London: Kehinde Wiley – The world stage: Jamaica

October 15, 2013 butterfly

Stephen Friedman Gallery is currently hosting ‘The World Stage: Jamaica‘, Kehinde Wiley‘s first ever UK solo show. Wiley redefine portraiture by featuring Jamaican men and women assuming poses taken from 17th and 18th Century British portraiture. The exhibition is the first one in the ‘World Stage’ series to feature portraits of women. Reflecting on the relationship between the island and her former colonial power, Wiley is restaging history, transforming the race and gender of the traditional art-historical hero to reflect the contemporary urban environment. Intricate backgrounds and patterns contradict the sombre posturing of the subjects and allude to the bold styles of urban fashion.

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Kehinde Wiley – The world stage: Jamaica
Until 16 Nov 2013
Stephen Friedman Gallery
25-28 Old Burlington Street
London W1S 3AN

Art Fair, London

London: Strarta Art Fair

October 13, 2013 butterfly

STRARTA is a new Art Fair located at the Saatchi Gallery. Featuring 30 international galleries, the artwork on show includes modern paintings, drawings, limited edition prints, photography, sculptures and multi-media works ranging from £2,000 to well over £250,000.

The Strarta Art Fair is also hosting ARTWARS, an exhibition showcasing a regiment of Stormtrooper helmets that have been customised by leading artists such as Damien Hirst, David Bailey, Jake and Dinos Chapman, D*Face, Mr Brainwash, Antony Micallef.

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STRARTA
9 -13 OCTOBER 2013
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York’s HQ,
King’s Road, London SW3 4RY

Auctions, London

London: Saatchi Thinking Big auction

October 12, 2013 butterfly

The Saatchi Gallery and Christies are partnering for Thinking Big, a special auction of major contemporary sculpture and installation on 17 October offered to support the Saatchi Gallery’s continuing policy for free entry to all exhibitions, and free education programme for schools. To accommodate the monumental scale and scope of the work, Thinking Big is exhibited at The Sorting Office, a vast former postal depot in central London.

Thinking Big features the work of 50 artists who have been shown at the Saatchi Gallery, including YBAs, such as Tracey Emin and the Chapman brothers, as well as newer talents such as Toby Ziegler, Kader Attia, Conrad Shawcross, Kris Martin and Sterling Ruby. Among the many leading contemporary artists included are Berlinde de Bruyckere, Gert and Uwe Tobias, David Altmejd, Karla Black and Liu Wei.

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Thinking Big
Old Sorting Office
New Museum Street, London

London, Shows

London: JR – ACTIONS @ Lazarides Rathbone

October 11, 2013 butterfly 1 Comment

After inviting Londoners to his Inside / Out photobooth truck (covered here), JR opened his solo exhibition ACTIONS at Lazarides Rathbone yesterday. The work on display includes ACTIONS that the French photographer and street artist has worked on around the world like his Wrinkles of the City in Berlin earlier this year, his journey to North Korea, and his 2005 Portrait of a Generation project.

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JR – Actions
Until 14th Nov 2013
Lazarides Rathbone
11 Rathbone Place, London, W1T 1HR

Barcelona, Interviews/ Studio visits

Studio visit: Jorge RODRÍGUEZ-GERADA

October 9, 2013 butterfly

Earlier this year we had the chance to visit Cuban American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Guerada in his studio in Barcelona. Known for his large scale charcoal photorealistic portraits on buildings since the 90s, Jorge will be presenting a new solo show in Paris at Mathgoth gallery on 11 October called TEXTURE URBAINE.