London Art Fair

(21 Jan 2015 - 25 Jan 2015)

http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/

London Art Fair
London
United Kingdom

LONDON ART FAIR

21-25 January 2015
VIP Preview 20 January 2015

Business Design Centre London N1


London Art Fair is the UK’s premier Fair for Modern British and contemporary art, annually launching the art world year. The 27th edition of the Fair takes place at the Business Design Centre in Islington, a stone’s throw from central London, and will feature over 120 carefully selected galleries from the UK and overseas.


For 2015, the Fair’s museum partner will be the award-winning Pallant House Gallery from Chichester, who will exhibit key works from their permanent collection within a dedicated pavilion space at the front of the Fair.


Simon Martin, Artistic Director of Pallant House Gallery, will curate a unique exhibition, ‘The Figure in Modern British Art'. The display will explore how different artists in Britain approached the human figure and will include works by some of the leading British figurative artists of the 20th century including Walter Sickert, David Bomberg, Lucian Freud, William Coldstream and Frank Auerbach.


Returning alongside the main Fair is critically acclaimed section Art Projects, which will feature solo and group displays, large scale installations and experimental film and video work from younger, emerging galleries. Anna Colin joins London Art Fair to curate ‘Dialogues’ within Art Projects, promising collaborative presentations from invited UK and international galleries. Anna is co-curator of the next British Art Show, associate curator at Fondation Galeries Lafayette in Paris and co-founder of Open School East. 


Also not to be missed is Photo50, the Fair’s guest-curated exhibition of contemporary photography. Sheyi Bankale curates this year’s showcase with an exhibition entitled ‘Against Nature’, which will consider how a photograph can become elevated to the status of object, act or intervention through how it is seen and displayed.


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