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Viewing Your Mind is Now An Ocean at Pilar Corrias

The Wick Culture - North Salem Moon (1993), 2022 by Rachel Rose
Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London.

Above North Salem Moon (1993), 2022 by Rachel Rose Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London.

The Wick Culture - Pink and dark blue hues bleeding into light blue background

Above Pink and dark blue hues bleeding into light blue background

The Wick Culture - Your Mind is Now an Ocean, Pilar Corrias Savile Row, 31 July-30 Aug 2024. Photo Benjamin Westoby(2)

Above Your Mind is Now an Ocean, Pilar Corrias Savile Row, 31 July-30 Aug 2024. Photo Benjamin Westoby(2)

The Wick Culture - Sophie von Hellermann
Out of the Blue
2022.

Above Sophie von Hellermann Out of the Blue 2022.

Above North Salem Moon (1993), 2022 by Rachel Rose Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias, London.

Above Pink and dark blue hues bleeding into light blue background

Above Your Mind is Now an Ocean, Pilar Corrias Savile Row, 31 July-30 Aug 2024. Photo Benjamin Westoby(2)

Above Sophie von Hellermann Out of the Blue 2022.

Your Mind is Now an Ocean

Pilar Corrias
2 Savile Row
31 July – 30 August 2024

This beautiful group show titled Your Mind is Now an Ocean at Pilar Corrias – including artists Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Keren Cytter, Sophie von Hellermann, Manuel Mathieu, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, and Julião Sarmento – explores the ocean’s significance in art, as a subject and symbol signalling the sublime and the unconscious.

Immerse yourself in Keren Cytter’s short film Ocean (2014), where the show gets its title. As the characters lives seem to unravel, the ocean seems to offer comfort and solace. Elsewhere, works Manuel Mathieu explore paints watery interactions with the surface of the canvas, leading the artist to contemplate conceptual ideas about disappearing and the ephemeral, while Mary Marsden hints at the sea in oil paintings rendered with sparse marks.

We also love the episodic series of minimal, restrained line drawings Koo Jeong A made to record experiences, both literal and imagined, of swimming and walking within a landscape, fragments that evoke natural surroundings – craggy cliffs or jutting rocks – that also speak to the feeling of being alone and open to the elements. Your Mind is Now An Ocean offers an unexpected and poetic look at an subject with ancient roots in art, timely without being corny. Take a dip before it closes at the end of the week.

Viewing Hospital Rooms: Digital Art School at Hauser & Wirth

The Wick Culture - From left to right: Niamh White, Neil Wenman, Tim A Shaw, Hospital Rooms Exhibition, 'Like there is hope and I can dream of another world', Hauser & Wirth, 2022. Photo © Hospital Rooms (Jennifer Moyes)

Above From left to right: Niamh White, Neil Wenman, Tim A Shaw, Hospital Rooms Exhibition, ‘Like there is hope and I can dream of another world’, Hauser & Wirth, 2022. Photo © Hospital Rooms (Jennifer Moyes)

The Wick Culture - Rana Begum, No. 1384 Mesh, 2024. Image courtesy Rana Begum Studio

Above Rana Begum, No. 1384 Mesh, 2024. Image courtesy Rana Begum Studio

The Wick Culture - Rebecca Byrne, A Stone Dropped in a Still Pond 2024.
Photography Tim Bowditch

Above Rebecca Byrne, A Stone Dropped in a Still Pond 2024. Photography Tim Bowditch

The Wick Culture - Installation views of Hospital Rooms 'Digital Art School' exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, 22nd August - 10th September 2024

Above Installation views of Hospital Rooms ‘Digital Art School’ exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, 22nd August – 10th September 2024

Above Rana Begum, No. 1384 Mesh, 2024. Image courtesy Rana Begum Studio

Above Rebecca Byrne, A Stone Dropped in a Still Pond 2024. Photography Tim Bowditch

Above Installation views of Hospital Rooms ‘Digital Art School’ exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, 22nd August – 10th September 2024

Hospital Rooms: Digital Art School

Hauser & Wirth London
North Gallery
22 August – 10 September 2024

Hospital Rooms was founded by artist Tim Shaw and curator Niamh White after a friend was sectioned and admitted to an NHS mental health hospital. Shocked by the environment their vulnerable friend was being treated in, they decided to join forces and try and transform these spaces. Since 2016 their scope has broadened as the project has gone from strength to strength as they work to benefit people with Severe Mental Illness diagnoses, commissioning artists to transform in-patient units. To date they’ve worked with artists including Julian Opie, Sonia Boyce, Anish Kapoor and Chantal Joffe.

