Banksy at RA summer exhibition , by met on Jun 28, 2019 15:26:32 GMT 1,
Non-Londoners attending the Summer Exhibition 2019 may not realise that the Royal Academy of Arts is located on Piccadilly at the southern edge of Mayfair — which is the city's gallery land.

If you're in the area and not yet suffering from art fatigue, I would suggest also visiting notable local galleries and auction houses. Here are some options among the dozens available:


Pace Gallery
[NB: The London venue at the back of the RA currently has a rather dull show featuring the American abstract minimalists Jo Baer, Mary Corse and Agnes Martin.]

Sprüth Magers

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Marlborough Gallery

Flowers Gallery

Osborne Samuel

Gagosian Gallery
[This is on Davies Street, i.e. London's mini-Gagosian — "boutique" and far less substantial than the flagship space on Britannia Street in the King's Cross area.]

__________


Phillips

Sotheby's

Bonhams
[New Bond Street, as opposed to the separate venue in Knightsbridge.]

__________


For a specific recommendation, the most thought-provoking art show I've seen this year is Life Still by Keith Tyson, at the excellent Hauser & Wirth.

It's on until 7 September 2019 at one of the gallery's two locations at 23 Savile Row.

www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/23555-keith-tyson



Some of the web-page text:

Hauser & Wirth London is proud to present ‘Life Still’, an exhibition of new paintings by Keith Tyson. The series of works displayed have a shared subject matter; they are all flower paintings. Through the prism of this singular genre, Tyson moves between the philosophical, the mathematical, and the mythological to create the 25 works in the exhibition. By taking a myriad of approaches, painting each canvas himself, Tyson draws on the information systems that surround and bombard us, reflecting an experience of the contemporary world we all inhabit. In this respect, beyond any reading of the subject matter, the content of the exhibition explores how painting is, and always has been, contingent on the conditions and context of its making.

Tyson has referred to paint as a ‘programmable material’ and an ongoing interest in computers, coding and data has always been an important part of his life – from taking apart a motherboard as a teenager, to building ‘Art Machine’ early in his career. This featured algorithm generated combinations of words and ideas, which Tyson then realised in a multitude of media. His fascination with systems and the effect of data consumption manifests itself in the abundance of formal languages of painting in the exhibition. A celebration of the interconnectivity of the current age and its effect on himself and society is a counterpoint here to Tyson’s choice of subject matter which has a long-established art historical precedent. As Tyson says, ‘I don’t believe in a permanent self or in developing an artistic style. Our world is full of intricately connected systems and events. I’m simply trying to make work in collaboration with them.’



Sample imagery taken from a Studio International interview with Tyson *:






















All the works were painted by Tyson himself (I asked specifically).

Non-Londoners attending the Summer Exhibition 2019 may not realise that the Royal Academy of Arts is located on Piccadilly at the southern edge of Mayfair — which is the city's gallery land.

If you're in the area and not yet suffering from art fatigue, I would suggest also visiting notable local galleries and auction houses. Here are some options among the dozens available:


Pace Gallery
[NB: The London venue at the back of the RA currently has a rather dull show featuring the American abstract minimalists Jo Baer, Mary Corse and Agnes Martin.]

Sprüth Magers

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Marlborough Gallery

Flowers Gallery

Osborne Samuel

Gagosian Gallery
[This is on Davies Street, i.e. London's mini-Gagosian — "boutique" and far less substantial than the flagship space on Britannia Street in the King's Cross area.]

__________


Phillips

Sotheby's

Bonhams
[New Bond Street, as opposed to the separate venue in Knightsbridge.]

__________


For a specific recommendation, the most thought-provoking art show I've seen this year is Life Still by Keith Tyson, at the excellent Hauser & Wirth.

It's on until 7 September 2019 at one of the gallery's two locations at 23 Savile Row.

www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/23555-keith-tyson



Some of the web-page text:

Hauser & Wirth London is proud to present ‘Life Still’, an exhibition of new paintings by Keith Tyson. The series of works displayed have a shared subject matter; they are all flower paintings. Through the prism of this singular genre, Tyson moves between the philosophical, the mathematical, and the mythological to create the 25 works in the exhibition. By taking a myriad of approaches, painting each canvas himself, Tyson draws on the information systems that surround and bombard us, reflecting an experience of the contemporary world we all inhabit. In this respect, beyond any reading of the subject matter, the content of the exhibition explores how painting is, and always has been, contingent on the conditions and context of its making.

Tyson has referred to paint as a ‘programmable material’ and an ongoing interest in computers, coding and data has always been an important part of his life – from taking apart a motherboard as a teenager, to building ‘Art Machine’ early in his career. This featured algorithm generated combinations of words and ideas, which Tyson then realised in a multitude of media. His fascination with systems and the effect of data consumption manifests itself in the abundance of formal languages of painting in the exhibition. A celebration of the interconnectivity of the current age and its effect on himself and society is a counterpoint here to Tyson’s choice of subject matter which has a long-established art historical precedent. As Tyson says, ‘I don’t believe in a permanent self or in developing an artistic style. Our world is full of intricately connected systems and events. I’m simply trying to make work in collaboration with them.’



Sample imagery taken from a Studio International interview with Tyson *:






















All the works were painted by Tyson himself (I asked specifically).