Past
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THREE COLOURS
Red-White-Blue 12 Apr - 5 Jun 2021 We are excited that The Mayor Gallery will be re-open to the public from the 12 April with our comprehensive exhibition Three Colours, Red-White-Blue. A wide range of artists will be featured including François Morellet, Jan Schoonhoven and Ad Dekkers as well examples from Conceptual, Concrete, Op art, Nul and... Read more -
HOPE FOR BLUER SKIES
5 Mar - 9 Apr 2021 The Mayor Gallery wishes you a year of happiness and good health with three online Abstract exhibitions to come in the first three months of 2021. 'WHITE AS SNOW IN WINTER', 7 JANUARY - 5 FEBRUARY 'RED CELEBRATING CHINESE NEW YEAR', 5 FEBRUARY - 4 MARCH 'HOPE FOR BLUER SKIES',... Read more -
RED CELEBRATING CHINESE NEW YEAR
ABSTRACT EXHIBITION 5 Feb - 4 Mar 2021 The Mayor Gallery wishes you a year of happiness and good health with three online Abstract exhibitions to come in the first three months of 2021. 'White as Snow in Winter', 7 January - 5 February 'Red celebrating Chinese New Year', 5 February - 4 March 'Hope for Bluer Skies',... Read more -
WHITE AS SNOW IN WINTER
ABSTRACT EXHIBITION 7 Jan - 4 Feb 2021 The Mayor Gallery wishes you a year of happiness and good health with three online Abstract exhibitions to come in the first three months of 2021. 'WHITE AS SNOW IN WINTER', 7 JANUARY - 5 FEBRUARY 'RED CELEBRATING CHINESE NEW YEAR', 5 FEBRUARY - 4 MARCH 'HOPE FOR BLUER SKIES',... Read more -
Earth & Light
Wagemaker & Schoonhoven 20 Oct - 4 Dec 2020 The Mayor Gallery presents in collaboration with Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, a joint exhibition of two principal Dutch artists of the 20th Century; Jaap Wagemaker (b. 1906 Haarlem – d. 1972 Amsterdam) and Jan Schoonhoven (b. 1914 – d. 1994 Delft). In 1959 Hans Sonnenberg organized the ZERO exhibition in the... Read more -
INTERNATIONAL POP
15 Jun - 15 Oct 2020 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to present a curated selection of International Pop Art featuring artists from around the world including France, USA, Brazil, China and the UK. BILLY APPLE® / ARMAN / EVELYNE AXELL / IMRE BAK / RAFAEL CANOGAR / SISTER MARY CORITA KENT / GÉRARD DESCHAMPS /... Read more -
FRIEZE VIEWING ROOM
FACING NEW REALITY BY JAN HENDERIKSE 8 - 15 May 2020 In these unprecedented times, we are all having to face a new reality. Frieze New York 2020 edition has become Frieze Online Viewing Room and instead of being faced with the material presence of works of art in the show, BorzoGallery and The Mayor Gallery will be happy to guide... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 451 7 - 14 Mar 2020 Billy Apple® / Wifredo Arcay / Evelyne Axell / Imre Bak / Joseph Beuys / Alberto Biasi / Carlos Cairoli / Sister Corita Kent / Joseph Cornell / Carlos Cruz-Díez / Dadamaino / Braco Dimitrijević / Antony Donaldson / Piero Dorazio / Peter Dreher / Max Ernst / Ferdi /... Read more -
EMILIO TADINI
1927–2002 MILAN 5 Feb - 24 Apr 2020 “A writer who paints, a painter who writes.” - Umberto Eco Emilio Tadini (b. 1927 – d. 2002 Milan, Italy) is considered one of the most original personalities of Italy’s post - World War II cultural landscape. A Poet, novelist, essayist, art critic, journalist and painter, he was, in the... Read more -
ANTONY DONALDSON
PAPERWORK FROM 1960 TO 2019 8 - 31 Jan 2020 ‘I liked Tony immediately because he’s smart and cultured, but he speaks his mind in a very direct way, and that’s unusual for the English,’ the artist Joe Goode has said of his friend of over 50 years. This show of drawings and prints, which covers Antony Donaldson’s career since... Read more -
