CURRENT: Gary Hume – The Indifferent Owl

January 25, 2012 by Kay

18 January – 25 February 2012

White Cube, Hoxton Square | Mason’s Yard

Gary Hume – Migration
2011
Ø 46 7/8 in. (Ø 119 cm)
Gloss paint on aluminium

White Cube is pleased to announce ‘The Indifferent Owl’, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume. Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms to create paintings that engage the viewer with their pleasantly irresolvable quality. The exhibition, his first in London for over four years, brings together a large and varied body of new work that will occupy both the Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard galleries.

A painting by Gary Hume is a dynamically ambiguous visual experience. Although each work usually features a recognisable motif – such as a bird or flower – they are often flattened and fractured, and positioned awkwardly in a pictorial space that is brought to life through broad passages of colour that could be repellently acrid or seductively luscious. Negative and positive spaces fluctuate within a painting, stretching figuration to the point that lines, forms and colours start to lose their denotative function. ‘Neither literal nor illusionistic,’ writes Jennifer Higgie in her catalogue essay, Hume’s paintings ‘draw you into the depths of something you might have initially assumed was all surface.’

For more information on the exhibition, visit the White Cube website.

Mason’s Yard: Lower ground floor

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PHOTOS: Other Criteria at London Art Fair

January 24, 2012 by Kay

For those of you who missed us, please see photos below of our stand at the London Art Fair 2012 over the weekend.

Left to right: Godless – Damien Hirst; Adonis Blue Butterfly – Damien Hirst; 18 With a Bullet (1) – Eduardo Sarabia; Ashley Bickerton signed limited edition monograph including a signed print

Spot Prints – Damien Hirst

Left: Inspirational – Damien Hirst

Left to right: LOVE IS A BIRD LOVE IS A BURDEN – Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay; Ghost prints – Boo Saville; For the Love of God prints – Damien Hirst (coming soon online: enquire by emailing info@othercriteria.com)

Left to right: Thirteen etchings – Philip Allen; New Orleans – Gary Webb; All You Need is Love diamond dust – Damien Hirst (coming soon online: enquire by emailing info@othercriteria.com); LOVE IS A BIRD LOVE IS A BURDEN – Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay

Left to right: New Orleans – Gary Webb; Thirteen etchings – Philip Allen

To enquire about any of the work you see above, please email us on info@othercriteria.com.

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Currently: ‘Bright Young Things’ at Selfridges, London

January 18, 2012 by Georgia

Launched this month following the success of last year’s campaign, is ‘Bright Young Things’, a project initiated by Selfridges to seek out and champion the most exciting young designers in the UK. The scheme features a total of fifteen UK-based emerging talents from the worlds of fashion, art, design and food.

From 6 January 2012 until the end of February, each of the Bright Young Things will take over an Oxford Street or Duke Street window. Their brief was to communicate the essence of their work and this has resulted in some wondrous creations, evidenced in the photographs below.

Designs by the Bright Young Things will be available in three pop up shops at Selfridges as well as online.

Adam Andrascik - S/S '12 collection. photo: stylebubble.co.uk

Oliver Ruuger - Accessories. photo: stylebubble.co.uk

Maarten van der Horst - S/S '12 collection. photo: stylebubble.co.uk

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TODAY: Gagosian Gallery launches worldwide exhibition of 25 years of spot paintings by Damien Hirst

January 12, 2012 by Kay

I was always a colourist, I’ve always had a phenomenal love of colour… I mean, I just move colour around on its own. So that’s where the spot paintings came from—to create that structure to do those colours, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of colour.

—Damien Hirst

DAMIEN HIRST
Morphine Sulphate , 1993
Household gloss on canvas
57 x 87 inches  (144.8 x 221 cm)

The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 – Damien Hirst

The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011” makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.

Included in the exhibition are more than 300 paintings, from the first spot on board that Hirst created in 1986; to the smallest spot painting comprising half a spot and measuring 1 x 1/2 inch (1996); to a monumental work comprising only four spots, each 60 inches in diameter; and up to the most recent spot painting completed in 2011 containing 25,781 spots that are each 1 millimeter in diameter, with no single color ever repeated.

In conjunction with the exhibition will be the publication of The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011, a fully illustrated, comprehensive and definitive catalogue of all spot paintings made by Hirst from 1986 to the present. Published by Gagosian Gallery and Other Criteria, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 includes essays by Museum of Modern Art curator Ann Temkin, cultural critic Michael Bracewell, and art historian Robert Pincus-Witten as well as a conversation between Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari.

The third issue of the Gagosian App for iPad will also launch January, providing an interactive, in-depth look at the series that features more than ninety spot paintings.

“Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011” precedes the first major museum retrospective of Hirst’s work opening at Tate Modern in London in April, 2012.


DAMIEN HIRST
Levorphanol , 1995
Household gloss on canvas
27 x 27 inches  (68.6 x 68.6 cm)

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PHOTOS: Damien Hirst Spot Print launch

January 11, 2012 by Kay

Thanks to all who attended the Damien Hirst Spot Print launch last night at our New Bond Street store. For those of you who missed out, sign up to our mailing list to ensure you don’t miss our future events.

The prints will be exhibited until 14th February 2012 at:

Other Criteria
36 New Bond Street
London W1S 2RP
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm

To see all the new Damien Hirst spot prints online, click here.

Other Criteria, 36 New Bond Street

Left to right: Lanatoside B – Damien Hirst and Vespula Vidua – Damien Hirst

Left to right: Norcamphor – Damien Hirst and S-Lactoylglutathione – Damien Hirst and N-Methyl L-Aspartic Acid – Damien Hirst.

Far left: Benzyloxyurea – Damien Hirst

Far right: Quene 1-AM – Damien Hirst

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GO SEE: Christopher Baker’s HELLO WORLD!

January 9, 2012 by Georgia

Until 28 February 2012
73 Duke of York’s Square, King’s Road, London, SW3 4LY

From the press release:

The Saatchi Gallery’s first ever screening room for film and video opened on the 3rd of January in a space on Duke of York’s Square, a stone’s throw from the Gallery in Chelsea. Saatchi Screen, in partnership with The Cadogan Estate and Hugo Boss, launches with the UK debut of Christopher Baker’s video installation, Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise. Hello World! is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of video diaries gathered from the internet. Each of the 5,000 videos that make up Hello World! features a single individual speaking candidly to an imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room. The multi-channel sound composition glides between individuals and the group, allowing viewers to listen in on individual speakers or become immersed in the overall cacophony. The project is a meditation on the contemporary plight of democratic, participative media and the fundamental human desire to be heard.
The artist Christopher Baker, who originally trained as a scientist, is inspired by the interconnectivities – visible and invisible – present in the 21st-century urban landscape and is interested in the  practical implications of our increasingly networked lifestyles: ‘Primary to this task is  an exploration of the ways we imagine and represent ourselves before (potentially  massive) audiences and the ways we navigate and abide in public space. With these  interests at heart, large-scale video projections allow me to create works that fuse  existing physical spaces with more ephemeral digital elements, resulting in revelatory and sometimes disorienting forms.’

Hello World! is open to the public every day from 10am -6pm.

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ART FAIR: Other Criteria at London Art Fair – Stand 3

January 6, 2012 by Kay

London Art Fair presents over 100 galleries featuring the great names of 20th century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent.

Come visit Other Criteria at Stand 3 between 18th January – 22nd January at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington, N1. For more information on the art air, click here.

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