Exhibitions 2020
Art Vs. Apocalypse
Group Exhibition at Secret Art Gallery, Brick Lane, London
6 - 30 December 2020
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-art-vs-apocalypse
We are happy to present the Secret Art Gallery in Brick Lane.
28 Cheshire Street, Brick Lane, London E2 6EH
6 December
6.30 pm - Opening
7 pm - Art performance by Ieva Li
"ART IS OVER Unless We Fight For It" is the title of a poster appeared in London, in the Brick Lane district, at the end of October 2020.
The spirit of Secret Art Limited in these uncertain and crazy times is precisely this "Art is over if we don't fight to save it" and we decided to fight for it.
This is the time to bring out the best in us and play the game by trying to turn an unfavourable situation into a favourable one.
We have to fight to keep art and ourselves alive and we have to prepare for a long winter that is coming and will not leave us anytime soon. We must prepare for the worst but hope and work for the best.
Art is not over because we are fighting for it.
Featured Artists:
Fikir Amanda Abubakar - Sara Arnaout - Daniel Arvizu - Matteo Bosi - Matteo Benetazzo - DEM - Patricia Dinu - Silvia Idili - Francesco Grillo - Hossein Ehsaei - Anna Laurini - Ieva Li - Salvatore Liistro - Emanuela Montorro - Seth Morley - Serg Nehaev - Mariano Pieroni - Massimo Porcelli - Carrie Reichardt - Wiliam Ravara - Eugene Shadko - Pietro Tagliabue - Will Teather - David Turner - Zin V - Zive.
Stay Human | Anna Laurini
Online Exclusive solo show
6 October to 6 November 2020
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-stay-human-anna-laurini
A selection of drawings and paintings by Anna Laurini, one of the most distinctive urban contemporary artists on the London art scene. Those who spent time in east London will be familiar with her signature faces.
Once you see one art piece by Anna Laurini you suddenly start to see them everywhere.
Her artworks are unmissable throughout London and can be found in various locations but most of them are on the streets of Soho and alongside Brick Lane.
She was born and raised in Milan, Italy, but has lived in London for the past 15 years, approximately the same time period as she has been doing art. For Laurini, the main difference between canvas and street art is the environment. Her process is dynamic and bold yet her underlying femininity permeates her prolific body of work. Inspired by Picasso and Matisse, Anna earned a fine art diploma at Central Saint Martins and attended life drawing at Art Student League, New York. Her work has been exhibited in London, Tokyo, New York, Milan and Paris.
“I like to believe these faces look inside you to remind you of who you are, and make you feel like you are in the right place at the right time.” Anna Laurini
Body Electric | Ieva Li
Online Exclusive solo show
25 September to 4 November 2020
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-body-electric
Minimal yet expressive, this collection of Body Prints is presenting different prints of female bodies. Where artists and art become one, presenting an individuality and ultimate beauty of each female form. This contemporary piece is original, unique & only one.
Ieva Li is a London based artist, born in Lithuania, Her art focuses on body empowerment and deeper understanding of connection between body and art.
Early in the childhood affected by the sudden death of her mother’s, Ieva Li fully emerged herself in searching a connection with the world through art. Tragic start of her life gave the artists appreciation for life and a sense of freedom. In early adulthood she traveled across Europe, lived in Sweden and New York, in 2019 London became her permanent home.
New city environment pushed the artist to connect with herself even stronger. “Body prints became like a therapy to me. I felt like I’m losing myself in the fast, unknown world. I needed to connect with myself and creating body prints gave me the strength I needed. In any circumstances I would always find a way to create and that made me realize that art is something so important to me, it lifts my spirit up in the darkest moments”.
Searching for a connection between body and art Ieva Li created a collection of body prints and paintings called Body Electric.
B O D Y / The object that is an inspiration for artists creativity, a vocal point of her art.
E L E C T R I C / Energy that comes from the object. Presenting creativity coming from the soul.
Obscura | David Turner FRSA
Online Exclusive solo show
09 september 10 october 2020
Obscura is a retrospective of recent works by David Turner FRSA. With global pandemics, social and economic breakdown and the potential of a zombie apocalypse looming there has never been a more important time for this exclusive one-man show.
All the artworks in this series are limited editions printed on Fine Art paper, signed and numbered by hand by the artist. Each artwork is framed and glazed in non-reflective glass and certificate of authenticity.
Obscura is a retrospective of recent works by David Turner FRSA.
With global pandemics, social and economic breakdown and the potential of a zombie apocalypse looming there has never been a more important time for this exclusive one-man show.
All the artworks in this series are limited editions printed on Fine Art paper, signed and numbered by hand by the artist. Each artwork is framed and glazed with non-reflective glass and supplied with a certificate of authenticity.