CONGO THE CHIMPANZEE
THE BIRTH OF ART 3 - 19 Dec 2019 “It is the work of Congo, not that of the prehistoric cave artists, that can truly be said to represent the birth of art.” - Desmond Morris, 2005. Surrealist artist and zoologist Desmond Morris is selling his private collection of paintings and drawings by Congo the chimpanzee, with whom he... Read more -
ENEA FERRARI 1908–1972
ONLINE EXHIBITION 28 Nov - 20 Dec 2019 Ferrari started to paint at an early age under the guidance of his father, Annibal Ferrari and attended the Art College of Brera between 1924 –1928. Returning to Soncino (province of Cremona) after his father’s death, Ferrari became an artisan in stuccoes and fresco-painting. From 1932, having perfected his plaster... Read more -
JOSIP VANIŠTA
THE HORIZONTAL LINE 30 Oct - 29 Nov 2019 At the beginning of the 1960s, a group of renowned artists was formed in Zagreb under the name Gorgona and its manifesto was published in 1961. Active from 1959 to 1966 Gorgona’s members were the painters Josip Vaništa, Julije Knifer, Marijan Jevšovar and Duro Seder, the sculptor Ivan Kožarić and... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
VERENA LOEWENSBERG 3 - 6 Oct 2019 The Mayor Gallery will present at Frieze Masters 2019 the first exhibition in London dedicated to the Swiss Concrete artist Verena Loewensberg (1912 - 1986 Zurich, Switzerland). The selection will span over the last three decades of her life, from the 1960s to the mid 1980s, with large perfectly executed... Read more -
CARLOS CAIROLI
A RETROSPECTIVE 11 Sep - 25 Oct 2019 The Mayor Gallery presents the first retrospective of the Constructivist artist Carlos Cairoli (b. 1926 Buenos Aires, Argentina – d. 1995 Chartres, France) whose rigorous works from the 1950s onward, are the historical witnesses of his perpetual researches to materialise the invisible, light, time and space. After studying Fine Arts... Read more -
FAIR FOR SAATCHI
STAND 2 26 - 30 Jun 2019 Featuring artists: MARINA APOLLONIO ALBERTO BIASI DAVIDE BORIANI MIGUEL CHEVALIER CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ GABRIELE DE VECCHI HUGO DEMARCO ANTHONY HILL JULIO LE PARC WALTER LEBLANC HEINZ MACK CHRISTIAN MEGERT FRANÇOIS MORELLET JULIAN STANCZAK KLAUS STAUDT LAJOS SZELÉNYI VASSILAKIS TAKIS LUIS TOMASELLO LUDWIG WILDING Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A6, HALL 2.0 13 - 16 Jun 2019 BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY / IMRE BAK / JOOST BALJEU / JOSEPH BEUYS / ALBERTO BIASI STEPHEN BUCKLEY / CARLOS CAIROLI / JOSEPH CORNELL / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / AD DEKKERS BRACO DIMITRIJEVIĆ / ANTONY DONALDSON / PIERO DORAZIO / PETER DREHER / MAX ERNST / ERRÓ STANO FILKO /... Read more -
PÉCS WORKSHOP
5 Jun - 31 Jul 2019 The Pécs Workshop is a neo-avant-garde group that existed in Communist Hungary in the late 1960s and early 1970s comprising of five artists based in the cultural town of Pécs; Károly Halász (1946 - 2016), Károly Kismányoky (1943- 2018), Sándor Pinczehelyi (1946) Ferenc Ficzek (1947 – 1987) and Kálmán Szijártó... Read more -
TEFAF NEW YORK
COLOMBO / MORELLET / VON GRAEVENITZ 3 - 7 May 2019 STAND 367 Read more -
FRIEZE NEW YORK
AD DEKKERS 2 - 5 May 2019 STAND C11 The ultimate quest for simplicity, clarity and the symbolic characterise Ad Dekkers’ minimalist oeuvre. His fascination for the drawn line took him onto the exploration of its third dimension, which he achieved by applying saw-cuts in perfectly smooth panels or by assembling panels one on top of the... Read more -
