Past
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KONSTANTINO DREGOS
LAPSUS – Vigo Gallery, London 19 November - 19 December 2014 Vigo Gallery A lapsus (lapse, slip, error) is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking. Vigo gallery presents Lapsus the first London solo show by Greek artist Konsantino Dregos Dregos is primarily a painter but a painter for whom painting is a profoundly philosophical activity. For him the artwork... Read more -
KADAR BROCK – HEYWOOD & CONDIE – LEONARDO DREW – HENRY KROKATSIS – PENNY LAMB – DUNCAN MACASKILL – NIKA NEELOVA – GABRIE
BRAND NEW SECOND HAND – Vigo Gallery, London 14 October - 10 November 2014 Vigo Gallery Vigo Gallery presents Brand New Second Hand, an exhibition that brings together 14 international artists in whose practice destruction and creation are intertwined, who create new forms from old, who refashion the discarded and the overlooked into art and who challenge notions of originality and the idea of... Read more -
ISABEL YELLIN
UNDULATE – Vigo Gallery, London 12 September - 3 October 2014 Vigo Gallery Vigo gallery presents Undulate, the first London solo show by Isabel Yellin. Yellin makes fizzy, contemporary, painterly, abstract works. Attractive, sharp and playful, they look like catchy 1980’s pop songs trying to burst out of a clutch of heavy 1950’s action paintings. “I sometime use a crinkled polyester,... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI
THE TREE – Vigo Gallery, London 4 July - 4 September 2014 Vigo Gallery IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI FEATURED IN THE TELEGRAPH 2014 Following on from his major solo show at TATE Modern last year, Vigo is excited to present an exhibition of Ibrahim El Salahi’s Tree works from the 4 July through to the 4 September 2014. These works, featured in his solo... Read more -
KEITH COVENTRY
ONTOLOGICAL PICTURES – Vigo Gallery, London 29 May - 19 June 2014 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD ‘Ontology: Branch of metaphysics concerned with identifying, in the most general terms, the kinds of things that actually exist.’ (www.philosophypages.com) Keith Coventry’s series of Ontological Pictures (1996 – 2004), like his celebrated Estate Paintings (1992-2000), comprise of visual elements lifted from the stylized aerial view plan... Read more -
OLIVER MARSDEN
FADE – Vigo Gallery, London 9 April - 14 May 2014 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Vigo is proud to present Marsden’s latest series Fade, a logical extension of the Harmonic series in which he attempted to capture the movement of water and sound waves in circle paintings comprised of dozens of layers of glaze and thinned paint. The Harmonics played on the... Read more -
MATTHEW BURROWS
PARA-DICE – Vigo Gallery, London 26 February - 28 March 2014 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Vigo is proud to announce Para-dice, Matthew Burrows’ first solo show with Vigo. The paintings explore the relationship between certainty and doubt, a condition Burrows sees as akin to that of faith, - a place he believes painting is well equipped to occupy. Highly structured and spatially... Read more -
BIGGS & COLLINGS
LIVING CREATURE – Vigo Gallery, London 22 January - 19 February 2014 Vigo Gallery EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Collaborative artists Biggs and Collings work reveals a deep understanding of modern and pre-modern art. They believe colour and form in painting can produce a structural space that is like observable reality. Instead of depicting recognizable objects they use color, pattern and repetition to create complex... 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