Hospital Rooms’ latest project marks the culmination of a three year partnership with Hauser & Wirth and sees them take over the North Gallery, a physical version of their Digital Art School, which has offered free artist-run workshops and materials to every in-patient at NHS mental health sites across the country. This brings the work they’ve been doing into the centre of London for all to experience.

Working in the same manner as the Digital Art School, there are live creative sessions hosted by artists such as Abbas Zahedi, Shepherd Manyika and Eileen Cooper RA, as well as filmed art activities projected in the space led by artists and designers, including Giles Deacon, Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer. Visitors are encouraged to spend time making their own artwork in the space using the free materials available, or participate using digital devices.

The exhibition concludes with a fundraising auction taking place at Bonhman’s on 11 September, offering artworks donated by artists and supported by Gallery Circle members including Edel Assanti, TJ Boutling, Ginny on Frederick and of course Hauser & Wirth. We have our eyes on a sculptural, mixed-media work by HelenA Pritchard, an edition of ‘Wasp’ 2017 by Maisie Cousins and a very special Sutapa Biswas piece.

Viewing Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking at Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Wick Culture - Yoshida Fujio, Yellow Iris, 1954, Private Collection, Photograph by Mareo Suemasa.

Above Yoshida Fujio, Yellow Iris, 1954, Private Collection, Photograph by Mareo Suemasa.

The Wick Culture - Yoshida Chizuko, Tenryuji Garden, 1953, Private Collection, Photograph by Mareo Suemasa.

Above Yoshida Chizuko, Tenryuji Garden, 1953, Private Collection, Photograph by Mareo Suemasa.

The Wick Culture - Yoshida Hiroshi, Kumoi Cherry Trees, 1926. Courtesy Fukuoka Art Museum.

Above Yoshida Hiroshi, Kumoi Cherry Trees, 1926. Courtesy Fukuoka Art Museum.

The Wick Culture - Yoshida Hiroshi, El Capitan, 1925. Courtesy Fukuoka Art Museum.

Above Yoshida Hiroshi, El Capitan, 1925. Courtesy Fukuoka Art Museum.

The Wick Culture - Yoshida Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2024. Credit Graham Turner

Above Yoshida Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2024. Credit Graham Turner

The Wick Culture - Viewing Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking at Dulwich Picture Gallery

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Above Yoshida Fujio, Yellow Iris, 1954, Private Collection, Photograph by Mareo Suemasa.

Above Yoshida Chizuko, Tenryuji Garden, 1953, Private Collection, Photograph by Mareo Suemasa.

Above Yoshida Hiroshi, Kumoi Cherry Trees, 1926. Courtesy Fukuoka Art Museum.

Above Yoshida Hiroshi, El Capitan, 1925. Courtesy Fukuoka Art Museum.

Above Yoshida Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2024. Credit Graham Turner

Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking

Dulwich Picture Gallery
19 June – 3 November 2024

Three generations of the inimitable Yoshida family are explored through 75 works in this landmark exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery – the first of its kind to trace the evolution of Japanese woodblock print artists through two centuries, an incredible story of an unparalleled dynasty.

The exhibition begins with the work of the masterful patriarch, Yoshida Hiroshi, who worked prolifically until his death in 1950. A pioneer of the shin hanga movement, his landscapes were known and celebrated in the US and Europe as much as at home in Japan. New research also draws a specific connection to London – Hiroshi even visited Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1900.

The exquisite watercolours of Hiroshi’s wife, Yoshida Fujio, and their sons, Tōshi and Hodaka, both of whom brought post-war abstraction to the Japanese printmaking process, also feature, alongside Hodaka’s wife, Yoshida Chizuko, a co-founder of the first group of female printmakers in Japan – the Women’s Print Association. The exhibition concludes in the present, with the work of their daughter, granddaughter of Hiroshi and Fujio, Yoshida Ayomi: a site-specific installation of a cherry blossom.