Page 56 - Studio International - December 1973

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Agnews, 43 Old Bond St, W1.
'England and the Seicento', a loan exhibition
in aid of the National Art Collections Fund.
To 7 December. Inexpensive watercolours
and drawings. Through December.
Angela Flowers, 3 and 4 Portland Mews,
D'Arblay St, W1. 734-0240.
Michael Pennie. Sculpture Et drawings.
Trevor Halliday Tardibigge /97/ 11 December-12 January, 1974.
Annely Juda, 11 Tottenham Mews, W1.
580-7593. Anthea Alley, Sculpture.
Smith, who was himself responsible work with the 'conceptual look' painting Tardebigge seem free of the Through December.
for these purchases. What came over obtained by mounting serial over-pretentious concerns with Anthony D'Offay, 9 Dering St, W1.
629-1578, Vanessa Bell. Paintings and
was a stylization of post-minimal and photographs and diagrams of his 'smart' appearances which drawings. To 12 December.
conceptual art. The works represented pieces on clipboards. generally seems to characterize Bards Gallery, Mola art to 24 December
and Bedford House Gallery,106 Kensington
in the exhibition had adopted Philip Vaughan (whose work with 'Objects and Documents'.
Church St, W11. Vangi. Through December.
something of the manner of Roger Dainton can be seen flashing The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Rd, NW3.
presentation which is associated with on the South Bank horizon above the has been the recipient of Alastair 435-2643. Curwen Prints. Retrospective
collection of lithographs selected from the
the more radical endeavours of recent Hayward Gallery) is involved with McAlpine's generosity. Ina new 1300 prints the studio has printed since 1958.
art, quite apart from any intended kinetic works made of neon tubes. gallery which he has afforded them, Also technical display of processes in
lithography with blow-ups and materials
radicality and indeed quite apart from By comparison with Flavin, whose the philanthrope assembled and from the Studio.
the purposes that such manners of works are static and two-dimensional personally hung an exhibition of his Colnaghi & Co Ltd, 14 Old Bond St, W1.
499-7280. Margaret Stones. Botanical
representation should convey. One in appearance, discrete and bland, own devising. No publicity was given drawings in watercolour. 11 December-
would never have thought four or Vaughan's work is kinetic, sculptural, to this show. It was titled 'Untitled'. 11 January, 1974.
five years ago that conceptual art and indiscrete and novel in appearance. None of the artists or their works were Commonwealth Institute, Kensington
High St, W8. 602-3262. Makonde sculpture
the 'dematerialization of the art object' However, he seems uncertain about identified. A statement of intention and painting. 7-30 December.
could ever have formed the basis for either taking the luminist-kinetic path was available. 'This exhibition has DM Gallery, 72 Fulham Rd, SW3.
589-8208. Patrick Caulfield. Graphics.
style and good taste. But this towards visual thrill of greater and only two aims; (1) To demonstrate To 29 December.
exhibition bears witness to precisely greater magnitude or whether to adopt that there is as much quality in some Drian, 5/7 Porchester Place, W2.
this development in British art. This the minimalist orientation of Flavin. of the abstract painting of the 723-9473. Norma Jameson. Batiks.
To 14 December. Angela Kulick. Sculpture.
was a not surprising choice by an He ends up tempering the former with twentieth century as there is in the 17 December-4 January, 1974.
artist whose own painting has such the latter, retaining the unconcealed great figurative painting of earlier Editions Graphiques, 3 Clifford St, W1.
734-3944. Alphonse Mucha. Posters,
obvious marks of the superficial and wiring 'tubular look' of Flavin's centuries. (2) To show that in a Lithographs, Drawings. Through December.
artificial. What really was surprising is light works. confined space it is possible to hang Permanently Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
that artists in Britain should have The artist who seems most a dozen or so very large paintings Electrum, 21 S. Molton St, W1. 629-6325.
'Christmas exhibition of Jewellery' by 40
inherited Smith's concern with obviously to adopt the 'look' of without impairing their quality'. Gallery artists. To 12 January, 1974.
manners of presentation when those conceptual art is Michael Craig- Neither of these apparently Erica Bourne, 14a Temple Fortune
Parade, NW11. 458-7551. Winter exhibition.
adopted go beyond painting and Martin. His works play upon the shock uncogitated ambitions were fulfilled. Alfred Cohen, Tom Davison, Ann Shrager,
sculpture in the classic sense. one receives upon confronting a mirror The paintings were by Stella, Karen Ray. Paintings. Fred Kormis, Dennis
Mitchell. Sculpture. Through December.
