Gallery run 20th January

Posted on January 21, 2017 by julessharples

Plinth shortlist and along Thames.

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Andrea Zittel at Sadie Coles HQ in a group show exploring rooms as psychic spaces. This is part flotation tank and part survival space.

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Michael Andrews at Gagosian Gallery with 5 series of paintings including one of Uluru or AyersRock.

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Charles Avery at Pilar Corrias with more drawings from his imaginary island.

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Bright sun today casting a mysterious green glow thanks to a nearby building.

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Huma Bahbah of Stephen Friedman Gallery showing as a short-listed artist for the 4th plinth. The artist is inspired by science fiction and ancient cities.

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Heidi Bucher who shows at the Approach Gallery featured here in a group show at Sadie Coles HQ featuring rooms as psychic spaces. This is a latex imprint of her father’s study.

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Adrian Paci at Frith Street Gallery with a series of drawings on found black board materials.

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Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles HQ with a smoking room fashioned from tabloids headlines many of which I remember from the 90’s.

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Photograph of the The Shard placed by Tom Wolseley in the entrance hall of his exhibition. Two hall mirrors make for an interesting viewpoint. Vertical Horizons is the title of his work.

Gallery run 13th January

Posted on January 13, 2017 by julessharples

Saatchi Gallery to London Bridge along Thames.

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David Salle of Maureen Paley Gallery showing at Saatchi Gallery.

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Josef Albers at David Zwirner with works on theme of both this shape and the famous layered squares.

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John Baldessari at Marian Goodman Gallery with images from Hollywood and Miro plus text.

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Dexter Dalwood of Simon Lee Gallery showing at Saatchi Gallery.

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Austin Emery led this participatory stone carving project with residents of the estate.

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Annette Messager at Marian Goodman Gallery in a group show upstairs.

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Bjarne Melgaard at Saatchi Gallery.

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Sigmar Polke at Michael Werner with a series of pour paintings.

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Ansel Krut of Stuart Shave Modern Art showing at Saatchi Gallery.

Gallery run 5th January

Posted on January 8, 2017 by julessharples

Lisson Gallery to Hackney on Regent’s Canal then SLG.

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Jason Martin of Lisson Gallery in a film at the gallery with his exhibited paintings, describing the paint moving technique he has returned to after 20 years.

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Ai Weiwei at Lisson Gallery with parts of a Chinese hall. Sitting on the stones is encouraged.

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Jonathan Baldock at Peer with Emma Hart showing a giant baby walker in a less than flattering portrait of domestic bliss. Love Life.

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Kaye Donachie of Maureen Paley in a group show.

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Silke Schatz at Wilkinson Gallery with work relating to political events whilst nature makes cameo appearances. A plant tree using shelf spurring.

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Lucy McKenzie showing at Maureen Paley with images of our 4 infamous spies. Kim Philby.

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Emma Hart at Peer with a two person show based on Punch and Judy called Love Life where domestic bliss is punctuated with arguments and repetition.

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Brick Lane road sign.

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Roman Ondak at South London Gallery on day 99 of his 100 day show. 100 slices of oak tree each bearing annual events of the last century are transferred from floor to gallery wall. Just one peg left for this Brexit slice.

Gallery run 22nd December

Posted on December 28, 2016 by julessharples

Isle of Dogs to Limehouse Cut and on to Hackney before entering the City and finding The Barbican.

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Ducting outside The Barbican.

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Bedwyr Williams at The Curve, Barbican. Installation evoking outside and intimate spaces.

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Gunther Forg at Vilma Gold.

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K P Brehmer at Vilma Gold. This is a swatch chart that was used (by the German authorities I think) to colour-match media articles. The assumption was that political agitators would create graphics that were darker brown the more extreme their content.

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A new type of zebra crossing. Looks like artwork is by Camille Walala, the artist who does amazing building facades.

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Phillipe Parreno of Pilar Corrias gallery showing at Tate Modern. Sound installation space.

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Mark Titchner of Vilma Gold, showing public art on Southwark Street.

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Great plaster-removal mural in Hackney.

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Water processing building on the North Bank of the Thames opposite what used to be called the Millenium Dome. The decorative features and facade evoke (to my mind) classical forms associated with the Greek Parthenon as well as pop.

Gallery run 16th December

Posted on December 16, 2016 by julessharples

Battersea Park, Hyde Park.

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Haris Epaminonda at Rodeo Gallery using inset light coloured wood.

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Maria Nepomuceno at Victoria Miro with sculptures using woven beads and fired clay.

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David Ogle showing at The Royal British Society Of Sculptors.

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Caragh Thuring at Thomas Dane Gallery with delicate paintings on unprimed canvas here.

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Dayanita Singh at Frith Street Gallery with photos and wooden constructions evocative of 20th century institutions and museums.

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Ken Price at Hauser And Wirth with beautiful ceramics and drawings in this retrospective.

