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Exhibitions currently running:
Djordje Ozbolt - Who Say Jah No Dread - These new works combine Ozbolt’s impressions from his travels and personal experiences with iconography from different cultures and found images, all overlaid with the artist’s signature sharp wit and humour. The centrepiece of ‘Who Say Jah No Dread’ is a totemic sculpture of animals stacked one on top of the other painted in rasta colours of black, red, yellow, and green. Featuring a dove perched on the extended finger of a chimpanzee, sitting on a kudu, on top of a cheetah, all resting on the back of an elephant, this work is a veritable menagerie in a riot of colour. Ozbolt’s new paintings picture exotic settings with vibrant blue skies and dense, tropical foliage. The paradisical landscapes are populated by surreal creatures, such as a hybrid beast with a tiger’s head and a half-giraffe, half-zebra body, and animated African fetish sculptures shown dancing to Leonard Cohen’s 1984 hit, ‘Dance me till the end of love’, or gazing into the sunset in a romantic embrace. Until 25 May.
Trade Routes - Trade routes have connected the major centres of civilisation in Europe and Asia since antiquity. These routes not only made the exchange of goods possible, but also fostered cultural exchanges between distant regions. The group exhibition, ‘Trade Routes’, presents a diverse picture of where these trade routes stand in today’s globalised society through the lens of 15 artists. The exhibition features video installations, sculptures and two-dimensional works by artists based in Africa, China, Europe, India, and the Middle East. Until 27 July.
Takesada Matsutani - A Matrix - This will be the gallery’s first solo show with Osaka-born, Paris-based artist, Takesada Matsutani and also marks the first time his works will be shown in the UK. ‘A Matrix’ features never before seen paintings from Matsutani’s early career, as well as recent organic abstractions in vinyl glue and graphite. In addition, the exhibition will include a performance of Matsutani’s ‘Stream, London, Hauser & Wirth’. From the early sixties to the early seventies, Matsutani was a key member of the ‘second generation’ of the Gutai Art Association (1954 – 1972), Japan’s innovative and influential art collective of the post-war era. One of the most important Japanese artists working today, Matsutani’s paintings and performances from throughout his practice demonstrate the ethos of Gutai, translated into an artistic language that is uniquely his own. From 15 May until 27 July.
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