Past
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Homage to Surrealism
1924 – Forever (All Media) 9 Oct - 22 Nov 2024 The Mayor Gallery, in admirative acknowledgement of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Surrealism (and the Surrealist Movement), will present a comprehensive exhibition entitled Homage to Surrealism: 1924 – Forever (All Media). This exhibition will put on display works covering almost every aspect of Surrealist creativity and adventure, culled... Read more -
Frieze Masters
Feliza Bursztyn 9 - 13 Oct 2024 On the occasion of Frieze Masters, London, The Mayor Gallery is excited to present Feliza Bursztyn (b. 1933 Bogotá, Colombia - d. 1982 Paris, France) who was a pioneering Colombian artist whose work, alongside that of her Brazilian contemporaries Gego and Mira Schendel, revolutionised the Latin American art scene. Throughout... Read more -
Marlow Moss / Vera Molnár
New Angles 4 Sep - 1 Oct 2024 The Mayor Gallery announces our forthcoming duo exhibition featuring the works of first British Constructivist artist Marlow Moss (1889 Kilburn, London - 1958 Penzance, Cornwall) and Hungarian pioneer of computer art Vera Molnár (1924 Budapest, Hungary - 2023 Paris, France). Both women artists, pioneers in their field, Moss with her... Read more -
Art Basel
Stand G14 13 - 16 Jun 2024 Our forthcoming presentation at Art Basel will showcase a wide range of modern movements including Surrealism, Minimalism and Conceptual Art, Zero and Concrete, Central European Avant-Garde and Op Art. Featuring artists: Billy Apple® | Armando | Imre Bak | Feliza Bursztyn | Carlos Cairoli | Rafael Canogar Miguel Chevalier |... Read more -
Waldemar Cordeiro
A Singular Constellation 30 May - 25 Jul 2024 The Mayor Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Europe of visionary Brazilian artist, Waldemar Cordeiro (b. 1925 Rome, Italy – d. 1973 São Paulo, Brazil). Fifteen works, many of which have never been shown outside Brazil, form the basis of this exhibition in which different phases of Cordeiro’s intensive... Read more -
TEFAF New York
Raimund Girke 9 - 14 May 2024 Announcing participation in this years TEFAF New York with a solo presentation of the German painter Raimund Girke (b. 1930 Lower Silesia - d. 2002 Cologne, Germany) . An influential figure of post-war German art, Raimund Girke first studied at the art school in Hanover before moving on to the... Read more -
Billy Apple® / Braco Dimitrijević
Conceptual Art Pioneers 21 Mar - 24 May 2024 For our inaugural exhibition at 9 Bury Street, we showcase a dual presentation featuring the works of conceptual art pioneers, Billy Apple ® (b. 1935 – d. 2021, Auckland, New Zealand) and Braco Dimitrijević (b. 1948, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Billy Apple ® studied at the Royal College of Art... Read more -
TEFAF Maastricht
Stand 435 9 - 14 Mar 2024 In this years TEFAF Maastricht The Mayor Gallery showcases a wide range of artistic movements including Surrealism, Conceptual and Minimalism, Zero and Concrete, Central European Avant-Garde and Pop Art. Billy Apple® | Wifredo Arcay | Armando | André Breton | Feliza Bursztyn | Carlos Cairoli Rafael Canogar | Miguel Chevalier... Read more -
PAN Amsterdam
Tadaaki Kuwayama | Rakuko Naito | Tomas Rajlich 18 - 26 Nov 2023 Stand 36 Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. 1932 Nagoya, Japan - d. 2023 New York, USA) and wife Rakuko Naito (b. 1935 Tokyo, Japan) both studied at the Nihonga (modern Japanese-style painting) program of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1958 they left the conservative Tokyo for New York... Read more -
Tajiri / Wagemaker