JULIAN STAŃCZAK
DON’T TALK, JUST LOOK 3 Apr - 31 May 2019 A leading artist of Op Art, Julian Stańczak (b. 1928 Borownica, Poland – d. 2017 Ohio, United States) created from the 1960s a dynamic and joyous oeuvre. The term Op Art itself was coined by Time magazine after his first major show, Julian Stańczak: Optical Paintings, held at the Martha... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 451 16 - 24 Mar 2019 Featuring artists: Billy Apple / Wifredo Arcay / Antonio Asis Alberto Biasi / Charles Biederman Stephen Buckley / Braco Dimitrijević Carlos Cairoli / Miguel Chevalier Joseph Cornell / Carlos Cruz-Díez Peter Dreher / Max Ernst / Wojciech Fangor Enea Ferrari / Stano Filko Gerhard von Graevenitz / Attila Kovács Tadaaki... Read more -
IMRE BAK
WORKS 1967-81 13 Feb - 29 Mar 2019 Imre Bak (b. 1939 Budapest, Hungary) was involved in the creation and development of two leading Hungarian neo-avant-garde groups of the second half of the Twentieth century; Iparterv and Budapesti műhely. Part of the group of young ‘self-educated’ Hungarian contemporary artists from the 1960s, Bak departed from the drab browns... Read more -
STEPHEN BUCKLEY
CLOSE COUSINS 10 Jan - 8 Feb 2019 For more than forty years Stephen Buckley, (b. 1944 Leicester, England) has concerned himself with addressing the major themes of the twentieth century through a personal style oscillating between the matière of Kurt Schwitters, the dandyism of Francis Picabia and the intellectual rigour of Marcel Duchamp. He takes the two... Read more -
MARIO SCHIFANO
Compagni, compagni 1968 5 Nov - 20 Dec 2018 In 2018 marking the 50th anniversary of the global wave of protests, The Mayor Gallery is holding an exhibition of Mario Schifano’s (b. 1934 Khoms, Libya – d. 1998 Rome, Italy) political series Compagni, compagni (Comrades, comrades) 1968. A radical and charismatic figure, Mario Schifano was in the centre of... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
Carel Visser: Aluminium Reliefs 1965-68 4 - 7 Oct 2018 “There are many affinities between the work of Carel Visser and that of British sculptors of his generation but his work has been rarely seen here and is little known.” - Nicolas Serota, 1978, preface for the catalogue of Carel Visser’s first major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Carel... Read more -
BRITISH ART FAIR
Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) from The Collection of the Late Ray Hughes (1946 – 2017) 20 - 23 Sep 2018 While reading the eulogy given by Evan Hughes at his father’s Memorial last year in Sydney, one can only admire the life-long generous and passionate commitment that the Australian art dealer had achieved in his career spanning over 45 years. Ray Hughes spent his life traveling the world accompanied by... Read more -
BILLY APPLE®
The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1962 – 2018 12 Sep - 2 Nov 2018 A third solo exhibition by Billy Apple will run at The Mayor Gallery from 12 September – 2 November 2018. This follows on from the 2010 and 2013 exhibitions; Billy Apple®: British and American Works 1960 – 1969 and Billy Apple®: New York 1970 – 75 where his jaunty pop... Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A4, HALL 2.0 17 Jun 2018 Exhibiting artists: Billy Apple / Wifredo Arcay / Imre Bak / Joost Baljeu / Alberto Biasi / Charles Biederman / Carlos Cairoli / Miguel Chevalier / Gianni Colombo / Bruce Conner / Waldemar Cordeiro / Joseph Cornell / Carlos Cruz-Díez / herman de vries / Ad Dekkers / Max Ernst... Read more -
