London — 13 May 2008

Zsolt Bodoni, Roland Horváth, Péter Sudar, Dorottya Szabo - Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow

f a projects

1-2 Bear Gardens
SE1 9ED GB-London
Exhibition
16 May 2008 - 28 June 2008

f a projects is delighted to present "Portraits of yesterday, today and tomorrow", an exhibition that premieres the work of four young Hungarian born and based painters in London: Zsolt Bodoni, Roland Horváth, Péter Sudar, and Dorottya Szabo.

The artists are part of a unique generation that knew communism in childhood, witnessed its disintegration during adolescence and experienced Hungary's transition into democracy in early adulthood. Read more...

London — 1 May 2008

Elizabeth Price

MOT INTERNATIONAL

Unit 54/5th floor Regents Studios / 8 Andrews Road
E8 4QN London
Exhibition
3 May 2008 - 8 June 2008

Elizabeth Price lives and works in London, UK and is represented by MOT International. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include: "At the House of Mr X", Stanley Picker Gallery in May 2007; "This is the Will of Alexander Chalmers", Studio Voltaire, London; Film, funded by the Arts Council. Reviewed by Charlotte Cripp, The Independent. Previewed Jessica Lack, The Guardian. CRY, MOT London. Funded by the Arts Council. Read more...

London — 28 April 2008

Margarita Gluzberg - The Money Plot

Paradise Row

17 Hereford St, (off Cheshire St)
E2 6EX London
Exhibition
2 May 2008 - 8 June 2008

The editors of Balzac's novel "La Cousine Bette" decided that in order to truly understand the complex network of the characters, relationships and intrigues in the book, the reader must be provided with a synopsis they termed "The Money Plot" - a breakdown of debts, financial dependencies and connections between the protagonists. The Money Plot lies behind all human relationships. Read more...

London — 21 April 2008

Maria Lassnig

Serpentine Gallery

Kensington Gardens
W2 3XA London
Exhibition
25 April 2008 - 8 June 2008

Viennese painter Maria Lassnig (b.1919) has been producing work over a period of 60 years in Paris, New York and Vienna. She is an avant-garde pioneer with a feminist viewpoint, continuing to produce some of her best work. Lassnig's powerful, bold and introspective paintings investigate human emotions and bodily sensations. Read more...

London — 8 April 2008

Paul Morrison

Alison Jacques Gallery

16-18 Berners Street
W1T 3LN London
Exhibition
10 April 2008 - 24 May 2008

"One of the great pleasures in looking at works of art in the traditions of assemblage and collage is the simultaneous awareness that one beholds both an accumulation of disparate parts whose identity as such remains clear, and a newly created whole, unified internally by some combination of grace and brute on the part of the artist. In bringing such characteristics into painting and film, Paul Morrison both smooths over and intensifies sleight-in-hand and slapped-together aspects of his craft. The consistent surface of the wall, picture plane, or screen in Morrison's works combined with the black and white palette to which all of his imagery is subjected, unify his compositions in a manner that overrides yet preserves the stylistic disparity within the work. Read more...

London — 6 April 2008

Stefan Saffer

Kate MacGarry Gallery

7a Vyner Street
E2 9DG London
Exhibition
10 April 2008 - 18 May 2008

Stefan Saffer has created a new installation for his second show at the gallery. Purple carpet transforms the space, creating a backdrop for a group of new sculptures. These are models made in raw, painted wood. They have a formal construction and sometimes include found materials.

The installation takes its form from "Epic Theatre", a movement arising in the early to mid 20th century and inextricably linked to the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. It assumes that the purpose of a play, more than to entertain or to imitate reality, is to present ideas and invite the audience to make judgments on them. Read more...

London — 6 April 2008

David Korty

Sadie Coles HQ

35 Heddon Street
W1B 4BP London
Exhibition
9 April 2008 - 17 May 2008

"And yet delirium still prevails, the delirium of inwardness in public space, and in the contradictory idea that a painted image, despite its flatness, can still transport us." (Rachel Kushner)

David Korty's recent work portrays a stylistically complex space in which his calligraphic alphabet of pencil lines, paint strokes, and colour forms coalesce into dense, seamless compositions. The simple images of everyday life - women reading magazines, couples milling about, figures waiting in line, and a man surveying a botanical garden, betray the seeming mundanity of the subjects and reveal a kind of slow-burning introspection. The stillness of the figures and shapes in the paintings give way to a roving movement of the eye and hand. A voracious curiosity that asks us to look closer at the things which are already in front of us. Read more...

London — 29 March 2008

Isa Genzken - Ground Zero

Hauser & Wirth London

196A Piccadilly
W1J 9DY London
Exhibition
3 April 2008 - 17 May 2008

Isa Genzken presents a new body of work that will be displayed across the entire Piccadilly gallery; including the main gallery, mezzanine and vault room, as well as the American Room on the top floor which has been out of bounds for several years. At the exhibition's core will be a presentation of Genzken's long-awaited architectural proposals for Ground Zero, the twenty first century's most historically significant site. These proposals take the form of architecturally induced sculptures produced in consultation with a specialist team of engineers to ensure that each model can be realised to the approximate scale of the World Trade Towers. Read more...

London — 27 March 2008

John Currin

Sadie Coles HQ

69 South Audley St.
W1 London
Exhibition
2 April 2008 - 7 June 2008

Sadie Coles HQ is presenting a major new series of paintings by American painter John Currin whose subjects range from the domestic to the overtly erotic. These exceptionally refined and gloriously engaging paintings continue the intense debate within Currin's work that combines art historical technique with contemporary reference. While some of Currin's new paintings are of flowers and exquisite china, most are depictions of hardcore eroticism taken from European pornography. Read more...