Up and coming…

Interesting art matter over the next month in London – All sites for galleries to the right.

198 Contemporary Art:
Exhibition at the moment
Maria Kheirkhah The Psychology of Fear
13 June– 15 August 2008
Opening 12 June 2008, 6:30 – 9:30pm at 198
A series of talks and events will accompany the exhibition:
19 June 2008, 2:00 pm – Artist Matia [...]

Barnaby Furnas at The Stuart Shave Gallery

The Stuart Shave Gallery has moved from its trendy East End roots to Central London.
Never mind all this economic down turn, that I can’t afford to buy bacon anymore attitude. And I mean bacon rashers not Francis Bacon, by the way.
For a fair few galleries over the last couple of years the lure of Mayfair [...]

Mona Hatoum – at Parasol Unit

You want to see conceptual art with a serious message?
Mona Hatoum presents real conflicts existing in our world today yet embodies her own personal narrative through her extraordinary art, in a sincere and accessible way.
Here at the Parasol Unit a particularly flash gallery, a most incredible space in fact, selected sculptures and instillation pieces made [...]

Jonathan Yeo at the Lazarides Gallery

Unfortunately I missed the wonderful Art Car Boot Fair this time. Any comments welcome from anyone who made it, I’d like to know whether it was as fabulous as last year please!?
Instead I give you a review of the Jonathan Yeo exhibition of which I went to the opening night last Thursday at Lazarides Gallery. [...]

Art Car Boot Fair coming this Sunday 8th of June

Check out the (what is know as) Vauxhall Car Boot Fair, confusingly at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane this Sunday!
Loads of artists, including Peter Blake, his wife and Gavin Turk selling their art at bargainous prices. Plus loads for fun stuff.
Last year there was a clown you could throw custard pies at!
Go to:
http://openmagazine.co.uk/pictures/review/vauxhall-art-car-boot-fair.htm
for my [...]

Household furniture in disguise! Michael Samuels at the Rokeby Gallery

Micheal Samuels is a transformer. He transforms banal household furniture into something quite brilliant and rather beautiful – if those are appropriate words for furniture. When you see these sculptures you will see what I mean. These photos do not do them justice.
He trains our eye to appreciate the mish-mash of kitsch melamine (plastic-tabletop) patterns [...]

Jake and Dinos Chapman – Images

The Dioramas they have reconstructed in the style of those they made before the fire in the Saatchi store room in 2004

The watercolours of ‘A. Hitler’

Jake and Dinos Chapman
If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be
2008
Thirteen watercolours on paper
Dimensions variable
© the artist
Courtesy Jay Jopling/ White Cube (London)
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Fucking Hell
2008
Glass-fibre, plastic [...]