WRITING NEW CODES
CORDEIRO / MALLARY / MOLNÁR 6 Jun - 27 Jul 2018 ‘Writing New Codes’ presents three major pioneers of computer art – Waldemar Cordeiro (b. 1925 Rome, Italy – d. 1973 São Paulo, Brazil), Robert Mallary (b. 1917 Toledo, USA – d. 1997 Northampton, USA) and Vera Molnár (b.1924 Budapest, Hungary) from three different corners of the globe with early computer... Read more -
FRIEZE NEW YORK
FRANÇOIS MORELLET 3 - 5 May 2018 A solo presentation of the artist in partnership with Dan Galeria . A self-taught artist, François Morellet (b. 1926 - d. 2016 Cholet, France) first exhibited his geometric tone-in-tone pictures in 1950 at the Galerie Creuze in Paris. In the mid-1950s he was preoccupied with configuring the picture field as... Read more -
MIGUEL CHEVALIER
UBIQUITY 12 Apr - 1 Jun 2018 UBIQUITY 1 & 2 are the first solo exhibitions of French artist Miguel Chevalier in England. A pioneer of virtual art, Miguel Chevalier (b. 1959, Mexico) has been using computer science as a means of expression in the field of visual arts since 1978. His work addresses the question of... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 451 10 - 18 Mar 2018 Exhibiting Artists: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY / IMRE BAK / JOOST BALJEU / ALBERTO BIASI / BORIS BUĆAN / CARLOS CAIROLI / PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI / MIGUEL CHEVALIER / GIANNI COLOMBO / BRUCE CONNER / WALDEMAR CORDEIRO / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / PETER DREHER / ENEA FERRARI... Read more -
TANYA LING
9 Mar - 6 Apr 2018 For her first solo show at the Mayor Gallery, Indian born British artist Tanya Ling has made a group of new Line Paintings that add to the series started in 2014 first shown at Alex Eagle’s old space, South Kensington. The works were exclusively made in the gallery over the... Read more -
LATIN AMERICAN WORKS ON PAPER
9 Jan - 28 Feb 2018 WIFREDO ARCAY CARLOS CAIROLI LOS CARPINTEROS WALDEMAR CORDEIRO HAMLET LAVASTIDA MIRA SCHENDEL LUIS TOMASELLO The Mayor Gallery presents a group show of seven Latin American artists who were either born there or moved to join in the exciting and revolutionary art movements happening in the 50s and 60s. Conceptual and... Read more -
ANTONY DONALDSON, PATRICK O'REILLY, COLIN SELF
6 - 20 Dec 2017 The Mayor Gallery, London, brings together three renowned artists and long standing friends of the gallery; Antony Donaldson, Patrick O'Reilly and Colin Self in a variance of mediums Painting, Collage and Sculpture. All three have collected and taken inspiration from popular culture in their careers creating their own visual imagery... Read more -
ROBERT MALLARY
RELIEFS 1957 - 1961 1 Nov - 1 Dec 2017 The work of Robert Mallary (b. 1917 Ohio, USA – d. 1997 Massachusetts, USA) is characterised by a consistent commitment to technological innovation, and to the exploration of materiality. As well as pioneering the use of computers to design sculptures in the late 1960s, during the first part of his... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
De Sijl reSTRUCTUREd 5 - 8 Oct 2017 In 2017 the artworld celebrates the centennial of the founding of De Stijl. De Stijl is without doubt the most important Dutch contribution to the international history of twentieth century art. Founded in the Netherlands in 1917, by Mondrian, Van Doesburg and Van der Leck amongst others, the movement quickly... Read more -
STANO FILKO
