NEWS
Gallery Announcement
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
During the current period of Covid-19 induced uncertainty, Maximillian William will be postponing our upcoming exhibition with Somaya Critchlow: Underneath a Bebop Moon.
Although the gallery will be closing temporarily throughout this period, we are continuing to work remotely by telephone (+44 207 998 4054) and email ([email protected]) and would be delighted to hear from you. We look forward to re-opening the gallery soon. In the meantime, our programme will continue online and via social media.
We wish everyone good health and strength in these challenging times.
Image © Damian Griffiths
Exhibition News
Reginald Sylvester II: New Paintings
March 3 – March 29, 2020
James Fuentes, New York
James Fuentes is pleased to present a solo presentation of new works by Reginald Sylvester II. Motivated by a drive to dismantle and rebuild, over the past year and a half Sylvester II has been occupied by a transition into abstract painting, evolving from his figurative works that came before. Through this process, Sylvester II spent time traveling to Bali, Japan, and then Mexico City, where he has kept a studio since. The qualities of music and light in this space have had a profound effect on his work, resulting in his series of “light paintings.”
Reginald Sylvester II, 008 (Transfer Painting), 2020, © the artist
Artist News
GOODE
Artist Reginald Sylvester II Reflects on the Evolving Meaning of Space
“The need for natural light… there’s something about its play of outdoor energy being reflected in indoor spaces that moves me. That, in turn, can allow me to live at my best for the time being. Living here in Mexico City has definitely exorcised my use and relation to color within my work. It has also given me a taste of what life could be like when a bit more detached. This has been extremely helpful for my thoughts. This change of cultural and historical landscape has furthered my awareness and the importance of heritage. A people and their collectiveness and how they deal with each other — you get a pretty good sense of that here. By not having much, you could still lead a life just as fruitful and purposeful than the next. That principal in turn aligns with how I want to treat space: not having much yet still exuding extreme amounts of feeling, presence and purpose.”
Photograph of Reginald Sylvester II © by Andrés Navarro
Book Launch
NEMESIS
Maximillian William is pleased to announce the launch of the exhibition catalogue for NEMESIS, Reginald Sylvester II’s first solo exhibition in London. The catalogue is 32 pages of beautiful close ups of Sylvester II’s abstract works as well as images of the works in-situ within the gallery space. Accompanying the work is an except written by Michele Robecchi of Phaidon Press. Designed by Christopher Vanauken with Editorial Direction by Theophilos Constantinou.
NEMESIS Exhibition Catalogue, © Maximillian William
In Conversation
Magda Skupinska and Lucia Pietroiusti
Saturday, February 22, 2020, 12:30pm
Maximillian William, London
Maximillian William will be hosting a conversation between Magda Skupinska and Lucia Pietroiusti, curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries. Recently, Pietroiusti curated Sun & Sea (Marina) for the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Their talk will coincide with Skupinska’s current solo exhibition, Layú. Extending Skupinska’s investigation of the natural world and its phenomena, Layú presents a series of works created with organic materials, such as ground corn for the pigments of her paints in its four original colours (white, yellow, red and blue). For the basis of her canvases, palm fibres were woven by women from the Zapotec community in Santo Domingo Albarradas – a traditional craft passed down from generations, solely among women. This technique is not only a collective activity; it is organic, meticulous and closely tied to nature – all expressions that point to Skupinska’s oeuvre. The exhibition will remain on view through 19 March. To attend this free event please RSVP to [email protected] Space is limited.
Exhibition News
Somaya Critchlow
Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting
11 January – 15 February 2020
Marianne Boesky, New York
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, an exhibition that explores the resurgence of portraiture as an incisive platform through which to consider the nature and meaning of identity. As our globalized society becomes increasingly marked by emigration, resettlement, and technological interconnectedness, so too have notions of the self become exponentially fractured and complex. Through the work of seventeen artists, Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting captures the ways in which artists are leveraging the power of the portrait to express these intricacies, exposing the relationship between identity, place, and shifting social norms. The exhibition will be on view from January 11 through February 15, 2020, across both of Marianne Boesky Gallery’s Chelsea locations at 507 and 509 West 24th Street.
Image © Marianne Boesky
Artist News
Coco Capitán
Smythson Cards
February 2019
The stationer has collaborated with Coco Capitán to create a design engraved with the Spanish artist’s prose in her trademark handwritten scrawl for a special Valentine’s note for that special someone.
