CDG Top 5 exhibitions of the Week!
Posted on January 24, 2014
It is that time of the week again! Our top 5 London exhibitions to see this week! The Curious Duke Gallery has started 2014 with a bang and relocated to a fantastic new space...just 10 doors down at 173 Whitecross Street! Thursday 20th Feburary is a date for you all to put in your diaries for our OFFICIAL RELAUNCH! If you can't quite hold out till then and want to come and see the new space develop, as well as the fantastic new artwork on offer, pop along and say hello.
1.The Present
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street
EC1Y 8JT
Free
Tube: Old Street (exit 6)
Until 31st January
If you have walked past Curious Duke and found yourself horrified we are not there...don't fret! We have moved 10 doors down to 173 Whitecross Street, with fantastic dual aspect windows with all our work open to the world to see! We are in the process of transforming the space and making it our own curious gallery of treasures, but we are officially re-launching the gallery Thursday 20th February 2014. Feel free to pop in, see what we have up on the walls and take a nosey round the new space!
2. Sensing Spaces: Architecture Re-imagined
Royal Academy
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J OBD
25th Jan - 6th April
Adults £14; Students £9; Under 12's Free
Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Sensing Spaces: Architecture re-imagined is the most ambitions architecture exhibition the Royal Academy has ever staged, offering something different from more common displays of architecture. It goes further than presenting drawings, models, films and photographs of architecture and instead offers seven full-scale interpretations that visitors are free to explore as they chose.
The exhibition invites the viewer to respond to the different textures, colours, lighting, scents and colours, and to question how architecture makes us feel.
3. Jaki Irvine: This thing echoes
Firth Street Gallery
17-18 Golden Square
W1F 9JJ
Until 1st March 2014
Free
Tube: Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus
'Sadness is an overlooked emotion in contemporary art, but if anything deserves to be called truly sad, It's Jaki Irvine's latest film Se Compra: Sin e'
The 17 minute film, created in Mexico City, begins with street sellers crying out and announcing their wares for sale. As the film develops, the sound and visual displays create a profound sadness, only emphasised by the different elements at play.
4. Harry Callahan
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
Free
Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
A master of multiple exposures, concentrating on objects that most people wouldn't bother put in focus - lampposts, a flagpole, a window.
The show reveals remarkable diversity of subjects and the progression of printing techniques from 1940's black and white through to the bursting colours of the 70's.
The effect of the show is meditative, rhythmical with focuses on his wife, colour and pattern.
5.Pop Art Design
Barbican
Silk St.
London
EC2Y 8DS
Exhibitions £12; Concs £8-£10
Tube: Barbican
Over 50 years after Pop Art exploded onto the art scene, Pop Art Design is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the exchange of ideas between artists and designers of the pop age. The work on show ranges from Vinyl covers and posters to interior design and architecture, and demonstrates the influence the two industries had on one another.
With over 200 works from some of the greatest pop icons, from Peter Blake to Roy Litchenstein, there is a wealth of work and inspiration that has explored every different approach.
