Archive for the ‘UK’ Category
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
May 17 is the last day of the solo show of Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Gallery (April 3 - May 17, 2008). His first show of new work in London since 1999, and his first at the Britannia Street galleries.
Hodgkin's paintings are unmistakable with their assertive, compressed gestures, brush-swept, complex ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Howard Hodgkin was born in London in 1932 and attended Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in the following year won the Turner Prize. He has exhibited internationally for over four decades and his work ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Barbara Agreste was born in Pescara, in central Italy, in 1971 and lives and works in London. She attended the Art Lyceum in her hometown, and then moved to Milan to attend a scenography course in the Academy of Arts. Not happy with the cultural atmosphere that surrounds her in ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Lucian Michael Freud, (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter and printmaker. Freud was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922, son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie née Brasch. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of writer and politician Clement Raphael Freud ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Sam Dolman was born in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire, where he lived until he was 18. He then moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to study Accountancy, where he spent the next four years. After graduating it soon became apparent that figures were not the life for him. Following a year in Leeds and ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Work with abandoned places and desolate spaces, Mie Olise work is primarily painting, as well as building models of wood and cardboard and sometimes sowing. Also trained as an architect she is interested in constructions, perspectives, scales. Often spaces left by human beeings.Artist Statement:“I find the uncannyness of discovering a ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Banksy is a well-known yet pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist, possibly named Robert Banks. It is believed that Banksy is a native of Yate (near Bristol) who was born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and basic personal and biographical details. However, according to Tristan Manco, ...
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