Autumn in London is a cultural explosion. October kicks off with the annual Frieze and Frieze Masters art fairs, the brilliant Contemporary African Art Fair 1-54, as well as the BFI London Film Festival, followed in November by the EFG Jazz Festival.
This year is no exception, with successful exhibitions at major art museums, including Philip Guston at the Tate Modern, Marina Abramovic at the Royal Academy, Frans Hals at the National Gallery and Chanel at the Victoria.
Commercial art galleries continue to do the same, with interesting and extended opening hours. Here are nine highlights from this fall, spanning last October at most.
1. The Anatsui at the October Gallery, Bloomsbury until the thirteenth of January 2024
If you enjoyed seeing El Anatsui’s brilliant installation at the latest demonstration at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, be sure to check out a variety of smaller works in his long-standing London gallery. El Anatsui’s TimeSpace features new works, adding new bottle sculptures on the walls, as well as several previous works.
2. Daniel Richter at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Mayfair until 1 December
Daniel Richter, Stupor in Thaddaeus Ropac, 2023.
This new arrangement of colorful portraits depicts biomorphic bureaucracy in a series of metamorphic and twisted poses. Since 2015, Richter has been breaking down compositional distinctions between background, foreground, and subject to create interpretations of the frame in metamorphosis. Richter inverts the painting process and realizes the background as one of the final stages of the work. While previous series of portraits drew on visual devices as varied as pornography and an old postcard of wounded foot soldiers from World War I, this new organization of portraits echoes Richter’s observations of the global environment. he. As he describes it, “it’s in sketches and random notes, [a] old lady passing by, [a] kid at the dentist, kids playing basketball, things like that. “
3. Massimiliano Pelletti at Bowman Sculpture, Mayfair until November 10th
Massimiliano Pelletti at the Bowman Gallery
Bowman Sculpture presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of new Italian sculptor Massimiliano Pelletti. Eredità (Heritage) precedes an exhibition at the Gallery of the prestigious Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome, where paintings by Pelletti will be exhibited alongside Caravaggio, Titian and Raphael. -Carved from exotic stones from other parts of the world, the sculptures are encouraged through ancient models. Pelletti intentionally visualized flaws, cracks, and cracks inherent in the curtains in his sculptures, inviting the public to contemplate humanity’s dating to the afterlife and question idealization. from beyond cultures.
4. Ken Nwadiogbu at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, until 25 November
Ken Nwadiogbu, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge
Kristin Hjellegjerde’s most recent exhibition at the London Bridge Gallery, Fragments of Reality, is Nigerian artist Ken Nwadiogbu’s first solo exhibition in London. A series of figures in an extravagant color palette of red, orange, and yellow emerge or descend into textured and summarized backgrounds. they constitute non-public memories and reflect the artist’s accounts of his adjustment to life in London, the construction of a sense of network, and the longing to return home. There will be a new gallery in London for the ambitious Norwegian gallerist, opening next month on nearby Tanner Street. . And with 4 galleries in the UK and Europe, she’s ready to open her first gallery in the US. Later this month, in West Palm Beach, the U. S. will be screened with an exhibition through Sara Berman.
5. J. W. Anderson at Offer Waterman, Mayfair, until 28 October 2023
J. W. Anderson at Offer Waterman Gallery
Housed in a five-story Georgian house that was once the home of William Morris, Offer Waterman is open for infrequent public exhibitions. Many of the more sensible fashion brands collaborate with artists and you can see their works in the windows of elegant Bond Street. On the other hand, the Offer Waterman gallery has collaborated with designer JW Anderson who shows his recent fashion creations along with artworks by artists such as Frank Auerbach, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, L. S. Lowry, Henry Moore, and Walter Sickert.
6. José Parlá at Ben Brown Fine Arts, Mayfair, until November 17
José Parlá, Seeing is Believing, 2023
This exhibition of new abstract paintings by New York-based Cuban artist José Parlá is inspired by the artist’s near-death experience with Covid (2021). The 11 vivid, multi-layered paintings are full of power and draw on recurring themes in his practice, adding urban space, human footprints, memory, and power.
7. United Visual Artists, Synchronicity at 180 The Strand, December 17
Musica Universalis, at UVA The Strand, London
The London art collective United Visual Artists’ stunning new exhibition, Synchronicity, marks the band’s 20th anniversary. Taking the underground areas of 180 The Strand, the exhibition features 8 site-specific audio-visual works and sensory installations that explore our belief in area and time. An underlying theme of musicality and functionality runs through the exhibition that includes new and varied collaborations with bioacoustic Bernie Krause (Polyphony), Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack (Present Shock II) and choreographer Dana Gingras (Ensemble). The exhibition is a new immersive logo installation that presents a desirable soundscape fostered through box recordings in the Central African Republic, recorded by legendary bioacoustic Bernie Krause and ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno. UVA’s experimental practice uses the interaction of light, area, sound, and bespoke “kinetics. “instruments” to create dynamic “choreographed environments” and immersive atmospheric reportages that envelop the viewer and transfigure the architectural area.
8. Shubha Taparia in Prahlad Bubbar, Little Venice and North London. Both galleries are open by appointment from October 20 to 27.
Shubha Taparia at Unit 7, London
To celebrate London’s Indian and Islamic Art Week, Prahlad Bubbar presents a variety of masterpieces from the Indian subcontinent. One of the highlights is a rare 17th-century Gujarat embroidered panel made for the walls of Ashburnham Place, an English rural space in Sussex. . Examples of this can be found in V
9. Shirin Neshat at Goodman Gallery, Cork Street, until 8 November
The Fury, Goodman Gallery, London
The Goodman Gallery presents the UK premiere of Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat’s latest work, The Fury, a dual-channel video installation and a series of black and white photographs. Filmed in June 2022, The Fury represents a sense of apprehension. and the fear unleashed by the resurgence of fascism by appearing as a prisoner in an Iranian prison. Fury’s photographic subjects are women of all races, creeds, and ethnicities. Their bodies are abused, mutilated and exhibit physical symptoms of social alienation. The message is clear: the basis of force and authoritarianism is the subjugation and control of the female body.