Image © Smythson
In Conversation
Somaya Critchlow and Amanda Renshaw
Role Play
14 January 2019
Maximillian William, London
7:00 – 8:00pm
Maximillian William is delighted to be hosting a conversation between artist, Somaya Critchlow, and author and curator, Amanda Renshaw. The talk will include ideas conceived for Role Play, as well as the continued relevance and influence Philip Guston has on younger generations of artists working today. Role Play investigated the work of Philip Guston alongside contemporary artists Somaya Critchlow and Lenz Geerk who take on a performative and theatrical role in the subject matter of their paintings. The exhibition expanded on the notions of representational vocabularies of identities and the limitation of how perception is evoked. By subtly implicating themselves in their subjects through the use of “props” and dramatic poses, these artists stimulate a comically morbid storyline imbued with methods of masquerade and role-play leaving the viewer implicated in their narrative.
To attend this free event, please RSVP to: [email protected]
Image © Damian Griffiths
Somaya Critchlow
Sincere for Synonym
18 October – 22 November, 2019
Fortnight Institute, New York
Sincere for Synonym (taken from Critchlow’s eponymous piece of writing that is constructed around using interplaced titles borrowed from episodes of the TV series Love and Hip Hop) is the second solo exhibition by artist Somaya Critchlow (b. 1993, UK). It brings together a selection of works that cross reference contemporary ways of existence through historical methods of seeing.
Image © Fortnight Institute
Artist News
Coco Capitán
Partnership with Samsung
As part of Samsung’s effort to reach young creatives in the US and Asia, 27-year-old multidisciplinary artist Coco Capitán was commissioned by Hypebeast to develop a branded content campaign and 360º activation showcasing the brand’s newest tech products as creative tools for young artists. Merging art form and brand story, the partnership created a rich consumer experience that reflects today’s omnichannel and multi-touchpoint media landscape.
Capitán’s collaboration with Samsung reimagined the conventional brand-artist partnership and in-store shopping experience, sourcing inspiration from the artist’s visit to New York and two-week residency in Japan to create a series of aspirational films following her on her exploration of the magnificent cities through an artist’s eyes with Samsung technology in hand.
Image © Samsung
Reginald Sylvester II
Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong
10 September – 19 October 2019
R & Company, New York
This September, R & Company presents “Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong,” an exhibition curated by Raquel Cayre to re-think the chair and its corresponding forms of use and design. Featuring nearly 50 international artists and designers, the exhibition surveys the chair as a formal object, a product, a structure, a symbol and a material. Participants are invited to explore how these ideas contribute to an expanded notion of the chair as an archetype for creative work, while challenging the categorical divisions that extend between art and design. Some works were newly-produced for the exhibition, while others were curated specifically for their ability to contour away from pre-existing notions of form and function.
Image © R & Company
Gallery Grand Opening
Maximillian William
26 September 2019
London
6:00 – 8:00pm
We are pleased to announce that, after operating as a nomadic gallery for a number of years, Maximillian William will be opening a physical space in Fitzrovia in September, 2019. The opening event will be on the 26th and run from 6:00 – 8:00pm. This will also coincide with the launch of our inaugural show: NEMESIS, by Reginald Sylvester II, his first solo show in London.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new space as we continue to work alongside emerging talent and promote an engaging exhibition program.
Image © Maximillian William
Exhibition News
Somaya Critchlow
They Gaze
7 June – 19 July 2019
James Fuentes, New York
James Fuentes is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition, They Gaze. “What happens when the gaze isn’t the omnipotent gaze of the artist or anonymous viewer—usually male—but the subject of the painting itself? What happens when the painting gazes back and questions its audience? If the gaze emanates from a position of alterity and not authority, is the viewer more or less shaken?”
Image © James Fuentes
Book Launch
Coco Capitán
If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes
25 June 2019
Chose Commune
6:00 – 8:00pm
“If You’ve Seen It All, Close Your Eyes” presents extracts from a decade of artist Coco Capitán’s handwritten notebooks. Coco Capitán has always scribbled down her thoughts ‘everywhere, all the time’, often on scraps of paper that have filled notebook after notebook. From her first day in London in 2010 until now, and as she travels the world on photography assignments, Coco Capitán’s writings grant insight into her free and instinctive creative process. Playful aphorisms and short poems address an array of issues with hints of humour and irony. She combines the serious with the mundane as she shares in her first text-based book social, metaphorical or sentimental moments with her witty tone and distinctive hand.