14 Nov - 15 Dec 2023 Celebrating the centennial of Shinkichi Tajiri (b. 1923 Los Angeles, USA – d. 2009 Baarlo, The Netherlands), The Mayor Gallery continues it's Frieze Masters presentation exhibiting at our gallery a wide selection of sculptural works spanning seven decades by the artist alongside four paintings by his contemporary, the Dutch Informel... Read more -
Frieze Masters
Tajiri / Wagemaker 11 - 15 Oct 2023 “We cannot take anything away from the earth; we can only change its shape.” - Jaap Wagemaker To celebrate the centennial of Shinkichi Tajiri(b. 1923 Los Angeles, USA – d. 2009 Baarlo, The Netherlands), The Mayor Gallery, together with BorzoGallery and Matthijs Erdman, presents a wide selection of... Read more -
Sue Dunkley
21 Sep - 8 Nov 2023 Presenting the vibrant Pop Art paintings from the 60s and 70s by British artist Sue Dunkley (b. 1942 Leicester - d. 2022 London, UK). Born to publican parents Dunkley moved around frequently when young, before studying at Bath Academy of Art (1959-61), Chelsea (1961-63) and the Slade, winning scholarships to... Read more -
Art Basel
Stand G14 15 - 18 Jun 2023 Our Art Basel presentation this year showcases a wide range of modern movements in art including Minimalism and Conceptual Art, Zero and Concrete, Central European Avant-Garde and Op Art. Featuring artists: Carl Andre | Billy Apple® | Wifredo Arcay | Armando | Alberto Biasi | Feliza Bursztyn Carlos Cairoli |... Read more -
Julian Stanczak
Beyond the Mirror 6 Jun - 28 Jul 2023 A leading artist of Op Art, Julian Stanczak (b. 1928 Borownica, Poland – d. 2017 Ohio, United States) created from the 1960s a dynamic and joyous oeuvre. The term Op Art itself was coined by Time magazine after his first major show, Julian Stanczak: Optical Paintings, held at the Martha... Read more -
TEFAF New York
STAND 375 12 - 16 May 2023 This year's TEFAF New York we present a selection of paintings by Swiss artist Verena Loewensberg (b. 1912 - d. 1986 Zurich, Switzerland). Loewensberg was introduced to design and colour theory at the Basel trade school in 1927 before taking up a weaver apprenticeship alongside training in dance and choreography.... Read more -
Kuwayama / Naito
5 Apr - 2 Jun 2023 Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. 1932 Nagoya, Japan) and wife Rakuko Naito (b. 1935 Tokyo, Japan) both studied at the Nihonga (modern Japanese-style painting) program of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1958 they left the conservative Tokyo for New York City where they have lived and worked together... Read more -
TEFAF Maastricht
Stand 431 11 - 19 Mar 2023 In this years TEFAF Maastricht we are pleased to showcase a wide range of artistic movements including Surrealism, Conceptual and Minimalism, Zero and Concrete, Central European Avant-Garde, Op and Pop Art. Marina Apollonio | Billy Apple® | Wifredo Arcay | Imre Bak | Alberto Biasi | Emmy Bridgwater Feliza Bursztyn... Read more -
Not Bronze
1 Feb - 30 Mar 2023 We are pleased to announce our forthcoming exhibition Not Bronze a celebration of 20th Century sculpture by artists who use unconventional means of making; including found objects, junk scrap metal, Plexiglas, fibreglass, mirror, latex and resins. Ivor Abrahams | Billy Apple® | Arman | Stephen Buckley | Feliza Bursztyn |... Read more -
Emmy Bridgwater
The Edge of Beyond 1 Dec 2022 - 27 Jan 2023 On 11 June 1936, the International Surrealist Exhibition opened to crowds in London. Featuring Breton, Dalí, and Duchamp, none were more inspired by this dramatic arrival of Surrealism in Britain than a 30-year-old artist and poet from Birmingham: Emma ‘Emmy’ Bridgwater (b. 1906, Birmingham – d. 1999, Solihull, UK). Invoking... Read more -
Frieze Masters
