Opening tomorrow:

Anthea Hamilton

Hayward Gallery Commission

A major new 24-hour long film installation commissioned for the Hayward Gallery Terrace and conceived in response to the surrounding architecture and locality.

Exhibition dates: 12 March - 24 April 2022

Open 24 hours

Hayward Gallery Terrace

Southbank Centre

Belvedere Road

London SE1 8XX

Thomas Dane Gallery is hiring.

We are looking for a Gallery Technician to join the team in London.

The closing date for applications is 27 March 2022.

For the full job description and information on how to apply please click here.

Congratulations to Michael Landy CBE, who this week received his Award for Services to Art. 

Michael Landy was born in London, UK in 1963, where he lives and works. He attended Goldsmith’s College, London, in 1988. Landy’s multi-disciplinary practice examines consumerism, commodification, value, ownership and labour in a body of work spanning meticulous drawings, installation, and large-scale public commissions. 

Selected public collections include: Tate Collection, London; the Arts Council England; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, New York NY; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Royal Academy, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN. Landy was elected as a Royal Academician in May 2008.

Anthea Hamilton

‘Mash Up’ 

Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

Leuvenstraat 32

2000 Antwerp

Private view: 17 February 5-11pm

Exhibition dates: 18 February - 15 May 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery congratulates Magdalene A.N. Odundo and Amy Sillman on their invitations to the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Cecilia Alemani.

Magdalene A. N. Odundo (b.1950) received her initial training as a graphic artist in her native Kenya. In 1971 she moved to the United Kingdom and enrolled on the foundation course at the Cambridge School of Art. In 1976 Odundo graduated in Ceramics, Photography and Printmaking from the University for the Creative Arts. Odundo completed her Post Graduate studies at the Royal College of Art in 1982. In 2019 Odundo was appointed Chancellor of the University for Creative Arts (UCA) and was made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2020.

Odundo's work is in the collections of many national and international museums including The British Museum, London; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum Voor Hedendaagst Kunst, Hertogenbosh, Netherlands and the Frankfurt Museum for Applied Arts, Frankfurt, Germany.

Amy Sillman (b.1955) is an artist based in New York since 1975. After studying Japanese language at New York University, she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting in 1979 at School of Visual Arts in New York City, and then a Master of Fine Art in painting at Bard College in 1995. While still an undergraduate in the 1970s, a teacher told Sillman that she had to “decide between” figuration and abstraction—ever since then, her work has been based on proving that binary (and others) wrong. Instead, she welcomes contradiction and dialectics into gestural painting procedures, working both fast, improvisationally, and slow, with a nearly-archaeological process of accumulation and redaction of innumerable layers. Over the past ten years, Sillman has added writing, curating, zine-making, animation, and site-specific installations to her practice. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including MoMA, the Whitney, MoCA LA, Tate Modern, the Brandhorst Museum/Munich, and the Moderna Museet/Stockholm. A mid-career travelling survey show "one lump or two," curated by Helen Molesworth, originated at the ICA Boston in 2013 and was accompanied by a monographic catalogue published by Prestel Books.

Besides her work as a painter, Sillman often writes on art, and her bibliography includes Faux Pas, a book of collected texts and drawings published in 2020 by After Eight Books in Paris. Her own work has been written about regularly in journals such as Artforum, Art News, Texte zur Kunst, and Frieze, and other publications.

Cecily Brown, The Triumph of Death

at Capodimonte

Exhibition dates: 10 February - 1 May 2022 

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte

Via Miano 2
Naples

Akram Zaatari’s ‘Dance to the End of Love’ is now showing at Tate Modern. A dance piece based on YouTube clips from countries across West Asia and North Africa, including Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman, Zaatari chose material from 2005–10 of mostly young men performing activities that range from singing, dancing and playing music. They recreate scenes from sci-fi films or do stunts: special effects fireballs are hurled across the screen and jeeps are driven out into the desert in precarious positions.
 
The clips show how attitudes around masculine identities quickly spread and adapt to different settings and contexts. Cyberspace creates an audience and turns their performances into popular trends to repeat or re-enact. Zaatari completed this work at the beginning of a period of anti-government protests and uprisings, referred to as the ‘Arab Spring’ by western commentators. YouTube and other self-broadcast platforms played an important role in the political climate at that time.
 
Tate Modern, Blavatnik Building Level 3. On view as part of Tate Modern's Collection Route
  

Amie Siegel will discuss Asterisms (2021), her recently premiered 34th São Paulo Biennial video installation with The World Around Summit's director Beatrice Galilee.

Asterisms explores geological and social displacement on a planetary scale through focusing on the United Arab Emirates. Gold factories, oil recovery, migrant labour, desertification, artificial islands and Arabian horses trained for show are among the connected elements that unfold in different, often overlapping, cinematic geometries projected onto a star-like shape that floats between a wall and a sculpture.

The World Around Summit is an annual, global symposium on architecture and design.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, USA

5 February 2022, 12-6pm EST

Catherine Opie and writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit will be in conversation tonight, Monday 31 January.

The free virtual event is part of Stanford University’s series, ‘Artists on the Future’, which pairs renowned artists with cultural thought leaders to talk about issues vital to society.

Monday, 31 January, 5pm PT

Registration is required. 

Glenn Ligon
‘An Open Letter’

Exhibition dates: 4 February - 2 April 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery
11 Duke Street, St. James's
London, SW1