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The show sees Grzymala take over the entire gallery with the installation, changing the way visitors interact with the space. It is the latest in a series of site-specific tape installations by the artist, who has previously exhibited at galleries including MoMA New York, the Tokyo Art Museum and the Drawing Room in London... While previous pieces have featured coloured tape, Grzymala has decided to work entirely with bold, black lines at Sumarria Lunn, resulting in a stunning installation. This particular small, but perfectly formed, show has Blue Curry, Ross Jones, littlewhitehead and Tim Phillips in a dialogue about the aggravations of modern life. The stand out work for me is Tim Phillips' Hyperion. A gloriously over-the-top corporate logo for a future age. Inlaid wood in dynamic shapes is intercut with vinyl and backlit by LED lights. Russian suprematism meets corporate America. A considered and intelligent response to the modern world's tendency towards information overload. Another dimension [click for article] The artists in Photography As Object complement each other beautifully, each exploring an aspect of the common theme. Sitting squarely across two unique disciplines, photography and sculpture, each image is amplified by the artist' manipulation. In this small yet well-put-together solo show at Sumarria Lunn, Rickard relinquishes part of his artistic control and lets the unknown creep in; the two are collaborators and the results are surprisingly coherent. Yun-Kyung Jeong interview with the BBC [click for programme] Axonometric skewing of perspective is a classic method for conveying depth, and Jeong's compelling canvases do so in a variety of remarkable ways. This show suggests that we should expect rich offerings from Sumarria Lunn as they make their mark in Mayfair. ...a stunning collection of works [click for full review]
This globally ambitious young gallery launches its Mayfair space... with Jeong's hybrid landscape paintings. [click for full article]
Mayfair's new art gallery Presented by SUMARRIA LUNN, the provocative work of Glaswegian art collective "littlewhitehead" was pointedly humorous and witty - if not a little dark for some. Emphasised by a smart, and decidedly cute, move to install the work outside of the tradition Fair stand- you are forced to confront the pieces as they become part of the narrative of the occasion. Against a background of endless Damian Hirst prints, these brutally honest installations might sit uncomfortably in penthouse apartment but are more than at home here. Korean artist Sungfeel Yun operates at the boundary of art and science by returning to the classroom favourite of iron filings with surprisingly persuasive results. He embeds the filings in resin, then uses magnets from the back of the canvas to drag them into swirling fluxes which have a painterly feel front-on and a more sculptural presence from some angles. He then submits selected areas to rusting, so adding to the contrast of elements: solar images usng earthy materials, positive and negative forces, metallic strength in a delicate form. The exhibitionexcels in its curation. James Ireland’s deceptively simple ‘You get What You Desire, You Take All That You Can, You Wait For No One’ plays with the perspective of the space, disorienting the viewer and placing them within a sleek grotto, the mirrors and coloured screens distorting the natural surroundings, and turning an organic environment into a bite-sized metropolis straight from the steel tundras of Blade Runner. Conversely, Douglas White’s ‘Black Palm’ is camouflaged against the foliage and only revealed to be a sculpture on closer inspection. Another gallery making a name for itself is SUMARRIA LUNN, run by partners Vishal Sumarria and Will Lunn. Fresh-faced Lunn, who claims to be the UK's youngest contemporary art dealer, spends half his time dealing and the other half studying at London's Courtauld Institute...At the London Art Fair Lunn was enthusing about the work of British artist Claire Burbridge, whose arresting sculptures in clear cast resin tinted with pigment recall both the uncanny strangeness of Hans Bellmer's dolls and the fragility of Medardo Rosso's wax heads. Gallery SUMARRIA LUNN, whose co-director, Will Lunn, is a mere twenty-one and running the gallery while still at university, included pencil on paper works by Ross Jones on their stand. Jones takes architectural modelling as a formal subject matter but relieves the buildings of any surrounding urban clutter, leaving them as bare, monolithic, self-reflective testaments to their own spatial and economic endeavour. Sotheby's is supporting this charity auction in aid of the immensely worthwhile Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. The 70 artworks for sale span the British contemporary art scene, including pieces offered by Paula Rego, Howard Hodgkin, Peter Blake, Cornelia Parker, Michael Craig Martin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and Mark Titchner. Some of Britain's most prominent contemporary artists have donated works to the Medical Foundation Art Auction, whose proceeds will support the victims of torture. A brilliant-red triangular work, created by former Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner for the auction, is branded with the message: "Not Now, Never". It is expected to go for at least £2,000. "Torture is an abomination", says Titchner. "The fact that it exists in any form is a stain on the human race. Supporting its victims is the least we can do." What is particularly striking about the pieces is the technical ability of the artists, the fine delicate brushstrokes of Yun-Kyung Jeong and the draftsmanship of Ross Jones mark a return to artistry without resorting to the decorative; the political overtones in Ross Jones's deserted cityscapes, for instance, are crystal clear. Political artist Ross Jones' exploratory drawings, soon to be on display at London's William Angel Gallery, take a look at Britain's current societal problems... Titles such as "Surgical Strike, Agricultural Decline" and "Refuge" match the sober drawings, pulling you in with their simple grandeur... Having only been in the art scene since 2005, Jones has won a considerable amount of awards for his work, symbolizing how talented he is at expressing such relevant topics. |
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OUR ARTISTS HAVE RECEIVED PRESS WITH- Art Forum and The Observer among others: It Happened in the Corner is very much of its time: blackly humorous, slightly threatening and dripping with references from the art world, the similarly unsettling realist figurative sculptures of Duane Hanson, and the real world hoodies, the homeless, street gangs. Based in Glasgow, littlewhitehead are a collective who summon up our collective fears. This sculpture is a group of hooded figures clustered, their backs to the viewer, in a corner of the gallery. Here, the viewer feels like a bystander who happens on a violent incident, is drawn to it, but not enough to risk his or her own safety by interfering. The work gives us licence to stand and stare with impunity. Whether it's an oilrig perched above a Scottish firth or the industrial outskirts of Berlin or Calgary, she finds, in these often neglected spaces, a particular kind of visual poetry... Sleigh achieves what few other contemporary artists have managed: her work not only depicts the post-modern city but brilliant recreates our experience of it. ...Moscow 1808, 1905, 2007, 2008 consists of three layers of intricate white Dura-Lar forms pinned to a black ground. The three strata correspond to maps of the city from each of the years cited in the work's title, resulting in a beautiful tracery akin to a spiderweb, while serving as a complex survey of a place over a period of time. ...Washington DC, 2009, is an eerie dramatization of the nation's capital, made from carefully incised burned paper and hung on the wall. Blocky areas of the city form a maze of tiny white roomlike structures, the edges of each disintegrated and stained reddish brown by the smoke. The use of fire adds an element of unpredictability and chaos to an otherwise highly controlled process, a bridge between the cool distance of record keeping and the playful curiosity of imagination. |
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