Constant 12 - 16 Oct 2022 This year The Mayor Gallery in collaboration with BorzoGallery, Amsterdam is showing a retrospective of the Dutch artist Constant at Frieze Masters. Constant (b. 1920 Amsterdam - d. 2005 Utrecht, The Netherlands) is one of Holland’s most important and innovative artists from post-war times. He was co-founder of the international... Read more -
Raimund Girke
FORCE FIELDS 11 Oct - 25 Nov 2022 'White is emptiness, immateriality, calm and silence.' An influential figure of post-war German art, Raimund Girke (1930-2002) studied at the art school in Hanover before moving on to the Düsseldorf Art Academy with ZERO founders Otto Piene and Heinz Mack. Departing from Abstract Expressionism and initially influenced by the gestural-rhythmic... Read more -
Women of Influence
1 Oct - 25 Nov 2022 Marina Apollonio Emmy Bridgwater Feliza Bursztyn Dadamaino Ferdi Gego Verena Loewensberg Aiko Miyawaki Vera Molnar Marlow Moss Cornelia Parker Alice Rahon Mira Schendel Grazia Varisco Nanda Vigo Read more -
Roy Ferdinand
Rockstars & Strawberries, New Orleans 1990 - 2004 7 Sep - 7 Oct 2022 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to present ’Rock Stars & Strawberries’ which will be the first London solo exhibition of the self-taught New Orleans artist Roy Ferdinand (1959 - 2004). A selection of 18 works from 1990 – 2004 are exhibited. The title of the show is inspired by the... Read more -
TEFAF Maastricht
Stand 446 25 - 30 Jun 2022 Giovanni Anceschi | Marina Apollonio | Alberto Biasi | Davide Boriani | Carlos Cairoli | Dadamaino | Gabriele De Vecchi | Hugo Demarco | Raimund Girke | Edoardo Landi | Walter Leblanc | Julio Le Parc | Verena Loewensberg | Heinz Mack | Manfredo Massironi | François Morellet | Otto... Read more -
Art Basel
Stand G14 16 - 18 Jun 2022 Our forthcoming presentation at Art Basel 2022 will showcase a wide range of modern movements in art including Surrealism, Conceptual and Minimalism, Zero and Concrete, Central European Avant-Garde, Op and Pop Art. Featuring artists: Nobuya Abe | Billy Apple® | Wifredo Arcay | Imre Bak | Giacomo Balla | Alberto... Read more -
Billy Apple®
RAINBOWS 1965 18 May - 27 Jul 2022 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to announce our forthcoming exhibition Rainbows 1965 by Billy Apple® . A re-staging of Apple's ground-breaking solo exhibition first shown at Bianchini Gallery in New York City, 1965 and credited with being one of the first to treat electric light as a new sculptural medium,... Read more -
TEFAF New York
Stand 367 6 - 10 May 2022 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to participate in this years TEFAF New York Spring edition. Featuring artists: Billy Apple | Wifredo Arcay | Carlos Cairoli | Rafael Canogar | Joseph Cornell | Lucio Fontana | Raimund Girke | Jean Gorin | Verena Loewensberg | Raúl Lozza | François Morellet |... Read more -
Repetitions
2 Mar - 6 May 2022 On the 100th anniversary of Répétitions by Paul Eluard and Max Ernst, a publication of collages and poems by the Dada and Surrealist artists, The Mayor Gallery in the countdown to its own centenary investigates the idea of rhythm and repetition with a group show of paintings, sculptures, works on... Read more -
Cork Street Attack
Grey Organisation 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2022 On 21st May 1985 the windows of The Mayor Gallery and those of the other art dealers on Cork Street, were covered with buckets of grey paint during a night-time act of artistic anti-establishment protest by a group called the Grey Organisation. Now, almost 37 years later, this Cork Street... Read more -
John Golding
