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Viewing The Other Art Fair London

The Wick Culture - Helena Cardow, An offering, 2021

Above Helena Cardow, An offering, 2021

The Wick Culture - Linda Khatri, Synchronicity, 2021

Above Linda Khatri, Synchronicity, 2021

The Wick Culture - Churning Curds Series, Chocolate Nipple Spread, 2006

Above Churning Curds Series, Chocolate Nipple Spread, 2006

The Wick Culture - Anil Mistry, In the City, 2021

Above Anil Mistry, In the City, 2021

Above Helena Cardow, An offering, 2021

Above Linda Khatri, Synchronicity, 2021

Above Churning Curds Series, Chocolate Nipple Spread, 2006

Above Anil Mistry, In the City, 2021

17–20 March 2022
The Old Truman Brewery, London
https://www.theotherartfair.com/london/

If you want to start a savvy art collection, look no further than The Other Art Fair, the leading artist fair to discover and buy art directly from emerging artistic talent.

The forthcoming edition at The Old Truman Brewery features around 150 artists, including Emily Kirby, Dawn Beckles and Alex McIntyre, working in a variety of styles and media. Elsewhere, you’ll see selected works by guest artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman of 2020 Tate Britain Winter Commission fame and Matt Jukes’s Feelscape, an immersive installation which uses AI to capture visitors’ emotions as they walk around the fair. Then there’s the exhibition of work by Sara David and Josh Scurville, the fair’s New Future winners.

Make sure to check out the accompanying events programme too. From embroidery and knitting workshops to a curated exhibition centred on textiles, The Other Art Fair has something for everyone. Head down there on the opening night to enjoy music by Nzinga Sounds, cocktail in hand.

Viewing Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

The Wick Culture - Wales Bonner Spring Summer 2015 Afrique. Photo Dexter Lander

Above Wales Bonner Spring Summer 2015 Afrique. Photo Dexter Lander

The Wick Culture - Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A, featuring Randi Rahm look worn by Billy Porter (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Above Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A, featuring Randi Rahm look worn by Billy Porter (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Wick Culture - Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Above Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Above Wales Bonner Spring Summer 2015 Afrique. Photo Dexter Lander

Above Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A, featuring Randi Rahm look worn by Billy Porter (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Above Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities at V&A (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London

19 March — 6 November 2022
The V&A, London
https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/fashioning-masculinities-the-art-of-menswear

Landing at the V&A this month is the museum’s first major exhibition celebrating the power, artistry and diversity of masculine attire and appearance. Through around 100 historical and contemporary looks and 100 artworks, displayed thematically across three galleries, it traces how menswear has been fashioned and refashioned over the centuries. It will also explore how designers, tailors and artists, as well as their clients and sitters, have constructed and performed masculinity across the ages.

Shown alongside classical sculptures, Renaissance paintings and iconic photographs from the V&A’s own collection will be historical and contemporary looks by the likes of Harris Reed, Grace Wales Bonner and Raf Simons. Also on display will be a film of Matthew Bourne’s Spitfire (1988) performed by New Adventures dancers, which takes place in the world of men’s underwear advertising and mail order catalogue photography.

‘Rather than a linear or definitive history, this is a journey across time and gender,’ explains co-curator Claire Wilcox. ‘This will be a celebration of the masculine wardrobe, and everyone is invited to join in.’ Book your tickets now.

Viewing Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese

The Wick Culture - say cheeeeese (Production Image) (2022). Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Image courtesy of Kyle Thurman (from the Instagram @kyle_thurman_)

Above say cheeeeese (Production Image) (2022). Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Image courtesy of Kyle Thurman (from the Instagram @kyle_thurman_)

Above Rachel Jones

Above say cheeeeese (Production Image) (2022). Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Image courtesy of Kyle Thurman (from the Instagram @kyle_thurman_)

Above Rachel Jones

12 March–12 June 2022
Chisenhale Gallery, London
https://chisenhale.org.uk/exhibition/rachel-jones/

Since she graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2019, art world darling Rachel Jones has gone from strength to strength. In 2021 she featured in Hayward Gallery’s celebrated Mixing It Up exhibition and mounted her first solo show at Thaddaeus Ropac, which was described by The Art Newspaper as ‘one of the most acclaimed new painting shows in recent years.’ At auction, her work commands six-figure sums.

Now, she’s enjoying her first institutional show at Chisenhale Gallery in London. For her Chisenhale commission, Jones has used oil pastels and oil sticks to produce a new body of paintings on canvas and a series of stickers for the inner gallery walls and exterior doors. You’ll see her now-familiar motifs — teeth and mouths — reimagined to incorporate bold, hand-drawn lines over dense blocks of colour.
Jones’s clashing marks, shapes and tones prompt the viewer to contemplate what emotional responses are assigned to a colour or a form, for example, to reconsider yellow’s association with happiness. Rachel Jones is going places and this exhibition shows why.