Top 5 #LondonExhibitions
What will you be doing this weekend?
Forget all the landscape paintings and drawings that you have seen, for this Spring Curious Duke Gallery will alter your definition. CDG's niche of surreal and urban art re-imagines our perceptions of classical landscapes as oil painting takes on graffiti and clouds drip from above in Vanishing Point. Burnt steel and chromatic mixed media drawings will grow over Curious Duke Gallery this March.
Now-12th April 2015
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street, London EC1Y 8JT
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 11:30am-6:30 Saturday 12-4
Nearest Station: Old Street Exit 6, Barbican
Price: Free
Monochrome
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Beers Contemporary proudly presents Monochrome, a group exhibition with work by ATOI, Simon Belleau and Alain Urrutia.
Shown together, the works create a narrative resonating with themes of concealment, the natural sublime, and memory. Aside from the obvious intonations of black as a predominating colour (or absence of colour), the works aspire beyond trite ideas (black as macabre, black as death) to forge ahead with complex notions of simulacra, art as paradoxical and referential, the image and idea as both macrocosmic and micro.
Now– 18th April 2015
Beers Contemporary
1 Baldwin Street, London EC1V 9NU
Open Tuesday to Friday: 10am - 6pm, Saturday: 11am - 5pm
Nearest Station: Old Street
Free
Alexander McQueen – Savage Beauty
The first and largest retrospective of the late designer’s work to be presented in Europe, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty showcases McQueen’s visionary body of work. Spanning his 1992 MA graduate collection to his unfinished A/W 2010 collection, McQueen’s designs are presented with the dramatic staging and sense of spectacle synonymous with his runway shows.
Now-2nd August 2015
V&A Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Open Daily: 10:00-17:45, 10:00-22:00 on Fridays
Nearest Station: South Kensington
Tickets £17.60 Full, including donation* (+£1.50 booking fee per ticket)
Gift Horse – Fourth Plinth
Hans Haacke’s Gift Horse depicts a skeletal, rider-less horse - a wry comment on the equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the plinth. Tied to the horse’s front leg is an electronic ribbon displaying live the ticker of the London Stock Exchange, completing the link between power, money and history. The horse is derived from an etching by George Stubbs, the famous English painter whose works are represented in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square.
From 5th March 2015
Frith Street Gallery
Trafalgar Square
Nearest Station: Charing Cross
Free
Zabludowicz Collection Invites: Flore Nove-Josserand
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Using imagery and materials that reference fencing, shutters and boarded up windows Nové-Josserand combines aspects of the ‘rough geometry’ of a city. Her interest is in both the visual rhythms of the urban environment, and the impact of gentrification on a city and its inhabitants.
Now-19th April 2015
Zabludowicz Collection
176 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PT
Open Thursday-Sunday 12-6
Nearest Station: Kentish Town West Station/Chalk Farm 5 minute walk
Free
Happy weekend! - Christine