Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Posted by Fabio 13 October 2009
Hayward Gallery’s autumn exhibition focuses on the paintings of influential American artist Ed Ruscha. This is the first retrospective to focus exclusively on the paintings of the Los Angeles based artist, one of the most influential and pioneering American artists of the past half century.
Fedrigoni Showroom Awards 2009
Posted by Fabio 12 October 2009
Submit your most creative use of paper in 2009 for the chance to win an award plus a £250 prize. The winner will be selected on the night by a prestigious panel of Judges: Fraser Muggeridge, Richard Owers and Anna Richardson. Thursday November 19, 6–9pm. Work must be submitted by 7pm. The poster shown above was designed by Ken Briggs, 1965 for The National Theatre at the Old Vic. www.fedrigoni.co.uk
Good Herb
Posted by Fabio 9 October 2009
Fontanelle Gallery is pleased to present Good Herb, an exhibition featuring new drawings and installation by Portland artist Jess Hirsch. Hirsch crafts delicately rendered pencil drawings of alternative medicine practitioners, healers, shamans, and the herbs that they harvest from the wild for medicinal use.
www.jesshirsch.com
www.fontanellegallery.com
From Static To Silence
Posted by Fabio 7 October 2009
Rupert Nightingale’s photography of Icelandic landscapes can be seen at Theprintspace’s gallery from tonight.
October 8-28, with a private view (open to the public) on October 7.
74 Kingsland Road, London E2 8DL
Vogue On Champs Elysées
Posted by Fabio 7 October 2009
Until the 1 November one can see some of the best Vogue covers of all time on display at Champs Elysées. Covers made by some of the finest artist; Horst, Steichen, Man Ray, Hoyningen-Huene, Andy Warhol, Benito Lepape, Oatmeal, Penn Randall, Clarke, Jean-Loup Stieff, William Klein, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Peter Lindbergh, Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier, Richard Avedon, Bakst, Cecil Beaton, Christian Bérard, Salvador Dali, Robert Doisneau, David Hockney, and many more.
Gustav Metzger
Posted by Fabio 5 October 2009
The Serpentine Gallery presents a major exhibition of work by the influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger, examining his life-long exploration of politics, ecology and the destructive powers of 20th-century society.
Gustav Metzger / Decades 1959–2009 / 29 September – 8 November
Joyous Machines
Posted by Fabio 1 October 2009
This exciting exhibition will focus upon the connection between the work of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid twentieth-century, and renowned British artist Michael Landy, who has been significantly influenced by Tinguely and his constructive and destructive tendencies.
Tate Liverpool / 2 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
www.tate.org.uk
CAMERON JAMIE – New Ink Works
Posted by Fabio 1 October 2009
The Bernier-Eliades Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Cameron Jamie. The practice of Cameron Jamie has a distinct place of its own in the contemporary art scene. Through performance, video, sculpture, installation, photography and drawing his work embodies an ongoing investigation into the unselfconscious folklore of peripheral culture.
www.bernier-eliades.gr
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