Contemporary Art London

The Mayfair Galleries: 5 galleries including at David Zwirner and Pace Gallery

Sat, Apr 18 · 12:00 PM BST

The King's Head, 10 Stafford Street, Greater, London, GB

It's been a long while since our last Contemporary Art London event, but I'm really excited to announce our next outing into the gallery scene. We'll be returning to our regular route, visiting five of the big-brand galleries you'll find around Mayfair. And there's a lot to see!

1. Flavin, Judd, McCracken, Ryman, Sandback at David Zwirner
Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, John McCracken, Robert Ryman, and Fred Sandback were at the avant-garde of American art during the 1960s and 1970s, the show bringing together a selection of sculptures, paintings and prints that radically reconfigured the possibilities of abstraction, focusing in particular on these artists’ considered use of colour in their pursuit of a non-representational form of expression.

2. Thomas Scheibitz at Sprueth Magers
Scheibitz is among the most important German painters and sculptors of his generation. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a kind of conceptual painting and sculpture that draws upon art-historical references, and at the heart of the Berlin-based artist’s work is a search for a new relationship between figuration and abstraction.

3. Alyina Zaidi at Pillar Corrias
Rewilding is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Alyina Zaidi. The exhibition continues the artist’s practice of world-making, envisioning surreal, imagined topographies shaped by memory and myth.

4. Tetsumi Kudo at Hauser & Wirth
In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, post-war Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo explored the implications of what would later be termed the Anthropocene in prescient work that interrogated the proliferation of mass consumption, the rise of technology and environmental degradation.

5. Loie Hollowell at Pace Gallery
Overview Effect, the artist’s first presentation in the UK since 2018, will feature new paintings from her series of the same name, which uses abstraction to capture the sensations of contractions during childbirth.

I hope that sounds like a good round up, and I can't wait to see you! More details below:

Event details:
12pm-1pm: We'll meet at The King's Head on Stafford Street. Arrive anytime in the hour, but this is a great chance to meet other Meetup attendees before we head out.

1:05pm-1:30pm: David Zwirner Gallery.
1:30pm-1:55pm: Sprueth Magers Gallery.
2:00pm-2:25pm: Pillar Corrias.
2:25pm-2:50pm: Hasuer & Wirth Gallery.
2:55pm-3:20pm: Pace Gallery.

3:20pm onwards: You are welcome to head off, with Bond Street and Oxford Street nearby, but for those who want to stay, we'll head over to The Mason's Arms for a post exhibition drink and wind-down. We'll need it after all that walking!

Before the event:
If you don't intend to have any food at The King's Head, it's recommended you eat something before coming out, as there's a lot to see and we'll be doing a lot of walking.

What to bring:
A notebook if you want to write down your thoughts.

Preparation:
Extra marks for anyone who does some research on the exhibitions.

Etiquette:
As always, if you can't make it just send a message to let me know and take your name off the RSVP list.

Cost:
There is a £6 charge for this, just to help me cover the admin fees for running this group. For context, it costs £170 every 6 months to keep the group going. Thank you for your support and if you fancy supporting the running of the group any further please follow the link here 🙏
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*Note, a small extra fee is charged by PayPal, which will be under 'Contemporary Art Bristol'. Don't worry, this is the correct account.

Health & Safety:
If you are feeling unwell, please do not attend the event (just send me a message if you could).

See you there!
Dominic

(If you need to contact me if you're going to be late or can't find us, please use the MeetUps messenger app or message me on 07889789965).