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This exhibition is bringing to the Law apart from the more recent Selected Gallery work by Jorn, Pedersen & Dubuffet.
North many fine works by many fine adventures of contemporary art. 'Summer Accrochage': contemporary
British artists to 27 September.
Guide
artists, literally from all over the world. His work has a monumental quality Upper Street Gallery Upper Street Ni
It gives marvellous insights into which, though rarely found in British (01-226 9811). David Turner: new paintings;
Frances Alcock : new painting ; Isabel
differing attitudes, cultures and art, markedly relates to those large (Galleries who wish to be included in Wilson : sculpture 10-27 September.
techniques. It is impossible to talk American paintings of the 1950s - the October gallery guide should The Whitechapel Art Gallery Whitechapel
send information to Gallery Guide, High Street El. Karl Weschke : women,
about every print that caught my Rothko, Newman et al. They landscape & allegory; Floris Van Den
Studio International, 14 West
fancy, but the three reproduced here undoubtedly spring from the same Broecke : fantastic furniture ; Seiichi
Central St, London WC1A 1JH, not Niikuni : visual poems 3 September-13
are to me beautifully what prints are aesthetic but are executed on a more
later than 19 September.) October.
about. modest scale. This is no way reduces
GALLERIES OUTSIDE LONDON
So, the North must cease its their impact, on the contrary, one is LONDON ABERDEEN
indifference to the Print Biennale and more able to view them as total Angela Flowers, 3 & 4 Portland Mews Aberdeen Art Gallery Schoolhill (0224-
D'Arblay Street W1 (01-7340240). Brendan 23924). Compassionate Camera to 22
the visual arts in general, if any trend objects in themselves.
Neiland 17 September-12 October. September. Contemporary American prints
of northern collectors is to be This endeavour towards Annely Juda, 11 Tottenham Mews W1 7-21 September. Beady Minces- David
established, if some buyers are going completeness is reinforced by the (01-580 7593). 'Vordemberge-Gildewart Bailey: photographs 21 September-19
Remembered': commemorative exhibition. October. Contemporary Dutch art 28
to be attracted from the London simple format which Law adopts. Besides several of his paintings works by: September-19 October.
market, and if a situation where artists Each canvas is painted with numerous Arp, Lissitzky, Tauber-Arp & others to 14 College of Education Hilton Place
September. (0242-42341). Finlay, Paolozzi & Roschlau
might at least stand a chance is to washes of transparent colour, one Conway Hall Gallery, Red Lion Square to 15 September.
even begin to exist. Failure to do this over the other. An irregular band of WC1 (01-242 8032). Frances Broomfield, ANDOVER (HANTS)
Judith Clute, David Cuthbert, Giles Harvey to The Bladon Gallery Hurstbourne Tarrant
will ensure the continuation of that colour -the first to be applied -is left
18 September. (0261476 278). An exhibition of all prints so
perpetual drift of its artists of all exposed at the four edges of each Curwen Gallery 1 Colville Place Whitfield far published by Christies Contemporary Art
disciplines to greener fields. To make painting, a surround as it were to the Street W1 (01-636 1459). Barbara Newcomb to 15 September.
first weeks September. James Burr: relief BATH
the 5th International Print Biennale in area it encloses. The interaction prints 18 September for 3 weeks. Festival Gallery Linley House, 1 Pierrepont
1976 unarguably the best of its kind, between these two areas is as DM Gallery 72 Fulham Road SW3 (01 -589 Place (0225-22531). Mixed exhibition of
8208). Frank Stella 4-28 September. paintings & drawings: Tilson, Inshaw,
and the best supported, in the world complex as it is subtle, tonally as well Electrum 21 South Molton Street W1 Hodgkin & others to 14 September.
would be a sure way of truly as chromatically. Light absorption is (01 -629 6325). 'Jewellery & Objects' BIRMINGHAM
Herman Junger & Rudiger Lorenzen 18 Birmingham Arts Laboratory Tower
establishing one of the few the order of the day, so much so that
September-12 October. Street (021-359 4192). Ken Meharg & Bob
international events in Britain to one is unable to focus for any long Erica Bourne 14a Temple Fortune Parade Linney : screen prints to 22 September.