Obscura is a retrospective of recent works by David Turner FRSA. Talking about his inspiration, Turner says: “The world around us is moving ever faster and seemingly becoming more complex (and self destructive) every day. It has all become a blur of sensations, and there is often so much to make sense of it can become overwhelming. Through my drawings, prints and fine art photography I seek to connect with the continuities of the distant and recent past, and the princes, painters, poets, philosophers, and politicians who experienced tumultuous times, and aim to commune with my appreciation for their works and deeds. All this seems especially timely in this era of lockdowns, political crises from the US to Hong Kong and economic uncertainty.
David Turner FRSA is a well known visual artist whose work has been shown in galleries and public spaces on three continents including most recently the Florence Biennale. Upcoming exhibitions of his work include displays in London, Tokyo, and Barcelona. He is also a poet and a playwright/screenwriter and is currently developing a number of interactive and VR projects. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) a London based "creative think tank" founded in 1754.
Exhibitions:
Dyson Gallery, Chelsea
Bristol Art Show
Gallery du 808, Bristol
Substrate Gallery, Los Angeles
Miami Art Week/ Art Basel Miami
D&A Gallery,
Florence Biennale
Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Shibuya Station Exhibition, 3rd Edition, Tokyo Japan
Vision from the Unconscious | Silvia Idili
Online Exclusive solo show
23 august to 23 September 2020
Born and raised in Sardinia, the colours and symbols of this millenary island populate her imagination and reverberate in painting, giving life to new forms and combinations of meaning in which classical and contemporary are inextricably intertwined.
Silvia Idili Was born in Cagliari in 1982 and moved to Milan in 2007 where she now lives. Her work is dedicated to evocation more than to expressivity.
The bodies and faces painted by Silvia Idili appear as if suspended in a motionless time; they emerge from the darkness of the unconscious, from the oblivion of the uncertainties and anxieties that often grip the human soul. They are men and women whose eyes are often hidden, submerged or dugout, in a continuous play of veils and solid geometries in which the spectator is invited to go beyond the visible, beyond appearances, even beyond matter.
Silvia Idili brings with her love and pride for the traditions and culture of a land surrounded by the sea which, as she herself says, "is not an "island" but a symbol of freedom and moves an inner gaze to undertake a journey". Born and raised in Sardinia, the colours and symbols of this millenary island populate her imagination and reverberate in painting, giving life to new forms and combinations of meaning in which classical and contemporary are inextricably intertwined.
The artist, born in 1982, has lived and worked in Milan for years. He approached the oil technique almost by chance and since then has never stopped using it. His dreamlike visions take shape within complex interior landscapes, made of flat backgrounds and a few enigmatic elements on which the viewer's gaze is forced to pause.
Her artistic research recalls the formula “ut pictura poesis” by Oratio to express through colours and shapes the spiritual and mystic tension towards the anxiety of contemporaneity.
Secret Art Ltd and Gabriel Fine Arts proudly present
TO ART OR NOT TO ART
UPDATE:
We are keeping up to date with UK government guidelines and the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations in order to keep our visitors safe due to Coronavirus (COVID 19).
For the above reason, we decided to move the exhibition dates to 16th - 25th July 2020.
On the 31st March we will be launching a special online preview on Artsy which will be available until 6th June.
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-to-art-or-not-to-art
We also decided that 10% of profits on each sales will be donated towards the NHS and another 10% to support the animals at the London Zoo.
Open: 16th – 25th June 2020
11 am ‐ 6 pm
Private View: Thu 16 July 2020
6 ‐ 9 pm
Poetry and Live Music: Sat 25 July
6 ‐ 9:30 pm
The Fitzrovia Gallery 139 Whitfield Street, Bloomsbury, London W1T 5EN
please RSVP to RSVP@gabrielfineart.co.uk
In this exhibition of visual, written and performance arts, we honour the spirit and meaning of Shakespeare. For him, 'to be' meant to create. To create has always meant suffering 'the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune' -‐ political and financial risk, public opprobrium, the very end of being... However, choosing to run those risks can sometimes result in the nearest thing we know to eternal life. Five centuries on, Shakespeare's words are still alive in cinemas and theaters around the globe and in our day-‐to-‐day speech. And we hope his spirit will be with us at this exhibition where art shall be the choice. Come join us, and kindly leave your slings and arrows at the door!
Featured Artists: Fikir Amanda Abubakar, Magda Allani, Sara Arnaout, Werther Banfi, Matteo Benetazzo, Matteo Bosi, Alexandra von Burg, Luna Corà, Dem, Patricia Dinu, Hossein Ehsaei, Akshita Gandhi, Pe Hagen, Silvia Idili, Michelangelo Lacagnina, Ieva Li, Salvatore Liistro, Emanuela Montorro, Seth Morley, Enrica Passoni, Mariano Pieroni, Egle Piaser, Diane Ponder, Michal Powalka, Miranda Pothecary, Massimo Porcelli, Beata Maria Rzepecka, William Ravara, Stephan van Riezen, Eugene Shadko, Mariko Kumon, Masked Sphinx, Pietro Tagliabue, Will Teather, David Turner, Zin V and Zive.
https://www.facebook.com/events/495609441104908/
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-to-art-or-not-to-art
Life Suspended Between Chaos and Order | Giovanni Marchini (1877-1946)
Online Exclusive solo show
25 june to 30 September 2020
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-life-suspended-between-chaos-and-order-giovanni-marchini-1877-1946
A selection of remarkable masterpieces by Giovanni Marchini (1877 - 1946) painted between 1903 and 1945. Givonni Marchini was one of the most important exponents of Italian symbolism.
