Author: Giuseppe Marasco
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The 21st Century’s Neon Goya – Ansel Krut at Painter’s Painters Exhibition Saatchi Gallery
Until 28th Feb 2017 Ansel Krut Napoleon On Elba 2008 Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm By Giuseppe Marasco Ansel Krut with out wanting to has influenced a whole generation of painters. If you have a knowing eye you can spot this influence everywhere. Such an Influence can be detected in Ryan Mosely….
Ryan Mosley at Painter’s Painters Exhibition Saatchi Gallery
on until 28th Feb 2017 Ryan Mosley Emperor Butterfly 2007 Oil on linen 160 x 180 cm Memory confronting the paintings If you have a knowing eye you can spot this influence everywhere. Such an Influence can be detected in Ryan Mosely particularly in the early work bought by Charles Saatchi straight out of the Royal College…
David Brian Smith Visionary Painter of English Landscape at Painter’s Painters Exhibition Saatchi Gallery
Currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery PAINTERS’ PAINTERS til 28 February 2017 David Brian Smith Gainsborough Farm 2014 Oil, Silver and gold leaf on herringbone linen 180 x 300 cm By Giuseppe Marasco David Brain Smith comes from a farming background, in Shropshire, where his father was a shepherd. He is passionate about the English countryside and the…
Justin Mortimer – Kult
25th June 2015 by Giuseppe Marasco In this solo show Justin Mortimer portrays iconic events from the news and internet, fusing these images into new configurations. Mortimer makes the case of the natural parallel to the overwhelming and unending choices that painters make, offers an answer to processing traditional Social Media in the 21st Century….
Mexican Wrestling at the Royal Albert Hall
10th July 2015 As part of the Year of Mexico in the UK 2015, for the first time ever and for one day only, the mythical, dangerous, acrobatic and heroic world of Mexico’s masked wrestlers, 16 of Mexico’s finest, led by the legendary Blue Demon Jr, join battle under the Royal Albert Hall’s mighty dome….
Frank Bowling at Hale’s Gallery
9 September 2015 British Painter & Royal Academician, is one of the last remaining giants of Abstract expressionism. I been speaking with about the natute of the language we use when talking about painting. Does language perform adequately, are there other examples that would better serve the nature and thought of painting. The Dean of…
Georges Shaw – My Back to Nature – National Gallery May 11th – 30th October 2016
George Shaw is the National Gallery’s ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist. George’s National Gallery exhibition is currently at Abbot Hall, Kendall (and will tour to four other UK venues). A retrospective exhibition at Yale Centre of British Art will open in October 2018 http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/learning/associate-artist-scheme/george-shaw George Shaw often uses a very wry sense of observation…