comprehensively by-pass London, period or with any degree of NW11 (01-458 7551). Michael Praed : Compendium Gallery 2a Salisbury Road
paintings ; Roger Veal : sculpture to 28 Mosely (021-449 6284). Michael Pritchard
and on the back of it might ride the consistency upon any part of the September. 2-20 September. Roger Hilton, David Mason
beginnings of something new in the surface of the canvas. Indeed one can Felicity Samuel Gallery 16 Saville Row 23 September-11 October.
W1 (01 -734 8557). Robert Graham 23 Midlands Art Centre for Young People
North. easily find oneself performing visual September-1 November. Cannon Hill Park (021-4404221). David
Norman Ackroyd gymnastics in attempting to determine Fischer Fine Art 30 King Street SW1 Hackney: Grimms' Fairy Tales to 22
any trace of a fluctuation in the colour (01-839 3942). Michael Leonard : paintings September.
& drawings 1967-1974; D. H. Smith : recent BOLTON
field. Physically they are devoid of any work 11 September-4 October. Bolton Museum & Art Gallery Le Mans
Bob Law, 'Ten Black Paintings', surface manipulation. One's eyes Gallery 273 Physics Building Queen Mary Crescent, Civic Centre (0204-22311). Bolton
College Mile End Road El (01-908 4811). Industrial Heritage to 4 October.
at the Museum of Modern Art, wander aimlessly in search of a point Ken Erssek and Eileen Hogan 25 September- BRADFORD
Oxford, June of reference upon which to build. But 1 November. Bradford City Art Gallery & Museum
Grabowski Gallery 84 Sloane Avenue SW3 Cartwright Hall, Lister Park (0274-48247).
Anyone who is the least used to using the drastic reduction of visual stimuli
(01-589 1868). Enamels on steels plates by 4th British International Print Biennale
his eyes would discover on looking at allays all attempts at the referential Bob Quick 17 September-18 October. September.
Hayward Gallery Belvedere Road SE1 BRISTOL
Bob Law's ten black paintings that approach. The paintings are
(01-928 3144). Hayward Biennial : survey Arnolfini Gallery W Shed Canons Road
they are not as black as the title essentially visual phenomena and are exhibition of current British painting 26 (0272-299191). Margaret Priest: drawings
inadvertently suggests. Initially of unlikely to be thought provoking in September-17 November. & paintings; Roger Mayne: photographs to
Ibis Gallery 1 Broxholme House New Kings 21 September.
course, they do seem to be so, or at any way whatsoever. One is left to Road SW6 (01-736 391 9). Wendy Hall to COVENTRY
least very dark, especially when hung gorge oneself on the sensual qualities 21 September. Joan Dobell 25 September-12 Herbert Art Gallery Jordan Well (0203-
October. 25555). "Bunk": Eduardo Paolozzi graphics
on a brilliant white wall. The notion of of colour alone which at one moment Kenwood: The Iveagh Bequest 31 August-22 September. Tim Threlfell :
blackness, if it is an idea at all, is seems exceedingly dense and at Hampstead Lane NW3. Anthony Caro: sculpture 7 September-6 October.
further increased by the illustrations another, quite insubstantial. As Law table-top sculptures 11 September-20 DUNDEE
October. The Museum & Art Gallery Albert
in the catalogue which accompanies remarks, "... if you are a receptive type Leicester Galleries 22a Cork Street W1 Square (0382-25492/25493).'10 years of
the show. They are of such poor of person, they may swallow you up (01-437 8995) Summer exhibition to 21 collecting' : a selection of the gallery's
September. acquisitions 1965-1974 to 12 October
quality - again, black rectangles on and take you inside'. Given the Lucy Milton 125 Notting Hill Gate NW11 FARNHAM (SURREY)
white - as to make one wonder why motivation, where can one go to from (01-229 3311). Terence Pope : constructions The Ashgate Gallery Downing Street
& drawings 11 September-8 October. (025-133208). 10 invited artists to 19
an attempt at reproduction was even there ? Marjorie Parr Gallery 285 Kings Road September. Henryk Gotlib 24 September-17
considered let alone made. The work Gerald Newman SW3 (01 -352 0768). David Evans: paintings October.