If you are interested in joining us, please RSVP to: [email protected]
Image © Chose Commune
Exhibition News
Magda Skupinska
Tender Touches
17 May – 30 June 2019
Open Space Contemporary
Blurring the lines between the gallery, the studio and the dining room, Tender Touches will host a series of talks, supper clubs and performances, taking place among new commissions by a group of international emerging artists.
Drawing on the food-based practice of Portuguese artist and co-curator of the exhibition, Inês Neto dos Santos, the exhibition aims to bring people together through food, using it as a catalyst for conversation and debate. The food menu, designed and cooked by Neto dos Santos, will be inspired by her interest in sustainable food practices such as preservation and fermentation.
Image © Open Space Contemporary
Book Launch
Coco Capitán
Busy Living: Everything with Everyone Everywhere All of the Time
March 2019
Loose Joints
Busy Living accompanies Spanish artist Coco Capitán’s first major museum exhibition in Europe, a comprehensive survey of the artists’ last six years of image-making, including an essay by curator Simon Baker and texts throughout in English and French.
Despite Capitán’s young age, Busy Living contains a kaleidoscope of styles, with openness and freedom beyond her years. Ranging from playful setups pushing against the conventions of fashion and commercial photography, through to statuesque studies of Olympic swimmers and personal memoirs told through trips across America and China, Busy Living shows Capitán doing exactly what her title proposes: experiencing, absorbing, and reflecting a fast-paced modern world.
Image © Loose Joints
Exhibition News
Coco Capitán
Busy Living: Everything with Everyone Everywhere All of the Time
6 March – 26 May, 2019
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
“The title of the show is Busy living everything with everyone, everywhere, all of the time. It’s a long title [laughs] that reflects the speed of how we all live right now – this need of wanting to achieve everything in the matter of a single second. But it’s also about an energy for life as well, especially mine. I want to see everything in the world and I want to do it now. It’s just about the possibilities to really dedicating things, the time they need and also being very enthusiastic and wanting to achieve a lot, a lot in a little time. I don’t deal with it really well. I feel I am a bit overwhelmed with my own time, in the sense that I would like to have more time to enjoy things, be free, to enjoy everything possible, all sorts of possibilities and combinations to live this life. I guess that’s why I chose that title because I do feel a little bit trapped.”
Image © Loose Joints
Artist News
Coco Capitán
Vogue Korea
January 2019
“Styling some cabbage with my girlfriend @franceswilks as a trend prediction for 2019 in @voguekorea January cover. I dislike getting too personal in social networks, but I thought it important to mention that this one of the very first covers to ever feature a gay couple in the South Korean mass media and I am incredibly grateful to @voguekorea for allowing me to appear as I am, next to @franceswilks who’s part of who I am and what I stand for. Thank you as well to @gucci for taking as a responsibility to support, dress and represent all parts of the gender and sexual orientation spectrum. Thank you @sketchedspaceseoul & @creativeexchangeagency for being my voice in Seoul and always taking care of us. And thank you @franceswilks for making sure that my days are filled with fun, respect and love #gaysingucci”
Image © Vogue Korea
Exhibition News
Somaya Critchlow
Time Never Mattered
17 November – 29 December 2018
Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago
Time never mattered evokes the immersive reverie an artist can attain through drawing and painting, and the imagistic world-building these processes advance. In a new series of miniature paintings (all works 2018) Somaya Critchlow presents heroines who are themselves unmoored in time and space, emerging starkly against backdrops of thinned oils evocative of the atmospheric monochromatic backgrounds found in early modern European portrait miniatures.
Image © Somaya Critchlow
Exhibition News
Coco Capitán
Is It Tomorrow Yet?
02 August 2018 – 27 January 2019
Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Presented for the first time in Asia, the exhibition is essentially an all-encompassing window into the artist’s unique perspective on the world, with the inclusion of 150 works, spanning across different media, including photography, painting, handwriting, video and installation.
Combining intimacy and playfulness with subtle social critique, as well as probing questions concerned with existing values and hierarchies, Capitán provides her contemporary interpretation of pop art to imagination-based paintings and handwriting works that encapsulate her mixed emotions in a witty manner. Her thoughts about the present and anxiety about the future are also explored, as her works seek to provide those struggling with uncertainties in life with an opportunity to feel a touch of empathy.