Brower Hatcher's wire hedges are unexpectedly and seeing oneself as Gottlieb, Still, Newman, Louis, Felicity Samuel, 16 Savile Row, W1.
very pretty and, in spite of their one sees others. Nine Mirrors attempts Turnbull, Cohen, Walker, Hoyland, American Pieced Quilts. To 25 January, 1974.
Fieldborne, 63 Queen's Grove, NW8.
appearance, which suggests the to counterbalance the novel effect of Richard Smith, Kelly, Noland, 586-3600. Peter Nuttall. Paintings. Lower
contrary, very stable. The sculptures the work with a minimal simplicity of Olitski. Sculptures were by Caro, Gallery. Group exhibition of gallery artists.
To 22 December.
are also extremely painterly, and external appearance in much the same Scott, Tucker. The installation, one
Fine Art Society Ltd, 148 New Bond
whilst the finely intermeshed bundles way that Vaughan does. The balance regrets, was appallingly cramped and St, W1. 629-5116. Leon Bakst. Major
of wire are, from a distance, becomes, however, an English the works were further maltreated by exhibition of paintings, stage designs,
fashion drawings and varied works.
reminiscent of the kinds of forms used compromise; a piece of dressing up the decision not to take the furniture 4 December-5 January, 1974.
by Barry Flanagan and a generation of presently prevents his work from out of the space into which they were Fischer Fine Art, 30 King St, SW1.
Russian Suprematist and Constructivist
sculptors who reacted against the being as subtle as those who have jammed. Most of the paintings were artists of early 20th century. Major works by
glossed finish and morphological most influenced him, Bruce Nauman familiar. The Walker and the Stella Malevich, Lissitsky, Puni, Popova, etc; also
included works by the less well known such as
stability of minimal art, closer and Robert Morris. were in the ICA until very recently.
Bogomazov, Kliun, Ermilov. To 4 January,
inspection reveals a meticulous Bill Jacklin's etchings are The Still, Gottlieb and Newman were 1974.
attention to detail and finish. Nick reminiscent of Sol LeWitt's drawings. from the Tate. Who else, one wonders, Garage, 52 Earlham St, Covent Garden.
836-9701. Philip Vaughan neon. pieces.
Wyndham's crossed-stick sculptures But once again the bland reduction of could borrow three such works from 18 December-13 January, 1974.
are characteristic of the latest the formalist 'parts to the whole' Millbank for such a display within Gimpel Fils, 30 Davies St, W1.493-2488.
Primitive Art. To 5 January, 1974.
generation of the kind of work relation experienced so subtly in an Oxford community known to be Grabowski, 84 Sloane Avenue, SW3.
encouraged in the Royal Academy LeWitt's work is elaborated in both intellectual and philistine ? 589-1868. Stanislaws Frenkiel. Paintings and
gouaches. 4 December-4 January, 1974.
sculpture department (though he did Jacklin's. Structural simplicity is Could the Whitechapel ? Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Rd, SE1.
not attend that college himself). The dispensed with in favour of structural Rosetta Brooks 928-3144. Salvator Rosa. To 23 December.
opposing trend to the structural complexities. One might hopefully 'Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by
Cezanne'. To 30 December.
simplicity promoted at St Martin's in regard the work as a synthesis Hoya Gallery, 228 Fulham Rd, SW10.
'New Generation' British sculpture following the predominant analytical 352-3281. Gillian Ayres. Recent drawings
and paintings. To 20 December. 1st
(and which is now several reductions of minimal art. But this is Exhibition at new gallery.
generations) was well represented mistaken. Jacklin's work is attempting ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts),
12 Carlton House Terrace. 839-5344.
at the Royal Academy Sculpture the impossible - going back.
'Illusion' - in Science, Nature and Art.
exhibition last year. Wyndham By contrast with the above-cited To 19 December. Byam Shaw School.
seems concerned to dress up works, David Troostwyk's Item and Students' work. Alan Aldridge. Original
drawings and prints from the 'Butterfly Ball
another generation of such Trevor Halliday's interesting and Grasshopper Feast'. 1-20 December.
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