Only Human 10 Nov - 22 Dec 2021 The Mayor Gallery is presenting an exhibition of works by John Golding (1929 - 2012) from a remarkable period of his career. Although Golding was a distinguished abstract painter, he is probably more famous as an art historian, critic and curator. His paramount success in the field of art history... Read more -
Asian Art in London
21 Oct - 6 Nov 2021 The Mayor Gallery, in collaboration with Joost van den Bergh, is delighted to participate in Asian Art in London. The gallery will present a selection of artworks by renowned Modern and Contemporary artists from China and Japan. The works on paper and paintings are the results of these artists' fascinating... Read more -
Frieze Masters
Jan Henderikse 13 - 17 Oct 2021 Jan Henderikse is known as a member of Group Zero. In 1960 he was a co-founder along with Armando, Henk Peeters and Jan Schoonhoven of Nul which was Zero’s Dutch counterpart. Born in 1937 in the Dutch city of Delft, he left his hometown and country in 1959 to settle... Read more -
ART BASEL
BOOTH A5, HALL 2.0 24 - 26 Sep 2021 Featuring artists: Billy Apple® / Wifredo Arcay / Jean Arp / Bernard Aubertin / Imre Bak / Carlos Cairoli / Rafael Canogar / Congo / Joseph Cornell / Carlos Cruz-Diez / Dadamaino / Ad Dekkers / Braco Dimitrijević / Piero Dorazio / Max Ernst / Stano Filko / Raimund Girke... Read more -
Art Basel | Unlimited
BRACO DIMITRIJEVIĆ: SAILING TO POST HISTORY 20 - 26 Sep 2021 Braco Dimitrijević’s installation originates from a critical standpoint with regards to History. The artist developed the concept of ‘Post History’ in his treatise Tractatus Post Historicus, first published in 1976. The artist’s statement ‘Louvre is my studio, street is my museum’ expresses the dialectical and transgressive nature of his oeuvre.... Read more -
Turi Simeti (1929-2021)
A Homage 8 Sep - 15 Oct 2021 This Autumn The Mayor Gallery presents an affectionate homage to the Italian artist Turi Simeti who sadly passed away earlier this year, with an exhibition of works spanning 40 years from 1967 to 2007. A cultural and commercial success, Turi Simeti is considered a true pioneer, a “maestro,” of 20th... Read more -
In Real Life
9 Jun - 29 Jul 2021 After months of only following the artworld through our screens, many of us now miss the experience of seeing art in person. This Summer The Mayor Gallery celebrates that irreplaceable feeling and satisfaction of being in direct contact with art, objects solely created to be understood in real life. With... Read more -
Three Colours
12 Apr - 5 Jun 2021 We are excited that The Mayor Gallery will be re-open to the public from the 12 April with our comprehensive exhibition Three Colours, Red-White-Blue. A wide range of artists will be featured including François Morellet, Jan Schoonhoven and Ad Dekkers as well examples from Conceptual, Concrete, Op art, Nul and... Read more -
Hope for Bluer Skies
Abstract Exhibition 5 Mar - 9 Apr 2021 The Mayor Gallery wishes you a year of happiness and good health with three online Abstract exhibitions to come in the first three months of 2021. 'WHITE AS SNOW IN WINTER', 7 JANUARY - 5 FEBRUARY 'RED CELEBRATING CHINESE NEW YEAR', 5 FEBRUARY - 4 MARCH 'HOPE FOR BLUER SKIES',... Read more -
Red Celebrating Chinese New Year
Abstract Exhibition 5 Feb - 4 Mar 2021 The Mayor Gallery wishes you a year of happiness and good health with three online Abstract exhibitions to come in the first three months of 2021. 'White as Snow in Winter', 7 January - 5 February 'Red celebrating Chinese New Year', 5 February - 4 March 'Hope for Bluer Skies',... Read more -
White as Snow in Winter
Abstract Exhibition 7 Jan - 4 Feb 2021 The Mayor Gallery wishes you a year of happiness and good health with three online Abstract exhibitions to come in the first three months of 2021. 'WHITE AS SNOW IN WINTER', 7 JANUARY - 5 FEBRUARY 'RED CELEBRATING CHINESE NEW YEAR', 5 FEBRUARY - 4 MARCH 'HOPE FOR BLUER SKIES',... Read more -
