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Feline remembrances!

The Art of Steven Campbell, Marlborough Fine Art, Albemarle Street, London W1, until 21st October 2017

Steven Campbell,
Alice in Ruins, 1992-93,
oil on canvas, 269.9 x 263.7 cm,
Copyright the Estate of Steven Campbell, Courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

The retrospective on this highly acclaimed Scottish artist who sadly died in 2007 amply proves why he is so highly regarded by his peers and critics alike.  I was particularly drawn to this picture.

The look on the cat’s face so reminded me of a cat I used to have.  It is the look I would get just before he would attempt to climb the bedroom curtains if he thought he was not getting the attention he deserved at 6.30am. Both curtains and cat survived for many years!

 

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Three Mayfair Galleries

 

Tilson: The Stones of Venice, Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, London W1, until 2nd April 2016

Joe Tilson, The Stones of Venice La Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venessia, 2014, acrylic on canvas on wood relief, 50 x 75 cm, © Joe Tilson, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art, London

Joe Tilson, The Stones of Venice La Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venessia, 2014,
acrylic on canvas on wood relief, 50 x 75 cm,
© Joe Tilson, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art, London

This artist had his first exhibition at the gallery in 1962 and this is his seventh solo show there and is inspired by Ruskin’s eponymous book The Stones of Venice. Many of the paintings combine buildings and flooring patterns, sometimes with words too, to create a colourful whole. Joe Tilson’s thick application of acrylic evokes the decaying fabric of many Venetian buildings.

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Martyn Brewster – An exhibition of recent paintings and drawings, Waterhouse & Dodd, 47 Albemarle Street, London W1, until 24thMarch 2016

To the sea Acrylic & collage on canvas 47 x 47 in / 120 x 120 cm Signed, titled & dated on reverse

To the sea
Acrylic & collage on canvas
47 x 47 in / 120 x 120 cm
Signed, titled & dated on reverse

Whilst continuing his coastal light theme in this exhibition those more familiar with his work will see that his combination of abstraction with the landscape has evolved stylistically.

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Between the Eyes, Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, 31 St George Street, London W1, until 24th March 2016

Bruce Nauman, Double Poke in the Eye II, 1985, Courtesy of Sotheby's

Bruce Nauman,
Double Poke in the Eye II, 1985,
Courtesy of Sotheby’s

This show traces the development of Minimalist and Conceptual Art from the 60s onwards with an emphasis on those works that interact between the brain and the eye. The artists featured include John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, Dan Flavin, Wade Guyton, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Francois Morellet, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Rudolf Stingel and James Turrel.

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Auerbach – Tate Britain and Marlborough Fine Art

Frank Auerbach, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1, until 13th March 2016 

Frank Auerbach (b 1931) Mornington Crescent 1965 Painting Oil paint on board 1016 x 1270 mm Private collection, courtesy of Eykyn Maclean, LP © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

Frank Auerbach (b 1931)
Mornington Crescent 1965
Painting
Oil paint on board
1016 x 1270 mm
Private collection, courtesy of Eykyn Maclean, LP
© Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

The Berlin-born, artist Frank Auerbach can certainly not be accused of taking it easy in this his 85th year as he paints three hundred and sixty five days a year. He is an assiduous painter returning to his canvas time and time again to scrape away and restart the work whether landscape or portrait until the image he seeks falls into place. The works are a highly individual complex of texture, depth and a sense of space.

Frank Auerbach (b 1931) E.O.W. half-length Nude 1958 Oil paint on board 762 x 508 mm Private collection, courtesy of Eykyn Maclean, LP © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

Frank Auerbach (b 1931)
E.O.W. half-length Nude 1958
Oil paint on board
762 x 508 mm
Private collection, courtesy of Eykyn Maclean, LP
© Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

The seventy paintings and drawings on view have been mainly garnered from private collections and provide an overview of his work from the 1950s to the present day. On the wall of the first gallery he says: ‘My hope is that items might not be considered too relatively – that is, not over-chronologically, stylistically or by subject or context – but that each be considered as an absolute which works (or does not work) by itself.’

Hampstead Road, Summer Haze 2010 Oil paint on canvas 1222 x 1222 mm Private collection © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

Hampstead Road, Summer Haze
2010
Oil paint on canvas
1222 x 1222 mm
Private collection
© Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

The best I can add to that is please go and decide for yourself as I don’t think you will regret the experience.

 

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It would be wrong of me to write about Auerbach without drawing your attention to

 

Frank Auerbach, Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street London W1, until 21st November 2015

Self-Portrait 2015 Graphite and pastel on paper 57.8 x 76.5 cm © Frank Auerbach and courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

Self-Portrait
2015
Graphite and pastel on paper
57.8 x 76.5 cm
© Frank Auerbach and courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

Like the Tate Britain exhibition this surveys his career to date and among the twenty-five works on show are some that have never been exhibited before.  There is also a new self-portrait by the artist which is shown here.

 

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