Image © Daelim Museum
Artist News
Coco Capitán
Vogue UA Art Issue
July 2018
“My imaginary twins: enlightened snobbism. preppy triplets for Vogue UA art issue. Oswaldo and Guillermo, always missed. Thank you to my supportive friends @francisani_x @gucci @yannedouard @eric__emmanuel @juliasmmakeup @georginapragnell @hadeeladeela”
Image © Vogue UA
Exhibition News
Somaya Critchlow
Downsizing (Every Little Helps)
21 May – 27 May, 2018
Cavespace, London
In the film Downsizing, because of a crisis in over-population and of global warming, it is suggested that in order to save the world’s resources everyone should be shrunk so that they are only 12 cm tall. In a similar way, because of the cost of putting on an exhibition, in order to show their work together the artists in this show have been given the challenge of shrinking their work so that it fits into a small space. Big ideas have been transformed into tiny works of art and we invite you come and see this collection of pint-sized, pocket paintings, drawings and prints, born out of necessity but no less profound or beautiful for it.
Image © Cavespace
Exhibition News
Magda Skupinska
Adventitious Encounters
9 March – 22 March, 2018
Open Space Contemporary, London
What is the relationship between nature and humans? According to Félix Guattari’s Chaosmosis, “geopolitical configurations are changing at a great pace, while the Universes of technoscience, biology, computer technology, telematics and the media further destabilise our mental coordinates on a daily basis”. Humans have crossed a curious path, which brought them to an objectification of nature with a mechanism of mutual dependence on it. A circular movement, in which the subject of the research is also its object. However, despite being represented by the humankind, this nature cannot be uncontaminated, nor has it ever been.
The exhibition was curated by Huma Kabakcı and Anna Skladmann. It will explore our sensitive possibilities in relation to their context, examining history and the vision of William Whiteleys himself, who founded the first lucky department store in London and desired a space under the sky that would be suitable for botanics.
Image © Open Space Contemporary
Exhibition News
Magda Skupinska
White Memory – 1989/2018 Art in Malta and Poland
14 December 2017 – 11 February 2018
St James Cavalier
White Memory – 1989/2018 Art in Malta and Poland is an exhibition curated by Irene Biolchini and Marinella Paderni. The exhibition revolves around the ties between Malta and Poland and the search for identity in the present – which also represents the promise for the future. White is the colour of pureness, but it is also the colour used to cancel, to erase, thus presenting the leitmotiv of this exhibition.
Image © Sergio Muscat
Exhibition News
Reginald Sylvester II
Punch
15 September – 27 October 2018
Jeffrey Deitch, New York
Punch focuses on artists of Nina Chanel Abney’s generation whose work raises compelling questions about the blurred lines of art today: Where do we draw the line between culture and subculture, figuration and abstraction, and the physical and the digital?
Many of these artists grew up in the digital age, seeing first-hand how multiple streams of information from different media can penetrate consciousness. These image streams create a common language for artists to examine and digest how developments in society and culture have altered our perception of contemporary life.
Image © Jeffrey Deitch
Exhibition News
Reginald Sylvester II
Premonition
19 October 2017 – 22 February 2018
Lever House, New York
Sylvester II describes, “Premonition embodies a set of works that reflect my physical energy and my truth. These images have been projected from my unconscious, through my hand, and onto the surface. When tapping into the unconscious I believe that you are tapping into your inner spirit, the soul. In this place, untainted truth and identity reside.”
Image © Lever House
Exhibition News
Somaya Critchlow
FA Art
18 August 2017 – 10 September 2017
The Sassoon Gallery – Folkstone Library
FA ART explores and challenges the traditions of the figure and abstraction in painting and drawing.
Image © The Sassoon Gallery – Folkstone Library
Book Launch
Coco Capitán
Middle Point Between My House and China
10 May, 2017
Claire de Rouen, London
6:00 – 8:00pm
“I wanted to take images that would denote how I perceived China, my personal experience in the country and how I saw the people who were there,” Coco explains. “The middle ground in the book lies between the self and the other. Photographing is an exercise that links two ends: the photographer and the subject being photographed, explored. A photograph speaks both about the photographer and the sitter. When I say ‘middle point’ I refer to that space that appears when you start looking at something different to your everyday life.”
