Galleries - January 2013

MAP 23 LONDON MARYLEBONE 35. GALLERIES JANUARY 13 a GRAHAM HUNTER GALLERY 81 Baker Street, London W1U 6RQ Contemporary Paintings and Prints. Mon–Fri 9.30–6, Sat 10–5, Sun 11–4 info@grahamhuntergallery.co.uk www.grahamhuntergallery.co.uk With professional onsite framing service. info@creativepictureframing.co.uk t 020 7935 7794 b MARK GALLERY 9 Porchester Place, Marble Arch, London W2 2BS 16th–19th Century Russian Icons. Also modern lithographs and etchings from the Ecole de Paris, including Picasso, Chagall, Dali, Miro, Fini, Cassigneul, etc. Members of BADA and CINOA. Mon–Fri 10–1, 2–6, Sat 11–1 info@markgallery.co.uk www.markgallery.co.uk t 020 7262 4906 f 020 7224 9416 c RAILINGS GALLERY 5 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 8UT Showing originallimited edition prints by contemporary artists. Innovative picture framing and exhibition framing available . Mon–Sat 10–5 info@railings-gallery.com www.railings-gallery.com t 020 7935 1114 f 020 7486 9250 d THOMPSON’S GALLERY 15 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 9UB January – Mixed Show of contemporary artists. London Art Fair , Business Design Centre, Islington, London N1, Jan 16–20, exhibiting artists: PaulWright and CarlMelegari. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10.30–5.30, Sun 11–5 enquiries@thompsonsgallery.co.uk www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk t 020 7935 3595 REGENT'S PARK PORC H ES TE R RD E T G E O R G E S T E L L S T R E E T N E W C A V E N DIS W I GM O R E S T C R AWF O R D S T M A R Y L E B O N E H I G H S T N AU G H T S T SE YMOU R ST EDGWARE ROAD L I S S O N G R O V E A D B AK ER S T REET S EYMOUR PLACE G L OUC E ST E R P L A C E OX F O R D S T R E E T S T W A Y MA R Y LEB ON E RO A D a dc b Marble Arch Bond Street Baker Street Marylebone Regent's Par Edgware Road ElAnatsui: Art and Life, by Susan Mullin Vogel. 176 pages, 45 col ills, Prestel Publishing hbk, £40 This sumptuously illustrated, thoughtfully written book explores the work of the globally acclaimed Ghanaian-born, Nigerian-based artist, El Anatsui (b.1944). His philosophy is ‘you do art with whatever is around you’. He transfigures locally- retrieved detritus such as caches of aluminium alcohol bottle tops (then flattened, crimped and crumpled, etc.) and copper wire, stitching these into immense undulating assemblies of infinitely sinuous beauty and diverse, subtly mesmerising palettes. His work, which, he says, is ‘a marriage between sculpture and painting’ –revolving ‘around the history of the continent of Africa’ – paradoxically unites quotidian grittiness of materials with an awe- inspiring ethereality. Philip Vann 100 Ideas That Changed Art by MichaelBird . 216pp, 288 col ills, Laurence King pbk, £19.95 This survey aims to cover art from early times to the present without becoming overcome by ‘isms’. And indeed art historian Michael Bird has succeeded in excluding virtually all of them to produce an approachable, concise volume with c.500 words and 2 or 3 images per ‘idea’ – technological or conceptual. “I have looked for ideas that shaped the ways in which artists worked, rather than those that determined how their work was (retrospectively) thought and written about.” The result is attractively produced and priced, perfect for dipping into rather than for a cover-to- cover read. AA BOOK reviews