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10/10/2007

The Bridge Art Fair

The Trafalgar Hotel, London

London 2007

Bridge Art Fair brings together over 60 galleries, artist collectives, alternative spaces and consultancies for London’s art fair weekend, filling the Trafalgar Hotel with emerging and renowned artists from both the largest art capitals as well as unexpected hotbeds of artistic activity. Like a group portrait, the collected spaces represent some of the brightest and freshest faces in contemporary art. Shanghai, Los Angeles, Paris, Düsseldorf, San Francisco, Williamsburg, Chicago, London, Tokyo – Bridge London will be a true, if not temporary, portrait of what’s relevant to artists and viewers today.

Showcasing multimedia installations, but like an installation in the neighborhood itself, little tree gallery in San Francisco’s SOMA district is a storefront gallery that welcomes viewers to experience the energy that they promote. Many of the galleries that Bridge reaches out to are from similar neighborhoods, raw and at the fringes, that foster growing creative practices. Such is the case with London’s Vertigo Gallery, Chicago’s NavtaSchulz, and Los Angeles’s Billy Shire Fine Arts. If there’s an immediacy to the vision, you know that Bridge will be covering it, and that the Trafalgar Hotel will be your behind-the-scenes tour.

From each city or scene you can expect not only the flagship style – say, contemporary figurative painting from Düsseldorf’s Galerie T40 – but also the unexpected underbelly – Paris’s Galerie 13 Sévigné is sure to make you see Parisian style in a whole new light. Promoting the cutting edge can take various forms, from presenting activist art at Miami’s Hardcore Art Gallery, to some of photography’s most tightly-focused representatives at New York’s Foley Gallery.

A healthy dose of surrealism couldn’t hurt, too – it seems to be practiced everywhere to great effect. Randall Scott Gallery from Washington, D.C. represents artists with a slyly subtle surrealism of the everyday, as does Tokyo’s Wada. Pop-culture infused with the surreal (for isn’t so much of our everyday, our Pop, so disturbingly strange?) is well-represented at Bridge, from Paris Hilton’s cadaver at Brooklyn’s Capla Kesting to the outrageous and the audacious at Berlin’s Strychnin Gallery. If seeing is believing, you may need to look twice. Double-takes are free of charge.

Bridge is pleased to host galleries with a renowned retinue of artists, and who are renowned institutions in their own right. Toomey Tourell Gallery in San Francisco consistently shows provocative mid-career artists, such as Lynda Benglis and Germán Herrera, who flirt with popularity but always undercut our notions of normalcy – we welcome such diversions. Influential twentieth-century masters are also represented, including Vic Muniz and Basquiat at New York’s Michael Petronko Gallery as well as London’s Goethe Gallery, thus grounding much of contemporary art’s witty conceptualism and painterly force. But if it’s only the alternative, the emerging and the atypical that will satisfy your head, seek no further than Los Angeles’s Bert Green Fine Art, Calgary’s Newzones, and London’s sTART SPACE – you’re bound to be overwhelmed, and we think that’s what you need.

Bridge Art Fair London 2007 Exhibitors + Info

Galerie 13 Sévigné, Paris France: Elevating the dark side of life and envisioning the world through the screaming skull’s sardonic gaze.

Galeria Jorge Alcolea, Madrid Spain: Still lives, urban-scapes, and sea-sides all dressed in the character and light of Madrid’s vibrant lifestyle.

Allegoric, Chicago, IL: By focusing on limited edition prints, Allegoric assists emerging artists build their portfolios and their clientele. Run by artists, they show respect and commitment for artistic expression.

Art Vitam, Miami Beach, FL: Exhibiting artists in all media who express a modern taste with an international flair.

Boreas, Pittsfield, MA: Specializing in contemporary video art as well as artists who bring new technologies to traditional media.

Galerie Hitomi Bushi d'Eau', Paris, France: surreal landscapes, documentary photography, and super-real objects are all to be found at this young gallery hitting its stride.

Capla Kesting Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY: Proudly displays Paris Hilton’s naked corpse (with removable parts for easy-access autopsies!)

Ch’i Contemporary Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY: Williamsburg gallery draws attention to the abstract forms and concepts that spark the imaginations of today’s artists.

Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK: Art consultancy with a taste for refined and sharply-observed studies of life.

DFN Gallery, NY, NY: Representing artists with a strong perspective on how the landscape manifests human desire and its complexity of associations.

Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Düsseldorf, Germany: Artists who present variations on pop-culture icons and motifs give Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann its sense of stylistic relevancy.

Electric Works, San Francisco, CA: Printing studio with a reputation for providing the tools and creative encouragement to help artists realize the vision in mediums ranging from lithography to digital printing.

Enviedart, London, UK: The London outpost of this international franchise prides itself on featuring art with a bold graphic style and a youthful perspective at affordable prices.

Mimi Ferzt Gallery, NY, NY: Elegance, taste, and skill defines Mimi Ferzt’s gallery, featuring art from Russia and the former Soviet republics.

Foley Gallery, NY, NY: After establishing himself in New York’s photography scene, Michael Foley’s gallery venture takes a knowledgeable approach to photographic work as well as art in all media.

Four Four, London, UK: A collective of artists who use the gallery as a platform to let the world see their art, ranging in media from careful prints to passionate watercolors to expressive ceramics.

GARDENfresh, Chicago, IL: At the heart of Chicago’s emerging-artist culture, GARDENfresh represents artists who intelligently approach topics from politics to video games.


Gillock Gallery, Evanston, IL: Representing artists with a creative take on observational practices. Named one of the best alternative spaces in Chicago in 2004, Gillock has grown progressively since its inception just six years ago.

Go Go Gallery, Miami, FL: Pulp and Pop are at the center of Go Go Gallery’s investment in culture, promoting a fun and sexy backdrop for, well, fun and sexy people.

Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA: As one of the hotspots in downtown LA’s gallery district, Bert Green Fine Art aims to contribute dialogue to the burgeoning scene.

Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL: A true sense of style paired with cutting edge investigations into abstract and figurative worlds of experimentation and style.

GV Art, London, UK: Unabashedly stimulating art meets a hypersensitivity to the way that art can color our lives, featuring work by established and emerging artists.

Goethe Gallery, London, UK: Contemporary and Modern masters are exhibited in a knowledgeable and engaging context, with special focus on artists who grant us access to visions of the surreal in our daily lives.

Nohra Haime Gallery, NY, NY: Featuring masterworks by some of the creative and controversial geniuses in contemporary art, from Joseph Beuys to Keith Haring.

Hardcore Art Contemporary, Miami, FL: Hardcore seeks out artists engaged in current political problems and social issues in order to strengthen the position of art within the greater scheme of activism.

Galerie Huebner, Franfurt, Germany: Exhibiting a wide range of international artists involved in theoretical, expressive, and formal endeavors.

I-MYU projects, London, UK: Focusing on art made in Asia, and specifically Korea, I-MYU seeks to communicate in the global network of culture and art.

Galerie Jürgen Kalthoff, Essen, Germany: Galerie Jürgen Kalthoff’s artists engage themselves in investigations into the nature of painting. The results are often strong statements about the possibilities of paint as a means of representation.

Kiddersmith Gallery, Boston, MA: At turns sensual and expressive, popular and witty, the artists represented by Kiddersmith share their ease of enjoyment.

little tree gallery, San Francisco, CA: Showcasing art in a variety of media including installation and video. Irony, obsession with materials, and smart observations place little tree at the fore of cultural relevancy.

lorch+seidel galerie, Berlin, Germany: Exhibiting artists who display a refined expressive style in both abstract and representational form.

Mumford Fine Art, London, UK: Mumford brings its high-end yet accessible perspective including its new line of Art Greeting Cards for the collector who likes to share his or her new finds.

NavtaSchulz Gallery, Chicago, IL: Formally daring art defines NavtaSchulz, a gallery motivated by strong personal taste in Chicago’s raw and distinctive West side.

Newzones, Calgary, Canada: Fifteen years as an established art gallery allows Newzones the fortunate position to be a leading voice in Calgary’s art scene, boosting local practices and introducing Canadian art to a broader audience.

Novembro Arte Contemporãnea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Conceptual and minimal practices are at the fore of Novembro Arte Contemporãnea’s exhibition program, in both abstract and figurative forms.