To attend this free event, please RSVP to: [email protected]
Image © Coco Capitán
Exhibition News
Reginald Sylvester II
The Rise and Fall of a People
16 March 2017 – 01 April 2017
Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy
Characterized by a rich and varied pictorial language, Sylvester’s paintings exist in a place in between abstraction and figuration, where instinctive gestures are translated into immediate and spiritually charged communicative forms. The body of work prepared for the exhibition at Fondazione Stelline captures a particularly important moment in the artist’s career. The introspective view of Sylvester’s early works is gradually evolving into a study on the outside world, initiating a series of new reflections on how the personal sphere can interact with the collective body. Primarily focused on portraiture, these new works touch on Biblical themes to address the critical times Western society is currently facing, as the title ‘The Rise and Fall of a People’ testifies.
Image © Fondazione Stelline
“The title of the show is Busy Living: Everything with Everyone, Everywhere, All of the Time. ...
Apr 6
“The title of the show is Busy Living: Everything with Everyone, Everywhere, All of the Time. It’s a long title that reflects the speed of how we all live right now – this need of wanting to achieve everything in the matter of a single second. But it’s also about an energy for life as well.”
Maximillian William is taking a look back at some of its favourite exhibitions in a new feature we're calling #exhibitionarchive. While highlighting our artists, we want to showcase some of the amazing global exhibitions they have been part of over the years.
Our first highlight is Coco Capitán's exhibition, Busy Living Everything with Everyone, Everywhere, All of the Time, at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris from 2019. This solo exhibition by Capitán explored her photography, of course, but also highlighted other works by the artist, such as her quirky and engaging writing, painting and mixed media.
#CocoCapitán #ExhibitionArchive
©️All images courtesy of the artist and Maximillian William, London.
👉👉|Today’s inspiration in isolation is brought to us by, @magdaskupinska . ...
Mar 30
👉👉|Today’s inspiration in isolation is brought to us by, @magdaskupinska . #InspirationInIsolation
ART
Rachel Sussman’s work on oldest living things.
Agnieszka Kurant’s exploration of collective intelligence.
Spiritual investigations and methods of Hilma af Klint.
Environmental works of Agnes Denes.
Herman De Vries’s use of natural materials.
FASHION
Pale colours. Natural fabrics.
MUSIC
Lately, I’ve been listening to Greentea Peng, Skinshape, Robot Orchestra's latest EP, Polish band Twoiam, Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade and Manu Chao. Radiohead is my all time favourite.
LITERATURE
The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
Shamans Through Time by Francis Huxley and Jeremy Narby
Supernatural: Meetings With the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
FOOD
Obsessed with turmeric and ginger these days. Can’t wait for the picnic season.
#LINKINBIO | In January, Maximillian William hosted a conversation between artist, Somaya Critchlow,...
Mar 27
#LINKINBIO | In January, Maximillian William hosted a conversation between artist, Somaya Critchlow, and author and curator, Amanda Renshaw. The talk included ideas conceived for Role Play, as well as the continued relevance and influence Philip Guston has on younger generations of artists working today.
Role Play investigated the work of Philip Guston alongside contemporary artists Somaya Critchlow and Lenz Geerk who take on a performative and theatrical role in the subject matter of their paintings. The exhibition expanded on the notions of representational vocabularies of identities and the limitation of how perception is evoked. By subtly implicating themselves in their subjects through the use of “props” and dramatic poses, these artists stimulate a comically morbid storyline imbued with methods of masquerade and role-play leaving the viewer implicated in their narrative.
The theatrical nature of painting was heightened by the work of Philip Guston, who saw himself as a movie director and actively examined this discourse, still prevalent in today’s world. Whether wrestling with the history of figuration, resuscitating historical trends or discomforting their ideas, several contemporary artists have turned to the practice to investigate issues of power, greed, identity and frustration when the boundaries between real and assumed identities are becoming more faint. The exhibition, which ran from November 20, 2019 – January 24, 2020, was curated by Charlotte Eytan.
#ROLEPLAY #PhilipGuston #SomayaCritchlow #LenzGeerk #AmandaRenshaw #MaximillianWilliam
Video: @raffichipp
👉👉 | Today’s inspiration in isolation is brought to us by, @somayacritchlow. ...
