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October
Gallery Exhibitions
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1995
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HAITI - PHOTOS PAINTINGS IRONWORKS An exhibition that combined
photographic images of Haiti with the powerful paintings and metalwork sculptures of
Haitian artists Edouard Duval-Carrié, Frantz Lamothe, Stevenson Magloire, Prosper
Pierre-Louis, Julio Balan, Chantal Regnault, Maggie Steber, Les Stone & Roger
Hutchings. |
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CONTEMPORARY ART FROM PAKISTAN
An
exhibition that combined the music-inspired paperworks of Sabah Husain with a major
installation based on the popular art-form of "truck painting," and
including the work of London-based artist Ali Zaidi. The exhibition was staged in
collaboration with Music Village and was accompanied by a series of musical events. |
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EL ANATSUI - WEST AFRICA
El
Anatsui's unconventional tool, the powersaw, and his use of fire to scorch and shape wood
marks him as one of Africa's most innovative of contemporary artists. Considered as one of
the most important sculptors of his generation this exhibition of his reliefs, sculptures
and installations was his first solo show in the UK. |
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FANTE FLAGS An exhibition of
Fanté flags from Ghana, from the collection of Peter Adler. These flags,
used by battalions of Fanté soldiers, borrowed much of their imagery from
the symbols found on the ensigns of Colonial British battalions yet still
retain sources of inspiration and execution that are uniquely African.
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AFRICA - A CELEBRATION OF
RITUAL Concurrent with
the above exhibitions, an exhibition of photographs by Carol Beckwith
and Angela Fisher celebrating the astounding diversity of ritual across
the entire continent of Africa. African Ceremonies,
an amazing work, as important in anthropological as in photographic terms,
containing the results of more than ten years of work in Africa has just
been published by Abrams Inc. |
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ABLADE GLOVER - GHANA The
renowned Ghanaian painter and teacher, and the Founding Director of the impressive Artists
Alliance Gallery in Accra, Ghana, presented a new series of his thickly impastoed and
vibrant oil paintings showing scenes of life in Ghana intensely alive with colour and
movement. |
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AUBREY WILLIAMS (GUYANA): THE COSMOS SERIES 7th December, 1995 - 27th January, 1996 A touring exhibition of William's last and most visionary series of paintings: The Cosmos Series. Never before exhibited in the UK in its entirety, the Cosmos Series gives a unique insight into the creative mind at work in the later years of Aubrey Williams brilliant career. |
