is hosting the exhibition ‘Julian Schnabel Polaroids: Beyond Infinity and Grandview’ at the Bond St gallery, an extraordinary collection of Polaroids by the contemporary American artist and film director.
Schnabel first received acclaim for his ‘plate paintings’ in the early 1980s and has since created an influential body of work, including paintings and sculpture, and he has successfully dabbled in filmmaking, directing Basquiat...
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Wednesday, 29th September 2010
2:52pm
Robilant + Voena’s new exhibition of 20th-century Italian art, ‘The Gallant Apparel: Italian Art and the Modern’, is small but perfectly formed. With a careful selection of works, it charts the development of post-war modernism in Italy through to the present day. Special attention is given to Lucio Fontana, whose six important works underpin the spatialist concern of the other exhibiting artists, from Enrico Castellani to Ettore Spalletti.
Fontana’s iconic slash paintings are punctuated with emblematic works by Alighiero Boetti and Gino De Dominicis, whose Untitled, 1993 (see above), has a subtle blue face that looks down from the gallery’s...
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Friday, 17th September 2010
12:21pm
Sprüth Magers, London, is hosting the first solo show of new works by the German artist Thomas Scheibitz in over two years. Presenting a selection of his recent drawings and sculpture, ‘A moving plan B – chapter TWO’ is an intelligent hanging of works that makes these rather thin and graphical pieces appear carefully considered, meticulously planned and fully realised.
What Scheibitz’s work lacks in depth is made up for in his flawless compositions and satisfying colour palette. The focus of ‘A moving plan B – chapter TWO’ is a large frieze of stimulating drawings (marker pen and paint) on...
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Friday, 10th September 2010
11:17am
For those previously unfamiliar with the work of Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) the Tate gives an excellent introduction. The exhibition is broken down into areas of his interest or periods of discovery through his travels to give a comprehensive, broadly chronological, overview of his work. It demonstrates that Muybridge was not only an inventor, making his own equipment able to capture his iconic images of motion and then display them with an animated projector, but also a successful scenic photographer, winning a medal in 1873 from the International Exhibition in Vienna, and important documenter of the rapidly developing Western states of...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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