Mar 25
👉👉 | Today’s inspiration in isolation is brought to us by, @somayacritchlow. #InspirationInIsolation
ART
On a recent trip to NYC I discovered the portraits of Thomas Gainsborough. I was particularly taken by this portrait of Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Her eyes were considered to be too seductive in this portrait and her cheeks flushed.
FASHION
The Turkish born designer Dilara Findikoglu. Vintage and secondhand always, I found a beautiful blue Versace suit recently and a Gaultier matching skirt suit.
MUSIC
I’ve been listening to Slum Village again and I like the track Universal Solider on Jay Z’s new album. Favourites I always go back to are John Martyn, Kodak Black, J hus and Jeff Buckley.
LITERATURE
This beautiful book of Carlo Mollino polaroids, then most importantly I always have my copy of ‘The Sadeian Woman’ by Angela Carter around. I also recently acquired ‘A Wake For The Living’ a book of poems by Radmila Lazic “Goodness is boring.”
FOOD
Anything green. I love all green fruits, vegetables and herbs. Me and my partner love eating at Rochelle Canteen.
👉👉 | Today’s inspiration in isolation is brought to us by, @reginaldsylvester2 . ...
Mar 21
👉👉 | Today’s inspiration in isolation is brought to us by, @reginaldsylvester2 . #InspirationInIsolation
ART
A lot of ceramics and art objects/sculptures from the past. Judd, Whitten, Ritcher, Gilliam, Bradford. But mostly my own work - how can I push things further?
FASHION
Vintage for sure. Denim and boots as well. Finding everyday pieces as I go. Been getting back into Kapitol, RRL, Visvim and Human Made as well.
MUSIC
A.W.T - Jay Electronica, Bitches Brew - Miles Davis, Drunk - Thundercat, Fletcher Moss Park - Matthew Halsall, Con Todo El Mundo - Khruangbin and lastly W.Y.W.H - Pink Floyd.
LITERATURE
Started over with Genesis in the Bible(KJV) and Donald Judd 1955 -1968.
FOOD
Lucien the past few weeks, just cause I'm back in NY.
In light of the recent developments and uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 Virus, Maximillian ...
Mar 17
In light of the recent developments and uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 Virus, Maximillian William has chosen to move to appointment-only operations out of consideration for both clients and staff. Should you wish to visit our upcoming exhibition by Somaya Critchlow, Underneath a Bebop Moon, launching 27 March, please do reach out via phone or email to schedule an appointment
The gallery will remain available for calls and emails during normal operating hours, as staff will be working remotely to handle enquiries and appointment requests. During this time, we look forward to providing additional engagement with our audiences through our online platforms. Visit us on our website, Instagram, or Facebook to stay updated on our artists and upcoming shows. If you wish to contact the gallery, please feel free to reach out via phone (+44 207 998 4054) or email ([email protected]).
We look forward to remaining in touch during this time and welcoming you back to the gallery soon, sending you all our warmest regards.
Image above:
Somaya Critchlow
Petworth Beauty (Abigail), 2020
oil on linen
8.27 x 5.91 inch
© the artist and Maximillian William, London. Photography © Kalory Studios.
Full installation views of LAYÚ, Magda Skupinska’s debut exhibition at the gallery’s first ...
Mar 16
Full installation views of LAYÚ, Magda Skupinska’s debut exhibition at the gallery’s first physical space in Fitzrovia. The exhibition will be coming to a close this Thursday, please feel free to contact the gallery for further information.
Thank you Magda for this sophisticated and timely display.
Magda Skupinska in conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti will be available online. An announcement will follow.
#LastWeek #MagdaSkupinska #LAYÚ
#MaximillianWilliam
An exhibition of new paintings by Reginald Sylvester II now open @james_fuentes_llc. The exhibition ...
Mar 9
An exhibition of new paintings by Reginald Sylvester II now open @james_fuentes_llc. The exhibition runs through March 29th.
March 14th, 2020. 3pm @james_fuentes_llc
Reginald Sylvester will be in conversation with Humberto Moro, Deputy Director & Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo.
#ReginaldSylvesterII #NewYork
#UpcomingExhibition| Underneath a Bebop Moon, Somaya Critchlow’s debut solo presentation at the ...
