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Viewing Creating Abstraction

Head over to Pace’s recently opened Hanover Square Gallery to see an exhibition of works by seven female artists whose experimental approach to material and engagement with Modernism pushed the boundaries of abstraction.

You’ll encounter paintings, textiles, works on paper, video, photography and installations by such celebrated names as Barbara Hepworth, Yto Barrada and Louise Nevelson. Also worthy of note are the modular sculptures of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneer of abstract art in Lebanon; and the graphic works of Italian artist Carla Accardi, which explore the formal and spatial effect of line, shape and gesture.

By including works by 20th- century and contemporary artists this exhibition shows Modernism’s enduring legacy and the ways in which various Modernist movements have been disseminated and interpreted by artists around the world. It offers a chance to discover each artist’s ground-breaking work and the broader context of their practice.

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Dates
03 February 2022 — 12 March 2022
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Viewing Sujin Lee

Saatchi Yates’ new solo show is poised to catapult the self-taught Korean artist Sujin Lee onto the world stage. Born in Korea’s Jeju Island, Lee studied visual communication before turning to painting as a source of creative freedom. ‘The picture gave me the feeling that there is infinite possibility,’ she has said.

Comprising 20 paintings ranging from small portraits to large group scenes, Lee’s new body of work celebrates female friendship and sisterhood. Expect to see female figures holding hands or nestling up to one another against surrealistic backdrops of bowed branches, flowing fronds and towering tree trunks.

Inspired by her own lived experience and the landscape of her hometown, Lee prompts us to consider our relationships with ourselves and others as well as hers to her work. ‘What are these girls? Is this me? Or is this just a painting?’ she asks.

Needless to say, Lee’s future’s looking bright. Hop to it.

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Dates
02 February 2022 — 26 March 2022
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Viewing The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Van Gogh. Self-Portraits

The first major exhibition dedicated to Vincent van Gogh’s self-portraits brings together around half of the 35 surviving examples, among them the iconic Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear from the Courtauld’s own collection and Self Portrait with a Palette, one of his last self-portraits before his death in 1890.

Spanning his short but prolific career, the exhibition explores what prompted Van Gogh to depict himself so often, while charting the evolution of his painterly style. With only one portrait photo of Van Gogh known to exist, his self-portraits tell us almost everything we know about his appearance. But they also show something of his personality. He described the last self-portrait he did in Paris as ‘quite unkempt and sad’ […] something like, say, the face of – death’.

Featuring significant loans from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the National Gallery in London, this much-anticipated exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s skill, creativity and ingenuity and offers an unparalleled insight into his changing psychological condition and the way he viewed himself. Book tickets now.

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Dates
03 February 2022 — 08 May 2022
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