Reality of Cosmos 12 Sep - 27 Oct 2017 Stano Filko (b. 1937 Veľká Hradná – d. 2015 Bratislava) was part of the generation of artists who caused an upheaval in the relatively conservative cultural environment of Slovakia in the mid-sixties together with Julius Koller, Alex Mlynárčik and Jana Želibská. While to the west of the Iron Curtain the... Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A4, HALL 2.0 15 - 18 Jun 2017 EXHIBITING ARTISTS: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY BERNARD AUBERTIN / IMRE BAK / ALBERTO BIASI MARCEL BROODTHAERS / CARLOS CAIROLI PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI /ENRICO CASTELLANI / GIANNI COLOMBO BRUCE CONNER / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / DADAMAINO AD DEKKERS / PETER DREHER / WOJCIECH FANGOR ENEA FERRARI / STANISLAV... Read more -
TADAAKI KUWAYAMA
Radical Neutrality 7 Jun - 28 Jul 2017 The work of Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. 1932 Nagoya, Japan) is characterised by “radical neutrality,” as art historian Michio Hayashi describes it. Since the early 1960s, Kuwayama has adamantly broken from existing modes of artistic expression in order to create neutral art, which means, the artist removes all the characteristics from... Read more -
FRIEZE NEW YORK
ROBERT MALLARY : NEW MEXICAN RELIEFS 1957 - 1958 5 - 7 May 2017 The Mayor Gallery participated this year at FRIEZE NEW YORK 2017 showcasing the works of Robert Mallary. The work of Robert Mallary (b. 1917 Ohio, USA – d. 1997 Massachusetts, USA) is characterised by a consistent commitment to technological innovation, and to the exploration of materiality. As well as pioneering... Read more -
PETER DREHER
Day by Day, Good Day 7 Apr - 2 Jun 2017 An excerpt from Irene von Neuendorff’s essay “A Happy Sisyphus” (2014) “A lot has been written about the central element of Peter Dreher’s oeuvre, the series Day by Day Good Day. The title for this group of works was taken from the sixth example of the koan collection Biyan Lu... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 453 10 - 19 Mar 2017 Exhibiting Artists: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY / BERNARD AUBERTIN / IMRE BAK / ALBERTO BIASI / CARLOS CAIROLI / PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI / ENRICO CASTELLANI / MIGUEL CHEVALIER /GIANNI COLOMBO / WALDEMAR CORDEIRO / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / DADAMAINO / CHRISTIAAN PAUL DAMSTÉ / ANTONY DONALDSON /... Read more -
SHINKICHI TAJIRI
15 Feb - 30 Mar 2017 Shinkichi Tajiri (b. 1923 Los Angeles, USA – d. 2009 Baarlo, The Netherlands) is primarily a sculptor who plays with the themes of violence and eroticism in metal assemblages where he brings loose elements of metal and junk together to form a new coherence. Highly experimental and multicultural Tajiri was... Read more -
VALERIO ADAMI
The Narrative Line 11 Jan - 10 Feb 2017 (b. 1935 Bologna, Italy) Adami is primarily a draughtsman and colourist. After realising as a young man he wanted to paint, he studied at the Brera Academy in 1951 and in 1955 he went to Paris, where he met and was influenced by the artists Roberto Matta and Wifredo Lam.... Read more -
JIANG DAHAI
Diffusion 3 Nov - 16 Dec 2016 JIANG DAHAI (b. 1946, Nanjing, China) After graduating in 1986 from the oil painting department at the Central Academy of Arts, in Beijing, Jiang went to France to study Western art. His shift from Realism to Modernism and assimilation of Eastern and Western Arts took almost two decades leading the... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
