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Melissa Wiederrecht and Ana María Caballero's collaborative piece Miss Metaverse (2024) uses the beauty pageant to deliver satirical commentary on the expression of selfhood for artists in Web3, probing how the public, online presentation of this self results in its distortion. Tune in to the Twitter (X) Space where the artists speak about the collection.
Listen to our latest podcast in conversation with GAZELL.iO November artist-in-residence, Andreas Gysin.
As a part of our GAZELL.iO September Residency program, we are pleased to debut two works from the 'Becoming' collection by Thomas Lin Pedersen alongside our exhibition GEN/GEN: Generative Generations.
Gazelli Art House hosted artists, curators, collectors, and the GAZELL.iO community for a conversation with Gazelli Art House, co-hosted with Verisart. The conversation investigated: parallels between the historical and contemporary uses of computers and machine learning; the integration of technology into artistic practices and its impact on the traditional concept of creativity and authorship; originality and uniqueness in generative art; preservation, authenticity and reproduction of new media artists, and more.
Continuing the conversation on Oh, Marilyn! watch the panel discussion around the history of art during the 60s wave of female emancipation in the UK and US and its impact on the arts, precisely the legacy of exhibiting artist Pauline Boty. Panellists include Ali Smith (CBE FRSL Award-Winning Author) and Dr Sue Tate (Author of Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman).
Continuing the conversation on Oh, Marilyn! watch an online panel discussion around the history of art during the 60s wave of female emancipation in the UK and US and its impact on the arts. Panellists include Jann Haworth (Exhibiting and Gallery Artist), Penny Slinger (Exhibiting Artist), and Griselda Pollock (Art Historian, Scholar, and Founding Director of CentreCATH).
On 5th February artist Farhad Farzaliyev took to the deck to lead a Zoom dance party. Think 80s & 90s tunes. Farhad works predominantly in the medium of installations, but also paintings, graphics, photography and sound. He is member of Artists Union of Azerbaijan since 2011 and member of Yay Gallery of the YARAT Contemporary Art Space since 2013. He has participated a large number of group exhibitions around the world. He is represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Baku. Farhad Farzaliyev lives and works in Baku. Farzaliyev has featured in many exhibitions in his native Baku, and a growing number around the world including Russian and Germany.
Listen to Gazelli Art House founder Mila Askarova in conversation with Ed Vaizey and Charlotte Metcalf on the Country & Town House "Break Out Culture" podcast. Perle Fine, Claudia Hart and Jann Haworth's exhibtions on show at Gazeli Art House until 23rd Janaury 2021 were discussed, along with insights into the life of a Mayfair Gallerist as Gazelli Art House moves into its 10th year on Dover Street.
On Tuesday 9th February Jann Haworth and Griselda Pollock met over Zoom to discuss Jann's artistic process, the arc of making, the link between Fine Art and Craft, the ethical responsibility of artists, the 1960s Pop Art scene, the Hollywood movie industry and the surrealism of the everyday.
On 29th July we had the pleasure of hosting multimedia artist Federico Solmi for the Gazelli Connect Live. Solmi’s work utilizes bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present-day society. His exhibitions often feature articulate installations composed of a variety of media including video, painting, drawing, and sculpture. Solmi uses his art as a vehicle to stimulate a visceral conversation with his audience, highlighting the contradictions and fallibility that characterize our time.
On July 22nd we had the pleasure of speaking with the collective BRIGHTBLACK as part of our Gazelli Connect Live. Learn more about their VR projects and practice. BRiGHTBLACK is the company of artists Simon Wilkinson and Myra Appannah. They began collaborating in 2018 after independently creating two of the UK's largest ever virtual reality based shows: SOMNAI and Whilst The Rest Were Sleeping. Together they create immersive artworks and playable culture using video game and immersive technologies. Their work has featured at Tate Modern and enjoyed touring to over 30 nations on six continents .
On the 3rd July we had the pleasure of welcoming the current Gazell.io resident Harminder Singh Panesar for a Gazelli Connect Live. Singh is a digital transpersonal artist whose work explores subjects related to the nature of reality and the mystery of life. In his practice the artist focuses on spiritual themes that include Sacred Geometry, Fractals in nature and Mandala’s. Using digital techniques his art takes the form of still images and animation. During this residency he will be exploring, what to me is an important and fundamental aspect of reality and existence; that of impermanence / change.
On June 10th we welcomed Khaleb Brooks for a Gazelli Connect Live ahead of his digital performance at the Borders Finissage. Brooks' works blur the lines between history and futures in an attempt to explore the possibilities inherent in liminal spaces. A liminal space is in between worlds, dislocation, non- citizen, without rights, non- being. All of Khaleb’s works highlight ancestral folklore and use surrealism to re- imagine and ritualise black/ poc queer people as both futuristic beings and representations of the deep past.
On 19th of June artist James Ostrer joined us live on Instagram as part of Gazelli Connect. Catch upon this discussion today. Ostrer’s practice often tests the limits of the body politics in the ever evolving analysis of the western body, sexuality, and society. His works appear as a catalogue of self- destructive behaviors, and are also managed in such a way that while transgressing themselves as odes to great works of historical art practice, they become re-packaged eye candy for uncomfortable consumption.
