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Viewing: Pop Goes The Arts Club: The World of Peter Blake

The Wick Culture - Peter Blake, Queen Elizabeth II (Radio Times Diamond Jubilee
Royal Souvenir Cover), 2012. Courtesy Waddington Custot

Above Peter Blake, Queen Elizabeth II (Radio Times Diamond Jubilee Royal Souvenir Cover), 2012. Courtesy Waddington Custot

The Wick Culture - Peter Blake, The Butterfly Man – Venice (in homage to Damien Hirst), 2010. Courtesy Waddington Custot

Above Peter Blake, The Butterfly Man – Venice (in homage to Damien Hirst), 2010. Courtesy Waddington Custot

The Wick Culture - Peter Blake, The Butterfly Man – Tokyo (in homage to Damien Hirst), 2010. Courtesy Waddington Custot

Above Peter Blake, The Butterfly Man – Tokyo (in homage to Damien Hirst), 2010. Courtesy Waddington Custot

Above Peter Blake, Queen Elizabeth II (Radio Times Diamond Jubilee Royal Souvenir Cover), 2012. Courtesy Waddington Custot

Above Peter Blake, The Butterfly Man – Venice (in homage to Damien Hirst), 2010. Courtesy Waddington Custot

Above Peter Blake, The Butterfly Man – Tokyo (in homage to Damien Hirst), 2010. Courtesy Waddington Custot

Pop Goes The Arts Club: The World of Peter Blake
The Arts Club
27 September 2021–15 January 2022
https://www.waddingtoncustot.com

British legend, Sir Peter Blake is subject of a solo show at The Arts Club on Dover Street where he sits as president. The exhibition embraces Blake’s joyful, multi layered pop cultural works, meticulously rendered watercolour portraits alongside intricate collages assembled from found objects that cast many a sharp allusion on the history of art. Blake, who is now in his 80s, has a long and illustrious career that is intertwined with the evolution of the British art world and the impact of pop culture. The Royal College of Art graduate first came into the limelight with the ground-breaking Young Contemporaries show at the ICA in 1961 where he exhibited alongside Hockney and R.B. Kitaj.

The Wick Culture - Tyler Mitchell, Georgia Hillside (Redlining), 2021

Above Tyler Mitchell, Georgia Hillside (Redlining), 2021

Social Works II
Gagosian London
7 October – December 18 2021
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2021/social-works-ii-curated-by-antwaun-sargent/

At Gagosian London explore Social Works II curated by Antwaun Sargent highlighting artists from the African diaspora and their insights into the relationship between space—personal, public, institutional, and psychic—and social and artistic practice. The innovative show highlights how geography helps shape personal and social identity. Sumayya Vally, principal of the Johannesburg/London-based studio Counterspace and architect of the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion, has created a wall fragment that will transform itself over time. Architect and artist David Adjaye presents a group of sculptural forms made using a rammed earth technique inherited from West African architectural vernacular. The mixed media show also features a poignant series of oils and watercolours What black is this you say? (2020–21) by Amanda Williams produced as a bold response to the recent tumultuous racial events in the United States. Tyler Mitchell’s photographs meditate on home and leisure offer up a new vision of the American pastoral idyll.

Doing Frieze Masters

Above Frieze Masters

The Wick Culture - Two large pharmacy jars, stagnone, with spiral decoration inspired by ‘Golden Horn’ ware from Iznik, inscribed for Acqua Plantaginis and Acqua Acettose, Savona or Albissola, first half 17th century. Courtesy of Racanello & Leprince

Above Two large pharmacy jars, stagnone, with spiral decoration inspired by ‘Golden Horn’ ware from Iznik, inscribed for Acqua Plantaginis and Acqua Acettose, Savona or Albissola, first half 17th century. Courtesy of Racanello & Leprince

The Wick Culture - Bronze horse, China, Sichuan Province, Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220). Courtesy of Gisèle Croës - Arts d’Extrême Orient s.a.

Above Bronze horse, China, Sichuan Province, Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220). Courtesy of Gisèle Croës – Arts d’Extrême Orient s.a.

Above Frieze Masters

Above Bronze horse, China, Sichuan Province, Han dynasty (206 BC – AD 220). Courtesy of Gisèle Croës – Arts d’Extrême Orient s.a.

Frieze Masters
Regent’s Park
13 – 17 October
https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-masters

Frieze Masters features medieval and renaissance work, old masters and Greek, Roman antiquities, alongside luminaries of the 20th century. Artistic director, Nathan Clements- Gillespie has introduced several new facets to the fair. There is a special spotlight on William Kentridge featuring unseen film work created in apartheid in South Africa. A new section, Standout, highlights objects and positions the decorative arts in the main frame of art history and includes works from nine specialist galleries. There’s much to immerse and educate. Nicholas Cullinan’s talks programme at Frieze Masters includes a rich cross section of voices with conversations between Dries Van Noten, Michaël Borremans, Joy Labinjo and Christine Checinska.