Stand D11 6 - 9 Oct 2016 OCTOBER 6 - 9, 2016 The Mayor Gallery returned to Regent's Park for FRIEZE MASTERS 2016 in October showcasing the works of Ad Dekkers. Read more -
EXPO CHICAGO
Booth 631 22 - 25 Sep 2016 SEPTEMBER 22 - 25, 2016 EXHIBITING ARTISTS BILLY APPLE GYORGY JOVANOVICS WIFREDO ARCAY ATTILA KOVACS BERNARD AUBERTIN HEINZ MACK ALBERTO BIASI ALMIR DA SILVA MAVIGNIER MARCEL BROODTHAERS FRANCOIS MORELLET PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI MARLOW MOSS ENRICO CASTELLANI OTTO PIENE BRUCE CONNER MIRA SCHENDEL CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ JAN SCHOONHOVEN DADAMAINO TURI SIMETI JIANG... Read more -
GYORGY JOVANOVICS
The Relief, From White to Black 14 Sep - 28 Oct 2016 Often referred to as a conceptual artist, György Jovánovics (b. 1939, Budapest) has been considered one of the leading figures of Hungary’s art scene since the mid-1960s. The Mayor Gallery will present a selection of his relief sculptures in plaster, a nealry exclusive medium chosen by the artist since 1965.... Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A4, HALL 2.0 16 - 19 Jun 2016 EXHIBITING ARTISTS IVOR ABRAHAMS KEY HIRAGA BILLY APPLE LI HUASHENG WIFREDO ARCAY ATTILA KOVACS ALBERTO BIASI WALTER LEBLANC MARCEL BROODTHAERS RAUL LOZZA BORRIS BUCAN HEINZ MACK PIER - PAOLO CALZOLARI ROBERT MANGOLD ENRICO CASSTELLANI CHRISTIAN MEGERT GIANNI COLOMBO FRANCOIS MORELLET BRUCE CONNER MARLOW MOSS WALDEMAR CORDEIRO OTTO PIENE CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ... Read more -
LI HUASHENG
The Meditation Room 2 Jun - 27 Jul 2016 LI HUASHENG – THE MEDITATION ROOM 2nd JUNE – 27th JULY, 2016 The Mayor Gallery presents a selection of recent ink paintings on paper by Li Huasheng (b. 1944, Yibin, Sichuan Province). This is a rare opportunity to admire the revealing abstract works by this self-imposed seclusion Chinese artist whose... Read more -
FRANÇOIS MORELLET AT THE MAYOR GALLERY, LONDON
Les règles du jeu 6 Apr - 27 May 2016 Few artists have enjoyed such a long and illustrious international career, pursued with playful invention at more than 130 solo exhibitions which have included being honoured with a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2011, as well as exhibitions at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris;... Read more -
FRANÇOIS MORELLET AT DAN GALERIA, SAO PAULO
Les règles du jeu 6 Apr - 27 May 2016 Few artists have enjoyed such a long and illustrious international career, pursued with playful invention at more than 130 solo exhibitions which have included being honoured with a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2011, as well as exhibitions at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris;... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
11 - 20 Mar 2016 The Mayor Gallery returns to Maastricht for TEFAF 2016. EXHIBITING ARTISTS: IVOR ABRAHAMS / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY / ARMANDO / BERNARD AUBERTIN / ALBERTO BIASI / ALEXANDER CALDER / ENRICO CASTELLANI / WALDEMAR CORDEIRO / CARLOS CRUZ-D ÍEZ / DADAMAINO / ANTONY DONALDSON / WOJCIECH FANGOR / ENEA... Read more -
ATTILA KOVÁCS
INDUCTION 9 Feb - 31 Mar 2016 The oeuvre of Attila Kovács is characterised by accountability, in other words, by inspecting the articles around us in phases, and by building his simultaneously singular and complex world from constituents that can be interpreted both separately and collectively. In the mid 1960s Kovács established a new paradigm in fine... Read more -
LAb[au]
