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Viewing What’s Up/ l’univers d’un collectionneur

The millennial art advisor Lawrence Van Hagen is having a moment. Since staging his first What’s Up exhibition in 2016, he’s been the go-to source for first-time collectors looking for the next big thing in art. He brings together emerging or mid-career artists and more established names to create a dialogue across colours, mediums, techniques, countries and generations. ‘I do the shows this way because I think it’s interesting and I believe that in order to attract people to a show with emerging artists, you need work by household names as well,’ he explained. ‘Also, when you have younger artists at a show, it keeps the older generation more current.’ 

Now on display at 80 Grosvenor Street in Mayfair is Van Hagen’s latest edition of What’s Up, bringing together art and design pieces from the 1950s to the present day. You’ll find paintings by Günther Förg and Kenneth Noland nestling happily alongside sculpture and design pieces by Jorge Zalszupin and Jose Dávila. Rising stars for your radar include Sara Anstis and Poppy Jones, whose practice blends traditional printmaking techniques, tools and materials with digital printing. Stepping inside this beautifully curated haven is enough to make you want to redecorate immediately.

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Dates
12 October 2021 — 06 November 2021

Viewing Christiane Baumgartner: Wish you were here

London’s Cristea Roberts Gallery is currently hosting the largest and most ambitious work ever made by Christiane Baumgartner, the Leipzig-based artist celebrated for her monumental woodcuts based on her own films and video stills. Measuring over nine metres in width, Stairway to Heaven (2019) consists of five monochrome woodcuts derived from photographs the artist took of a large, cascading waterfall outside Quebec City in Canada. Look to the aligned horizon lines for maximum visual impact.

Elsewhere, you’ll find Baumgartner’s first depictions of a sunrise, a series of six woodcuts depicting the moon on the horizon and a new series of ‘reverse drawings’ featuring abstract figurations of colour. Also on display is a unique woodcut measuring over two metres in height depicting daylight shining through a wooded landscape against a blue backdrop. It’s a seductive show that offers welcome respite from the noise outside.

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Dates
29 October 2021 — 04 December 2021
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Viewing Nicola Hicks: Dump circus

For a dose of arresting art, see Nicola Hicks’s new solo show at Flowers Gallery in Kingsland Road. The British artist, who is best known for addressing the universal, often darker aspects of humanity through contemporary allegory, has unveiled something really quite extraordinary here. At the heart of Dump Circus is a large-scale installation casting the city as an urban wasteland, where the natural world has been ravaged by greed and waste.

Expect to see discarded objects scattered across the gallery floor, a bear mauling the ringmaster and a rearing horse on a gigantic rubber tyre. Look to the walls and you’ll come face to face with the glaring cats, dogs and horses depicted in her playful series of works on paper, recalling the exuberant designs of circus posters.

This is an engaging exhibition that will prompt you to consider the destructive impact of human activity on the environment as well as the irrepressible resilience of life on earth.

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Dates
11 October 2021 — 18 December 2021
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