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Viewing Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different

Lose yourself in the National Gallery for the first exhibition as part of their Contemporary Fellowship programme, supported by Art Fund. Encompassing over forty metres of wall, artist Nalini Malani presents 25 striking new animations that immerse the viewer in a panorama of nine large video projections, played in a continuous loop. Classical stories have been transformed by hand-drawn animations, made using an iPad, that reveal and conceal different aspects of the paintings in both collections to rediscover them from an alternative, and critical point of view. Embodying the role of the artist as a social activist, Malani puts the Western canon under pressure in these animations where traditional art history and its European figures are no longer the only source of meaning.

The National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship is supported by Art Fund, which enabled an open call to public collecting institutions outside London to become the partner institution. The National Gallery’s Modern and Contemporary Advisory Panel selected the Holburne Museum in Bath as the partner institution for the inaugural Fellowship. The Holburne Museum will have the opportunity to acquire a work which has been created as part of the Fellowship.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated 144-page hard-cover catalogue with newly commissioned articles by Mieke Bal, Will Cooper, Zehra Jumabhoy, Daniel Herrmann, Nalini Malani and Priyesh Mistry.

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Dates
02 March 2023 — 11 June 2023

Viewing Collect art fair

From 3 to 5 March, 2023 Collect art fair returns to Somerset House for its 19th edition to showcase exceptional work made in the last five years by international living artists and designers. Move through the warren-like rooms of Somerset House and bear witness to exceptional works in ceramics, glass, lacquer, art jewellery, precious metalwork, textiles and fibre, wood and paper to non-traditional materials including resin and bone.

The international offering includes Galerie Marzee from the Netherlands, Candida Stevens and Cynthia Corbett from the UK and Siat Gallery from South Korea. In tandem with the physical fair, Collect continues its partnerships with Artsy.net, where all works will be available to view from 1 to 12 March 2023. This years VIP Lounge Partner is Cox London, established by Chris and Nicola Cox. With a reputation for creating elemental and remarkable pieces of lighting, furniture and artworks, the studio has been working for two years to create new pieces for this year’s fair.

Collect is brought to you by the Crafts Council, the national charity for craft who believe craft skills and knowledge enrich and uplift us as individuals and can change the world for the better. Through their activities they aim to inspire making, empower learning and nurture craft businesses by championing craft and its positive impact on society, increasing levels of craft education and participation, growing the market for craft, and by building a sustainable and inclusive craft sector.

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Dates
03 March 2023 — 05 March 2023

Viewing David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away). Hockney is back and more innovative than ever, with an extraordinary four storey high space in Kings Cross – adjacent to Coal Drops Yard and Central St Martin’s. Combining his iconic paintings with unique digital projections and audio technology, London Theatre Company and 59 Productions have developed a new creative venture in the heart of King’s Cross “Lightroom”.

In a cycle of six themed chapters, with a specially composed score by Nico Muhly and a commentary by the artist himself, Hockney reveals his process to us. His voice is in our ears as we watch him experimenting with perspective, using photography as a way of ‘drawing with a camera’, capturing the passing of time in his polaroid collages and the joy of spring on his iPad, and showing us why only paint can properly convey the hugeness of the Grand Canyon. We join him on his audio-visual Wagner Drive, roaring up into the San Gabriel Mountains, and into the opera house by means of animated re-creations of his stage designs.

“The world is very very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don’t look very much. They scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, they don’t really look at things incredibly well, with an intensity. I do.” David Hockney, from the soundtrack of ‘Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)’

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Dates
22 February 2023 — 04 June 2023
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