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MARCH 2014 GALLERIES
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ArtGallery.co.uk
Contemporary, original artworks and sculpture available
on-line, also at The Art Gallery, Tetbury, The Knapp
Gallery Regent’s Park and Malvern Theatres.
t 0844 879 7438 (local rate)
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GALERIE D’ART
64 Old High Street, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1RN
Fine Art Gallery by the harbour at the centre of a thriving
art community. Exhibiting and Dealing.
GALLERY JKL
Modern and Contemporary French Art.
t 07739 596826
ILLUSTRATION ART GALLERY
Original illustration art from books, magazines,
newspapers and comics at affordable prices.
t 020 8768 0022
THE INFINITE GALLERY
Rosemary Clunie.
JANE FUEST GALLERY
Contemporary
paintings, sculpture and ceramics.
t 01962 735834
POP UP GALLERY
The online contemporary art marketplace – sell your
artwork commission free.
Prints
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Dedicated site promoting the work of artists working in
print. Featuring: Jane Bristowe, Emma Clark, Paula Cox,
Colin Gale, Vincent Jackson, Elaine Newman, Susie Perring,
Melvyn Petterson, Sonia Rollo, Chris Salmon.
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VICTOR ARWAS GALLERY
Editions Graphiques Ltd, London
Original graphics, drawings, paintings, 1880–1960.
Art Nouveau and Art Deco Applied Arts and graphics.
Books by Victor Arwas.
t 020 7499 2658 f 020 7493 5779
THE WHITLEY ART GALLERY
Annacrevy Schoolhouse, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Original Prints & Drawings, Japanese Woodblocks,
Contemporary Painters & Photographers.
t 00353 1 2829915
WEB
WORLD WIDE
CODA
Gauguin Glows
in London
Even a century after his
death, encounters with
Paul Gauguin (1848-
1903) can be in equal
measures sublime and
stressful. Bringing an
oasis of brightness and
exoticism to London in
the dreary winter
weather,
Tales of
Paradise
, on at Ordovas
until 18 April, mixes
word and image together
to create an engaging
profile of the artist.
Chronicling
Gauguin’s search for
perfection in the
primitive, the four works
in the exhibition are
sensual, tactile and
bold, each given plenty
of breathing space in
the large one-room
gallery. The big
sunshine-yellow front
window at the
exhibition entrance,
mirrors the radiance of
the works inside. In
Jeune homme à la fleur
(1891), for example, the
subject is painted with
warm, honey-brown
skin, which, set off by
the cool white of his
shirt, glows from the
wall.
Bright colours are
countered by the
narrative of Gauguin’s
life. Materials that
accompany the
exhibition – a catalogue
and a video – provide
as many biographies of
Gauguin as there are
works. From these
third-person accounts
and self-mythologising
letters it’s clear that
while the artist was a
dreamer, idealist and
eccentric, he was also
selfish, brutish, difficult,
frequently misguided
and willing to
manipulate the world
around him to fit his
ideas of it.
Still, it is in part
these tensions that
give Gauguin’s art
some of its power. He
was fascinated with the
idea of Tahiti as a
primeval paradise.
When he arrived and
found it a quiet,
westernized colony he
simply used choice
elements of the island
to inform his work.
Ideas of the artist’s
‘primitive’ self are
evident in
Masque de
sauvage
(1893-97),
which draws on his
observation of the
Tahitians to produce a
visage that is rather
traditionally Christ-like.
Despite inherent
contradictions, the
mask is successful:
rough, mysterious and
ultimately sublime.
Frances Allitt
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