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Exhibitions

 

Forthcoming Show: ‘How Heavy is Black?’

10th December – 31st January 2004

 

   

IAN McKEEVER

Untitled, 2003, oil on canvas, 183 x 138cm

 

Joachim Bandau

Eduardo Chillida

Alan Davie

Sam Francis

Hamish Fulton

Patrick Heron

Hernandez Pijuan

Ian McKeever

 

Our Christmas show this year has a seemingly un-seasonal title but it promises to be a vibrant and stimulating show. The exhibition explores what it is to have an image with no colour. It is a look at the sculptural, narrative, conceptual and painterly qualities (some of the formal structures that underpin all painting) that can provoke artists and sculptors, but laid bare in black on white.

 

The exhibition gives collectors plenty of opportunity to acquire substantial (and sometimes more gift-oriented!) works by these significant artists.

 

ALAN DAVIE

Spirit of the Living God, 2003, ink on paper, 34.5 x 29 cm

 

The theme for the show was originally inspired by the vastly contrasting representations of black in the monumental gravity-defying work of the late Eduardo Chillida and the diaphanous layered black watercolours of the sculptor Joachim Bandau. But the show also includes monochrome pieces by the master colourists Patrick Heron and Sam Francis.  While Ian McKeever, who has travelled extensively around Northern Europe, has found it hard sometimes to paint anything other than black and white, in a sense though he feels that these are “colourful” paintings.

 

The show also compares the narrative styles of Alan Davie, Hamish Fulton and Hernandez Pijuan.  The Davie drawings, with an almost calligraphic sense, are ink on paper filled with symbols and text imbued with subconscious (Jungian) meaning; while Pijuan produces rich, reduced, abstracted representations of his native landscape around Barcelona. Fulton, as those who visited his major show at Tate Britain recently will know, represents journeys and a sense of place in landscape by the use of bold advertising strength text.

 

HERNANDEZ PIJUAN

Untitled [46], 2002, gouache on paper, 24.5 x 38.5 cm

 

Both Bandau and Pijuan are established international artists whose works are to be found in many museums throughout mainland Europe and America but whose names may not be known to many in Britain. In fact this is the first time their work has ever been seen in London. In itself reason enough to visit the show!

 

Visit our website to see more images of the show. An on-line catalogue of the exhibition will be available after the show has opened.

 

 

 

Last few days to see: Sally Heywood ‘Gloriana’ 

 

  Gloriana 1, 2003 (Oil on canvas)

 

31st October - 6th December

 

Gloriana, Heywood’s second exhibition since returning to Britain from Berlin (where she spent 10 years) has a celebratory affirmation of colour not seen in her work before. Combined with this is a return to the instinctive and emotional response to landscape and nature of her earlier days.

 

Visit our website to see more images of the show and to view the on-line catalogue.

 

Artist News

 

For some reason a lot of activity in America this month!

 

Angus Broadbent recently made a visit to Willard Boepple’s home and studio in Vermont, USA. Boepples’s garden is like a private sculpture park with his work displayed in woodland clearings and sometimes hidden amongst the trees. While the garden is a tribute to his finished works, his studio was filled with work in progress for his exhibition at Salander O’Reilly in New York in late spring 2004.

 

      

Willard in his studio

 

Ingrid Kerma has her first major show in America early next year.  The exhibition is at a recently established gallery in Los Angeles run by Paul Greenhalgh, a friend of the gallery for many years. Keller and Greene Gallery is at 158 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles 90036, USA. The exhibition dates are: February 27th - April 10th 2004.

 

 

Gary Komarin also has a major exhibition opening in New York at McGrath Galleries at 9 East 57th Street, 10th December – 22 January 2004. He is also in a group show at Pro-Arte gallery in Zurich Switzerland entitled “The Americans” which opens later this month.

 

 

Peter Griffin’s exhibition at Salon des Arts, Queensgate, London on 4th November was an exuberant, noisy and crowded event which raised substantial funds for UNICEF.

 

 

There is still time to see the major retrospective of Alan Davie at Tate St Ives called 'Jingling Space' – it focuses on Davie's interest in Surrealism. The exhibition runs until 25th January 2004. This exhibition has attracted extremely positive reviews from critics such as Richard Cork in The Times

 

 

Events

 

Lufthansa Student Awards

 

     

 

Broadbent in association with Lufthansa have just installed the latest group of student works at Heathrow.  The scheme has been specially designed to give young artists the chance to exhibit their work and win a substantial award, while presenting the visitors to the Lufthansa lounges a changing landscape of new and innovative works. The current show features works by Karl Groberty, John Goody and Amanda Richardson from University College Chichester.

More details of the Lufthansa scheme and the current installation can be found on our website.

 

 

Margaret Francis Retrospective

There are still a couple of weeks to see the works of Margaret Francis, the widow of Sam Francis, exhibited in a retrospective of her work being held at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery . The show closes on the 16th December.

 

 

Diary

 

Christmas Opening times and dates

The gallery will be closed from, and including December 24th until January 1st 2004. We will be open for business as usual from January 2nd. We hope you enjoy the holiday season!

 

 

Planning ahead…

Christmas and January are very busy periods at the gallery. In January we are attending two art fairs (not one as suggested in the last newsletter - see below) which are back-to-back so we will be continuing “How Heavy is Black?” until the end of January. During February we will be having a second group show, curated by three of the gallery artists.

 

 

London Art Fair: 14-18 January 2004 - Stand 38 (Mezzanine Level)

Contrary to what we said in the last newsletter, we will be attending the London Art Fair this year. We have moved from the balcony level, to the main Mezzanine Level. So make sure you visit us at our larger stand!

 

 

Bologna Art Fair: 22-26 January 2004

The Artefiere Bologna event has a focus this year on British galleries so we are being joined this year by many other London based galleries. As we mentioned last month this art fair is quickly being accepted as the finest contemporary fair in Italy, and has a very large international audience. So with many British galleries there are lots of reasons to come and visit us – leave grey and dreary London and make a week-end of it!

 

 

 

We still have a few Alan Davie prints at a special price to visitors of our website. Last minute presents? Offer ends…23rd December 2003

To a Celtic Spirit II, 2001
6 colour screenprint on Velin Arches 300gm
Edition of 30 with 5 artist’s proofs, 3 printers’ proofs and 2 archive copies
Printed by Kip Gresham, Ian Wilkinson and Craig Rogers-Jones, published by GSL
Paper 75 x 97 cm, Image 51.5 x 76 cm.

Cosmic Signals No. 1, 2001

7 colour screenprint on Somerset U.K. Textured 300gm

Edition of 30 with 5 artist's proofs, 2 printers' proofs and 2 archive copies

Printed by Kip Gresham and Jan Wilkinson, published by GSL

Paper 75.5 x 86.5 cm, Image 56 x 68.5 cm.

 

Contact us

 

 

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Chepstow Place

Tel: +44 (0)20 7229 8811
Fax: +44 (0)20 7229 8833
www.broadbentgallery.com

 

 

 

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