Coming up in September
Today’s blog is all about us because we’ve got two very exciting shows coming up in September.
Get ready for two very different metaphorical journeys by two very different - and extraordinary - artists.
Invites and reminders in due course, but here is a delicious sneak peak.
URBAN ALLUSIONS
MAMUKA DIDEBA
2-14 SEPTEMBER
Mamuka Dideba, dubbed “Georgia’s Brueghel”, transforms “the mundane and realistic into something special and elevated.”
Inspired in part by Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”, Dideba created Urban Allusions - comprised of over 25 new works - around a metaphorical journey with Prometheus lighting the way.
As with Calvino’s magical surrealism, Dideba’s artworks are fragments of ourselves reflected back at us, perceived through our own individual lens of past memories and future aspirations.
His abstract paintings take you to magical cities built of an ingenious interplay of light and colour, imperceptibly changing tones, and evocative shapes.
Inspired by the Old Masters, his figurative paintings present the cities’ quirky inhabitants who seem to exist outside of time, their exaggerated forms suggestive of their character and profession.
Dideba paints in the Renaissance imprimatura technique that requires enormous skill and patience. Born in 1968 in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he still lives and works, he is widely exhibited. He will join us for the exhibition.
THE SOLSTICE BEGINS
OLGA GOLDINA HIRSCH
16 - 22 SEPTEMBER
in collaboration with writer and curator, Irene Kukota
“The solstices are traditionally considered to signify the start of summer and winter”, says Goldina Hirsch. “Twice a year during the solstice we are given a chance to examine our past and sketch out our future”.
The Solstice Begins sets is a metaphorical journey through the recurring cycles of the Solstice, from life to death and again to rebirth.
As Irene Kukota writes, “Olga’s works are extensive philosophical commentaries on the loss of historical memory that occurs in the time of political upheavals, wars, and other catastrophes. She also addresses the subsequent crisis of identity, and the possibility of healing.”
Working in mixed media and printing, Goldina Hirsch creates spatial depths through layers of transparent tones, exploring internal spaces of dreams and memories that are recovered from oblivion and materialised on canvas.
Comprising twenty-one paintings made over the last six years, the exhibition is a meditation on the cycles of life, the fluidity of memory, and “the pulsations of cosmic energy through us and the universe.”
Born in the Russian Far East, Olga Goldina Hirsch lives and works in London. Widely exhibited, her work has been featured in the London Underground Programme and can be found in the Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vladivostok.