WEEK: 21th-27th April
There are loads of art events such as private views, artists talks, and screenings happening around London, and often it is impossible to choose where to go and what to see. To help you with the choice Jenny Judova from Art Map London will be advising on what events seem worth attending during the week.
WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL
Breese Little Gallery, 6-9pm Elio Rodríguez: Corridas y Venidas
Corridas y Venidas is a selection of Rodríguez’s recent work including paintings, silkscreen prints, etchings and sculpture. This multi media selection is unusual for Rodríguez who tends to exhibit the many strands of his practise in isolation. He describes the processes as so distinct that the results can suggest a different artist at work. However, clear threads are consistent through Rodríguez’s practise, contributing to the commercialised myth of Macho Enterprise, the concept behind his entire body of work.
www.breeselittle.com/
The Contemporary London and Griffin Gallery, 6:30-8:30pm private view Archaelogies group show
Artists: Vasilis Avramidis, Jess Littlewood, Suzanne Moxhay and Reginal Aloysious
Archaeologies presents alternative landscapes that invite us into uncanny private new worlds of imagination, fantasy and marked human absence. Both Avramidis and Aloysius create intensely detailed and skillfully delicate lush environments, where architecture is entangled with wild vegetation and the traditional and modern are meshed together. In contrast Littlewood and Moxhay’s post-Apocalyptic isolated spaces confront the viewer with a silent timelessness of cultivated order and the struggle for the ideal. With each of the works the viewer stumbles onto moments where they are forced to question the narratives of what has just happened and what events are yet to take place.
www.thecontemporarylondon.com
THURSDAY 24 APRIL
Pace Gallery, 6-8pm private view Zhang Huan solo show
Spring Poppy Fields features fourteen vividly coloured, oil on linen paintings that have occupied the artist’s practice between 2011 and 2014. Alluding to Buddhist masks and iconography, the series is inspired by Zhang Huan’s extensive travel to Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and India.
www.pacegallery.com/
Zabludowicz Collection, 7pm film screening ‘Another way of Reading’
To co-incide with her Infinite City micro-residency artist Frances Scott hosts a screening of short films, including works selected from the Zabludowicz Collection and Camden’s Art Collection.
FREE, Booking recommended
www.zabludowiczcollection.com/
FRIDAY 25 APRIL
Bearspace, 6-9pm private view Alastair Gordon ‘What You Will’
Alastair John Gordon’s recent work strongly references a tradition of illusionistic painting that proliferated in Northern Europe from about 1600. A specific form of illusionism called quodlibet(what you will). From here he paints an array of selected objects that on first glance appear to be ‘pinned’ or ‘taped’ in low relief. Certain questions emerge about the craft of the artist, representation and the artist’s materials.
www.bearspace.co.uk
Pump House Gallery, 6:30-8:30 private view The Garment Project: a Fashion Exhibition
Curated by Orsola de Castro, The Garment Project celebrates the creative processes involved in the conception and realisation of making clothes for the fashion industry. Including work by young people who have been collaborating with Fashion Enter Ltd (part of FashionCapital.co.uk), professional designers, pattern cutters and makers, this inspiring exhibition showcases the range of skills and imagination behind the finished garment.
www.pumphousegallery.org.uk
HYSTERIA, 1-11pm one day exhibition
Artsits: Lewis G. Burton, Andie Macario, Victor Ivanov, Amy Kingsmill, Katherine Howe, Rosanna McNamara, Agata Cardoso, Giulia Loi, Bethe Bronson, Anna Kolosova, Yasmine Akim, Emma Harvey, Julia Maddison, Katy Wallwork, Maria Marquez, Simone Fontana Reis, Kerry Burns, Trinity Spöhrer, Lena Mattsson, Paula Chambers, Cécile Emmanuelle Borra
The selection of the artists is beyond belief! The show is definitely a must visit for everyone interested in performance art and feminism.
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SATURDAY 26 APRIL
EC1 and WC1 Gallery Day, 12-8pm
Something I have been waiting for since January! Almost every gallery between Kings Cross and Farrigton will be open till 8, hosting events, and pouring drinks. It looks like it will be an epic day.
www.londongalleryday.com
SUNDAY 27 APRIL
The Investigation Series, ‘One to One: Charting the Personal Terrain’ group show
Artists: Alejandra Lopez, Anna Pickles Harvey, Ben Walker, Jacob Watmore, Kat Buchanan, Kirsten Bertelsen, Moea Creugnet, Rianna Suen, Serena Chalker, Steph Choy, Will BeDell
11am-12pm – In Search of Bas, Hosted by JJ Tipton
1pm-1.30pm – The Other Tour: Off the Map
2pm-3.30pm – The Demolition Project, A Research Workshop
5pm-6pm – JUST A PRETTY LANDFILL…? Hosted by Elenor Hellis
7pm-9pm – One to One: A Seminar on Personal Geographies
theinvestigationseries.com
