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Press Release
Uncanny Summer on Cork
Street!
The visionary and phantasmagorical world of award-winning photographer Marco Sanges comes to the Hay Hill Gallery. This summer, the Hay Hill Gallery brings a sense of the surreal to Cork Street and presents Big Scenes, the visionary and extraordinary world of award-winning photographer Marco Sanges. Big Scenes combines photography, video and performance, bringing together larger than life characters and stories to play out a world of fantasy, grandeur and drama. Big Scenes is a dreamlike, decadent world reminiscent of Surrealism and the visual and performing arts of the glamorous golden age of the 1920s and 30s. The artist Gavin Turk commented: “Marco Sanges’s art is like going to a theatre through different doors, characters in photos come to life in various forms of tableaux vivant”. Sanges’s double award-winning short film Circumstances (Best Art Film – Portobello Film Festival, London 2008 and Best Experimental Art Video, Open Cinema, St Petersburg, Russia, 2009) will be screened in the lower ground floor gallery. A series of photographs from the accompanying book Circumstances will be shown alongside the film for the first time. Sanges is attracted in particular to the luminous black and white films of the silent era and creates photographs in sequence that are narrative based, enigmatic and that evoke a feeling of mystery and the sense of a sensual, uncanny world just out of grasp. A magnification of imagination, the surrealistic nature of Big Scenes represents the liberation of the unconscious, as a means to create art outside the boundaries of official culture. This exhibition brings together the work of an artist who is passionate about life in its entirety and continues to evoke, transcend and excite the world.
Notes to Editors:
Marco Sanges: Hay Hill Gallery, located on Cork Street, specialises in the sculpture of the famed artist Auguste Rodin and represents a number of internationally recognised contemporary artists. An exhibition of fifty important works by Andy Warhol, From Drawings to Screenprints - A Creative Process, is on show from 14 June – 17 July 2010. For press information and images please contact Henrietta Sitwell Henrietta@artspr.net, 07811 344540 For media public relations for Marco Sanges please contact Nora Scheffer press@marcosanges.com, 07724 887750, Web site – www.marcosanges.com Listings information:
Hay Hill Gallery, 5a
Cork Street, London, W1S 3NY
Michael
Aubrey
This summer, Hay Hill Gallery presents an exhibition of one of the UK’s leading watercolourists, Michael Aubrey. Michael Aubrey’s masterly handling of tone and colour have established him as one of the country's leading watercolourists, and his paintings have a vibrancy and intensity rarely seen in what is often considered a somewhat restrained medium. Indeed, his watercolours and oils hang alongside each other in harmony, the actual medium sometimes only apparent on close inspection. All display the same qualities of dynamic lighting, brilliant colour and an unerring sense of composition, explaining the feeling of rightness upon which viewers frequently remark. He is a mainly figurative artist, keeping alive the long English tradition of pure watercolourists (no mixed media for him), maintaining the characteristic transparency of the paint whilst giving the colours a new depth and brilliance. One of the characteristics of all Michael’s exhibitions is the immense range of subject: not for him the variations on a theme sometimes seen in exhibitions. His extensive range of subject matter includes subjects from Norfolk, Venice, France, Tuscany and Africa as well as still life. But whatever the subject, his lively, spontaneous treatment ensures that there is always a sense of "being there"; the paintings have a freshness and immediacy which gives the impression that they have been dashed off joyfully and effortlessly. Michael has never claimed deep significance for his paintings and prefers to regard them as simple records of observed moments which have given him pleasure and which he enjoys sharing with others. Whilst his paintings are direct and accessible it is astonishing how frequently one hears similar comments from those who are fortunate to own one: that they continue to brighten up their lives day by day, even years after being bought. Notes to Editors:
Michael
