The exhibition takes place as part of Towner 100, a series of exhibitions and events marking Towners 100th year. Encompassing sculptures, as well as rarely seen drawings, paintings and archival materials, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life celebrates one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Towner Eastbourne will be presenting begining May 27th a landmark retrospective on the iconic British artist, Barbara Hepworth (1903 1975), which will end on September 3rd, 2023.
Moreīarbara Hepworth with the Gift plaster of Figure for Landscape and a bronze cast of Figure (Archaean) November 1964. I have been following Sofia Mitsola's work with great pleasure over the past few years and I am delighted that she has decided to join our gallery. Through this act, Mitsola forms dynamic relationships between the painting and the viewer to establish new hierarchies and play with ideas of voyeurism, power, and control. Her paintings often feature bare, larger-than-life characters who address the viewer with their direct gaze and invite them to look back. These are painted in vibrant colors and are layered with washes and impasto. By looking at figures in ancient Egyptian and Greek sculpture, Japanese animation, and pornography, she composes her own mythological characters and places them in geometrical, stage-like compositions. Sofia Mitsola works primarily with painting to examine the female body. Galerie Eva Presenhuber has announced the representation of London-based Greek artist Sofia Mitsola, alongside Pilar Corrias, London. In this Biennale, officially the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Lokko gives pride of place to two kinds of stories: those that allow Africa and the African diaspor. Through slave labor and colonial expansion, she argues, Western powers built empires whose imposing architecture - often neoclassical in style and claiming to represent universal aesthetic values - was itself an expression of political control. “The Black body was Europe’s first unit of energy,” Lokko, a Scottish Ghanaian architect, academic and novelist, said during a tour of the exhibition last week. Lesley Lokko’s nervy, elegant edition, which opened to the public Saturday, goes a step further, asserting that the three themes are inextricably connected in ways that have pressing implications for the profession. It is rare enough for a Venice Architecture Biennale, so often dominated by sleek new architecture and design-world celebrity, to confront fraught subjects such as race, colonialism and climate change. Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years. A torqued A-frame pavilion, made of timber, by Adjaye Associates, outside the Arsenale galleries as part of the main exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, May 18, 2023.
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