CHRIS OFILI – NIGHT AND DAY

Posted on 2014-11-17

“Chris Ofili: Night and Day” spans the artist’s influential career, encompassing his paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Over the past two decades, Ofili’s practice has become identified with vibrant and meticulously executed artworks that meld figuration, abstraction, and decoration. The artist’s diverse oeuvre has taken imagery and inspiration from such disparate, history-spanning sources as the Bible, hip-hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and the works of William Blake. As the title of the exhibition suggests, Ofili’s practice has undergone constant changes, moving from boldly expressive to deeply introspective across an experimental and prodigious body of work. The exhibition features over thirty of Ofili’s major paintings, a vast quantity of drawings, and a selection of sculptures from over the course of his career.

Opposite – Afronirvana, 2002

Exhibition runs through to January 25, 2015

Poppy Sebire
All Hallows Hall
6 Copperfield Street
London
SE1 0EP

www.newmuseum.org

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AIKATERINI GEGISIAN

Posted on 2014-11-17

Gegisian’s new work is built around the concept and practice of collage or – in a more cinematic sense, the ‘jump-cut’. She has assembled a heterogeneous body of material including images of gymnasts and space missions; scientific illustrations of Einstein’s theory of relativity; flower patterns and home interiors from both Soviet and Western photo albums and magazines. This found material is complemented by Gegisian’s own photographs, alongside a sound installation based on a dream diary and a text-book on how to become a male escort.

Exhibition runs from November 19th to December 13th, 2014

Tintype
107 Essex Road
London
N1 2SL

www.tintypegallery.com

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GARY COLCLOUGH – OTHER WORLDLY

Posted on 2014-11-17

The combination of sculpture and drawing has become a distinctive element of Gary Colclough’s practice, with the new work presented in Other Worldly he drives this investigation even further. Delicate pencil drawings are framed and suspended by meticulously constructed sculptural structures, which not only support but complement them. While Colclough has frequently worked on floor-based structures, the works on show are conceived for wall installation, creating a strong series of constructions connected by the use of geometric outlines.

In these works the natural order of things has been upturned, in Slight Return a forest is twice depicted on its side, and There’s a World contains a drawing of an upside down tree – or seen the other way – an upside down drawing of a tree. These works appear to be suggesting new perspectives for viewing seemingly common scenes.

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2014

dalla Rosa Gallery
121 Clerkenwell Road
London
EC1R 5BY

www.dallarosagallery.com

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