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FREE 17 | HOT&COOL ART SETTING THE PACE ROBERT FRASER BRIAN CLARKE 2014 BRIAN CLARKE ADVENTURES IN ART DAFYDD JONES KLAUS STAUDT LIGHT AND TRANSCENDENCE ams Trust Albert Ad © , Acrylic on canvas, 127 x 114cm , Acrylic on canvas, The Captive image: Klaus Staudt (b. 1932 Otterndorf am Main, Germany) 1/723 SG 86, Diagonal, 1992, Acrylic, wood and plexiglas, 76.5 x 76.5 x 7.5 cm, 30 1/8 x 30 1/8 x 3 inches ALBERT ADAMS (1930 – 2006) PAINTINGS AND ETCHINGS THE MAYOR GALLERY %46-0ď 21 CORK STREET, FIRST FLOOR, LONDON W1S 3LZ 30 May – 10 July 2015 UNIVERSITY GALLERY Northumbria University Sandyford Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST TEL: +44 (0) 20 7734 3558 FAX: +44 (0) 20 7494 1377 T: 0191 227 4424 E: [email protected] www.universitygallery.co.uk [email protected] www.mayorgallery.com 29 MAY 2015 CHARLIE SMITH london Anti-Social Realism Curated by Juan Bolivar & John Stark 3 April – 9 May 2015 Dominic Shepherd 15 May – 20 June 2015 Emma Bennett 26 June – 25 July 2015 336 Old Street, London EC1V 9DR, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 7739 4055 | [email protected] www.charliesmithlondon.com | @CHARLIESMITHldn Wednesday–Saturday 11am–6pm or by appointment Emma Bennett, ‘Tender Visiting’, 2014 Oil on canvas 50x40cm Visiting’, Emma Bennett, ‘Tender DIARY NOTES COVER IMAGE DAFYDD JONES Brian Clarke, 2015 Photographed at Pace Gallery Burlington Gardens London FOOLS RUSH IN Brian Clarke added curating to his many talents when he agreed The FRANCIS BACON MB Art Foundation, established by Majid Boustany and based in to produce a tribute to his former agent, gallerist and friend, Robert Fraser. At the invitation of Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, Clarke Monaco, is a private non-profit institute dedicating its scholarly activities and research to teamed up with Harriet Vyner (one time Fraser biographer) to cre- Joking Aside the Lascaux Caves, near the village of French government have just spent the most uncompromising and enigmatic British figurative artist of the post-war era. ate a highly acclaimed survey of Fraser’s two gallery career – first- Montignac in south-western France. 56 million euros and several years creating ly in the ‘60s and latterly the ‘80s. Clarke’s aim was to conjure the IT IS (or, maybe, was) Here, we are told, art lovers wander a near-exact replica of the Chauvet Cave ‘essence’ of Fraser’s energy and originality – and to restore the every art student’s dream in awe through the two most famous (discovered 1994, in Vallon Pont d'Arc) – The Foundation’s mission is to promote a deeper understanding of the work and life of late dealer’s reputation as one of London’s brightest art stars. to borrow the work of illustrated chambers – The Hall of Bulls about 1.2 miles away from the real some famous artist to and The Axial Gallery. As well they thing, which includes more than 400 Francis Bacon worldwide. This institute will: support original research, sponsor emerging exhibit in the place of might. For these were painted in 1983 paintings of horses, bears, rhinoceros their own degree show – by local artist Monique Peytral, tasked and mammoths, hand prints and artists, organize exhibitions and seminars on Francis Bacon with local and international and be failed by the with copying the prehistoric artwork on carvings made c.30,000 years ago. assessors. Thus proving that an older to the walls of a concrete replica cavern. The government closed Chauvet to the institutions, and fund projects related to the artist. generation of art teachers couldn’t tell It took her 11 years to reproduce the public immediately – for reasons of their Arp from their Ensor. Today, an 17,300-year-old wall paintings that reside ‘preservation’. This replica opens in May. HOT & COOL ART overfamiliarity with almost everything – in a cave 200 metres away. The French The Estate of Francis Bacon welcomes the Foundation and will collaborate with it on thanks to the internet – makes this rather government decided back in 1963 EDITOR Lyle Owerko Kingsley Amis era joke pretty much a that visitors and strong lighting were Fine Art of Food research and educational activities. The art historian Martin Harrison, editor of the Francis contaminating the precious originals, Mike von Joel NEW YORK non-starter. Probably on a par with discovered on 12 September 1940 by IT IS ALWAYS interesting when a man Bacon Catalogue Raisonné, is on the board of this institute. [email protected] Anne Chabrol having an empty room and an instruction to switch a light on and off. 