NEWS
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant Garde
28 February–3 June 2012
This exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (previously on view at San Francisco MOMA and at the Grand Palais, Paris), traces the evolution of the Stein family’s taste and examines the close relationships formed between individual members of the family and their artist friends. While focusing on works by Matisse and Picasso, the exhibition also includes works by Pierre Bonnard, Juan Gris, Marie Laurencin, André Masson, Francis Picabia and others. The painting Hommage à Gertrude Stein by British artist Sir Francis Rose – featured in the final room of the exhibition – has been lent by England & Co.
Michael Druks: Atlas Critique in Paris
16 March–27 May 2012
Druksland Physical and Social, Michael Druks’ famous print from 1974, was used as the invitation image and is featured in the exhibition Atlas Critique at the Parc Saint Leger Centre D’Art Contemporain in Paris. The exhibition is “a cartography of the mutations of art, critical theory and relations between art and politics in contemporary times through geographical thinking”. Timed to coincide with the period of the French presidential election, the curators say that they are “trying to see how, through spatial and cartographic thinking, we could pull down political and national fictions.”
Clay Perry photographs of Signals gallery in the 1960s
31 January–12 August 2012
Photographs by Clay Perry documenting artists of the avant garde Signals gallery are on display in the exhibition Migrations at Tate Britain. The exhibition explores how British art has been shaped by migration, and includes conceptual artists, such as David Medalla, who have exhibited and worked in Britain but consider themselves to be ‘stateless’ global citizens. Medalla was the co-founder of the Signals gallery in London in the 1960s, and Clay Perry photographed artists and exhibitions for the Signals News Bulletin.
Georgia Russell: Material Matters
20 January 2012–July 2013
Georgia Russell’s dissected book sculptures are included in the exhibition East Wing X Collection: Material Matters at the Courtauld Institute of Art, which is a celebration of both established and emerging contemporary artists who use pioneering media or re-interpret traditional forms of representation.
Georgia Russell at Spacex
6 August–3 September 2011
Georgia Russell is one of the artists featured in The Paper Cooperative at Spacex in Exeter, UK. The exhibition explores the ongoing use of paper in art, design and publishing, presented through signage, art works, books and events. A wide selection of artists’ books explores the variety of techniques employed in artist book making today.
Vale, David Larwill
June 20 2011
We are sad to announce that the Australian artist David Larwill died on 19 June 2011. Larwill was one of the young artists who formed the infamous Roar Studios in early 1980s Melbourne. After numerous exhibitions in Australia, Larwill had his first London exhibition at England & Co in 2003.
Clay Perry photographs on exhibition in Brazil
April–May 2011
Clay Perry’s photographs of London’s art scene of the late 1960s, in particular his images of Latin American artists working in London and exhibiting at the legendary Signals gallery, are the subject of the exhibition Vangarda de Londres at Galeria Transversal in São Paolo, Brazil.
Chris Kenny and Satomi Matoba in Mappa Mundi in Lisbon
1 February–25 April 2011
Chris Kenny and Satomi Matoba are represented in the exhibition Mappa Mundi at the Berardo Museum Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibition, curated by Guillaume Monsaigneon, “assembles artists who, over the past 40 years, have worked on maps and who have questioned cartographical representation.”
Other artists in the exhibition include Alighiero e Boetti, Joseph Kosuth, Kathy Prendergast, Susan Stockwell, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Guillermo Kuitca.
Vézelay: Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy
22 January–7 April 2011
London’s Royal Academy of Arts presents the first exhibition for 30 years to examine British sculpture of the 20th century. The show will represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture, exploring the meaning of the terms British and sculpture by bringing the two together in a chronological series of themed galleries. Paule Vézelay’s Five Forms (1935-36) – acquired from England & Co by Tate in 2000 – is displayed in the exhibition.
Harald Smykla performs Movie Protocols at QUAD
13 November 2010–16 January 2011
Over the weekend of 25-28 November, Harald Smykla will be making Movie Protocols of films on the first floor mezzanine of QUAD in Derby while the films are simultaneously being screened in the QUAD cinemas as part of the ID Fest programme. An exhibition of these, and other Movie Protocol drawings will be on view at QUAD until 16 January 2011.