JOAKIM ALLGULANDER: EXILE ON EAST STREET:SOLITUDE AND ESCAPISM
Nov 12 - Dec 12, 2020
The exhibition will include works that were created shortly before, during and after the UK lockdown earlier this year, providing a unique insight into the way the current global pandemic has affected Allgulander, both as an artist and as an individual.

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MÁRTON NEMES
Oct 8, 2020 - Jan 30, 2021
FOLD is pleased to present The Better Self a solo show by Márton Nemes, his first with the gallery.
 
Life is like big wave surfing, in the middle of the deep ocean, waiting for the right wave to catch. However it is not that easy to catch the right wave and stay on top of it.
 
Although 2020 might seem to some like a cold, endless plain of water, the work of Marton Nemes is full of life, energy and joy. It is as though art could provide shelter from the daily anxiety and ultimately a source of hope and means for survival. From the observations of Harari we know that right now we might be witnessing the collapse of the idea of liberalism and that the world doesn't have any other vision, ideology or model to rearrange itself. So we are staring into the void - which is the title the artist gives to a new series of paintings included in the show - the exhibition title The Better Self refers to this seeking for a new order.
 
Nemes puts the structures of his art on the table and presses the reboot button. He creates bodies of art that are both sculptural and painterly, while appearing engineered and handcrafted, by using coloured laser cut stainless steel sheets with welded spray-paint coated metal elements and acrylic painted canvases. Vividly expressive colours and spectacular gradients melt together in a blurred, distorted and broken way on the surface of his collaged objects. Life always finds a balance and adapts to new circumstances and so does the art of Márton Nemes.
 
Márton Nemes, b. 1986. Székesfehérvár, Hungary. Lives and works in London. Graduated from MFA Chelsea College of Arts, London University of Arts in 2018. Exhibitions include: 'Salón ACME', project with Annka Kultys Gallery, Mexico City. MX (2019). 'Ghosng Love', Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK (2019). 'New Posions', solo project with Deak Erika Gallery at Art Cologne, Cologne, DE (2019). 'Tomorrow', Szent Istvan Kiraly Museum, Székesfehérvár, HU (2019). 'Shaping Realities' (solo), Deak Erika Gallery, Budapest (2017), 'UnderCovered' (solo), Kunstklag Gallery, Münich (2016). Awards and residencies include: Residency at Westport Art Center, Westport, US (2015), Residency Salzburg, Austria (2014), Ludwig Prize (2012).

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MELEKO MOKGOSI: DEMOCRATIC INTUITION
Sep 29 - Dec 12, 2020
Democracy is incompatible not only with the foundational elements of the human subject, but also with the various systems and institutions that support dominant forms of subjectivity or humanism in general. In other words, democracy is incompatible with structural racism and institutionalized or systemic violence; democracy is incompatible with neocolonialism and neo-imperialism; democracy is incompatible with the instruments that reproduce the conditions for and possibilities of capitalism; democracy is incompatible with race discourse, Eurocentrism, ethnocentrism, and humanism—all of which have become the dominant ways in which reality is conceptualized, interacted with, and historicized.
—Meleko Mokgosi
Gagosian is pleased to present Meleko Mokgosi’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom and Europe, drawn from his grand project Democratic Intuition (2013–20).

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MARY WEATHERFORD : TRAIN YARDS
Sep 22, 2020 - Feb 27, 2021
There’s always sound that enters when I’m thinking about a painting. To me they have sound.
—Mary Weatherford
Gagosian is pleased to present Train Yards, an exhibition of paintings by Mary Weatherford. This is her first solo exhibition with the gallery in London.
Weatherford roots abstract painting in subjective experience, evoking urban and rural environments while experimenting with internal painterly dynamics around light, color, and gesture, as well as the relationship between a painted surface and various three-dimensional addenda. Preparing each canvas with a mixture of gesso and marble dust, she conjures a wide range of chromatic and textural effects. In her best-known works, sponged grounds of vinyl-based emulsion on heavy linen panels are surmounted by one or more carefully shaped and placed neon-filled glass tubes.
Weatherford began using neon in 2012, inspired by the illuminated signs that lined the streets of Bakersfield, California, where she was then working as a visiting artist and educator. Casting an intense industrial light onto the modulated fields of color beneath them, the tubes (which sometimes extend beyond the edges of the painting) read as hand-drawn lines, their trailing power cords adding a further graphic and dimensional aspect.

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EDUARDO NAVARRO : (BREATHSPACE)
Oct 1 - Dec 20, 2020
Gasworks presents the first UK solo exhibition by Buenos Aires-based artist Eduardo Navarro. His work moves away from representation, instead creating sensorial experiences with the potential to induce a radical transformation of the self and others.
 
In recent years, Navarro has sought to adopt the slow metabolism of a reptile, experimented with ways of embodying the physical properties of light, and invited a large group of people to animate a giant mechanical octopus, in order for them to become part of its decentralised nervous system.
 
Originally scheduled for April 2020, Navarro’s plans for the exhibition at Gasworks had consisted of transforming the gallery’s architecture into a living, breathing organism: a large-scale artificial lung that would inhale and exhale air from the street. Conceived months before the COVID-19 outbreak, this immersive installation was designed for visitors to sync their body’s most vital functions with one another, offering a space for collective meditation and oceanic breathing.
 
As the exhibition was postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic, Navarro started drawing daily during the lockdown in Buenos Aires. In his words, this practice enabled him to ‘relocate the studio to inside my own head’, revealing the act of drawing as a timely medium for speculative thinking. Produced in self-isolation, the hundreds of sketches that result from this experience act as a portal connecting dimensions, past and future visions, unrealised and perhaps unrealisable ideas.
 
Inspired by the insights of quantum physics, according to which information in the universe cannot be created nor ever destroyed, Navarro’s work resists the prevailing sense of melancholia towards all the possibilities foreclosed by the pandemic. Instead of looking back at what the exhibition could have been, Navarro’s unpretentious drawings metabolise the original breathing installation, enacting its transformative spirit in a more intimate language.
 
Eduardo Navarro’s exhibition is commissioned and produced by Gasworks. Gasworks commissions are supported by Catherine Petitgas and Gasworks Exhibitions Supporters.

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LOSING TOUCH
Oct 13, 2020 - Jan 30, 2021
Through sculpture, performance, textiles and print, these artists each investigate materiality and pursue processes that transform the materials that they use. We live in an increasingly non-tangible world that is changing the way we perceive and interact with materials and one another. The virus has affected our usual means of communication, forcing us to go beyond our habits in order to reimagine space and
activate other senses to adjust to the “new normal”. Losing Touch will investigate these artists evolving and altered practices as we return to a different world and negotiate a new sensorial landscape.

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HOLLIS FRAMPTON : PHOTOGRAPHS
Sep 18 - Dec 13, 2020

SOLOS
Sep 18 - Dec 13, 2020
Works by Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom, Emma Cousin, Lindsey Mendick, Hardeep Pandhal.

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SEAN LANDERS & ALESSANDRO PESSOLI
Nov 12 - Dec 18, 2020

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