Gallery run 8th February

West to East.

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Luiz Zerbini of Stephen Friedman Gallery with abstract motifs inserted into vivid naturalistic paintings.

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Anya Gallaccio of Thomas Dane Gallery with extruded clay building up a gallery-sized replica of a mountain in the US. A giant 3D printing process will be used to build the mountain up in layers with a honeycomb internal structure for strength but deliberately compromised by the chaotic nature of the wet clay.

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Fernanda Gomes of Alison Jacques Gallery with white objects of wood and canvas placed about the gallery.

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Florian Roithmayr of MOT International at Bloomberg Space with objects made from processes using basic materials.

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Urs Fischer of Sadie Coles HQ with an interactive Rodin replica whose plastacene material has been remodelled by the gallery visitors.

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Peter Halley at Stuart Shave Modern Art with 80’s paintings exploring communication and technology with simple but striking painted forms.

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Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis at Gagosian with text on painted film-style back drops.

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Team Lab of Pace Gallery with an immersive installation that recreates basic forces in nature such as the forces between water droplets, to create waterfalls, vortices, rivulets of water and other natural phenomena from their minute parts.

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Barbara Kasten at Thomas Dane Gallery with set-ups made from modern optically attractive materials.

Gallery run 16th December

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.

Frieze opening night 5th October

As it is my 50th birthday on the day and Frieze VIP team have very kindly given us tickets, I am doing a gallery walk this week through the micro-geography of the Frieze exhibition space.

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Neo Rauch at David Zwirner showing at Frieze London.

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Anish Kapoor at Lisson Gallery showing at Frieze London.

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Darren Almond at White Cube showing at Frieze London.

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Frieze London.

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Philippe Parreno at Pilar Corrias showing at Frieze London.

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Torey Thornton at Stuart Shave Modern Art showing at Frieze London.

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Michael Landy (and my friends Michelle and Enzo) at Thomas Dane Gallery showing at Frieze London.

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Hans Peter Feldmann at Simon Lee Gallery showing at Frieze London.

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Kevin Francis Gray at Pace Gallery showing at Frieze London.

Gallery run 30th September

Art Povera with Marisa Merz and Jannis Kounellis and global trade, politics and migration with Yinka Shonibare, Akram Zaatari and Mike Kelley.

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Yinka Shonibare at Stephen Friedman with cosmic statues and a move away from his fabric motifs.

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Marisa Merz at Thomas Dane Gallery with images on basic materials and was part of the Art Povera grouping also with her husband Mario Merz.

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Peter Saul at Michael Werner with superheroes and angst ridden figures.

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Akram Zaatari at Thomas Dane Gallery celebrating the story of an Israeli pilot who refused to drop his bombs on a school in Lebanon and offloaded them into the sea instead.

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Mike Kelley at Hauser and Wirth London with a recreation from China Town.

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Jannis Kounellis at White Cube with constructions from wax, lead and metal.

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On the Regent’s Canal.

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Sol Calero at Laura Bartlett Gallery with bright imagery inspired by Venezuela.

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Lygia Pape at Hauser and Wirth London with installation made of fine wires.

Gallery run 16th June

Past Battersea Power Station, Albert Bridge, Hyde Park and East to Green Park and into Pace Gallery. Stephen Friedman, David Zwirner, Thomas Dane and East towards The Barbican. Then East to Whitechapel Gallery and finally South over Tower Bridge.

241Louise Nevelson at Pace London.

242Robert Buck at Stephen Friedman. Yes, the painting is hung as shown.

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244Keith Sonnier of Pace at Whitechapel Gallery.

245Maria Nepomuceno of Victoria Miro showing at Barbican.

246Francis Alys at David Zwirner kicking a flaming football through the run-down streets of a Mexican town.

247Imran Qureshi of Corvi Mora at Barbican Curve. Miniatures with enlarged marks on the gallery wall and floor.

248Cecily Brown at Thomas Dane. This small piece looks great.

249Invader pixilated image on Curtain Road.

Gallery run 21st April

The human figure rules this week in nudes, performance and abstract form.

