On 10 October, the auctioneers PIASA are offering the collection of François Dautresme (1925-2002), the founder of CFOC (Compagnie Française de l’Orient et de la Chine/French Company of the Orient & China) in 1966. The 7,500 everyday items and objects… Continue reading
Koo Jeong A is the Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK)’s ‘artist of the year’ 2016. For her first exhibition with the KCCUK, she asked a number of international artists to respond to 20 of her line drawings. These responses vary… Continue reading
This month another contemporary gallery joins the Mayfair throng, proving that London’s art scene shows no sign of slowing down. French dealer and gallerist Olivier Malingue is the latest arrival and presents work by the Korean artist Cho Yong-Ik (b.1934)… Continue reading
This weekend START returns to the Saatchi gallery for its third instalment. Both new and established commercial galleries come together on the Kings Road to showcase a diversity of contemporary art from around the world across three floors. The annual… Continue reading
Korean artists, both established and contemporary were omnipresent at Art Basel this year, echoing the success their work has achieved recently at auction and their increased inclusion in major global collections over the last few years. The show-stopping ‘Untitled’ section… Continue reading
Nyoman Masriadi A thought-provoking presentation of the Balinese artist’s new paintings which explore universal human flaws. Displayed alongside works from the artist’s recent back catalogue, these large canvases confuse traditional notions of the figurative with native iconography. The exhibition adeptly… Continue reading
‘Yoko Ono: Lumiere de l’Aube’ at the Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Lyon “Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, ‘intellectual’, professional & commercialized culture.” So reads the first line of George Maciunas’ Fluxus manifesto of 1963. This vitriolic scrawl came as a response to many… Continue reading
For Yellow – the first solo exhibition of work by Wang Guangle in Europe, Pace has brought together a selection of the Beijing-based painter’s more recent works. Spending months at a time on individual pieces, Wang imbues his canvases with… Continue reading
A new gallery dedicated to the art of the Middle East and Iran has opened this month in London’s Mayfair. Sophia Contemporary Gallery kick-starts its exhibition programme with a series of paintings by the Iranian artist Reza Derakshani. The exhibition… Continue reading
This month White Cube presents the first solo exhibition of the Korean Modernist artist Park Seo-Bo in the UK. Lauded as the father of the ‘Korean Monochrome Movement’ (Dansaekhwa), Park is part of a generation of Korean artists severely affected… Continue reading