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Robert Mapplethorpe at Alison Jacques Gallery mostly figurative but here is a TV with chains.

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Gerasimos Floratos at Pilar Corrias with figures that have both a primitive and cartoon quality.

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Stephan Balkenhol of Stephen Friedman Gallery in a group show at Marian Goodman Gallery.

Gallery run 8th December

Posted on December 10, 2016 by julessharples

Battersea Park, Hyde Park.

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Magnus Plessen at White Cube with painted portraits of him and pregnant wife.

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Zaha Hadid at the Winton Gallery of the Science Museum.

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Richard Oelze at Michael Werner with slightly surreal landscapes.

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Zaha Hadid early paintings at Serpentine Gallery. This is London with a skewed viewpoint in the artist’s customary (as we discover) style.

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Gavin Turk with his famous blue plaque given pride of place in Newport Street Gallery. There is plenty more and a great show.

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Huma Bhabha at Stephen Friedman with carved polystyrene figures.

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Lee Friedlander at Pace Gallery with an ironic take on the subject object relationship in photography. It’s his shadow not mine!

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Peter Peri at Almine Rech with circular heads on the bronzes made of cast tape rolls and loo rolls.

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David Shrigley of Stephen Friedman Gallery exhibiting on the 4th plinth.

Gallery run 1st December

Posted on December 3, 2016 by julessharples

Finsbury Pk, Parkland walk, Hampstead then South.

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Rose Wylie at David Zwirner.

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Donna Huanca at Zabludowicz Collection with performance and great props including a rumbling base sound generator.

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Sean Scully at Timothy Taylor with a series of work called Horizon.

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John Currin at Sadie Coles HQ.

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Thomas Ruff at David Zwirner with press images from his archive but photographed front and back to capture the editor’s comments. The reflected lights, however, are not from the artist’s layering of images.

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Willem Weismann at Zabludowicz Collection with images built up from the imagination.

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Mai Thu Perret at Simon Lee Gallery with work inspired by Monique Wittig.

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A blue plaque honouring nature has appeared just feet away from the show by Gavin Turk at Newport Street Gallery.

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Bonnie Camplin of Cabinet Gallery showing here at the Camden Arts Centre. Images based on the artist’s mind expanding theories.

Gallery run 25th November

Posted on November 26, 2016 by julessharples

Regent’s Canal to Hackney and Old St.

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Patricia Treib at Kate MacGarry with delicate paintings using repeated motifs.

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Matthew Darbyshire at Herald Street with images of his partner and muse made from extruded clay tubing bent to the contours of the figure.

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Anselm Kiefer at White Cube with vitrines and sculptures using lead sheet and the iconic sunflower.

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Goshka Macuga at Kate MacGarry. The pipes symbolise exchanges of ideas.

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Thierry Noir

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Alex Hartley at Victoria Miro.

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Bojan Sarcevic at Stuart Shave Modern Art.

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Fergal Stapleton at Carl Freedman Gallery with lit objects against dark backgrounds.

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Joachim Schmid at Hollybush Gardens showing a series of Brazilian football pitches with irregular dimensions due to encroaching roads and houses. Aerial photograph.

Gallery run 6th November

Posted on November 10, 2016 by julessharples

Regent’s Canal to Hackney. Plus Peckham galleries.

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Zeng Fanzhi at Frieze 2016 sculpture park.

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Antony Gormley at White Cube with interactive sculptures containing body sized gaps.

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Sam Porritt at Vitrine Gallery

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Patrick Caulfield at The Approach.

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Virginia Overton at White Cube with a very warm wood burner.

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Regents Canal.

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Piotr Lakomy The Sunday Painter with sculptures made from high tech aluminium honeycomb.

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Jean Dubuffet at Frieze 2016 sculpture exhibition.

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Amalia Ulman at Arcadia Missa with a Labour Dance. A new gallery in Peckham.

Gallery run 27th October

Posted on October 29, 2016 by julessharples

Regent’s Canal from the west to Hackney.

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Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery with sculptures inspired by organic and technological forms.

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Maureen Gallace at Maureen Paley with work inspired by the artist’s local landscape.

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Eddie Martinez of Timothy Taylor at Frieze 2016 sculpture park.

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Rallou Panagiotou at Ibid Gallery with sculptures inspired by a derelict holiday resort.

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Tala Madani at Pilar Corrias with a metaphysical take on disco.

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Nairy Bagrhamian at Marian Goodman Gallery in Frieze 2016 sculpture park.

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Ed Ruscha at Gagosian with works exploring ideas of extension in space and time.

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Jeff Koons at Almine Rech with recreations of old master paintings bearing a mirror ball. Inspiration from Kiss Of Judas by Giotto at The Arena Chapel in Padua.

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David Adamo at Ibid Gallery with small figures on ceder plinths.

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