26th edition. London Art Fair launches the art world year annually in the UK, showcasing around 120 carefully selected galleries. Museum quality Modern British work features alongside exceptional contemporary work produced by both established artists and new emerging talent.
London Art Fair
, the UK’s largest
F
air for
Modern British and contemporary art
,
opens the cultural
year
with its 26
th
edition
a
t the Business Design Centre, Islington
, from 15
–
19 January 2014.
New features
for 2014 include
the
F
air’s first muse
um
partnership, which sees
The Hepworth Wakefield
prese
nt a unique
exhibition of British Modernism
,
a
nd
a
new series
of international ‘Dialogues’
,
curated by
Adam Carr of MOSTYN
to mark
the
10
th
edition
of the
critically acclaimed
Art Projects
section
.
Photo50,
t
he
F
air’s
annual
showcase of
contemporary photography,
is
this year entitled ‘Immaterial Matter’ and
curated by
Charlie Fellowes and Jeremy Epstein
, Directors
of Edel
Assanti
.
Providing
a supportive environment for collectors of all
levels
,
London Art Fair uniquely represents a broad art
ecology from artist collectives to younger emerging
galleries through to the large established galleries of
Mayfair.
Over one tenth of the
128
exhibiting galleries
come from outside
the UK
-
including Tokyo, New York
and Rome
-
while leading
galleries from beyond the
capital have been selected
from
cities such as
Bath,
Manchester, Newcastle
and
Glasgow
.
Between them
they showcase
over
1000
of the
very best
artists
of the
last century
alongside
the Fair’s
engaging
programme
of
curated exhibitions, talks, tours, films and
performances.
The Hepworth Wakefield
C
urated by Frances Guy, Head of Collection
and Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield, 'Barbara
Hepworth and the D
evelopment of British Modernism'
,
sponsored by Hiscox, will be housed in a
new pavilion at the entrance to the Fair.
Setting the tone for the rest of the Fair, the exhibition
demonstrat
es how the museum’s enlightened commitment to the work of young contemporary
artists in the 1920s and 1930s led to the preservation of this key moment in British art history.
Modern British dealers Jonathan Clark Fine Art, PIANO NOBILE and Rowntree Clark w
ill be
exhibiting alongside The Hepworth Wakefield in the pavilion.
Galleries
London Art Fair welcome
s
galleries from across the UK and overseas, exhibiting work by artists
from the early 20
th
c
entury to the present day.
Francis Bacon,
David Hockney,
Peter Blake
,
Eduardo Paolozzi
,
Alan Davie
and Prunella Clough
are just some of the major British artists
with
work in the F
air this year
.
Modern British galleries exhibiting include
Austin / Desmond Fine Art
,
Browse & Darby,
Alan Wheatley Art
,
Anthony
Hepworth Fine A
rt
Dealers
,
Crane Kalman Gallery
Ltd
,
Osborne Samuel,
Waterhouse & Dodd
and new exhibitor
s Goodman Fine Art and Jenna
Burlingham Fine Art.
Tokyo
-
based Whitestone Gallery
is
one of several new galleries for 2014
. It
presen
t
s
a
significant
display of
Gutai
,
Japan
’s leading avant
-
garde artist movement
of
the 1950
s
, with a focus on the
work of the artist
Chiyu Uemae.
Foley
Gallery from New York returns
to the Fair
with a
contemporary
group show exploring obsessive precision in drawing, cut paper, painting and
photography.
London’s
VIGO
exhibit
s
new work by
leading contemporary
artists
Marcus Harvey
and
Leonardo
Drew
alongside rising stars such as
2012 Sculpture Shock award winner
Nika Neelova.
The
Cy
n
thia Corbett Gallery will show an exclusive UK screening of a William John Kennedy
documentary
featuring
Andy Warhol
and his muse
Ul
tra Violet
.
TAG Fine Arts
will display Gonkar
Gyatso’s ‘Shambala of Modern Times’
which
featured in the 2009 Venic
e Biennale
,
and
CHARLIE
SMITH london
takes a curatorial approach with a
group
show
titled
‘
Historology
’
.
Beers
Contemporary will bring
new
paintings by Andrew Salgado
,
who
was recently commissioned to
create a new series of large
-
scale works for Harvey
Nichols
.
UNION Gallery presents the work of
two upcoming Korean artists
,
Soon Hak Kwon and Yu Jinyoung
, and
African art specialist
Jack
Bell Gallery
also returns with
work by
Gonçalo Mabunda and Aboudia amongst others.
