Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Kati Heck’s first solo show opens at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp

January 4, 2012 by  
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ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery presents ‘Multikulti Sause’, an exhibition of new works by Kati Heck. The exhibition, the artist’s first solo show at the gallery, consists of 7 monumental sized paintings, 2 photographic works and a series of drawings. The title of the exhibition alludes to Angela Merkel’s statement ‘Multikulti ist tot’. Kati Heck stages people from her immediate environment in her canvases with a heightened sense of drama and irony. Her paintings often display happenings she held during her journeys [...]

Christopher Baker’s Hello World! debuts at gallery’s first ever screening room

January 2, 2012 by  
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LONDON.- The Saatchi Gallery is opening its first ever screening room for film and video. In a space on Duke of York’s Square, a stone’s throw from the Gallery in Chelsea, Saatchi Screen, in partnership with The Cadogan Estate and Hugo Boss, will launch with the first UK presentation of Christopher Baker’s video installation, Hello World! Or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise. Hello World! is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of video diaries gathered [...]

The Shape of Things to Come: Exhibition of New Sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery

May 29, 2011 by  
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LONDON.- On 27 May, the Saatchi Gallery opened The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, an exhibition of 20 leading and emerging international artists working in sculpture today. This is the first time that the gallery space has been devoted entirely to three-dimensional works. The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture provides an unprecedented look at some of the most exciting sculptural works created in recent years. From granite monoliths to neon structures, buckled cars to stuffed horse [...]

Bortolami Presents their Second Solo Exhibition with Michigan-Born Patrick Hill

January 16, 2011 by  
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NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami presents their second solo exhibition with Patrick Hill. Working primarily in sculpture, Hill has implemented large wood beams as structural footing for cement, glass, metal, marble, fabric, and dye. For the first time, Hill introduces a figurative aspect into his work, with sculptures that reference fragmented bodies and detached limbs. Using white Carrera marble for the limbs with wooden support structures as skeletons, these new sculptures rouse Hill’s continuing investigation of underlying, if not foreboding, tensions [...]

Crafts Council Announces Exhibitors for Collect 2011 at London’s Saatchi Gallery

December 20, 2010 by  
Filed under Artifacts & Decorative Arts, Featured

LONDON.- The Crafts Council announces exhibitors for COLLECT 2011: the international art fair for contemporary objects, which will take place at the Saatchi Gallery, London from 6-9 May 2011. This will be the third year that the fair has been presented at London’s Saatchi Gallery where 37 of the world’s finest international craft galleries will showcase and sell exquisite objects by new and established artists. Between them they will display the very best ceramic, glass, jewellery, textile, wood, furniture, silver and fine [...]

Clunie Reid and James Richards at Tate Britain

September 7, 2010 by  
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LONDON.- This autumn, Tate Britain features the work of Clunie Reid and James Richards as part of the Art Now programme of contemporary displays. Reid and Richards create installation and video collages that explore the immersive nature of visual culture. They weave together imagery from found sources including advertising, magazines, cinema and the internet, and interject elements of the personal into otherwise banal material. Both artists subtly manipulate some images while leaving other untouched, exploiting the emotive potential of their [...]

Diana Al-Hadid’s First One-Person Museum Exhibition Opens at the Hammer

May 16, 2010 by  
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid constructs baroque architectural forms such as towers, labyrinths, and pipe organs that appear to be in a state of ruin. Using materials such as cardboard, plywood, plaster, and resin, Al-Hadid’s sculptures are informed by an array of influences, both eastern and western—ancient Biblical and mythological narratives, Arabic oral traditions, Gothic architecture, iconic western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy. For her first solo museum exhibition, Al-Hadid will be making a [...]

The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today Exhibition Opens at Saatchi Gallery

January 29, 2010 by  
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LONDON.- In October 2008, the Saatchi Gallery re-opened in the 70,000 sq. ft Duke of York’s HQ building on King’s Road in the heart of London. With free admission to all shows, the Saatchi Gallery aims to bring contemporary art to the widest audience possible. Its first three shows, “The Revolution Continues: New Art from China”, “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East” and “Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture”, have attracted over one million visitors to date. On 29 [...]

The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today Exhibition Announced at Saatchi Gallery

December 12, 2009 by  
Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured

LONDON.- In October 2008, the Saatchi Gallery re-opened in the 70,000 sq. ft Duke of York’s HQ building on King’s Road in the heart of London. With free admission to all shows, the Saatchi Gallery aims to bring contemporary art to the widest audience possible. Its first three shows, “The Revolution Continues: New Art from China”, “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East” and “Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture”, have attracted over one million visitors to date. On 29 [...]