Earth & Light
Wagemaker & Schoonhoven 20 Oct - 4 Dec 2020 The Mayor Gallery presents in collaboration with Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, a joint exhibition of two principal Dutch artists of the 20th Century; Jaap Wagemaker (b. 1906 Haarlem – d. 1972 Amsterdam) and Jan Schoonhoven (b. 1914 – d. 1994 Delft). In 1959 Hans Sonnenberg organized the ZERO exhibition in the... Read more -
INTERNATIONAL POP
15 Jun - 15 Oct 2020 The Mayor Gallery is pleased to present a curated selection of International Pop Art featuring artists from around the world including France, USA, Brazil, China and the UK. Billy Apple® | Arman | Evelyne Axell | Imre Bak | Rafael Canogar | Sister Mary Corita Kent | Gérard Deschamps |... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 451 7 - 14 Mar 2020 Billy Apple® / Wifredo Arcay / Evelyne Axell / Imre Bak / Joseph Beuys / Alberto Biasi / Carlos Cairoli / Sister Corita Kent / Joseph Cornell / Carlos Cruz-Díez / Dadamaino / Braco Dimitrijević / Antony Donaldson / Piero Dorazio / Peter Dreher / Max Ernst / Ferdi /... Read more -
EMILIO TADINI
1927–2002 MILAN 5 Feb - 24 Apr 2020 “A writer who paints, a painter who writes.” - Umberto Eco Emilio Tadini (b. 1927 – d. 2002 Milan, Italy) is considered one of the most original personalities of Italy’s post - World War II cultural landscape. A Poet, novelist, essayist, art critic, journalist and painter, he was, in the... Read more -
ANTONY DONALDSON
PAPERWORK FROM 1960 TO 2019 8 - 31 Jan 2020 ‘I liked Tony immediately because he’s smart and cultured, but he speaks his mind in a very direct way, and that’s unusual for the English,’ the artist Joe Goode has said of his friend of over 50 years. This show of drawings and prints, which covers Antony Donaldson’s career since... Read more -
Congo the Chimpanzee
The Birth of Art 3 - 19 Dec 2019 “It is the work of Congo, not that of the prehistoric cave artists, that can truly be said to represent the birth of art.” - Desmond Morris, 2005. Surrealist artist and zoologist Desmond Morris is selling his private collection of paintings and drawings by Congo the chimpanzee, with whom he... Read more -
ENEA FERRARI 1908–1972
ONLINE EXHIBITION 28 Nov - 20 Dec 2019 Ferrari started to paint at an early age under the guidance of his father, Annibal Ferrari and attended the Art College of Brera between 1924 –1928. Returning to Soncino (province of Cremona) after his father’s death, Ferrari became an artisan in stuccoes and fresco-painting. From 1932, having perfected his plaster... Read more -
JOSIP VANIŠTA
THE HORIZONTAL LINE 30 Oct - 29 Nov 2019 At the beginning of the 1960s, a group of renowned artists was formed in Zagreb under the name Gorgona and its manifesto was published in 1961. Active from 1959 to 1966 Gorgona’s members were the painters Josip Vaništa, Julije Knifer, Marijan Jevšovar and Duro Seder, the sculptor Ivan Kožarić and... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
VERENA LOEWENSBERG 3 - 6 Oct 2019 The Mayor Gallery will present at Frieze Masters 2019 the first exhibition in London dedicated to the Swiss Concrete artist Verena Loewensberg (1912 - 1986 Zurich, Switzerland). The selection will span over the last three decades of her life, from the 1960s to the mid 1980s, with large perfectly executed... Read more -
CARLOS CAIROLI
A RETROSPECTIVE 11 Sep - 25 Oct 2019 The Mayor Gallery presents the first retrospective of the Constructivist artist Carlos Cairoli (b. 1926 Buenos Aires, Argentina – d. 1995 Chartres, France) whose rigorous works from the 1950s onward, are the historical witnesses of his perpetual researches to materialise the invisible, light, time and space. After studying Fine Arts... Read more -
