Galleries - February 2012

MAP 26 OLD BOND STREET a ALBEMARLE GALLERY 49 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JR Contemporary British and European Paintings. AdrianWiszniewski. Collection of new work by the renowned Scottish painter. Feb 3–25. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–4 info@albemarlegallery.com www.albemarlegallery.com t 020 7499 1616 f 020 7499 1717 b APRICOT GALLERY 27 Albemarle Street, W1S 4HZ The only gallery in the UK to specialise in contemporary 38. GALLERIES FEBRUARY 12 Vietnamese Art. Mon–Sat 10–7 & by appt info@apricotgallery.uk.com www.apricotgallery.uk.com t 020 7491 8987 c BELGRAVIA GALLERY 45 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JL Pop Art 2012. January/February. For more information contact the gallery. Mon–Fri 10–6 laura@belgraviagallery.com www.belgraviagallery.com t 020 7495 1010 d CLARENDON FINE ART 46 DoverStreet, W1S 4FF Mixed Exhibition of Contemporary Classics. Jan 3–Feb 21. New Works by JohnLowrie Morrison. Feb 24–Mar 1. Mon–Sat 10–6 info@clarendonfineart.com www.clarendonfineart.com t 020 7499 0947 e CONNAUGHT BROWN 2 Albemarle Street, W1S 4HD Herbert Beck. Feb 2–Mar 3. Specialising in paintings and drawings by artists from the French Impressionist, Post Impressionist and Modern Master periods. Daily 10–6, Sat 10–12.30 art@connaughtbrown.co.uk www.connaughtbrown.co.uk t 020 7408 0362 f 020 7495 3137 R O Y AL A RC AD E BU R LI N GT S T A F F OR D S T G RA Y I L L B ON D ST OL D B O N D B U D O V E R S T R E E T K E L E Y S T R E E T A LB E M AR LE S TR E ET P I C C A D I L L Y a e g d h i f c b Green Park f ERARTA GALLERIES 8 Berkeley Street, W1J 8DN Denis Patrakeev: 361°. Jan 13–Feb 18. Aleksey Chizhov: Les Paradis Naturels. Feb 24–Apr 5. london@erartagalleries.com www.erartagalleries.com t 020 7499 7861 g MARLBOROUGH 6 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BY Closed for refurbishment in February but available by appointment. mfa@marlboroughfineart.com www.marlboroughfineart.com t 020 7629 5161 f 020 7629 6338 h RICHARD NAGY Ltd 22 Old Bond Street, W1S 4PY Classic Modernism, German Expressionism, Viennese Secession including works by Gustav Klimt and EgonSchiele, and selected Contemporary. info@richardnagy.com www.richardnagy.com t 020 7262 6400 f 020 7262 6464 i W/S FINE ART LTD ANDREW WYLD 27 DoverStreet, W1S 4LZ British and Irish art including early watercolours, drawings and oil paintings. Mon–Fri 10–5 or by appt andrew@andrewwyld.com www.andrewwyld.com t 020 7290 1541 f 020 7290 1549 With the redoubtable Claire Henry writing for the catalogue to this exhibition of Adrian Wiszniewski’s recent oils and gouaches ( Albemarle Gallery ) we are transported back to the international triumph of neo- figurative painting which emerged from Glasgow School of Art in the mid-eighties. Then the work of that group of young Scots painters could be clearly divided between the political and the poetic. Wiszniewski’s lyrical pictures have always been in the latter camp. As with C. R. Mackintosh’s designs it has always been the poetics of mood and atmosphere which has infused Wiszniewski’s highly decorative, but surprisingly robust, pictorial imagery. Consequently, although his elongated languid figures may appear to be lost in a self-reflective pensive mood, usually lounging about in some idyllic pastoral, the actual draw- ing and facture of his pictures are full of underlying expressive energies. It is this subtle dynamic of poetic pose and painterly practice which continues to give these works such fresh vitality. Bill Hare adrianwiszniewski Adrian Wiszniewski ‘The Golden Ring’ oil on canvas at Albemarle Gallery