Frith Street Gallery

Golden Square

17-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ
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  • MARLENE DUMAS: MEASURING YOUR OWN GRAVE

    MARLENE DUMAS: MEASURING YOUR OWN GRAVE

    MoMA, New York, USA
    14 December 2008 – 16 February 2009
    Exhibition travelling from MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

    This is the first of its scale to be mounted in the United States includes approximately seventy paintings and thirty-five drawings, providing a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking and fascinating artists working today. While loosely chronological.The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

  • TACITA DEAN: IN MY MANOR

    TACITA DEAN: IN MY MANOR

    Villa Oppenheim, Berlin, Germany
    28 November 2008 – 15 February 2009

    This exhibition focuses on work made between 2005 to 2008 and will included films, and photographic works which have been influenced by her life in Germany.

    Tacita Dean has also been awarded the Kurt Schwitters prize for 2008.

  • DOROTHY CROSS: RIDERS TO THE SEA

    DOROTHY CROSS: RIDERS TO THE SEA

    Set design project for the English National Opera
    27 – 30 November 2008

    English National Opera marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of England’s best-loved composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, with a major new production conducted by British music specialist Richard hickox and directed by the acclaimed actress Fiona Shaw. Riders to the Sea is set in the Aran Islands and is his most moving and compelling opera. The piece’s visual concept has been jointly devised by Irish multi-media artist Dorothy Cross and set designer Tom Pye

  • FIONA TAN: PROSPECT 1, NEW ORLEANS BIENNIAL

    FIONA TAN: PROSPECT 1, NEW ORLEANS BIENNIAL

    1 November 2008 – 18 January 2009

    Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] will be the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States. Fiona Tan’s contribution Island explores issues such as how different layers of time and place can converge in the present and in one’s memory – how one can be present in one place and, at the same time, in one’s memory, be present in another place. What images of him- or herself does the viewer encounter in the film and in the mirrors? Fiona Tan describes this work as a retreat slightly away from everyday life.

  • DAYANITA SINGH RECEIVES 2008 PRINCE CLAUS AWARD

    DAYANITA SINGH RECEIVES 2008 PRINCE CLAUS AWARD

    Dayanita Singh is one of eleven recipients of this year’s award which focused on the theme of the human Body. Singh was awarded for the outstanding quality of her images, for providing a complex and well-articulated view of contemporary India, and for introducing a new aesthetic into Indian photography.

    Her work will also be included in Indian Highway, a group exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, December 2008 – February 2009 (Private view 9 December). Exhibition travelling to Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway.