Over the course of a nearly fifty-year career, the Canadian artist Jeff Wall has transformed our understanding of photography and pushed the medium into the center of fine art practice. (more…)
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Photo Bernard Mitchell
Kenneth Rowntree
Artist
Kenneth Rowntree was born in Scarborough. Between 1932 and 1935, he studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford where Eric Ravilious and Barnett Freedman, both artists who criss-crossed the border between fine art, illustration and design, taught. This would prove to be an important influence on his development.
During the war he moved out of London to Great Bardfield in Essex where there was a community of like-minded artists, including Ravilious and Edward Bawden. At this time he contributed to the War Artists Scheme and to the Recording Britain Scheme. Here his work was admired by John Piper: “He always had an eye for the things in the English countryside that needed noticing,” Piper wrote.
After the war he held his first exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. Returning to live there, he became Head of Mural Painting at the Royal College of Art, designing a mural for the prestigious Festival of Britain in 1951. In 1959, he returned north to become Professor of Fine Art at Durham University. It was here that he formed a close relationship with the painter Victor Pasmore, who was exploring abstraction and constructivism, elements of which crept into Rowntree’s work.
During the last 20 years of his life, he was given retrospective exhibitions at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (1976); The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (1980); Welshpool, Cardiff and London (1992); and the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden (1995). A centenary exhibition was held at the Fry Art Gallery in 2015, travelling to Pallant House in Chichester.
[Kynance Fine Art]
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© The estate of Kenneth Rowntree
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Lise SarfatiPhotographer
Born in 1958 in Oran, Algeria Lise Sarfati lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles and is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, Rose Gallery, LA, La Galerie Particulière, Paris.
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Helene Schmitz: Thinking Like a MountainDec 14, 2019 – Mar 15, 2020
“I wanted to portray the violent transformation of nature in the European periphery. I have experienced that the concept of wilderness, and virgin land untouched by humans, has disintegrated.” –Helene Schmitz
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In The Next Door RoomPhotography of Lise Sarfati
The awakening of adolescence has been a recurring theme that has always fascinated a great many visual artists; conflicts of identity, physical metamorphosis, psychological instability (more…)
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Adorned / The Fashionable ShowDec 12, 2019 – Mar 11, 2020
The exhibition Adorned – The Fashionable Show presents intriguing and challenging fashion related photography projects created by a new generation of visual artists. (more…)
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So British! Collection PinaultJun 5, 2019 – May 11, 2020
Since its creation 30 years ago, the Pinault collection has grown quickly to become a major presence in the contemporary arts. This exhibition focuses on the British artists present in the collection. Artists include Nigel Cooke, Jonathan Wateridge, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Toby Ziegler, among others.
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Collecting PracticesOct 12, 2019 – Nov 8, 2020
In 2019, the Botín Centre celebrates the 25th anniversary of Itineraries, the annual exhibition that displays the work of the artists awarded the Botín Foundation’s Visual Arts Grant each year, which has been running since 1993.
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Gerhard Richter: Painting After AllMarch 4 – July 5, 2020
This exhibition at The Met Bauer considers Richter Gerhard’s six decade long preoccupation with the dual means of representation and abstraction to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting.
