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9/10/2011

Two exhibitions

Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Thomas Dane Gallery is pleased to announce its expansion to new premises at 3 Duke Street, St. James’s SW1, a minute's walk from the current space at number 11. A reception marking the opening of the new space will be held from 6 to 8pm on Monday 10 October. With large street frontage opposite Christie's Duke Street Gallery, the new addition consists of 2,500sq ft, of which over half is a ground-floor exhibition space. When not open to the public as an adjunct to the existing space for certain exhibitions, the new gallery will be open by appointment. It is particularly well-suited to exhibiting larger installations, notably the moving image, the latter being one of the commitments of Thomas Dane Gallery. The new space has been entirely redesigned by David Kohn Architects who were recently awarded the 'Young Architect of the Year' award by the Architecture Foundation. DKA have designed a space that reflects the unique qualities of St. James's and the discreet character of the gallery, while providing new and broader exhibition possibilities.

Since its beginnings in 2004 with an inaugural show of British filmmaker Steve McQueen, Thomas Dane Gallery has staged the first gallery solo-exhibitions in the UK of Kutlug Ataman, Walead Beshty, Abraham Cruzvillegas, José Damasceno, Michel François, John Gerrard, Arturo Herrera, Luisa Lambri, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Albert Oehlen, Paul Pfeiffer, Jorge Queiroz and Kelley Walker. The gallery continues its early and fundamental commitment to established and emerging British artists including Hurvin Anderson, Anya Gallaccio, Michael Landy, Caragh Thuring and McQueen.

To inaugurate the new space at No3, there will be an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by German painter Albert Oehlen (b 1954, Krefeld), his third with the gallery. Oehlen - amongst the preeminent painters of his generation - pushes the boundaries of his medium to straining point, continuously challenging the canons of painting with a wry humour and brazen originality. The New Yorker Magazine has referred to him as 'the most resourceful painter alive'. This body of work - using charcoal and acrylic on canvas - restricts itself to black and white - and is closely related to his most recent forays into large- scale drawing. At No11, ‘Chicago Imagists 1966-1973’ will present a rare opportunity to discover - or rediscover - one of the most idiosyncratic and visually striking group of artists to emerge from the United States in the 60’s and 70’s. This work has very seldom been shown in the UK. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Chicago’s Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery, does not attempt an encyclopaedic reading but instead, with the help of Albert Oehlen, a carefully-edited presentation of works by Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Robert Lostutter, Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg and Karl Wirsum. ‘Painthing on the Möve’ - a hardback catalogue co-published by Thomas Dane Gallery, Corbett vs. Dempsey and Ridinghouse - will accompany the double-exhibition. It will present Oehlen’s new body of work, which will be exhibited both in London and Chicago, alongside the Chicago Imagists.

Thomas Dane is the founder of the gallery and the partners are Martine d’Anglejan-Chatillon and François Chantala.

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Private View 10 October | 6-8pm

Thomas Dane Gallery
3 and 11 Duke Street, St. James’s, London

Hours: Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm; Saturday 11 am – 4pm Admission Free

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