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White Cube: 44 Duke Street, St. James's London by Liam Gillick, X

White Cube: 44 Duke Street, St. James's London by Liam Gillick, X
Arguably the most important contemporary commercial art gallery in England, possibly even in Europe, with an artist list that reads like a Who's Who of the art scene now, White Cube is celebrating its 10th birthday this year. Set up by Jay Jopling in 1993 as a project room, perhaps the smallest exhibition space in Europe, White Cube quickly became one of the most influential galleries of the past decade. Situated at 44 Duke Street, St. James's, on London's most traditional art-dealing street, surrounded by Christie's, Old Master galleries, and specialist art bookshops, the gallery space was quite literally an ethereal white cube, designed by the architect Claudio Silvestrin. The central concern when establishing the program was to create an intimate space in which an artist could present a single important work of art or a coherent body of work within a focused environment. Exhibited artists included Franz Ackermann, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Fischli and Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Anna Gaskell, Nan Goldin, Gary Hill, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Prince, Doris Salcedo, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luc Tuymans, and Jeff Wall. Punctuating this international roster were a series of exhibitions by British artists such as Darren Almond, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Antony Gormley, Sarah Lucas, Marcus Harvey, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Gavin Turk. This book records the gallery's 10-year history, illustrating each and every one of the 75 exhibitions mounted at the Duke Street space, along with all related ephemera and individual essays on each show.



Ken Kiff by Andrew Lambirth,
Ken Kiff by Andrew Lambirth,
Among British artists during the second half of the twentieth century, Ken Kiff displays one of the most individual and distinctive styles. His paintings and drawings in various media -- pastel, charcoal, watercolor -- are often characterized by fantastic flights of the imagination, inspired by such artists as Klee and Miro. Most notable of all is the extensive range of small acrylic paintings on paper (almost 200 in total since 1971), to which Kiff has given the overall title "The Sequence", suggesting a sense of continuity over the decades. Born in Dagenham, Essex, in 1935, Kiff's childhood during the Second World War was blighted by the loss of his father, who was killed in London in 1941. The effects of these traumatic years are inevitably reflected in the style and imagery of much of his work. After leaving school, he continued his studies at the Hornsey School of Art and subsequently taught part-time in London at the Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Kiff's travels have included a visit to India in 1981 and several working trips to the United States, where he collaborated with the leading printmaker Garner Tullis at his studios in Santa Barbara and New York City. His works have been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in England and Scotland, as well as in various European cities. He has also been featured in exhibitions in New York (the Museum of Modern Art, the Edward Thorp Gallery, and the Pamela Auchinloss Gallery) and Washington (the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden). Works by Kiff may be seen in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, andthe Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill.



London art scene - The defining moment for the contemporary London arts scene was Freeze, the 1988 warehouse exhibition organised by Damien Hirst. Up to that point, the traditional career path for an artist in London would involve several years in relative obscurity with limited sales, possibly subsidised by teaching work.

Freeze (exhibition) - Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. The show took place in July 1988 in an empty London Port Authority building at Surrey Docks in London's Docklands and was sponsored by the London Docklands Development Corporation and Olympia and York.

Royal Academy summer exhibition - The Summer Exhibition is an art exhibition held annually by the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly in central London. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, architectural designs and models and is the largest and most popular open exhibition in the United Kingdom.

Philadelphia Museum of Art - The Philadelphia Museum of Art, located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year and is now among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. Originally the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, its inspiration was the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London, which grew out of the Great Exhibition of 1851.



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Art Exhibition London - Art Exhibition London London art scene - The defining moment for the contemporary London arts scene was Freeze, the 1988 warehouse exhibition organised by Damien Hirst. Up to that point, the traditional career path for an artist in London would involve several years in relative obscurity with limited sales, possibly subsidised by teaching work. Freeze (exhibition) - Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. The show took place in July 1988 in ...

Art Exhibition in London - Art Exhibition in London London art scene - The defining moment for the contemporary London arts scene was Freeze, the 1988 warehouse exhibition organised by Damien Hirst. Up to that point, the traditional career path for an artist in London would involve several years in relative obscurity with limited sales, possibly subsidised by teaching work. Freeze (exhibition) - Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. The show took place in July 1988 ...

Art Exhibition London - Art Exhibition London London art scene - The defining moment for the contemporary London arts scene was Freeze, the 1988 warehouse exhibition organised by Damien Hirst. Up to that point, the traditional career path for an artist in London would involve several years in relative obscurity with limited sales, possibly subsidised by teaching work. Freeze (exhibition) - Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. The show took place in July 1988 in ...

Art Exhibition in London - Art Exhibition in London London art scene - The defining moment for the contemporary London arts scene was Freeze, the 1988 warehouse exhibition organised by Damien Hirst. Up to that point, the traditional career path for an artist in London would involve several years in relative obscurity with limited sales, possibly subsidised by teaching work. Freeze (exhibition) - Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. The show took place in July 1988 ...

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