Exhibitions

ZAK OVÉ

SPEAKER – Vigo Gallery, London 27 November - 10 January 2013 Vigo Gallery Vigo presents Zak Ové’s first solo show with the gallery following on from his recent participation in Glasstress at the Venice Biennale. Ové works between sculpture, film, painting and photography, often collaging the various elements using found, cast and recovered materials. He is interested in reinterpreting lost culture... Read more

HASSAN HAJJAJ – ZAK OVÉ

CHAOS INTO CLARITY: RE-POSSESSING A FUNKTIONING UTOPIA. CURATED BY SHANNON AYERS HOLDEN – Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah 26 October 2013 - 26 January 2014 Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Building F, SAF Art Spaces, Al Mureijah, Sharjah Heritage Area DOWNLOAD Chaos into Clarity: Re-Possessing a Funktioning Utopia is an investigation of the Aesthetic of Funk. Curated by Shannon Ayers Holden, this exhibition is an exploration of the radical power of transformation, the theme of transcendence... Read more

BOYLE FAMILY

CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY. THE WORLD SERIES LAZIO SITE, 1968-2013 – Vigo Gallery, London 16 October - 16 November 2013 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Vigo Gallery is proud to announce The Lazio Site, the first exhibition of a major Boyle Family World Series project since the exhibition of their Barra site at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2010. Boyle Family began their World Series in 1968 and it... Read more

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS

INTERFERENCE STUDY – Vigo Gallery, London 12 September - 4 October 2013 This exhibition involves works from Abrahams first two Series. Series 1 is an ongoing exploration of the fundamentals of design, testing and pushing the possibilities of the most basic element of design: line. Within the panel, the collections of black and white lines create a strained and dissonant juxtaposition. The... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

Vigo Gallery, London 18 June - 26 July 2013 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD VIGO is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of wall-based sculptures by Brooklyn based artist Leonardo Drew. Drew is known for reflective abstract sculptural installations most often based on exploration of a grid or framework, which incorporate created, manipulated and found materials constructed from fabricated wood,... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

GLASSTRESS. WHITE LIGHT / WHITE HEAT – Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Venice 1 June - 24 November 2013 Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass Campiello della Pescheria, Murano-Venezia DOWNLOAD Curated by James Putnam and Adirano Berengo. Produced in collaboration between Berengo Studio (Venice), Venice Projects (Venice), London College of Fashion (London) and The Wallace Collection (London) Participating artists include: AES+F, ALICE ANDERSON, POLLY APFELBAUM, RON ARAD, AYMAN... Read more

MARCUS HARVEY

TATTOO – Vigo Gallery, London 15 May - 7 June 2013 Vigo Gallery For this, Marcus Harvey’s first solo show at Vigo Gallery, the artist is embroiled in a battle between the romance of painting and the surety of photography, accentuating and deconstructing their relationship. Harvey’s highly worked figurative paintings and sculptures seek out iconic forms of Britishness that have an... Read more

NIKA NEELOVA

FRAGMENTS SHORED AGAINST THE RUINS – Vigo Gallery, London 12 April - 3 May 2013 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Nika Neelova creates current sculptures that derive from selected past and hypothetical future naratives. Exploring the notion of the ruin, the work is addressing segments of existence that have or must collapse, referencing the disillusionement and the disintegration of utopias that ensues from their confrontation with reality.... Read more

BIGGS & COLLINGS

SUSPICIOUS UTOPIAS – Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth 23 March - 12 May 2013 Fort Worth Contemporary Arts 2900 West Berry Street,Fort Worth, TX 7610 DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE The show, which is called Suspicious Utopias features two magnificent large oil paintings featuring Biggs & Collings' triangular motif; a wall to ceiling collage, with the same motif, comprising both digital prints and hand-made works on paper,... Read more

GARY KOMARIN

IN WHICH THE BARON FALLOW – Vigo Gallery, London 14 March - 3 April 2013 Vigo Gallery Born in New York City, the son of a Czech architect and Viennese writer, Gary Komarin is a risk taker in contemporary painterly abstraction. Komarin’s stalwart images have an epic quality that grip the viewer with the idea that he or she is looking at a contemporary description... Read more