FAIR FOR SAATCHI
STAND 2 26 - 30 Jun 2019 Featuring artists: MARINA APOLLONIO ALBERTO BIASI DAVIDE BORIANI MIGUEL CHEVALIER CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ GABRIELE DE VECCHI HUGO DEMARCO ANTHONY HILL JULIO LE PARC WALTER LEBLANC HEINZ MACK CHRISTIAN MEGERT FRANÇOIS MORELLET JULIAN STANCZAK KLAUS STAUDT LAJOS SZELÉNYI VASSILAKIS TAKIS LUIS TOMASELLO LUDWIG WILDING Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A6, HALL 2.0 13 - 16 Jun 2019 BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY / IMRE BAK / JOOST BALJEU / JOSEPH BEUYS / ALBERTO BIASI / STEPHEN BUCKLEY / CARLOS CAIROLI / JOSEPH CORNELL / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / AD DEKKERS / BRACO DIMITRIJEVIĆ / ANTONY DONALDSON / PIERO DORAZIO / PETER DREHER / MAX ERNST / ERRÓ STANO... Read more -
PÉCS WORKSHOP
5 Jun - 31 Jul 2019 The Pécs Workshop is a neo-avant-garde group that existed in Communist Hungary in the late 1960s and early 1970s comprising of five artists based in the cultural town of Pécs; Károly Halász (1946 - 2016), Károly Kismányoky (1943- 2018), Sándor Pinczehelyi (1946) Ferenc Ficzek (1947 – 1987) and Kálmán Szijártó... Read more -
TEFAF NEW YORK
COLOMBO / MORELLET / VON GRAEVENITZ 3 - 7 May 2019 STAND 367 Read more -
FRIEZE NEW YORK
AD DEKKERS 2 - 5 May 2019 STAND C11 The ultimate quest for simplicity, clarity and the symbolic characterise Ad Dekkers’ minimalist oeuvre. His fascination for the drawn line took him onto the exploration of its third dimension, which he achieved by applying saw-cuts in perfectly smooth panels or by assembling panels one on top of the... Read more -
JULIAN STAŃCZAK
DON’T TALK, JUST LOOK 3 Apr - 31 May 2019 A leading artist of Op Art, Julian Stańczak (b. 1928 Borownica, Poland – d. 2017 Ohio, United States) created from the 1960s a dynamic and joyous oeuvre. The term Op Art itself was coined by Time magazine after his first major show, Julian Stańczak: Optical Paintings, held at the Martha... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 451 16 - 24 Mar 2019 Featuring artists: Billy Apple / Wifredo Arcay / Antonio Asis Alberto Biasi / Charles Biederman Stephen Buckley / Braco Dimitrijević Carlos Cairoli / Miguel Chevalier Joseph Cornell / Carlos Cruz-Díez Peter Dreher / Max Ernst / Wojciech Fangor Enea Ferrari / Stano Filko Gerhard von Graevenitz / Attila Kovács Tadaaki... Read more -
IMRE BAK
WORKS 1967-81 13 Feb - 29 Mar 2019 Imre Bak (b. 1939 Budapest, Hungary) was involved in the creation and development of two leading Hungarian neo-avant-garde groups of the second half of the Twentieth century; Iparterv and Budapesti műhely. Part of the group of young ‘self-educated’ Hungarian contemporary artists from the 1960s, Bak departed from the drab browns... Read more -
STEPHEN BUCKLEY
CLOSE COUSINS 10 Jan - 8 Feb 2019 For more than forty years Stephen Buckley, (b. 1944 Leicester, England) has concerned himself with addressing the major themes of the twentieth century through a personal style oscillating between the matière of Kurt Schwitters, the dandyism of Francis Picabia and the intellectual rigour of Marcel Duchamp. He takes the two... Read more -
MARIO SCHIFANO
Compagni, compagni 1968 5 Nov - 20 Dec 2018 In 2018 marking the 50th anniversary of the global wave of protests, The Mayor Gallery is holding an exhibition of Mario Schifano’s (b. 1934 Khoms, Libya – d. 1998 Rome, Italy) political series Compagni, compagni (Comrades, comrades) 1968. A radical and charismatic figure, Mario Schifano was in the centre of... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
