WORKS FROM 1970S & 1980S
Oct 1 - 26, 2019
England & Co holding an exhibition of works from 1970s & 1980s at The Sotheran Building, 2–5 Sackville Street, London, W1S 3DP.
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NICOLE WASSALL : PRECIOUS METTLE
Sep 25 - Nov 15, 2019
Precious Mettle, a unique solo exhibition by British artist Nicole Wassall, opens at contemporary London gallery Fiumano Clase on 25 September and runs until 15 November 2019. This show investigates emotional strength through Wassall’s intriguing use of a variety of materials: brass frames, suspended gold wires, granite, coins, wood, sound, and a silver marionette puppet.
Complex processes, such as water-gilding, are combined with high concept ideas to create evocative artworks which pose questions on very human subjects, such as religion, war and gender equality.
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TAI-SHAN SCHIERENBERG : MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
Oct 16 - Nov 23, 2019
Flowers Gallery presents a solo exhibition of figurative paintings by Tai Shan Schierenberg Men without Women.
 
Men Without Women focuses on the theme of masculinity and male identity. The title refers to Ernest Hemingway's second short story collection on the themes of bullfighting, prize fighting, infidelity, divorce, and death. In response, Schierenberg’s contemporary images of violence, solitariness, father-son relationships, and camaraderie, provide a nuanced reflection on current debates surrounding masculine stereotypes.

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JULIE COCKBURN : TELLING IT SLANT
Sep 12 - Nov 2, 2019
In the nineteenth century, long before the current era of fake news, Emily Dickinson wrote a meditation on truth in her poem Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant. With a title alluding to the poem, this exhibition of Julie Cockburn’s latest work similarly excavates authentic stories by circuitous means. Using a rich material language, Cockburn embarks on a visual journey to delicately reveal narrative histories and layered meanings in lost and discarded images. Cockburn partially obscures the images in a process she describes as “paradoxically unmasking” their intrinsic truths, layering and embellishing them with exquisitely hand-crafted embroidery, beading, vibrant screen printing and gestural flurries of paint.

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BETWEEN OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX: FREUD AND EGYPT
Aug 7 - Oct 27, 2019
This new exhibition explores Freud’s enduring fascination with Egypt.
 
Freud was thinking about the archaeology of the mind in tandem with important developments in professional archaeology and Egyptology. This fascinating new exhibition will bring Freud into dialogue with his contemporary Flinders Petrie, the first UK Professor of Egyptology and enable us to compare their thoughts on archaeology and their respective collections of artefacts.

THE UNCANNY : A CENTENARY
Oct 30, 2019 - Feb 9, 2020
This year marks 100 years since Sigmund Freud wrote his paper on The Uncanny. A theory that went on to inspire art, film, literature and further psychoanalytic enquiry.
 
The Freud Museum’s exhibition celebrates Freud’s essay and explores its legacy. Elizabeth Dearnley, lili Spain, Martha Todd and Karolina Urbaniak & Martin Bladh have made new artworks exploring the uncanny which may make you feel a little unsettled… Alongside these new works will be several etchings by German Surrealist Hans Bellmer.

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LISA BRICE
Sep 27 - Nov 9, 2019
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by South African artist Lisa Brice. This will mark the second show at the gallery for Brice, who is based in London, and follows her highly acclaimed solo exhibition in 2018 at Tate Britain, London.
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JONATHAN BALDOCK : PERSONAE
Sep 27 - Nov 9, 2019
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition with British artist Jonathan Baldock. This follows Baldock’s solo show at Camden Arts Centre, London in Spring this year and precedes a solo exhibition at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway in May 2020. Baldock’s work is saturated with humour and wit, as well as an uncanny, macabre quality that channels the artist’s longstanding interest in myth, folklore, and narratives associated with ‘outsider’ practices.
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DAYANITA SINGH
Sep 20 - Nov 9, 2019
Dayanita Singh's art uses photography to reflect and expand on the ways in which we relate to photographic images. Her recent works, drawn from her extensive photographic oeuvre, are a series of mobile museums that allow her images to be endlessly edited, sequenced, archived and displayed. Stemming from Singh's interest in the archive, her installations present photographs as interconnected bodies of work that are replete with both poetic and narrative possibilities. Publishing is also a significant part of the artist's practice: in her books, often published without text, Singh extends her experiments on alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs.

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STERLING RUBY : ACTS + TABLE
Oct 2 - Dec 14, 2019
I use many different media as a kind of schizophrenic labor strategy. It seems very easy now to say it, but it has taken me years to convey that this scattered routine belongs within a coherent trajectory ... There is a lineage that links everything that I do together.
—Sterling Ruby
Gagosian is pleased to present sculptures by Sterling Ruby at Britannia Street. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery in London. On view will be works from two series, ACTS (2008–18) and TABLES (2015–19).
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CY TWOMBLY SHOP
Sep 28 - Dec 21, 2019
Gagosian is pleased to announce a pop-up shop devoted to Cy Twombly at Gagosian, Davies Street, London, to open on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly: Sculpture at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London.
 
