Galleries - November 2010

a AGNEW’S GALLERY 35 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JD Andrew Gadd: The Day Begins. Nov 10–Dec 3. Please see our website for further information. agnews@agnewsgallery.co.uk www.agnewsgallery.com t 020 7290 9250 f 020 7629 4359 b THE AIR GALLERY 34 Dover Street, London W1S 4NE Penrose Fine Art presents: Bilson: ‘The absurd observed’. Nov 24–27. *ad Wed–Fri 10–8, Sat 10–2 info@thedollarstreetgallery.com t 01285 651072 c ALBEMARLE GALLERY 49 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JR Contemporary British and European Paintings. Lee Jaehyo – Sculptures and Installations. Oct 9–Nov 6. 4 British Figurative Artists. Nov 12–Dec 4. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–4 info@albemarlegallery.com www.albemarlegallery.com t 020 7499 1616 f 020 7499 1717 52. GALLERIES NOVEMBER 10 d APRICOT GALLERY 27 Albemarle Street, Mayfair W1S 4HZ The only gallery in the UK to specialise in contemporary Vietnamese Art. info@apricotgallery.uk.com www.apricotgallery.uk.com Mon–Sat 10–7 & by appt t 020 7491 8987 e BELGRAVIA GALLERY 45 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JL Paul Chizik – Progression of Paint. Nov 1–19. *ad Lincoln Seligman. Nov 19–30. laura@belgraviagallery.com www.belgraviagallery.com t 020 7495 1010 f CONNAUGHT BROWN 2 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4HD Winter Exhibition. Nov 24–Dec 31. Includes works by Henri Matisse, Tom Wesselmann, Baltasar Lobo & Boaz Vaadia. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–12.30 art@connaughtbrown.co.uk www.connaughtbrown.co.uk t 020 7408 0362 f 020 7495 3137 g GALERIE BESSON 15 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4SP Ken Mihara and Shihoko Fukumoto. Oct 13–Nov 13. Ceramic sculptures and textile hangings by two award-winning Japanese artists. Asian Art in London Saturday Opening: Nov 13, 11–4. Elizabeth Raeburn. Nov 17–Dec 21. Katie Jones: Containing Beauty. Nov 8–13. Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art at Gallery 27, Cork Street, W1. Mon–Fri 10–5.30 enquiries@galeriebesson.co.uk www.galeriebesson.co.uk t 020 7491 1706 f 020 7495 3203 h JOHN MARTIN GALLERY 38 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JG Leon Morrocco: Chennai, Kolkata, Goa. Nov 4–20. Francis Hamel: Italian Formal Gardens and their Landscapes. Nov 24–Dec 11. Please contact the gallery or visit R O Y AL A RC AD E BU R LI N GTO U R LIN GT O N S T S T A F F OR D S T E R O W RA F TON S T C L IFF I L L NEW B ON D ST OL D B O N D B U R L I N G D O V E R S T R E E T K E L E Y S T R E E T A LB E M AR LE S TR E ET I C C A D I L L Y S T a e g d h l k j i f c b T O W MAP 30 C O R K S T MAP 27 OLD BOND STREET website for further details. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 11–4 info@jmlondon.com www.jmlondon.com t 020 7499 1314 i MARLBOROUGH 6 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BY John Virtue: North Sea Paintings (recent paintings and monotypes of Norfolk). Oct 13–Nov 13. Mon–Fri 10–5.30, Sat 10–12.30 mfa@marlboroughfineart.com www.marlboroughfineart.com t 020 7629 5161 f 020 7629 6338 j RICHARD NAGY Ltd 22 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4PY Classic Modernism, German Expressionism, Viennese Secession. Including works by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, and selected Contemporary. info@richardnagy.com www.richardnagy.com t 020 7262 6400 f 020 7262 6464 k THEOBALD JENNINGS 37 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JF Simon Theobald and Guy Jennings specialise in 19th and 20th Century paintings, drawings and prints. Artists include Braque, Cezanne, Chagall, Dali, Ernst, Gauguin, Giacometti, Gris, Heckel, Hockney, Kirchner, Klee, Magritte, Matisse, Modigliani, Monet, Munch, Nolde, Pechstein, Picasso, Pissarro and Renoir. By appointment info@theobaldjennings.com web www.theobaldjennings.com t 020 7629 0629 f 020 7629 0639 l W/S FINE ART LTD ANDREW WYLD 27 Dover Street, London W1S 4LZ British and Irish art including early watercolours, drawings and oil paintings. Exhibition: Winter 2010. Nov 17–Dec 10. Mon–Fri 10–5 or by appt andrew@andrewwyld.com www.andrewwyld.com t 020 7290 1540 f 020 7290 1549 In this, his fifth show at Agnew's, Andrew Gadd seems to be striking out in some rather intriguing new directions, his monumental figurative style, tonally reminiscent of Sickert and Orpen, tempered on occasion here (e.g. The Day Begins) by Cubist-inspired considerations and, on others, by more radically developed themes of isolation and social exclusion (e.g. Bus Stop Nativity – the Holy Family sheltering in a bus shelter). As in his earlier work though, they never go for easy answers, the paint surface retaining a powerful degree of ambiguity and mystery. NU THUMB nails Andrew Gadd ‘The Day Begins’