Daily Diary

30 November 2023

London

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Tim Lewis: The Forest Visits

@ Flowers Gallery, Cork Street

an exhibition of Lewis’ new zoomorphic works, in which repurposed found objects and materials take the form of uncanny kinetic sculptures

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Small is Beautiful: 41st Edition

@ Flowers Gallery, Cork Street

first introduced in 1974, the 41st edition of Small is Beautiful continues to showcase smaller pieces by internationally recognised names and new talents

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Robert Mapplethorpe: SUBJECT OBJECT IMAGE

@ Alison Jacques

including many not widely-known images, an exhibition spanning thirteen years of Mapplethorpe’s life, with still lifes, nudes, rare Dye-transfer photographs of flowers, as well as his classic portraits of artists and creatives in 1970s and 80s New York

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FAMILY & FRIENDS

@ BEERS London

an exhibition combining current gallery artists with those whose first solo exhibitions begin in 2024

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Robert Ryman: Line

@ David Zwirner

organised with the American artist’s family, an exhibition of drawings by Ryman from 1961-2000

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Jenny Saville: Ekkyklema

@ Gagosian Davies St

new paintings and works on paper which reference Greek tragic drama as well as giant digital stadium display screens - “I gave myself the challenge of feeling the ancient and digital worlds simultaneously” - Saville

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Pauline Boty: A Portrait

@ Gazelli Art House

Boty was a prominent British Pop Art figure and “a visionary artist whose vibrant spirit and revolutionary creations left an indelible mark on the contemporary art scene”

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Nicholas Hely Hutchinson: Recent Paintings

@ John Martin Gallery

Hely Hutchinson’s first exhibition at the gallery presents windswept coastlines and open spaces, celebrating the delight to be found in the natural world

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Jacob Mason-Macklin: Underground

@ MAMOTH

a solo exhibition featuring a new body of work, which marks Mason-Macklin’s European debut and the end of his residency at MAMOTH

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Liorah Tchiprout: Two Eyes Wide Open at the Edge of Dawn

@ Marlborough

Tchiprout’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery explores new beginnings with portrait paintings, monotypes and etchings, on a larger scale than she is known for

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Still Life

@ Skarstedt

a group show featuring iconic works from the 1980s to the present, celebrating the versatility of the genre through the combination of anthropomorphic forms with tongue-in-cheek interventions

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Michel Pérez Pollo: Two Poets

@ Timothy Taylor

new luminous, surreal still-life paintings by Pérez Pollo in his first solo exhibition with the gallery

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Byzantia Harlow: Aetheric

@ Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix

re-imagined, tarot-based portraits together with a sculptural installation and sound piece in this solo exhibition by the artist and psychic medium which expands on her exploration of spirituality and healing processes

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Haverstock School Curates: Segregation

@ Zabludowicz Collection

selected works from the Collection by artists including Grimes, Glenn Ligon and Thomas Hirschorn - curated by Haverstock School Year 12 A-Level art students and produced over a series of in-school and off-site workshops

Los Angeles

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Shadi Al-Atallah: Rapture

@ Steve Turner

capturing figures in a moment of heightened emotional intensity, Al-Atallah’s compositions are inspired by Mesopotamian and Greek depictions of wrestling and “represent the complex terrain where desire and fear collide”

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Elsa Rouy: The Only Daughter

@ Steve Turner

Rouy’s debut American solo exhibition, presenting a “visual portrayal of abstruse emotions where bodies are in a constant state of becoming, never static and always in a state of flux” - Elsa Rouy

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Luca Sára Rózsa: A Circle Does Not Have An End

@ Steve Turner

recent paintings and a ceramic relief by the Hungarian artist, representing figures inspired by Christian iconography

Milan

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Günter Umberg: Zeit-bild

@ A arte Invernizzi

historical and recent works by Umberg in an exhibition which “promises direct interaction between the works and their setting”

New York

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Eye Of The Beholder

@ Anita Shapolsky Gallery

“a curated dive into the multifaceted realms of abstract and contemporary art”

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Larry Zox: Gemini

@ Berry Campbell Gallery

twenty paintings and works on paper from 1963 to 1969 by the important Color Field painter

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Jewelry: Ancient to Modern

@ Colnaghi

in time for the holiday season, a presentation of precious pieces from five thousand years of the history of adornment

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Ben Woolfitt: Blue Passage

@ David Richard Gallery

a solo exhibition and debut of new paintings and drawings, exploring non-objective abstraction with palettes evoking astral skies, the cosmos and the deep

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I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel...

@ Fleiss-Vallois

an exhibition recreating the essence of the legendary hotel in New York City, with many of the works leaving its walls for the first time

Rome

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Cy Gavin: New Paintings

@ Gagosian

Gavin’s debut solo exhibition in Italy presents paintings looking at growth, decay, and resilience

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing today

London

Omotunwase Osinaike | Open Studio Residency & Exhibition Programme

@ The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Holborn

investigating themes of self-examination and the sanctity of life, the exhibition celebrates the work made during the artist’s residency at the Bomb Factory’s Holborn studio

New York

Darvish: Every Story is Us

@ Leila Heller Gallery

new paintings and performances both on- and off-site in the first New York solo exhibition by the London-based half-Iranian, half-American artist

Paris

Irving Penn: The Bath

@ Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais

rarely seen photographs taken in 1967 of the groundbreaking work of American choreographer Anna Halprin