Brian Clarke ‘Summer Solstice Screens’ HENI Gallery 6-10 Lexington Street, London 22nd June – 30th July 2017

Chiang Mai, 2017, As displayed in the Brian Clarke Studio with wooden frame, 204 x 252 x 405cms All images © Brian Clarke Studio

LONDON – HENI Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition by acclaimed British artist Brian Clarke.

‘A NEW BEAUTY' ‘Summer Solstice Screens’ is provoked by the artist’s travels around the world. Clarke has created each screen to reveal a resonating characteristic of a different place, each is a uniquely contemporary expression of 'genius loci' taking the subject matter and medium to an entirely new experience.

Using the stained glass techniques Clarke has honed over the past 40 years, the artist reveals a world of energetic vivacity. Each composition traverses the twelve individual panels that form every screen and reveal the kinetic nature of the medium. Movement seen through the transparent membrane, movement of transilluminated colour and light reflected from the animate character of the material itself all contribute to a beguiling and vivid poetic experience.

The exhibition is due to open with a Private View on the Summer Solstice, June 21st, to maximise of the amount of daylight hours, and will open to the public on June 22nd until 30th July 2017.

“After nearly four decades of intense production in , sculpture, and stained glass, Clarke is not an easy artist to absorb, let alone to classify. If there were an artist capable of synthesizing space, time, and light, ranging from his intimate “drawings in the air” on black sugar paper to his rigorous in-depth architectonic achievements, he could be none other than Brian Clarke.” Robert C. Morgan, Between Extremities catalogue, Pace Gallery NY, 2013.

Detail from Malibu, 2017 Stained glass All images © Brian Clarke Studio

About the Artist Brian Clarke (b. 1953, , , England) is best known for radically updating and innovating the medium of stained glass, while also maintaining active practices in painting, sculpture, and tapestry. Since the early 1970s, he has collaborated with some of the world’s most prominent architects to create stained-glass designs and installations for hundreds of projects, including the Pyramid of Peace and Accord, Kazakhstan; the Al Faisaliyah Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Foster + Partners); the Pfizer World Headquarters, New York; the Papal Chapel of the Apostolic Nunciature, London, U.K.; the Darmstadt Synagogue, Germany; Linköping Cathedral, Linköping, Sweden; Lake Sagami Country Club, Japan (Arata Iszaki), KKIA Airport Mosque Riyadh (HOK); NorteShopping, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and the Research Centre, Saudi Arabia ().

Clarke also designed stage sets for two of Paul McCartney’s world tours and for the Dutch National Ballet, and collaborated with Director Hugh Hudson for the stage sets for the Arthur Miller, Robert Ward Opera of The Crucible at the Staatstheatre, Braunschweig, Germany.

Clarke’s stained-glass works and have been the subject of exhibitions at international museums including the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Munich Stadtmuseum, Germany; the Centre International de Vitrail, Chartres, ; and the Vitro Musée, Romont, Switzerland. His work is represented in international public and private collections worldwide, including the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, where his 1,000- square-foot installation The Glass Wall (1998) is on view. Clarke has also had one man shows at the Robert Fraser, London; The Mayor Gallery, London; Pace Gallery, London & New York; The , London; The Gagosian Gallery, London; The Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

Clarke lives and works in London.

About HENI Established in 2009, HENI is an independent art publisher and gallery based in Soho, London, working with artists on projects ranging from major trade publications to artist books and limited editions. Previous collaborations include: BrianClarke: Night Orchids, : NW1, Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser by Harriet Vyner, Iggy Pop Life Class by Jeremy Deller and Gerhard Richter: November.

For images and more information exhibition please contact Mark Best, [email protected]. 0776 495 0818