169Richard Prince at Sadie Coles HQ. Reworked nudes with scribbles and big-footed figures.

168Maria Bartuszova at Alison Jacques with delicate plaster eggshell-like sculptures.

167Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery.

166Antony Gormley of White Cube has this statue on St Bride Street.

165Jean Luc Moulene at Thomas Dane.

164Apostolos Giorgiou at Rodeo Gallery.

163Anne Tallentire with propped building materials and her characteristic flashes of yellow and other DIY colours at Hollybush Gardens.

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161Keijiuematsu at Simon Lee

Gallery run 11th March

James Coleman, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Lari Pittman offer their established styles in new works. Joanne Greenbaum and Polly Apfelbaum bring colour whilst Imran Qureshi, Jeff Zilm and Maria Taniguchi show great delicacy.121Lari Pittman at Thomas Dane Gallery with layered paintings.

122In Wardour Street, Chinatown, where the lanterns are up.

123Jeff Zilm at Simon Lee Gallery produced these filmic spray-painted images. He does a chemical reaction on 35mm film stock and transposes the results onto canvas.

124Polly Apfelbaum at Frith Street Gallery.

125James Coleman with a mini retrospective at Marian Goodman. This new piece is on a giant, bright, led screen that actually seems to radiate warmth.

126Maria Taniguchi at Ibid with a series of brick paintings.

127Rirkrit Tiravanija at Pilar Corrias was in discussion with Andrea Zittel shown above. She saw the rock as a symbolic place for a future commune shelter project.

128Imran Qureshi at Corvi Mora with Mughal inspired miniature watercolour paintings.

129Joanne Greenbaum at Greengrassi. Great drips, spaces and interconnections.

Gallery run 26th February

Cinema is a theme in two shows. LSD features at a third show and at both Corvi Mora and Greengrassi galleries there is domesticity with a twist.

10aIt’s opposite St Pancras station and is clearly a work of art, but by whom?

10bBridget Smith at Frith Street Gallery brings us cinema as spectacle. Light becomes object and chairs become sea!

10cJennifer Pastor presents Hand Made Knives 2015, with a fabulous cast-knife-block. We see traces of polystyrene holes and gaffer tape wrinkles.

10dChristies on Duke St St James has a fetching side door during refurbishment.

10eHeman Chong, represented by Wilkinson Gallery showing at South London Gallery. 1,000,000 blacked out business cards which you can walk on.

10fAdam Buick presents Rare Earth at Corvi Mora. He rubs grit and compounds he acquires from landscapes into his pots. Here the pot has become palpably warped due to the introduction of a mobile phone during the firing process!

10gLaura Owens’ style of symbols with drop shadows works well on this piece. The paper has perforations and a group of artists worked on this standard template shown at Rob Tufnell. Their remit was to emulate LSD packaging whilst adding artistic and additional ironic commentary of their own.

10hAlexandre De Cunha offers more bright-mundane and gives the objects spiritual worth in this excellent show at Thomas Dane entitled Freefall. Yes it is a parachute!

10iStan Douglas at Victoria Miro tells the story of the 1974 revolution in Portugal in The Secret Agent. He uses 6 screens and for good measure features a cinema.

Gallery Run 8th January

31Great imagery on the Hertford Union Canal on the way to Brick Lane.

32The Hertford Union Canal gives a good access route to Brick Lane.

33At Beigel Bake on Brick Lane.

34Approach to Lisson Gallery from the Regent’s Canal.

35Susan Hiller at Lisson Gallery.

36Gordon Matta-Clark in the Maisons Fragiles group show at Hauser and Wirth gallery.

37Fabio Mauri’s installation at Hauser and Wirth. You don’t want to walk into the space at first. These are wax models but you don’t know if there are living people amongst them.

38John Hoyland’s painting at Pace London looks hot! A forged steel support in the gallery is in the foreground. During a previous show by Yto Barrada where ornate carpets were laid on the floor, the same columns looked like the supports of a mosque.

39Luisa Lambri at Thomas Dane gallery. She photographed Lygia Clark’s hinged metal-plate artwork. It was interactive in it’s day and gallery visitors could shape it.