Aubrey Hay Hill Gallery, located on Cork Street, specialises in the sculpture of the famed artist Auguste Rodin and represents a number of internationally recognised contemporary artists. An exhibition of works by Michael Aubrey will be held jointly with an exhibition of award-winning photographer Marco Sanges For press information and images please contact Genia Marek, info@hayhill.com Listings information:
Hay Hill Gallery, 5a Cork Street,
London, W1S 3NY
P.J. Crook
This autumn, Hay Hill Gallery presents an exhibition by the established English painter P.J. Crook. P.J. Crook’s work is always concerned with people - the human condition. Her crowded newspaper compositions she sees as ‘history paintings’ reflecting the current state of affairs either locally, nationally or internationally. The artist’s pictures are instantly recognisable by their distinctive style and painted frames. Her images spill out from the canvas, continuing onto the surrounding wood and enticing the viewer into her world. Painted with a surrealist touch, her scenes have a haunting quality. The figures seem frozen in time, caught at a moment of intrigue and deep in their own thoughts. The racing and gambling paintings were initially inspired by her late father’s passion for gambling. Her studio is close to Cheltenham’s famous racecourse. Many of the paintings have a spiritual content such as the allegorical Angel and Tiger and the large oil, The Supper. Crook never plans her pictures and starts with little idea of what will ultimately evolve. “I rely very much on my own institution,” she says. Working from memories and subconscious, she becomes totally involved in her work. The paintings themselves are usually set after dark, lit by lamp which appears in the picture and casts sharp shadows over the action. Her choice of colours, often pastel blue-greens and pinks, gives a mysterious quality to her work. Often she includes a person who is simply watching, a spectator in her world. With a surrealist’s sense of humour, she adds mirrors or ‘paintings within paintings’. The pictures have a haunting atmosphere, suggesting conspiracy and ominous events. Crook’s world seems like a stage, with the characters frozen in a three dimensional space. There is a timeless quality and they are not set in a particular era. “My paintings hold many secrets” she says. Notes to Editors:
P.J. Crook Crook has works in both private and public collection across the globe including the Imperial War Museum; Morohashi Museum of Modern Art; Ralli Museum, Ceaseria; Standard Chartered Bank London and Dubai; JP Morgan Inc; ALJ Ltd Jeddah; Royal West of England Academy; Department of Transport; Cheltenham, Rye and Gloucester Art Galleries & Museums. Her previous solo exhibitions include: Vaal Galerii - Tallinn (2010); Loch Galleries - Toronto (2010 & 2007); Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris (2008 & 1991, 93, 95, 97, 99, 2002); Draakoni Galerii - Tallinn (2006); Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum A Day at the Races & tour (2006); Morohashi Museum of Modern Art - Japan (2006, 2001); Catmose Gallery, Vale of Catmose College, Rutland (2004); Robert Sandelson, London (2003 & 1998); Ad Hoc Gallery, Buddle Arts Centre, Tyne & Wear Deja Vrooom (2001); Theo Waddington Fine Art, Boca Raton - Florida (2000); Nancy Poole Gallery, Toronto Barry Friedman Ltd, New York – Art (1998); Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (1997); Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum tour: Oriel Gallery, Theatr Clwyd, Mold; Musée Paul Valery, Séte (1996); Rye Art Gallery Montpelier Sandelson - London (1996); Portal Gallery, London (1994 & 1980, 83, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93); Lee Drexler, New York (1989). Furthermore, Crook has exhibited in many selected group exhibitions including the participation in over two decades of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London. P.J. Crook is Patron of the National Star College; a Director and Trustee of ACS (the Artists Collecting Society); President of the Friends of Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum; a Gloucestershire Ambassador; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Gloucestershire. Hay Hill Gallery, located on Cork Street, specialises in the sculpture of the famed artist Auguste Rodin and represents a number of internationally recognised contemporary artists. For press information and images for the Hay Hill Gallery please contact Genia Marek, info@hayhill.com Listings information:
Hay Hill
Gallery, 5a Cork Street, London, W1S 3NY
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