Mar 4
#UpcomingExhibition| Underneath a Bebop Moon, Somaya Critchlow’s debut solo presentation at the gallery and the artist’s largest show to date. The exhibition demonstrates a strikingly unfettered range in scale. It includes for the first time some of the larger scale paintings that she has been working on over the past year, alongside medium and miniature works (a scale for which she has become known), as well as new works on paper, focusing on a series of watercolours.
Somaya Critchlow: Underneath a Bebop Moon
Private View: 27 March, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition Dates: 28 March - 9 May 202
#SomayaCritchlow #MaximillianWilliam
Image above:
Somaya Critchlow, The Wait of Silence II (Afternoon Tea), 2019, oil on linen. © The Artist and Maximillian William, London.
Photography © Kalory Studios
Just over two weeks left to visit Magda Skupinska’s, LAYÚ.
Pictured above is an ...
Mar 3
Just over two weeks left to visit Magda Skupinska’s, LAYÚ.
Pictured above is an installation image of the presentation at the gallery.
#MagdaSkupinska #LAYÚ #MaximillianWilliam
NEMESIS is now available to order worldwide on the gallery’s website. (Link in bio / Limited ...
Feb 28
NEMESIS is now available to order worldwide on the gallery’s website. (Link in bio / Limited copies available online)
A London singing will be announced imminently as well as limited edition hand-painted covers by the artist.
#NEMESIS #ReginaldSylvesterII #MaximillianWilliam #Publications
Published on the occasion of Reginald Sylvester II’s exhibition NEMESIS, the inaugural exhibition at Maximillian William, London. This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue is accompanied by a scholarly text, written by Michele Robecchi of Phaidon Press.
This book is a limited edition of 300.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Writings: Michele Robecchi
Design: Christopher Vanauken
Editorial direction: Theophilos Constantinou
Language: English
Pages: 32
Size: 30 x 22.2 cm
ISBN: 978-1-7338103-4-0
Publication Date: 4 February, 2020
Edition:300
📸 : @paradigm_publishing
#Publication | This Thursday in New York @mastbooks will be launching Reginald Sylvester II’s ...
Feb 25
#Publication | This Thursday in New York @mastbooks will be launching Reginald Sylvester II’s exhibition catalogue, NEMESIS. Published to document his recent exhibition at the gallery. The fully illustrated catalogue was printed in a limited edition of 300 and is accompanied by a scholarly text written by Michele Robecchi (Phiadon Press).
Reginald Sylvester II will be singing a limited number of 50 books in store.
#NEMESIS #ReginaldSylvesterII #MaximillianWilliam #Publications #MastBooks
#ArtistNews | Somaya Critchlow most recently included in, “These Emerging Black Artists Are the ...
Feb 18
#ArtistNews | Somaya Critchlow most recently included in, “These Emerging Black Artists Are the Future of Figurative Painting.” Written by Isis Davis-Marks for @artsy.
We are very excited to be presenting her debut display in the UK, opening March 27th. More to follow.
#SomayaCritchlow #MaximillianWilliam #London
Image above:
Somaya Critchlow
TBT, 2019
Oil on canvas
13.9 × 11.8 in (35 × 30 cm)
©️Image Courtesy of the artist Somaya Critchlow & Maximillian William, London. Photography Kalory Studios.
#CONVERSATIONS | Pleased to announce a conversation between Magda Skupinska and Lucia Pietroiusti, ...
Feb 17
#CONVERSATIONS | Pleased to announce a conversation between Magda Skupinska and Lucia Pietroiusti, curator of General Ecology at the Serpentine Galleries. Recently, Pietroiusti curated Sun & Sea (Marina) for the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, which was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.
Their talk will coincide with Skupinska’s current solo exhibition, LAYÚ. Extending Skupinska’s investigation of the natural world and its phenomena, Layú presents a series of works created with organic materials, such as ground corn for the pigments of her paints in its four original colours (white, yellow, red and blue). For the basis of her canvases, palm fibres were woven by women from the Zapotec community in Santo Domingo Albarradas – a traditional craft passed down from generations, solely among women. This technique is not only a collective activity; it is organic, meticulous and closely tied to nature – all expressions that point to Skupinska’s oeuvre.
The exhibition will remain on view through 19 March.
RSVP : [email protected]
#MagdaSkupinska #LuciaPietroiusti #Conversations #LAYÚ #MaximillianWilliam
“To get to know the land one has to get to know the life that comes out of it."
