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back stage, it is performing up-front, at influences; Matisse and Kandinsky, Fuller freedom granted to the medium.
734-8557. David Novros. Recent paintings.
scoring across one-colour stretches Noland and Stella. I think the This (inadvertently fashionable) To 26 April.
that would otherwise be mutely inert paintings could take a lot more approach is arguably artistically Fischer Fine Art, 30 King St, SW1.
839-3942. Ceri Richards. Relief constructions
with a line as sharp and as sprung as loading, points could be pushed wholesome, but one is left with a
& drawings from 1932/39 period.
that made by a hand-pushed H B harder, they could risk not being feeling that Francis has phased To 19 April.
pencil. necessarily so nice. As a first show, himself out of the work too much for Garage, 52 Earlham St, Covent Garden.
836-9701. Stephen Buckley. 3-20 April.
The process that began as the most Gimpel Fils, 30 Davies St, W1 . 493-2488.
direct way of overcoming a specific Charles Beauchamp & Stefan Bergmann.
2-27 April.
problem has now become the shaping
Grabowski Gallery 84 Sloane Ave, SW3
influence of the work. Bergman sees 589-1868. Robert O'Brien 3-27 April
Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Rd, SE1.
it as a way of avoiding cliched
928-3144. 'Vorticism and Its Allies'. Also
responses to the blank canvas as photographs by Diane Arbus. 27 March-
arena situation, and the paintings 2 June.
Hester Van Royen, 152a Walton St, SW3.
are singularly free of windy gestures 589-0726. William Tucker. Drawings.
of gratuitous mark making. It's first 3-27 April.
Hoya Gallery, 228 Fulham Rd, SW10.
cousin to a steel welding procedure, 352-3281. Carole Ashley. First one-man show.
with a sequence of shapes laid out 14 March-13 April. John Plumb. Recent
paintings:A drawings. 19 April-18 May.
flat, changed around and finally
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), 12
joined together. The outside limits of Carlton House Terrace. 839-5344. 'Basically
each piece are often the last things to White'. Exhibition sets out to explore reasons
why so many artists have chosen to work
be found, and the grounds often seem solely in white. 50 works by over 20 artists.
fitted around the configurations. In 15 March-28 April.
Jack Wendler, 164 North Gower St, NW1.
the weakest works here it remains 387-7163. Gerard Hemsworth. April.
Lefevre Gallery, 30 Bruton St, Wi.
493-1572. L S. Lowry. Drawings. 14 March-
6 April. Contemporary British Painters Et
Sculptors, including works by M. Andrews,
F. Bacon, P. Blake, E. Burra, P. Caulfield,
A. Caro, L. Freud, R. Hamilton, D. Hodgkin,
A. Jones, R. B. Kitaj. 18 April-18 May.
Lisson Gallery, 68 Bell St, NW1.
262-1539. Sol LeWitt. 'The Location of Lines'.
Exhibition in conjunction with publication of
book which includes all drawings in show.
April.
Lucy Milton, 125 Notting Hill Gate, W11.
Sam Francis My Fairy Furry Green Angel 1973 its, his, or our good.Most of the 229-3311. Michael Kidner. Recent works.
Oil on canvas. 27½ x 31½ in. things here look like skittish re- 3-30 April.
workings of a theme that seems to Maltzahn Gallery, 3 Cork St, W1 . 437-6851.
however, it has an outstanding Norman Stevens. Retrospective. 20 prints &
have become somewhat academic. several paintings. 8-30 April.
determination and consistency.
Judy Marie Marlborough Fine Art (London),
I had also been looking forward 6 Albemarle St. & 39 Old Bond St, W1.
629-5161. Also travelling exhibition of
to Sam Francis' latest show at contemporary Spanish art organized by
Stephanie Bergman Scrap Merchant 1973/4 Gimpels. In my opinion, Francis at his Juan March Foundation, Madrid. To 6 April.
Oil on canvas, 64x 68 in. Frank Auerbach. 18 April-15 May.
best keeps easy company with his
Marjorie Parr Gallery, 285 King's Rd, SW3.
a problem, with the picture plane as more touted compatriots, and the 352-0768. Jeff Hoare. To 27 April.
a mere repository for the main action. opportunities to see his painting in Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd,
SE1 . 928-8501. Ambrose McEvoy. To 13 April.
It's something other pieces avoid quantity in England are comparatively Selected Gallery Natalie Stern, 63 Regent's Park Rd.
either by crinkled texturing of the rare. Guide Miniature Print Portfolio. 1 April-2 May.
New Art Centre, 41 Sloane St, SW1.
dyed ground that inflects it sufficiently Francis is seen here staying with 235-5844. Gallery artists. To 27 April.
to keep it taut, or again by having the the white grounds that have occupied (Galleries who wish to be included Ger van Elk. April.
Nigel Greenwood, 41 Sloane Gdns, SW1.
shapes actually touch the edges at for him for the last seven or eight in the May gallery guide should
730-8824. Ger van Elk. April.
some point. years. The work is of course lively, send information to Thelma Watt, Oval House Gallery, 52-54 Kennington
Blandness is what mars an otherwise the handling of the paint masterly, and Studio International, 14 West Central Oval, SE11. Prints by post graduate students
and staff of the printmaking department,
excellent show, with the colour, the value contrasts provided by the St, London WC1, not later than Brighton Polytechnic. 2-20 April.
poised between American dead-pan highly-saturated sometimes inky 15 April. Photographers' Gallery, 8 Gt. Newport St,
WC2.837-7860. Frantisek Drtikol, Czech
and European lyricism strangely hues give a certain strength. But, by
LONDON photographer 3-28 April.
de-activated by the sewing technique. the high standards that Francis has Achim Moeller Ltd., 8 Grosvenor St, W1. Prudhoe Gallery, 79 Duke St, W1.
The fact that they are stitched and not created for himself in the past, one 493-7611. European and American 19th & 629-6272. Paolo Serra. Paintings. To 3 May.
20th century paintings, drawings & graphics. Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork St, W1. 734-1732.
brushed together defuses hue has to say that these paintings fall Artists include Rothko, Brancusi, Schwitters, Jack Smith. To 26 April.
relationships that would otherwise short. The reproductions I have seen Davie, Ernst. Continues through April. Rowan Gallery, 31a Bruton Place, W1.
Acoris, the Surrealist Art Centre, 493-3727. Michael Craig-Martin. April.
be busily inter-reacting. Instead of recently of similar work seemed to 31 Brook St, W1.493-3480. Surrealist masters. Royal Academy Piccadilly, W1 . 734-9052.
flashpoint edge to edge meetings of, lack something, but my assumption 18 April-29 June. 'Impressionism-its Masters, Precursors and
Alexander Postan Fine Art, 3b Grosvenor its influence in Britain'. Diploma Galleries.
say, a pink and a green, or blue and that confronting the works live would
St, W1 . 736-0466. European constructivism. To 28 April.
yellow, colours act the way they dispel that lack was disappointed. Alwin Gallery, 8/10 Grafton St, W1. Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gdns, W2.
499-0314. David Partridge. New nail reliefs. 402-6075. Billy Apple. Portraits, objects &-
literally are; flush with the picture Perhaps Francis is going through one
3-26 April. documentation of performed works.
plane. The weakest pieces just stop of those awkward phases that even Angela Flowers, 3 Er 4 Portland Mews, 6-28 April.
there; in the good ones, as there's artists of his stature must necessarily D'Arblay St, W1 . 734-0240. Peter Simpson. Tate Gallery, Millbank, SW1.828-1212.
'Close-ups, from lounge, field and forest'. Yves Klein & Piero Manzoni (for more
no optical jostling happening, the eye live through from time to time.
26 March-26 April. details, refer Tate information sheet, Studio
instead makes relative relationships Whether they are laid out in bands Annely Juda, 11 Tottenham Mews, W1. International). To 5 May.
580-7593. Don Kunkel. Paintings and Upper Street Gallery, N1. 226-9811.
right across the painting, weighing criss-crossing the surface, or more
Drawings to 20 April. Inra Sobien. Paintings. Barbara Marks.
up a mid-blue in a top right corner loosely, like exploding flora, the Anthony d'Offay, 9 Dering St, W1. Drawings. Fred Gray. Drawings. Peter O'Hare.
with a violet blue in the opposite end underlying weakness remains. I don't 629-1578. Spencer Gore (1878-1914). Paintings. 2-26 April.
To 3 May. Waddington 2, 34 Cork St, W1 . 439-1866.
of the canvas, giving a subtle flexing think a formal analysis of what is Bards Gallery. Traditional Persian paintings Bernard Cohen. 23 April-18 May.
over the whole surface. As with wrong here is relevant. (Why, for on glass. April. Whitechapel, High St, El. 247-1492.
and Bedford House Gallery,106 Kensington Euan Uglow. Retrospective. 16 April-12 May.
coloured sculpture, just what colour example, those white grounds are so Church St, W1 229-8156. Carlos Alonso. Woodstock Gallery, Woodstock St, W1.
is contained in what kind of shape uneasy ; neither expecially passive or Paintings & Drawings. April 20. 629-4419. Errol Le Cain. Maeve Gilmore.
Colnaghi, 14 Old Bond St, W1 . 493-1943. E. A. J. Duffy. 1-20 April.
seems at times arbitrary, particularly active.) It seems to me that the nub
'Mannerism & the North European Tradition':
as relative colour relationships are of the problem lies in the degree of Prints from c1 520-c1 630. Also Robert Bevan:
doing less spatially than the actual direct involvement that Francis allows Complete graphic work. To 11 April. GALLERIES OUTSIDE LONDON
Peter Brook. 23 April-10 May BATH
drawing, which at times suggests a himself. In the past, the best of his DM Gallery, 72 Fulham Rd, SW3. Festival Gallery, Linley House, 1 Pierrepont
kind of perspective space with works have generated most power 589-8208. David Hockney. New Prints. Place. 0225-22531. Robert Natkin.
4-27 April. New paintings. To 14 April.
overlappings, underpassings, etc. when Francis occupied a creative Drian, 5/7 Porchester Place, W2. 723-9473. BIRMINGHAM
Overall, the show looks like a tough position centre stage. The present Gallery artists. 9-29 April. Compendium Galleries, 2a Salisbury Rd,
and intelligent coming to terms with work, by comparison, gives a feeling Electrum, 21 S. Molton St, W1. 629-6325. Moseley. 021-449 6284. Paul Mount.
Sculpture. Ken Symonds. Paintings.
'Revolt in Jewellery' by 5 Dutch artists.
two traditions. It's not hard to guess of greater ego detatchment, and 3 April-11 May. 1-20 April.