Clive Head: Modern Perspectives
at The National Gallery

13 October – 28 November 2010

This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Galley is inviting two contemporary artists to display work looking at the urban landscape. The first of these artists, Clive Head, will display three works exploring new ways to represent London.

In Canaletto, Clive Head finds an artist who, like himself, reinvents the urban landscape, creating paintings which resemble the real world without simply repeating it.

Head gathers visual information from site drawings, photography and studio studies. He combines these images to create artwork with surprising results. Head does not repeat a single viewpoint like a camera. Instead he shows multiple views in a single painting. The resulting works capture the experience of looking and moving around a scene.

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Celia Paul
Paintings and Etchings

17 April - 22 May 2010

Celia Paul will display her recent paintings and etchings at Quest 21, Brussels. This will then move onto Quest, Flanders.

Paul's paintings and drawings are intimate portraits of people she knows well and invariably depict a single model or group. "My work is about people and their emotions", she has said. Her dark toned paintings are reminiscent of old masters and share an interest in the effect of light. Her paintings often have a monumental quality, but she is equally adept at capturing emotion in a small softground etching.

QUEST 21

Stalingradlaan 21

1000 Brussels

http://www.dequeeste-art.be/nl/nu/celia-paul-at-quest-21---brussels

Thérèse ­Oulton
Territory

10 February - 13 March 2010

Germaine Greer

The Guardian, Sunday February 28 2010

A show at Marlborough Fine Art in London of new paintings by Thérèse ­Oulton opened last month. In her foreword to the catalogue, Oulton ­announced an abrupt change in her identity, a change, she noted ruefully, denied by her fans who staunchly aver that the new works are "still recognisably, coherently" hers. She is the same artist but something has happened to her, suddenly. As she says, there are no transitional works. The calligraphy is still unmistakably hers, but it is used in these new works to say something ­different, even profound, as if with one bound she had escaped from self-­consciousness. The art press found little to say about the show, possibly because Oulton is out of fashion, luckily for her.

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Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego

27 January - 9 May 2010

Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego are to show new and related works at the Foundling Museum in London throughout its eighteenth-century interiors as well as outside spaces. All of the works link to the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain’s first home for abandoned children, and its themes of childhood and separation. The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, bronzes and installations throughout the Museum as well as external spaces.

Curated by Gill Hedley for the Foundling Museum’s contemporary art strand, this exhibition brings together these three acclaimed artists for the first time. Each artist is well-known internationally for powerful responses to pain and anguish associated with aspects of childhood, motherhood, abortion and loss. 

Paula Rego has made a major new work combining several paintings in the form of a devotional altarpiece with life-size figures of foundling children in the powerful installation “Oratorio”. Depicting the fall from grace of women in the eighteenth century and the devastating repercussions, this work combines images of seduction, rape and infanticide with a specific reference to Hogarth’s famous “Gin Lane”, on permanent display in the Museum, as well as little scenes of childhood tenderness.

Paula Rego
Decadence - A Rake's Progress at the Dunkers Kulturhus, Sweden

15 October until 28 February 2010

Including Paula Rego's Hogarth Triptych and other loans.

Frank Auerbach
London Building Sites 1952-62 at The Courtauld Gallery

16 October 2009 until 17 January 2010

This is the first exhibition to explore the extraordinary group of paintings of post-war London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931), one of Britain's greatest living artists.

The exhibition reunites the complete series of building site paintings together with rarely seen oil sketches and a number of recently rediscovered sketchbook drawings. These works are among the most important contributions to post-war painting in Britain. The show gives the first comprehensive account of these works, which are among the most profound responses made by any artist to the post-war urban landscape.

John Davies
Esculturas y Dibujos, Marlborough Barcelona

11 November until 14 January 2010

Rego’s paintings, prints and drawings from 1997-2004 currently on show at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur mauris orci, vestibulum a, semper in, iaculis eget, quam. Aliquam sit amet wisi a tortor scelerisque nonummy. Curabitur vestibulum accumsan ante. Nam iaculis aliquet lorem. Curabitur vitae lectus ac nunc egestas porta. Consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur mauris orci, vestibulum a, semper in, iaculis eget, quam. Aliquam sit amet wisi a tortor scelerisque nonummy.