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Review Apr 20 2009 « | »
I love art Summer's on its way and love is in the air, hopefully... The most exciting and romantic opening of the week......

Dean Kissick

Summer's on its way and love is in the air, hopefully...

The most exciting and romantic opening of the week should be Hannah Barry Gallery's second special project, To Paint Is To Love Again, Painters From Peckham, which sees the cutting-edge South London space take up temporary residence in Mayfair, opening on Tuesday evening at 21 Dering Street. The exhibition features Shaun McDowell, Nathan Cash Davidson, Edward Wallace, Christopher Green, Tom Barnett, Marcus Kleinfeld, Nick Jeffrey and Bobby Dowler, a fantastic collection of young painters from the gallery. And furthermore, the opening will be followed by a secret afterparty in the West End, so well worth attending! For more details click here.

However if you hate painting, or love, or both, independent space PEER's new show will be opening in Hoxton the very same night. Mathew Hale's artwork comes highly recommended by my friends from Berlin, and Der Mond V Le Monde is his first solo exhibition in London for five years. We're promised a new installation of drawings, collages and slide projections concerning double-meanings and ambiguity, and a free artist's publication will be available for all visitors. For more details press these words with your mouse.

There's many other openings this week, but I would rather recommend two shows that started the weekend just past...

auto-italia south east will be hosting the somewhat mysterious Middlemarch, the latest collaborative exhibition by a group of nine upcoming London artists who are currently spread around Europe (Jason Dungan, Jenifer Evans, Claire Hooper, Eddie Peake, Paul Richards, Guy Rusha, Gili Tal, Joseph Walsh and Maria Zahle), described as "a many-legged creature that is difficult to quantify". Two very cryptic video trailers for the show can be seen online by clicking here.

And finally, it's well worth visiting Heavens Gate at the rather secretive boyschool... a tiny space which has just opened on Vyner Street, and immediately risen above the awful galleries surrounding it! This solo show by recent RCA graduate Tim Phillips features only one work, a truly amazing monolithic sculpture of laser-cut American walnut, African padouk, rosewood, fumed oak, boxwood and mdf combined with brass, acrylic and Swarovski crystals. This mystic "relic of destiny" combines corporate and religious symbolism, referencing the Heavens Gate UFO sect who attempted (failed) transcendence to an alien world in 1997. The gallery has the most minimal website I've ever seen, but for future reference click right here.

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