Type Ctrl-D to add this site to your favourites	LONDON 3rd Nov 2010 - 19th Nov 2010 KATE MALONE: New Work Press Release (PDF) This autumn, ceramicist Kate Malone returns with a beautiful new body of work. Featuring several unique, monumental sculptures amongst her signature collection of organic inspired pots, the exhibition will be a must-see event for anyone interested in contemporary ceramic art. The show will mark seven years since her last solo London show and ten years since her ‘Nuts and Berries’ exhibition at the Dover Street Gallery. Kate Malone is one of the UK’s foremost ceramic artists, with a career spanning over 30 years and with work in numerous public collections including the V&A London, The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, the LACMA Los Angeles, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs Montreal. The Malone aesthetic is internationally recognisable. The coiled bodies of her pots are often clad in countless hand-crafted elements of varying size and form, before sumptuous, highly-coloured crystalline glazes are applied. The resulting ceramic sculptures exude an uncompromisingly abundant sense of ripeness that carries favour with a wide range of collectors. LONDON 27th Sep 2010 - 27th Oct 2010 THE GALLANT APPAREL: Italian Art and the Modern Press Release (PDF) ROBILANT + VOENA are thrilled to announce an exhibition of twentieth century Italian art, scheduled to coincide with the numerous cultural events in London during October, opening on 27 September through to 27 October. Taking as its point of departure Lucio Fontana’s Spatialism, proclaimed in his Manifestos of 1947 and 1948, ‘THE GALLANT APPAREL: Italian Art and the Modern’ charts a line through the main exponents of Italian modern and contemporary art and examines the development of ideas about art and its production in Italy from 1950 right through to the 1990s. The exhibition will explore the fascination with surface, texture and thee-dimensionality in painting prevalent amongst many of these artists, whether it be through Fontana’s revolutionary Buchi or Tagli (holes or slashes), or through Castellani’s protrusions, or the overlaid canvases of Scheggi. Special attention will be given to Fontana, represented by six important paintings and sculptures, as the catalyst for the most significant debate in midcentury Italian art and a vital inspiration for those who followed him. Three artists for whom Fontana’s influence was paramount were Manzoni, Bonalumi and Castellani, who in turn created their own platform (Gallery Azimuth) for showing art which interrogated the limits of physicality and the art world’s obsession with permanence, directly prefiguring conceptual art. Paolini’s conceptual research into art as mirroring or self-reflection, will also be addressed, as will De Dominici’s ‘figurative conceptualism’. Mario Merz will be represented by a rare 11 piece photography and light installation from 1972. We hope that the exhibition will present to the London public a cohesive survey of the main strands of Italian spatialist and conceptual art, revealing the close relationships between the artists and their creations, and serve to underline the particular elegance and aesthetic sophistication of Italian art of this period. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, written by Marco Meneguzzo, with an introduction by Roberta Cremoncini of the Estorick Collection, London. A programme of lectures and events will be organised in conjunction with the exhibition. Please contact Mira Dimitrova at the gallery for more information. GRAND PALAIS, PARIS 15th Sep 2010 - 22nd Sep 2010 XXV Biennale des Antiquaires LONDON 3rd Jul 2010 - 9th Jul 2010 Master Paintings Week 2010 - A History of Taste: Highlights of Italian and French Painting For further information of all events associated with Master Paintings Week please go to www.masterpaintingsweek.co.uk Olympia, London 4th Jun 2010 - 13th Jun 2010 London International Fine Art Fair LONDON 27th Apr 2010 - 23rd Jun 2010 DAVID LACHAPELLE: The Rape of Africa Press Release (PDF) MONDAY TO FRIDAY, 10am - 6pm, Admission: FREE The first London exhibition of David LaChapelle’s extraordinary tableaux The Rape of Africa at ROBILANT+VOENA has been received with unprecedented press and public interest. The gallery is pleased to be continuing its association with the artist started in 2008 to bring this exciting and unique work to London audiences. The Rape of Africa is exhibited alongside other important works inspired variously by models from art history to contemporary celebrity, as well as preparatory drawings for the main work, demonstrating the complexity of the artist’s process. David LaChapelle’s work is exhibited in museums worldwide, currently at the MOCA Taipei, and recently LACMA Los Angeles, the Monnaie de Paris, Brooklyn Museum New York, and forthcoming at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. ‘It is through his brilliant use of beauty and fantasy that David LaChapelle somehow and irresistibly arrives at the truth. The ugly truth’. Colin Wiggins, National Gallery, London ‘Serious, high-minded, raw, provocative but above all political – (the exhibition) will confound those expecting just another blast from a pop culture past.’ Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer ‘On one hand The Rape of Africa is typical LaChapelle with its gaudy aesthetic and flawless glossy style but it is also an angry political statement. On a personal level it announces LaChapelle as no longer a celebrity snapper, but an important contemporary artist more than capable of bringing intellectual and historical weight to his art.’ Fiona Sturges, The Independent ‘His photographs are now iconic. More mischievous than Annie Leibovitz’s staged tableaux and less in thrall to his subjects than Sam Taylor-Wood’s.’Tim Teeman, The Times ‘This new exhibition consolidates the more message-driven and artistic direction his work is taking’, Vassi Chamberlain, The Evening Standard ‘LaChapelle is a very considerable communicator. He makes pictures packed with interpretable clues.’ Francis Hodgson, Financial Times ‘The latest work from David LaChapelle…is a serious artistic take on global politics’, Skye Sherwin, Harper’s Bazaar ‘LaChapelle’s new work is turning many a stiff-necked critic’s head, focusing the lens of celebrity and fashion on consumerism and cultural hierarchies.’ Anna Carnick, Dazed&Confused To hear David LaChapelle's latest interview about the show on the BBC World Service please go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/04/100427_lachapelle_rapeofafrica.shtml MECC, MAASTRICHT 12th Mar 2010 - 21st Mar 2010 Tefaf Maastricht, 2010 LONDON 9th Feb 2010 - 4th Mar 2010 Julian Schnabel Navigation Drawings and One Painting Press Release (PDF) NEW YORK, VAN DE WEGHE FINE ART 21st Jan 2010 - 5th Feb 2010 A History of Taste. Collecting French & Italian Old Master Paintings for America Press Release (PDF)