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London gaLLery news
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floor and basement in Fitzrovia, it is
significantly larger than the original
gallery and its other satellite, the
temporary space above Old Street pub the
Reliance. First up in the W1 calendar is
Painted Ladies:
a show of new work by the iconic collagist
Lina Bertucci
John Stezaker, followed by an excitingly
diverse programme for next year, such as
In the fifth century BC,
a group painting show with work by Michael
Jamie, 29 yr., stay at home mom Perry Rubenstein Gallery,
historian Herodotus noted
Raedecker and Rezi van Lankveld, among
their usefulness for smuggling of having a tattoo; and a
others, and solo shows by Sara VanDerBeek,
secrets across enemy lines. smaller percentage looked
Patrick Hill and Germaine Kruip.
A couple millennia later, to inking as a private
historical figures ranging manifestation of control.
With murmurings about Stuart Shave’s plans
from Catherine the Great to
to move his gallery, Modern Art, to the
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Bertucci has already proven
West End in the spring (and like other
even Winston Churchill’s her considerable skill at
East Ender’s going West, that much closer
mother have been found portraiture with photographs of
to the collector’s buck, of course), odds
sporting them. yet at some artists like Elizabeth Peyton
are on for who will be next up in the game
point in recent decades, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, shot
of artspace Twister. Skye Sherwin
tattoos lost their connection in the late 1980s and early
with history, becoming all 90s, when they were just on
JOHn STEzAKER, 21 nOVEMBER –
19 JAnuARy, THE APPROACH W1, LOnDOn
but synonymous with prisons, the cusp of stardom. Like those
WWW.THEAPPROACH.CO.uK
wayward youth and ‘alternative snaps, the artist’s latest
lifestyles’. images – 20 of which will be
on display at new york’s Perry
Enter Lina Bertucci. Rubenstein Gallery this month
Compelled to dig beneath – strike a thoughtful balance
the stereotypes, the American between her subjects and
artist spent a year-and-a- their aesthetic corpora, in a
half photographing tattooed manner that neither fetishises
women who didn’t necessarily nor exoticises. Echoing the
fit the subcultural mould; a portraits of August Sander,
corporate lawyer, two nannies, with their mix of formal
a sixty-three-year-old painter repetition and psychological
and a high-powered Chelsea subtlety, Bertucci’s
art dealer were among her photographs are both timeless
favourites. Bertucci found and contemporary. There’s
, 2007, 25 x 20 cm.
her subjects’ reasons for enough art-historical awareness
getting inked were as varied in them to give tattoo culture
as their professions: many a much-needed dose of the past,
gravitated towards the air with latter-day personality to
Mask XLVIII
of sexiness and rebellion; spare. Tyler Coburn
others the community aspect
LInA BERTuCCI
29 nOVEMBER – 5 JAnuARy
PERRy RuBEnSTEIn, nEW yORK
WWW.PERRyRuBEnSTEIn.COM John Stezaker, Courtesy the Approach, London
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