calculations, permutations, notations 13 - 31 Jan 2016 The Mayor Gallery presents an exhibition by Belgium collective LAb[au] at Art Bermondsey Project Space . To coincide with LAb[au]'s participation at Lumiere London 14 - 17 January 2016, the exhibition in Bermondsey Street, over two floors, will showcase a selection of their kinetic and static works including the Origami... Read more -
IVOR ABRAHAMS RA
POISED COMPANIONS 5 Jan - 5 Feb 2016 After a close relationship with Ivor Abrahams RA (b. Wigan, 1935 – d. Ramsgate, 2015) for over 40 years, The Mayor Gallery presents an affectionate homage with a selection of his smaller sculptures, from 1959 – 2014, including works from his Garden Series, nudes, and his amusing Owls. The majority... Read more -
COLIN SELF
STREETSEEN, HEARTS AND GLANCES 24 Nov - 18 Dec 2015 Colin Self (b.1941 Norfolk, England) is a significant figure in British art history. Self studied at Norwich School of Art before attending the Slade School of Art in London during the early 1960s, where he met fellow artists David Hockney and Peter Blake. Born during World War II, his earlier... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
STAND D12 13 - 18 Oct 2015 WOJCIECH FANGOR SIX PAINTINGS FROM THE SIXTIES On the occasion of Frieze Masters London 2015, The Mayor Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of the groundbreaking Polish artist Wojciech Fangor (b. 1922, Warsaw.) After graduating in 1946 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, and an early period of Cubistic... Read more -
WIFREDO ARCAY
CUBAN STRUCTURES 12 Oct - 20 Nov 2015 Acclaimed by Jean Arp as “the perfection of Cuba’s Cubists,” Wifredo Arcay (b.1925 Havana, Cuba - d.1997 Paris, France) emerged among the postwar generation of the Ecole de Paris as a painter, muralist and, perhaps most familiarly, as a printmaker. Born in Cuba and trained at Havana’s Academia de San... Read more -
EXPO CHICAGO
Stand 622 17 - 20 Sep 2015 EXHIBITING ARTISTS BERNARD AUBERTIN YVES KLEIN ALBERTO BIASI WALTER LEBLANC WALDEMAR CORDEIRO OTTO PIENE ELIAS CREPIN MIRA SCHENDEL CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ JAN SCHOONHOVEN DADAMAINO TURI SIMETI ENEA FERRARI KLAUS STAUDT LUCIO FONTANA LUIS TOMASELLO GEGO GUNTHER UECKER Read more -
ANTONY DONALDSON
OF MEMORY AND OBLIVION 9 Sep - 9 Oct 2015 Like Tom Wesselmann and Mel Ramos in the USA, and Allen Jones in the UK, Donaldson has concentrated throughout his career not just on the human figure – not the most obvious subject for Pop artists – but specifically on a sexualized presentation of the female body. Creating those first... Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A5 17 - 21 Jun 2015 EXHIBITING ARTISTS ARMANDO EDOARDO LANDI BILLY APPLE WALTER LEBLANC BERNARD AUBERTIN JULIO LEPARC MARIO BALLOCCO PIERO MANZONI ALBERTO BIASI ALMIR MAVIGNIER ANTONIO CALDERARA FRANÇOIS MORELLET CHRISTO OTTO PIENE WALDEMAR CORDEIRO GERMANO SARTELLI CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ ANGELO SAVELLI DADAMAINO MIRA SCHENDEL HERMAN DE VRIES JAN SCHOONHOVEN WOJCIECH FANGOR TURI SIMETI... Read more -
MACK PIENE UECKER
WORKS ON PAPER from 1962 - 2012 4 Jun - 24 Jul 2015 There have been quite a number of ZERO exhibitions in recent years, including important retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Unfortunately, few of them have focused on the lesser-known graphic output of the Zero artists. The Mayor Gallery... Read more -
KLAUS STAUDT