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat and three or woman of ideas makes serious money PARIS PUBLISHER friends, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and is able to forge ahead unbridled. Karl Skogland David Tidball The mighty IKEA corporation tried out and Simon Coencas. It is the ersatz Even Larry Gagosian’s detractors cannot The Foundation is open to scholars and art historians throughout the year and to the [email protected] BERLIN their own version of another well-worn Lascaux II that now thrills visitors to fault the cool architectural beauty of his general public, by appointment only. art joke recently. At MoMA, Arnhem, the site. majestic art emporia, the museum quality Jeremy Levison Elizabeth Crompton exhibitions he stages with free access to [email protected] MELBOURNE Netherlands (the Dutch do like this sort of thing) they installed one of their $10 Actually, the most interesting thing about the interested and his acumen as a dealer. FRANCIS BACON MB Art Foundation DEPUTY EDITOR decorative paintings and had a ‘curator’ the Lascaux drawings was proposed by I mean, what is not to like? Years of Anna McNay discuss it with visitors. Naturally, the archaeologist Marc Azéma of the parting otherwise savvy business moguls 21, Boulevard d’Italie [email protected] ‘famous Swedish artist, Ike Andrews’, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. He from their $millions for works by living MC 98000 Monaco was much praised for his work and claims prehistoric man had a rudimentary artists has obviously given him a real SPECIAL PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION guesstimates of value ran into thousands understanding of the principle of insight into the psyche of the too-rich Tel: +377 93303033 Francis Foni Julie Milne of euros. Red faces all round then, but persistence of vision. Azéma has identified and their social insecurities. Now he has [email protected] www.mbartfoundation.com / Email : [email protected] [email protected] it is not that difficult to trick casual 53 paintings in 12 French caves, which repeated this enviable trick with a new AD EXECUTIVE PUBLISHED BY visitors to a provincial gallery on a superimpose two or more images to Upper East Side restaurant, Kappo Masa, Julie Milne State Media Ltd. weekday afternoon. apparently represent movement. Lascaux the 82-seat, windowless restaurant opened LONDON has the greatest number of these. When six months ago in Gagosian’s Madison CORRESPONDENTS [email protected] How much more fun this would have these paintings are viewed by flickering Avenue gallery basement.(1) Larry’s Clare Henry been at MoMA, New York. The IKEA firelight (as opposed to a steady candle partner is locally famous Japanese chef, Ian McKay flame) the animated effect 'achieves Masayoshi ‘Masa’ Takayama, and it is PRINTED BY team probably baulked at the risk of mass William Varley Garnett Dickinson litigation for ‘humiliation’ and ‘distress’ its full impact', he noted. This theory already the hottest of hot tickets. Despite Holly Howe Rotherham S63 5DL from those art lovers who stride around is backed up by the discovery of flying in fresh ingredients like clams and the museum giving everyone in earshot ancient engraved bone discs used as octopus daily from as far away as Japan their opinion on art and artists – but are thaumatropes, supposedly invented in and his NYC flagship, Masa, boasting 1825 by astronomer John Herschel. one Michelin star, this deluxe sushi den STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected most unlikely to have a Dutch sense of humour. However, it would have been A popular Victorian toy, thaumatropes has been universally panned by food galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and amusing to see IKEA corral a big fish (literally meaning 'miracle wheels') were critics. The main gripe is that it is so eye other art venues across the UK. collector and hear their view on ‘Ike discs or cards with a picture on each side wateringly expensive (one roll of Masa Andrews’. But of course I forgot. It has attached to a piece of string that, when Toro with caviar, $240; maki rolls, $240; Totally free, STATE is about new already been done in New York – at a rotated, tricked the eye into seeing beef tataki, $150) that The New York manoeuvres in painting and the place called Knoedler Galleries, where movement. One rare Stone Age bone Times decided: ‘the cost of eating at visual arts – combined with f22, they snagged the crème de la crème of disc, found in 1868 in the Dordogne, Kappo Masa is so brutally, illogically, a supplement on developments in hotshot collectors and sold them a few features a standing doe, while on relentlessly high, and so out of proportion the reverse the animal is lying down. to any pleasure you may get.’ One the fusion of art & photography. $10 paintings for a total of $80 million. And it was true – they did not have a Spun, the animal appears to get up socialite supporter retorted smugly: ‘It’s sense of humour about it. 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