The shop will celebrate the newly published Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculpture, vol. 2, 1998–2011, and Cy Twombly: Homes & Studios, both from Schirmer/Mosel, and will feature an extensive selection of historically important reference books on the artist. Rare ephemera from many of Twombly’s exhibitions in Italy from the 1960s will also be included, alongside vintage and contemporary posters and a selection of prints and photographs by the artist.

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CY TWOMBLY : SCULPTURE
Sep 30 - Dec 21, 2019
White paint is my marble.
—Cy Twombly
Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of Cy Twombly’s sculptures, in association with the Cy Twombly Foundation. The exhibition marks the publication of the second volume of the catalogue raisonné of sculptures, edited by Nicola Del Roscio, President of the Cy Twombly Foundation, and published by Schirmer/Mosel.

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THE MEDIUM’S MEDIUM
opening 22 September
Spiritualist art practices from the turn of the century and beyond.
At The Gallery of Everything + Frieze Masters [Stand G9].

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KUDZANAI-VIOLET HWAMI : (15,952KM) VIA TRANS-SAHARA HWY N1
Sep 19 - Dec 15, 2019
Gasworks presents the first institutional solo exhibition by London-based artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. Born in Zimbabwe, Hwami left her homeland at the age of nine amidst political turmoil. Drawing on personal experiences of geographical dislocation and displacement, her intensely pigmented paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources, including images found online and haunting family photographs, as a way to collapse past and present into bold afro-futuristic visions.
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IN CONVERSATION: MICHAEL ARMITAGE AND KUDZANAI-VIOLET HWAMI
Oct 29, 2019 to 12:00am talk/event
Artist Michael Armitage talks with Gasworks' exhibiting artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami about their formal and conceptual painting practices.
 
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Artist Biographies
 
Michael Armitage is a Kenyan born artist living between Nairobi and London. The artist’s predominant concerns are the social and political issues facing our contemporary global society. Recent solo exhibitions include Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2019); South London Gallery, London; Turner Contemporary, Margate; White Cube, Hong Kong (all 2017); and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco (2016). In 2019, Armitage's work was featured in the 58th Venice Biennale. He is currently working towards a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem.
 
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami is a London-based artist born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. She is represented by Tyburn Gallery. Recent exhibitions include: The Zimbabwe Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2019; Les Ateliers de Rennes–Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes; Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town; Triangle France, Marseille; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Espace Art Absolument, Paris; Fondation Clément, Martinique (all 2018); National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Tyburn Gallery, London (all 2017). In 2016, the same year she graduated from college, Hwami was awarded the Clyde & Co Award and the Young Achiever of the Year Award at the Zimbabwean International Women’s Awards, as well as featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
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Gasworks events are free to attend, no booking required. Please note that seats are allocated on a first come first served basis.

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DEREK BOSHIER : NIGHT AND SNOW / FRAGMENTS: CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFE
Oct 4 - Nov 10, 2019
Gazelli Art House London is delighted to announce the second solo show of the iconic British pop artist Derek Boshier. Night and Snow / Fragments: Contemporary Still Life will present new works based on a variety of imagery sources (some being more familiar than others), which take the viewers on a journey through media, advertising and everyday culture.
Consistently experimenting with situations and mediums, Boshier explores our exposure to influences whilst at the same time delving deeper into the seemingly inevitable dualities of life. His works yet again reassert his vision and subtly political stance through intriguing compositions and an instantly recognisable style.

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CONNECTIONS : NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL EUROPE
Oct 19 - Nov 9, 2019
Private view Sat Oct 19 6pm - 9pm
Gerald Moore Gallery presents Connections: New York Studio School Europe
the first European alumni exhibition from the prestigious New York Studio School, curated by Karen Wilkin and Mali Morris RA.
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TONY COKES : IF UR READING THIS IT’S 2 LATE: VOL I
Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020
The exhibition provides an opportunity to see a broad range of powerful artworks made by Cokes since the 1980s, alongside two newly commissioned films. Cokes’ video works are eviscerating critiques and affective art works, bringing together colour theory, sound, music, and texts quoting a polyphony of voices such as Louis Althusser, Malcolm X, David Bowie, Public Enemy and Donald Trump. Meeting political and social commentary with cultural theory and a critique of capitalism, Cokes’ films viscerally confront the social condition, as well as the specific prejudices and threats suffered by black subjects. Recent works range across minimal techno, the Bush administration’s use of colour to engender a perpetual culture of fear, and music used to torture detainees during the so-called ‘war on terror’.