On June 3rd we had the pleasure of welcoming performance artist Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich in conversation with James R. Hedges IV for a live conversation on our instagram channel. They discussed political angles in art and the affects of current world events on the artistic practices. Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich is a visual artist and curator, as well as writer, theatre director, and filmmaker. He exhibited with Gazelli Art House several times: he had a solo exhibition ‘Decorative Sacredness’ in 2019 and participated in group shows ‘her shey qayidacaq’ and Photography Exhibition in 2018. James R. ("Jim") Hedges, IV has been an active art collector and patron for over 25 years. He has served on The Drawings Acquisition Committee at the Museum of Modern Art, as a National Council Chair for the Aspen Art Museum and a Founder of The American Friends of the Tate Gallery amongst others. ⠀
On May 27th we had the pleasure of welcoming Derek Boshier for a live conversation on our instagram channel. Derek Boshier is an English artist, among the first proponents of British pop art. His contribution to that scene was a strong satirical edge, which distinguished his work from his contemporaries. Taking a non-hierarchical approach to the use of popular images has been a long-running theme within Boshier’s work, making use of the Pepsi logo in place of the rising sun and other iconic images such as Kellogg’s cornflakes logo and iconic striped toothpaste image.
On 30th April we had the pleasure of hosting and Instagram Live as part of Gazelli Connect with the British art duo Gibson / Martelli. They create work with digital and virtual reality media. Incorporating live simulations, performance capture and computer generated models, their artworks possess an infinite duration, built within game engines that permit for complete audio-visual immersion. They playfully address the position of the self in relation to technology, examining ideas of player, performer and visitor – intertwining tropes of video games and art traditions of figure and landscape. Catch up on the discussion today.
On Wednesday the 22nd of April we were joined on Instagram Live by the artist Francesco Jodice, where he discussed his projects ahead of the participation in the online exhibition 'Borders'. Through his vast photographic landscapes, Jodice focuses on global subjects such as economics, politics and religion. He often reveals events or moments that can go unnoticed, such as an intertwining of nature and concrete, geopolitics or human desires. Jodice creates dramatic narratives from everyday experiences.
On Monday the 20th of April we had the pleasure of welcoming Kalliopi Lemos for a live Q&A as part of Gazelli Connect. She discussed her past and present projects ahead of the participation in the online exhibition 'Borders'. Lemos' works often explore the tension between inside and outside, body and spirit, material and immaterial that underline the restrictions and impasses we face in life. Often raising questions about power, migration and capitalism, her work is both powerful and elegant.⠀
On Saturday April 18th, 2020 as part of the Gazelli Connect initiative and ahead of their participation in the online exhibition 'Borders', we welcomed artist duo Aziz + Cucher for a live conversation on our Instagram channel. Working together for the past two decades, Aziz + Cucher's work explores concerns around technology and the effect that global unrest may have on the human body and consciousness. Working in digital imaging, sculpture, animation, and video-installation the duo often create painterly work using new media. ⠀
On Friday April 17th, 2020 as part of the Gazelli Connect initiative we welcomed Andrey Blokhin from the artist duo Recycle Group, for a live conversation on our Instagram channel. Recycle Group work aims to communicate bridging traditionally oppositional subjects, including classical with contemporary, physical and digital, human and machine.
On Wednesday the 8th April, 2020 as part of the Gazelli Connect initiative we welcomed gallery artist Giovanni Ozzola and collector, patron and director of both Volta and Pulse Art Fairs, Kamiar Maleki, for a live conversation on our Instagram channel. Ozzola's works look into the human condition, examining the individual’s place within the magnitude of the universe. He focuses on light as a necessary material for vision, which he incorporates in his multifaceted practice encompassing sculpture, photography, and video art.
Jane McAdam Freud is an internationally acclaimed sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist. In her upcoming show at Gazelli Art House Baku, she aims to explore the psychoanalytic concepts of the shadow with a series of works on paper that traverse a line between figuration and abstraction. On the 1st April as part of the Gazelli Connect initiative we asked her some questions about the upcoming show and the influences of Freudian theory on her work.
Mary Gabriel (author of ‘Ninth Street Women’) speaks with Rex Stevens (guardian of Grace Hartigan’s Estate) and curator of our ‘9th St. Club’ exhibition Will Corwin. An insightful conversation about the lives and spirit of the women who were part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, that would come define an era and echo throughout international art culture. Mary Gabriel is a best selling author whose biography of five of the women on show partly inspired this group exhibition, and is soon to be turned into a television series. Her research on the life and times of these artists is proof positive of their charismatic and long lasting impact on art history.