Carel Visser: Aluminium Reliefs 1965-68 4 - 7 Oct 2018 “There are many affinities between the work of Carel Visser and that of British sculptors of his generation but his work has been rarely seen here and is little known.” - Nicolas Serota, 1978, preface for the catalogue of Carel Visser’s first major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Carel... Read more -
BRITISH ART FAIR
Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) from The Collection of the Late Ray Hughes (1946 – 2017) 20 - 23 Sep 2018 While reading the eulogy given by Evan Hughes at his father’s Memorial last year in Sydney, one can only admire the life-long generous and passionate commitment that the Australian art dealer had achieved in his career spanning over 45 years. Ray Hughes spent his life traveling the world accompanied by... Read more -
BILLY APPLE®
The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1962 – 2018 12 Sep - 2 Nov 2018 A third solo exhibition by Billy Apple will run at The Mayor Gallery from 12 September – 2 November 2018. This follows on from the 2010 and 2013 exhibitions; Billy Apple®: British and American Works 1960 – 1969 and Billy Apple®: New York 1970 – 75 where his jaunty pop... Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A4, HALL 2.0 17 Jun 2018 Exhibiting artists: Billy Apple / Wifredo Arcay / Imre Bak / Joost Baljeu / Alberto Biasi / Charles Biederman / Carlos Cairoli / Miguel Chevalier / Gianni Colombo / Bruce Conner / Waldemar Cordeiro / Joseph Cornell / Carlos Cruz-Díez / herman de vries / Ad Dekkers / Max Ernst... Read more -
Writing New Codes
Cordeiro / Mallary / Molnár 6 Jun - 27 Jul 2018 ‘Writing New Codes’ presents three major pioneers of computer art – Waldemar Cordeiro (b. 1925 Rome, Italy – d. 1973 São Paulo, Brazil), Robert Mallary (b. 1917 Toledo, USA – d. 1997 Northampton, USA) and Vera Molnár (b.1924 Budapest, Hungary) from three different corners of the globe with early computer... Read more -
FRIEZE NEW YORK
FRANÇOIS MORELLET 3 - 5 May 2018 A solo presentation of the artist in partnership with Dan Galeria . A self-taught artist, François Morellet (b. 1926 - d. 2016 Cholet, France) first exhibited his geometric tone-in-tone pictures in 1950 at the Galerie Creuze in Paris. In the mid-1950s he was preoccupied with configuring the picture field as... Read more -
MIGUEL CHEVALIER
UBIQUITY 12 Apr - 1 Jun 2018 UBIQUITY 1 & 2 are the first solo exhibitions of French artist Miguel Chevalier in England. A pioneer of virtual art, Miguel Chevalier (b. 1959, Mexico) has been using computer science as a means of expression in the field of visual arts since 1978. His work addresses the question of... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 451 10 - 18 Mar 2018 Exhibiting Artists: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY / IMRE BAK / JOOST BALJEU / ALBERTO BIASI / BORIS BUĆAN / CARLOS CAIROLI / PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI / MIGUEL CHEVALIER / GIANNI COLOMBO / BRUCE CONNER / WALDEMAR CORDEIRO / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / PETER DREHER / ENEA FERRARI... Read more -
TANYA LING
9 Mar - 6 Apr 2018 For her first solo show at the Mayor Gallery, Indian born British artist Tanya Ling has made a group of new Line Paintings that add to the series started in 2014 first shown at Alex Eagle’s old space, South Kensington. The works were exclusively made in the gallery over the... Read more -
LATIN AMERICAN WORKS ON PAPER
9 Jan - 28 Feb 2018 The Mayor Gallery presents a group show of seven Latin American artists who were either born there or moved to join in the exciting and revolutionary art movements happening in the 50s and 60s. Conceptual and abstract art made in several Latin American countries from the late ’50s onwards dealt... Read more -