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HEW LOCKE : WHERE LIES THE LAND?
Sep 26 - Nov 30, 2019
Hales is delighted to present Where Lies the Land?, an exhibition of new works by Hew Locke (b. 1959, Edinburgh, UK). In his fifth solo show with the gallery, the artist delves deeper into his motifs, addressing the symbolism of statuary, monarchy and ships. Throughout an extensive and complex practice, Locke remains dedicated to illuminating histories and geographies – highlighting the relevance of the past within the context of contemporary culture and politics.
 
Where Lies the Land? is a timely exploration of authoritarian power, migration and globalisation in a climate of increasing political uncertainty and heightened anxiety. For over thirty years Locke has been engaged with unpacking visual codes – using everyday materials to create conflations of history and modernity. Locke’s critique of existing power structures is subtle and open-ended, encouraging the viewer to look more closely.

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RICHARD AVEDON : PORTFOLIOS
Sep 9 - Nov 13, 2019
To celebrate Hamiltons Gallery being appointed an official representative of The Richard Avedon Foundation in the UK, we will present Richard Avedon: Portfolios from 9 September to 13 November 2019. Throughout his 60-year career, the photographer Richard Avedon created only a handful of portfolios which he presented as complete bodies of work meant to be displayed as one group of photographs. Hamiltons will exhibit two of these rare portfolios, La Passante du Siècle and Made in France, marking the first time either portfolio has been exhibited in its entirety.

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OLGA JEVRIC : SPATIAL COMPOSITIONS
Jun 28 - Dec 13, 2019
Olga Jevrić’s work has a special place in the pantheon of post-war European sculpture. Born in Belgrade in 1922 Jevrić developed her unique visual language at a time when, amidst the ideological constraints of Socialist Realism, there was little space for personal expression. Yugoslavia’s 1948 schism with the Soviet Union marked the start of a new era for the country. A turn to the West led, amongst other things, to a Henry Moore exhibition, which travelled to Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana in 1955. The following year the exhibition Modern Art in United States: Selection from the Collection of MOMA NY toured the country, while 1958-9 saw the important architectural exhibition Built in USA: Post War Architecture do the rounds of Yugoslavia.

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MARK BRADFORD : CERBERUS
Oct 2 - Dec 21, 2019
‘Cerberus’ is Mark Bradford’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London and extends across the entirety of the gallery’s spaces. The exhibition of new work sees Bradford return to ancient mythology, a consistent source of inspiration for the artist. Specifically, he now engages the many headed dog guarding the entryway to Hades, Cerberus. It is a particularly resonant metaphor for Bradford, who has always been fascinated by interstitial spaces and figures. In fact, of the relationship between his art and his community engagement, Bradford has often declared his imperative to have one foot firmly planted in each. ‘Cerberus’ is an exhibition dedicated to places difficult and in-between, where conflicts arise, but also where the hope of resolution is to be found.
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BRIDGET RILEY
Oct 23, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020
Bridget Riley returns to Hayward Gallery for the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date.

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SANOU OUMAR
Sep 12 - Oct 26, 2019
Museum St | 43 Museum St, WC1A 1LY

TRIX & ROBERT HAUSSMANN
Sep 29 - Dec 1, 2019
Herald St | 2 Herald St, E2 6JT

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ANDREA BÜTTNER : THE HEART OF RELATIONS
Sep 25 - Dec 14, 2019
Andrea Büttner’s fourth solo exhibition with Hollybush Gardens, 'The Heart of Relations' presents a major new site-specific installation. Referencing Giotto’s star-filled blue fresco adorning the vault of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, Büttner’s installation transforms the gallery’s arched ceiling into a painted sky mural populated by life-size potatoes. The exhibition also presents a selection of new sculptures and works on paper.

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FRANCESCA DIMATTIO : CARYATID
Sep 13 - Oct 19, 2019 FINAL WEEK
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Francesca DiMattio's Caryatid, the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, running from 13 September to 19 October 2019. The exhibition comprising a series of new large-scale porcelain sculptures is titled Caryatid after the sculpted female figures used as supporting columns in ancient Greek architecture. These sculptures engage critically with women's traditional role of support within the domestic sphere and serve to highlight the strength drawn from femininity.
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DARK LAUGHTER : CURATED BY BARRY SCHWABSKY
Oct 25 - Nov 23, 2019
Private view Sun Nov 24 6pm - 8pm
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Dark Laughter, an exhibition curated by Barry Schwabsky comprising works by four New-York-based artists, Genesis Belanger, Ellen Berkenblit, Emily Mae Smith and June Leaf. The exhibition will run from 25 October to 23 November 2019.

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ANA PALLARES : ETERNAL LIFE. THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LIFE & DEATH
Oct 31 - Nov 24, 2019
Private view Thu Oct 31 6.30pm - 9.30pm
With an exceptional maturity for a twenty-five-year-old, Ana openly expresses her conversations with ancient archetypal characters and her fearless honesty when confronting her anguishes hand in hand with a charming sense of humour.
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