Exhibitions
After five years in the CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo – Galician Centre for Contemporary Art), Ana G. Chouciño landed in Edinburgh in 2010, in search of new experiences and professional opportunities. She is now one of the team in charge of Interview Room 11, a gallery that is home to a variety of artistic projects, with a special interest in promoting Galician artists, and building bridges between Spanish and Scottish art.
Towards the end of Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album, there is a drawing of a poor old woman, confused and terrified, legs up in the air, tumbling down a flight of stairs. The title of this work is Showing off? Remember your age. Goya was a funny man.
Frith Street Gallery is holding an exhibition of rarely seen works on paper by Marlene Dumas and Juan Muñoz. Though quite different in approach, Dumas’ and Muñoz’s practice shows deep concerns for the human body, our relationship to it and its status as a recurring motif across the entire history of art.
Tate Modern: the best known contemporary art gallery in the United Kingdom, if not in Europe, and one of the most significant collections in the world. Since the year 2000, the Tate has played host to an immensely valuable collection of works by contemporary artists, as well as regular temporary exhibitions that combine high-calibre works with a sharp marketing approach.
The captivating Spanish muralist creates an immersive experience for show attendees in London. Gonzalo Borondo (Segovia 1989) has taken over East London walls for the past year with his signature style of combining two genres; classic portraiture and street art.
35 artists and art groups are staging a takeover of the Espacio Gallery in January 2015 to turn it into a demonstration site, an encounter space and an ideas laboratory.
We at Brit Es have been following the progress of Ernesto Cánovas for some time, in fact we consider him like our amulet-artist. He was one of the first people we interviewed and so we’ve had a strong connection with him from the very beginning. His extensive body of work spans the figurative and the abstract in a career that began in London in 2009. He studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, and took some postgraduate courses in Edinburgh.
Last summer, Halcyon Gallery, which had already earned a mention and praise from Brit Es, offered us a private pass to their new Pedro Paricio exhibition.
Halcyon Gallery doesn’t look like your regular West End galleries. It is huge and palatial, with high ceilings and polished marble, like the house of a classier Tony Montana. As I entered I wondered just when exactly would they sniff out I didn’t belong there and kindly invite me to remove myself from the premises. They never did, of course, instead they were quite welcoming and they even took my jacket and fed me.
An art project and exhibition exploring human relationships with the sea by artists Lorna Barrowclough and Hondartza Fraga