Michael Petronko Gallery, NY, NY: Featuring works by Pop Art master artists Warhol, Basquiat, Lichtenstein, Muniz, and more. It seems that Pop is now more relevant and enjoyable than ever.

Procuniar Workshop, NY, NY: Photographs, prints, and works on paper are the highlight of this studio and gallery, who also prides themselves on contributing to the artistic process in from concept to production with a great number of established artists.

Red Truck Gallery, New Orleans, LA: With a streamlined mission focusing on high quality and accessibly priced art, Red Truck aims to share art with the masses.

Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC: Showcasing an exceptional range of talents in all media, Randall Scott also claims up-and-comer Julia Fullerton-Batten, whose coy photographs are garnering international attention.

Roentgenwerke, Tokyo, Japan: It’s difficult to summarize the true range of art smarts that Roentgenwerke supports. The ultra-chic meets the cutting edge in all media, in all forms, and in your face.

Sesame, London, UK: With a mission to be “challenging” yet “accessible,” Sesame faces one of the toughest challenges in the art world, yet by focusing on painting’s interminable experiments, Sesame’s artists pull through with relevant material.

Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China: From Shanghai with love, Shine claims a deep engagement in the avant-garde scene in China, collecting the best and rising above the rest.

Billy Shire Fine Arts, Culver City, CA: It’s like drinking a martini in your hotrod while masturbating and worshipping the Virgin Mary. Connoisseurs of Juxtapoz magazine will recognize and enjoy Billy Shire Fine Arts.

SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA: California’s countryside is an artistic resource that shelters untapped treasure, and it’s this sort of environment that fosters thoughtful and engaging artistic practices.

sTART SPACE, London, UK: Showing that painting can still loosen the edges of the secret order of the world, sTART SPACE isn’t afraid of a little humor or unabashed abstraction.

Studio HD, Coral Gables, FL

Strychnin Gallery, Berlin, London, NYC: Dedicated to presenting emerging American, Canadian and Japanese artists to the European art world and vice versa, the gallery features a variety of artists with particular individual styles rather than artists belonging to a collective “hip” movement.

Galerie T40, Dusseldorf, Germany: Young German painters have revived the figurative tradition in recent years. Galerie T40 is at the epicenter of this renaissance.

TAG Fine Arts, London, UK: Renowned for exhibiting both traditional and non-traditional media, such as graphic design and fashion, and always proving a comfortable place for artists to exhibit their art.

Think Art, Chicago, IL: Contemporary art with a particular worldview: part European, part existential, and always expressive.

Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Presenting mid-career and emerging artists from California’s Bay Area to an international audience.

Vertigo Gallery, London, UK: Since 2000 Vertigo has been housed in a converted Victorian factory, where it shows a monthly program of exhibitions by contemporary artists.

Galerie Vivendi, Paris, France: Well-designed abstraction and sentimental figuration compose Galerie Vivendi’s wealth of vision.

Volakis Gallery, Yountville, CA: Exhibiting artists who create in a strong, singular voice, with nods to Dada and Surrealist art in order to assert a playful and provoking tone.

Wada Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan: Wada is a newly opened gallery for contemporary Japanese artists who seek to contribute to an international dialogue by way of personal expression through art.

Walsh Gallery, Chicago, IL: A pillar in Chicago for fourteen years, Walsh gallery services Asian artists and succeeds in promoting forward-thinking by artists exhibiting in all media, with particular attention to multimedia installation.

Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris, France: Specializes in representing artists who highlight scenes and objects from everyday life and heighten them through the creative processes of observation and translation into the strange and the beautiful.

Wendt Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA: Contemporary figurative art with strong doses of conceptual thrust, Wendt Gallery’s artists see the world through pointed eyes.

Artspace Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Exhibiting an array of contemporary artists who aren’t afraid to be critical about cultural and social issues using a variety of cutting-edge media.

Zebra Projects, London, UK: With a special emphasis on photography but exhibiting artists in all media, Zebra has become renowned for their commitment to visionary contemporary art.

11 Oct 2007: Professional Preview, 1pm-4pm, Public Reception, 5pm-10 pm

The Trafalgar Hotel
2 Spring Gardens, Trafalgar Squar - London
Admission 10 pounds

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