FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, 3rd March, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Projectspace 176/ Zabludowicz Collection
Private Guided Tour
After hours access and a curator guided tour of The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, in which guest curator, Anna-Catharina Gebbers invites us into a salon-style exhibition of selections from the Zabludowicz Collection. Showcasing 200 works, the format emphasises the deliberately overwhelming amount of contemporary works of art including painting, photography, sculpture and video.
For booking and information please send an email to nmwa.uk@gmail.com
Wednesday, 10 March, 9:15 – 10:15
Gillian Ayres at 80,
Coffee and Gallerist’s talk
Alan Cristea Gallery, 34 Cork Street, W1S 3NU
www.alancristea.comPlease join for a pre-opening private view and gallerist’s talk, introducing this exhibition showcasing new work by one of Britain’s most respected artists celebrating her 80th birthday.
Broadcaster Andrew Marr described Gillian Ayres as ‘probably the finest abstract painter alive in Britain’. He continued: ‘Ayres has always been obsessively concerned with painting — the unfolding of a self-contained logic, whirling chaos held just in check. In her acid/sweet collisions, the complexity and crampedness, and then the unscrambling, of the canvas, it’s about energy, laid down in colour and transmitted in shockwaves to the viewer'.
Ayres is best known for her vibrant palette and the sheer physicality with which she applies paint to canvas. The works in this exhibition contain many familiar motifs but also represent a marked progression. Each work brims with her usual energy, however these new compositions are more distilled and exude the confidence of a painter at the height of her powers.
Ayres was initially influenced by American Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, but sees her work as part of a European tradition. Gillian Ayres said: 'Titian, Rubens and Matisse are the greatest painters, unashamedly, of sheer beauty but they also used the medium to the fullest in every sense before or since.'
For booking and information please send an email to nmwa.uk@gmail.com
Thursday, 18 March, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Photo/Video Crawl in the West End:
Curator/Gallerist/Artist talks
Start: Frith Street Gallery, 17-18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ
Join us for a West End crawl with curator/gallerist/artist talks, to include:
· Jaki Irvine, Seven Folds in Time, a multiscreen installation exploring the relationship between film and music at Frith Street Gallery
· 24:2010, 24 photographers each capturing an hour of New Year’s Day – tour by artist in Golden Square
· Alice Anderson, Time Reversal, installation, including thousands of metres of hair, film, sculptures and photographs, based on fictional childhood memories at Riflemaker. The artist will be present to discuss her work.
· Deutsche Börse Prize at the Photographers’ Gallery: three of four shortlisted photographers are women: Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard and Sophie Ristelhueber.
For booking and information please send an email to nmwa.uk@gmail.com
SAVE THE DATES FOR UPCOMING EVENTS
27 April
Quilts at the V&A
Morning talk and visit
7 May
Cambridge Day Trip
TBC: Visit Helaine Blumenfeld’s studio, Kettle’s Yard, The Body in Women’s Art Now at New Hall and possibly the Fitzwilliam Collection.
CURRENTLY AT NMWA
in Washington, DC: www.nmwa.org
A Dream...but not Yours: Contemporary Art from Turkey. Eleven leading women artists who claim Turkey as their homeland, but whose video art, photography, and painting declare their identity.
Pomp and Power: Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella's Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua. Twenty-five engravings employing the grand pictorial language of ancient Rome to depict the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismond’s visit to Mantua in 1433.