Giovanni Marchini's works, suspended between reality and vision, branch out into space evoking rarefied landscapes where colour, dynamic and tumultuous, blends silently between romantic atmospheres and symbolist emulsions.
Nature expands rapidly through organic and vaporous combinations, turning on new luminosity.
in balance between chaos and formal linearity.
Marchini transfigures the composition in idyllic chromatic combinations with stormy and modulated tones.
by reversing the priorities between subject and object, between visible and invisible world.
Iridescent tones light up the emotional emulsions of the pictorial material free to expand on the substrate.
in search of a new light.
The works find in the landscape and in the portrait an unexplored figurative synthesis revealing arcane suggestions.
that tell of a rustic, frugal world with a restless sensibility.
Huge clouds branch out diaphanously among spectral trees moved, like electrical entities, by a restless breeze.
Synthetic and structured tonal superimpositions release the expressive force of the artist.
highlighting indefinite meta-reports filled with a poignant ideative poetry.
Melancholy, iridescent tonalities, distant memories transfigure the light through vibrant pictorial flashes.
sublimated in dosed color drippings of touching material fragility.
Palpitations and chromatic whispers determine a suspended indeterminateness of the forms hovering between a profound dimension
conceptual tonality and an elaborate intentionality of the underlying emulsions in an apparent immobility.
Prof. Gianluigi Guarneri
Matteo Bosi | Eyes of stars
Online Exclusive solo show
New collection 2020
Mar 9th – Jun 9th
Photographs of singers and actors of the last century, mostly from the photographic archive of the Bonci Theatre in Cesena, are the basis for Matteo Bosi's work. The images are manipulated manually through scratches, cuts and grafts that give back new life to the starting material. It is the charm of elegant contrast, between colours and subjects, styles and worlds of meaning, enclosed in postcard format.
The Eyes of Stars series is composed only by unique pieces in 10x15 cm format.
All the pieces are provided with frame and protective glass.
Maximalist Banquet | Will Teather
Maximalist Banquet | Online solo Exhibition by Will Teather.
Feb 22nd – Apr 3rd
Maximalist Banquet refers to the painter's interest in excess and overloading his images with both subject matter, colour and symbolism. This is evident in the painter's fluorescent and supernatural reinterpretations of Tudor Portraits. These are a sort of psychotropic pop-art take on European court painting, that includes scenes of hell coming out of Henry 8th's head.
"The works are about everything all at once, in glorious technicolour; a cornucopia banquet for the senses. A long-standing reference for me is Aldous Huxley's 1954 essay, The Doors of Perception, that explored a variety of concepts, including the idea that the brain eliminates unessential information from the totality of the "mind at large." This exhibition is, perhaps, about trying to reveal those things that may otherwise go unnoticed as we filter our everyday life. "
Eugene Shadko | Consumed Identities in the Selfie's Society
Online solo exhibition by Eugene Shadko
Feb 11th – Mar 11th
Identities and forms, declined in the consumer society, are what Eugene Shadko investigates in his works. Figures taken from close up consumed individualities, offer themselves to the eye of the observer, sometimes reciprocating the gaze that becomes penetrating, tangible, to the point of overturning the relationship between spectator and artwork. Shaded and sketchy physicality encloses all the incompleteness of the close and hasty gaze that is the stylistic feature of the selfie society.
Elena Santin
The main stylistic feature of Shadko's iconic expressionist painting is the creation of contrasts. The figures are rendered with supervised strokes, dosing soft tonal nuances of a small chromatic range, the identity elements are then partly concealed by the material application of intense and bright colours: the effect is one of rhythmic alternation of glazes and mixtures. The physiognomies are also altered, deformed by the translation of clusters of colour and affected by agitated and undisciplined squiggles and lines, symbolising the transience of youth and beauty, the precariousness of life, decline and decadence. Although tarped, antagonized by violent blocks of colour and injured by lashes of graphite, every strong identity of historical memory and present consciousness - emerges through the clearly delineated portions of the face and body (according to Jervis <>).
Antonella Gemma
NEW WAVE | Collective Exhibition
18 january - 1 february
Open Saturday 18 january at 6.30 pm
https://www.artsy.net/show/secret-art-ltd-new-wave-collective-exhibition