LIGHT AND TRANSCENDENCE 15 Apr - 29 May 2015 The Frankfurt based artist Klaus Staudt (b. 1932 Ottendorf am Main, Germany) has been one of the leading exponents of Constructive and Concrete art in Germany since the 1960s, together with participating in the avant-garde New Tendencies movement. After originally studying Medicine, Staudt changed direction radically after a visit to... Read more -
TEFAF, Maastricht
STAND 453 11 - 22 Mar 2015 EXHIBITING ARTISTS BILLY APPLE EDUARDO LANDI ARMANDO WALTER LEBLANC BERNARD AUBERTIN PIERO MANZONI ALBERTO BIASI ALMIR MAVIGNIER ENRICO CASTELLANI FRANÇOIS MORELLET GIANNI COLOMBO OTTO PIENE WALDERMAR CORDEIRO MIRA SCHENDEL ELIAS CRESPIN TURI SIMETI CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ KLAUS STAUDT DADAMAINO LUIS TOMASELLO AD DEKKERS GÜNTHER UECKER MAX ERNST NANDA VIGO WOJCIECH FANGOR... Read more -
CAREL VISSER
COUNTERBALANCE 18 Feb - 10 Apr 2015 Over 37 years ago, in 1978, Sir Nicholas Serota directed the first major retrospective of Carel Visser (b. 1928, The Netherlands) in Britain at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Organised by Clive Adams it then travelled to the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and the Third Eye Centre, Glasgow. Now, in... Read more -
THE ARCHERS OF LIGHT
GROUP EXHIBITION 8 Jan - 12 Feb 2015 On the one year anniversary of Luis Tomasello’s death and the recent passing of Arnaldo Calveyra, The Mayor Gallery presents an homage to the artist and poet with a group show, inspired by The Archer of Light, a 2013 collaboration between them. The selection of kinetic and op artists includes... Read more -
ALBERTO BIASI
OPTICAL/DYNAMIC 1959 - 2012 29 Oct - 19 Dec 2014 ALBERTO BIASI (Padua, 1937) is one of the most important Italian artists who through his very long career, contributed to the affirmation and fame of the international kinetic art of the Sixties onwards, particularly to the branch called “Arte Programmata”. Biasi has been amongst the founders of “Gruppo Enne” in... Read more -
NANDA VIGO
CHRONOTOPS 10 Sep - 24 Oct 2014 Read more -
OTTO PIENE
FIRE PAINTINGS FROM 1965-2009 4 Jun - 31 Jul 2014 Read more -
ERRÓ
60 YEARS OF COLLAGES 2 Apr - 30 May 2014 Read more -
LUIS TOMASELLO
SIX DECADES OF REFLECTION 5 Feb - 28 Mar 2014 Read more -
HERBERT ZANGS
WORKS FROM 1957 - 1989 31 Oct 2013 - 6 Dec 2014 Read more -
BILLY APPLE
NEW YORK 1970-75 10 Sep - 26 Oct 2013 Read more -
THE NATURE OF WOMEN
AN EXHIBITION OF 6 WOMEN ARTISTS 5 Jun - 26 Jul 2013 Read more -
VILLEGLE/WOLMAN
COLLECTIVE DIS/ILLUSIONS 10 Apr - 31 May 2013 The Mayor Gallery will be presenting in April 2013 an exhibition of works by the French artists Jacques Villeglé (b. 1926) and Gil J Wolman (1929-1995). Both artists are emblematic of the 1950-60s Paris art scene. Their work, which prefigures the American Pop Art in many ways, is the expression... Read more -
WALTER LEBLANC
WORKS ON PAPER AND SCULPTURES FROM 1963 - 1985 12 Feb - 28 Mar 2013 Outside the artist's mind, the impact of Walter Leblanc's preparatory work had never been recognised for its intrinsic value by the art world until presented for the first time in the exhibition at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique à Bruxelles in spring 2011. The sketches, studies and preliminary... Read more -
IVOR ABRAHAMS RA
THE GARDEN REVISITED 10 Jan - 8 Feb 2013 Ivor Abrahams R.A. The Garden Revisited is the latest exhibition with The Mayor Gallery focusing on his Garden period, the exploration of the Suburban through the subject of figureless residential gardens. An expression of the triviality of the domestic, Abrahams uses the concept of the garden to explore the extraordinary.... Read more
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