Giovanni Ozzola and Rodrigo Orrantia sit down to discuss Ozzola’s third solo exhibition at the London gallery “1982”. Rodrigo Orrantia is an art historian and curator, specialising in photography. Since graduating with an MA in Contemporary and Historical Photography from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, he has worked on projects for major museums in the UK, along with art fairs and festivals in UK, Europe and Latin America. Orrantia is a regular speaker at Universities in the UK and France, and a reviewer at international art and photography festivals. In 2015 he was awarded Exceptional Talent in the Arts status by Arts Council England for his work in the arts, specifically for curating and producing collaborative projects to connect local communities with international artists. Orrantia is currently researching connections between photography, geography and place, with an interest in nature and its relationship with the urban/manmade/artificial environment.
An artists’ talk between Francesca Blomfield (artist) and Matthew Collings (artist, critic, writer). Set against the backdrop of group show ‘Multiverse’ featuring Francesca Blomfield, Dustin Pevey and Christopher Battye the pair discuss our contemporary political context, mental health, anxiety and creative life.
An artist’s talk between RCA alumni Derek Boshier and French author, critic and curator Renaud Faroux. Set against the backdrop of Boshier’s Gazelli Art House show ‘Night and Snow’ the two discuss the artist’s process, lifestyle, high-profile friendships and evolution from pop-art to his enduring contemporary relevance. Supported by the RCA.
A panel discussion on how to go about building a market for Virtual Reality artworks. Tackling questions around the implications and challenges of selling VR works and whether a future for artists working in this medium is sustainable. Guest speakers include Sylvain Levy (DSL Collection, Founder), Michael Takeo Magruder (exhibiting artist) and Allegra Shorto (Khora Contemporary, Art Director). Enter Through The Headset 4 (ETTH4) is the gallery’s annual exhibition dedicated to displaying VR works. Exhibiting artists for this year’s edition include Claudia Hart, Gibson/Martelli, Michael Takeo Magruder, Ziv Schneider with Caitlin Robinson.
Gray Wielebinski is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with collage, sculpture, installation and performance into their work. Gray explores gender, sexuality and control over the physical body through their work, drawing attention to modes of power and identity. Having graduated from Slade in MFA in 2018, Wielebinski has been working around the subject of antagonism between the physical and psychodynamic self, proposing creativity as a therapeutic tool on an individual psychic level and towards creating community. Zackary Drucker, is a trans woman performance artist and a cultural producer who challenges the way gender and sexuality are understood. Having performed and exhibited at Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum among others, she has also produced Emmy-nominated docu-series This Is Me and Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent Giulia Casalini is an independent curator and producer based in London. Her PhD (Roehampton University, starting Autumn 2019) will look at the methodologies of queer-feminist live art from a decolonial perspective. Since 2012 she is the co-director of the non-profit arts organization Arts Feminism Queer (CUNTemporary). Her curatorial practice engages with artists and work of a complex and challenging nature to create multidisciplinary exhibitions and events for institutions or alternative spaces, with a focus on live art and audience participation.
Join us for a lively discussion around the current solo exhibition of Kalliopi Lemos, ‘All is to Be Dared’, as we reflect on the role of desire and obsessions as key elements able to challenge the basic structure of power. Kalliopi Lemos will be joined by Christian Oxenius, curator of the current exhibition at Gazelli Art House, and senior Jungian analytical psychotherapist, Jim Fitzgerald, on Tuesday 10th April to share their views. The talk will be accompanied by a book launch publicised for the exhibition, ‘All is to Be Dared’ with signed copies available to purchase on the night.
Veteran of the Pop Art movement, Derek Boshier and fellow leading figure in the British contemporary art scene, Bruce McLean, in conversation at Gazelli Art House in London on Tuesday, October 3rd 2017. 'On the Road' is the inaugural solo exhibition, showcasing Boshier's latest acrylic on canvas works and premiering two short films.
Gazelli Art House would like to invite you to listen to another of our Tuesday Talks- 'In Conversation with Stanley Casselman and David Anfam'. Stanley will be discussing his current exhibition 'Full Circle' - currently on show at Gazelli Art House, Mayfair. David Anfam recently curated the phenomenal Abstract Expressionism exhibition (#AbEx) at The Royal Academy. He will be discussing Casselman's contribution to the genre and the relevance of the ground breaking techniques used to create his bold works. For more information and to read the official press release please visit our website:
Azeri artist, Niyaz Najafov, and Elena Zaytseva, independent curator and former curator of Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin House in conversation at Gazelli Art House on Tuesday, May 23rd. Elena Zaytseva is a curator, writer and historian of art, former curator at Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and Pushkin House, London. She curated special projects of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art and exhibitions in independent art spaces in Moscow and London. She holds a PhD from Russian Academy of Art and MFA Curating from Goldsmiths. At the moment she works on an anthology ‘Cosmic Revolution: Contemporary Art Writing from Russia’, being published in October 2017. Niyaz Najafov lives and works in Paris. Inspired by other self-taught artists such as Paul Gauguin and Francis Bacon, it was only in 2003 that he began to experiment with oil paint. In a short span of time, Najafov has been touted to be the next “Francis Bacon” and has since been chosen to represent his country, Azerbaijan, at the 53 rd Venice Biennale in 2009 as well as appear in a number of shows across Europe and Russia - London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, and Geneva.
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