is obviously unphotographable. 6-28 September. GLASGOW
Marlborough Fine Art (London) 6 Collins Building Exhibition Hall
Blackness has deep connotations, not Albemarle Street & 39 Old Bond Street W1 Strathclyde University Richmond Street
least of doom, despair and the (01-629 5161). Masters of the 20th century (041-552 4400). Gavin Scobie : sculpture
September. 7-28 September.
insurpassable tomb. One is perhaps a Major Gallery 14 South Molton Street W1 LEEDS
little relieved on finding that both the (01 -493 8778). Eva Hesse end September. Park Square Gallery 57 Saint Paul's Street
New Art Centre 41 Sloane Street SW1 (0532-26421). Ian Gardner & David
title of the show and the printed media
(01-235 5844). Gerald Park to 20 July. Willetts : landscape paintings 10 September-
of the catalogue belies the work itself. Trevor Jones 10 September-5 October. 5 October.
Nicholas Treadwell Galleries 26 & 36 LIVERPOOL
In a conversation with Richard
Chiltern Street W1 (01-486 1414 & 01-935 Bluecoat Gallery School Lane (051-709
Cork, Law appropriately feels his way 6739). 'The Mona Lisa Show' : contemporary 1363). Alfred Wallis: paintings 3-28
through Jungian psychology, interpretations of the famous picture 2-28 September.
September. MANCHESTER
mysticism, western and oriental O'Hana Gallery 13 Carlos Place W1 North West Arts Association 52 King
philosophy and poetry. This no doubt (01 -499 5906). William Halle : paintings Street (061 -832 5288). Catherine Riley:
September. Embroidery figures; Maria Louisa Meakins:
indicates that he is a learner of no The Photographers' Gallery Ltd 8 Great sculpture; John Conniffe : 'Old Smithfield
small degree. His idea of Newport Street WC2 (01-8367860). George Mkt, (Manchester) : photographs to 14
palaeontological man, the hunter, Rodger & David Goldblatt to 14 September. September. Bernd & Hilla Becher:
"Concerned Photographer II" 18 September. photographs 16 September-5 October.
who drew the beast on the cave wall -2 November. Peterloo Gallery 8 Clarence Street Albert
so that it could be seen and meditated Piccadilly Gallery 16a Cork Street W1 Square (061 -834 7944). Euan Uglow: Arts
(01 -629 2875). Mixed Summer Show to 27 Council touring exhibition 3-28 September.
upon when it was not actually present September. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
in order to hold it in his head provides Prudhoe Gallery 79 Duke Street W1 Laing Art Gallery & Museum Higham
(01 -629 6272). John Copnall : recent Place (0362-27734 & 26989). George
an initial starting point to viewing
paintings 16 September-25 October. Cruikshank : Arts 27 July-8 September.
Law's own work. His paintings are Rowan Gallery 31a Bruton Place W1 Newcastle Festival 27 September-13
(01 -493 3727). Jeremy Moon : John October.
imprints as it were, marking his own
Edwards, Sean Scully, Mark Lancaster NOTTINGHAM
relationship to the real, external world. September. Gallery 359 359 Aspley Lane (0602-
Law recalls that he once called them Royal Academy Piccadilly W1 (01-734 294067). Peter Towse; Laurence Smith to 21
9052). C. F. Tunnicliffe Bird Drawings to 29 September. Ken Long; Mary Rogers 25
twentieth-century icons. September. September-19 October.
This affinity with the dark ages of Tooth's 31 Bruton Street W1 (01-499 6741) Midland Group 11 East Circus Street
'Paris- Londres' : annual exhibition of 19th & (0602-42984). 'Diary' : Ian Breakwell 6-28
human civilization has in no way set
20th century painting. This year including September.