For those looking to pick up
other
iconic
works
,
Sims Reed Gallery
and
Paul Stolper Gallery
will
have prints and limited editions by some of the most well
-
known artists in the
world
including Roy
Lichtenstein
and
Damien Hirst
, whilst Jealous Gallery will showcase the work of a new
generatio
n.
Art Projects
Art Projects
, the F
air’s platform for emerging galleries and the freshest contemporary art from
across the globe,
celebrates its 10
th
anniversary this year with
the launch of a new ‘Dialogues’
section curated by Adam Carr, featuring collaborative presentations between invited UK and
international galleries. ‘Dialogues’ features four shared presentations
between:
DREI, C
ologne /
Limoncello, London; Ga
leria Stereo,
Warsaw / The Sunday Painter, London; SABOT, Romania /
Maria Stenfors, London; and Frutta, Rome / Seventeen, London.
New galleries for 2014 include
Brooklyn’s
Muriel
Guépin
Gallery and Paris based
UN
-
SPACED
,
with a solo presentation by
É
ric Tabuchi
.
Galerie E.G.P, also from Paris, is showcasing two artists
–
Oliver Bragg and Nicholas Portalupi
–
whose work sh
ares an interest in fictional an
d parallel
universes.
Further highlights include
group shows by
BEARSPACE,
Ceri Hand Gallery
,
d
alla Rosa
Gallery,
THE RESIDENCE GALLERY and
Vane.
Art Projects will also host the launch of
The Catlin Guide 2014,
featuring the cream of
art scho
ol
graduates from around the UK;
and solo shows from British rising stars such as Nicole Morris
,
who has recently been
nominated for the Max Mara Prize for female artists,
at Space In Between
,
and Alison Erika Forde at The International 3.
Photo50
Photo50
, a
curated
showcase
of
the most interesting and distinctive elements of current
photographic practice
,
is this year
curated by Charlie Fellowes and Jeremy Epstein, Directors of
Edel Assanti
. W
ith the title
‘Immaterial Matter’
,
the
artists they have selected
are
linked by their
use of
a variety of
photographic images to
examine the increasingly indiscernible distinction
between the digital and the material
.
P
hotography highlights from the
Fair include Edward Burtynsky and Simon Roberts at Flowers
Gallery, new works by Tom Hunter at Purdy Hicks
Gallery
and
Maisie Broadhead
at
Sarah
Myerscough Fine Art
.
Photography book specialists 21ST
Editions
will
launch
a new monograph
by Sally Mann
at the F
air
. A
Photography Focus day
of talks and discussions
on Wednesday 15
January will include a
behind
-
the
-
scenes
look at the
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Pr
ize
wit
h the National Portrait
Gallery and ArtTactic’s analysis of
current market trends within modern
and contemporary photography.
Tours, talks and discussions
A
n extensive programme of tours, talks and critical debates
takes place
throughout the week in
association with key partners such as Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Iniva,
PhotoVoice,
Apollo
magazine, Own
Art and Vital Arts.
Marking the launch of her new book published by Lund Humphries, Melanie Gerlis, The Art
Newspaper’s Art M
arket correspondent, asks ‘Is Art Really a Good Investment
?
’ as part of a panel
di
scussion on Friday 17 January. O
n Saturday 18 January
Stephen Bull of
Photoworks
interviews
a
rtist and film
-
maker
Alison Jackson
about her eight Desert Island Pics, and
a
panel including
The Arts Desk’s Fisun Guner
will
debate
‘Curators
–
What Are They For? Should We Love Them Or
Fear Them
?
’
.
16 January sees the Fair stay open until 9pm for Thursday Late, providing the opportunity for
after work browsing complimented by a
programme of artist performances and film screenings.
Press:
Christina Neou-North
Four Colman Getty
christina.neou-north@fourcolmangetty.com
+44 (0)20 3697 4264
If you are interested in becoming a media partner please contact:
Tamara Nikolic
Marketing Manager
tamaran@upperstreetevents.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7288 6455
Tues 14 January*
VIP Preview: 3pm - 6pm
Preview Evening: 6pm - 9pm
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street - London
Wed 15 January
Photography Focus Day
11am - 9pm
Thurs 16 January
Thursday Late in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro
11am - 9pm
Friday 17 January
11am - 7pm
Sat 18 January
10am - 7pm
Sun 19 January
10am - 5pm
Tickets: £13 (plus £1.50 booking fee) in advance, including a copy
of the 2014 Fair Guide (to be collected at the Fair). Tickets on the door are £17