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Feb 14
“To get to know the land one has to get to know the life that comes out of it."
– M.S.
#LAYÚ #MagdaSkupinska
Image above:
Magda Skupinska
Ruuchi (To Cut in Isthmus Zapotec), 2019
White and yellow corn on petates
40.24 x 32.36 in (102.2 x 82.2 cm)
©️Image courtesy of the artist Magda Skupinska & Maximillian William, London.
#ZonaMaco | Booth ZMF13, presenting new work by #ReginaldSylvesterII
Images ...
Feb 7
#ZonaMaco | Booth ZMF13, presenting new work by #ReginaldSylvesterII
Images above:
1. 004 (light painting), 2020. 80x72inch, Oil on linen. Accompanied by table from Jorge Yázpik and stools by EWE Studio. (courtesy of @masa)
2. 004 (light painting), 2020. 80x72inch, Oil on linen.
3. (L) 007 (light painting), 2020, 72x72inch oil and paper on canavs. (R) 001 (Transfer painting), 2020, 10x9 inch.
Image courtesy of the artist and Maximillian William, London. Photography @chris_nec
#ArtFairNews | pleased to announce the gallery's participation in this year's edition of ...
Feb 4
#ArtFairNews | pleased to announce the gallery's participation in this year's edition of Zona Maco, opening tomorrow. Featuring a selection of new paintings by Reginald Sylvester II, these work are a continuation of the artist delving deeper as well as re examining his process. Reginald brings in the new medium of oil paint, reflecting his travels over the last five months.
BOOTH ZMF13 (FORO Section)
FEBRUARY 05 - 09, 2020
VIP PREVIEW
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 11AM - 4PM
OPENING
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 4PM - 9PM
OPEN TO PUBLIC
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 06 - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 12PM - 9PM
LOCATION
CENTRO CITIBANAMEX, HALL D
AV. CONSCRIPTO 311
LOMAS DE SOTELO
MEXICO CITY, 11200
Image above:
Reginald Sylvester II, 004 (Light Painting), 2020
Oil on linen
80 x 72 in
Photo courtesy of the artist, Reginald Sylvester II
#InstallImage | Pictured above, an image of Magda Skupinska’s recently opened exhibition. #LAYÚ ...
Jan 31
#InstallImage | Pictured above, an image of Magda Skupinska’s recently opened exhibition. #LAYÚ
‘The installation is inspired by ‘The Three Sisters’ - an indigenous planting technique that tells the story of the beneficial and inseparable relationship of the three most important food sources in Mesoamerican cultures – corn, bean and squash. The fibres strangely depict human hair and have been infused with pigments and oils of bean, squash, and corn. The arrangement and structure being held together like three heads, recalls the complemented nature of these three crops. Forming a distinct companionship, the installation expands on the notion of co-dependency and togetherness between humans and nature’
📸: Courtesy of the artist and Maximillian William London. Photo by Damien Griffiths
⌨️: Courtesy of Charlotte Eytan.
#OpeningAnnouncement | LAYÚ a solo exhibition of new works by Polish artist Magda Skupinska, opens ...
Jan 24
#OpeningAnnouncement | LAYÚ a solo exhibition of new works by Polish artist Magda Skupinska, opens at the gallery next week Thursday!
Opening reception: January 30th 6-8pm. Exhibition runs through to March 19th,2020.
The show’s title translates to “Land”, a word originating from Isthmus Zapotec, an indigenous language spoken on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the southern part of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The body of work offers a window into the process and exploration of organic materials, which the artist was exposed to when relocating her practice in the Pacific coast of Mexico over the last year.
#MagdaSkupinska #LAYÚ
Video:
Directed @raphael.chipperfield
Shot @rachelliewsy
Music @father_insta
Image Two:
©️Image courtesy of the artist.
©️Photography courtesy of Marcell Ibarrola
#ClosingSoon | Friday 24th of January will be the last day of Role Play, thank you to everyone ...
Jan 22
#ClosingSoon | Friday 24th of January will be the last day of Role Play, thank you to everyone involved in making it such a memorable exhibition. Most importantly the artists and curator.
Above image, installation view of the exhibition. The gallery talk between Amanda Renshaw and Somaya Critchlow will be published online in the coming weeks.
#PhilipGuston #SomayaCritchlow #LenzGeerk #RolePlay
©️image courtesy of the artists and Maximillian William, London.