ANTONY DONALDSON, PATRICK O'REILLY, COLIN SELF
6 - 20 Dec 2017 The Mayor Gallery, London, brings together three renowned artists and long standing friends of the gallery; Antony Donaldson, Patrick O'Reilly and Colin Self in a variance of mediums Painting, Collage and Sculpture. All three have collected and taken inspiration from popular culture in their careers creating their own visual imagery... Read more -
ROBERT MALLARY
RELIEFS 1957 - 1961 1 Nov - 1 Dec 2017 The work of Robert Mallary (b. 1917 Ohio, USA – d. 1997 Massachusetts, USA) is characterised by a consistent commitment to technological innovation, and to the exploration of materiality. As well as pioneering the use of computers to design sculptures in the late 1960s, during the first part of his... Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS
De Sijl reSTRUCTUREd 5 - 8 Oct 2017 In 2017 the artworld celebrates the centennial of the founding of De Stijl. De Stijl is without doubt the most important Dutch contribution to the international history of twentieth century art. Founded in the Netherlands in 1917, by Mondrian, Van Doesburg and Van der Leck amongst others, the movement quickly... Read more -
STANO FILKO
Reality of Cosmos 12 Sep - 27 Oct 2017 Stano Filko (b. 1937 Veľká Hradná – d. 2015 Bratislava) was part of the generation of artists who caused an upheaval in the relatively conservative cultural environment of Slovakia in the mid-sixties together with Julius Koller, Alex Mlynárčik and Jana Želibská. While to the west of the Iron Curtain the... Read more -
ART BASEL
STAND A4, HALL 2.0 15 - 18 Jun 2017 EXHIBITING ARTISTS: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY BERNARD AUBERTIN / IMRE BAK / ALBERTO BIASI MARCEL BROODTHAERS / CARLOS CAIROLI PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI /ENRICO CASTELLANI / GIANNI COLOMBO BRUCE CONNER / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / DADAMAINO AD DEKKERS / PETER DREHER / WOJCIECH FANGOR ENEA FERRARI / STANISLAV... Read more -
TADAAKI KUWAYAMA
Radical Neutrality 7 Jun - 28 Jul 2017 The work of Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. 1932 Nagoya, Japan) is characterised by “radical neutrality,” as art historian Michio Hayashi describes it. Since the early 1960s, Kuwayama has adamantly broken from existing modes of artistic expression in order to create neutral art, which means, the artist removes all the characteristics from... Read more -
FRIEZE NEW YORK
ROBERT MALLARY : NEW MEXICAN RELIEFS 1957 - 1958 5 - 7 May 2017 The Mayor Gallery participated this year at FRIEZE NEW YORK 2017 showcasing the works of Robert Mallary. The work of Robert Mallary (b. 1917 Ohio, USA – d. 1997 Massachusetts, USA) is characterised by a consistent commitment to technological innovation, and to the exploration of materiality. As well as pioneering... Read more -
PETER DREHER
Day by Day, Good Day 7 Apr - 2 Jun 2017 An excerpt from Irene von Neuendorff’s essay “A Happy Sisyphus” (2014) “A lot has been written about the central element of Peter Dreher’s oeuvre, the series Day by Day Good Day. The title for this group of works was taken from the sixth example of the koan collection Biyan Lu... Read more -
TEFAF MAASTRICHT
STAND 453 10 - 19 Mar 2017 Exhibiting Artists: MARINA APOLLONIO / BILLY APPLE / WIFREDO ARCAY / BERNARD AUBERTIN / IMRE BAK / ALBERTO BIASI / CARLOS CAIROLI / PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI / ENRICO CASTELLANI / MIGUEL CHEVALIER /GIANNI COLOMBO / WALDEMAR CORDEIRO / CARLOS CRUZ-DÍEZ / DADAMAINO / CHRISTIAAN PAUL DAMSTÉ / ANTONY DONALDSON /... Read more -
SHINKICHI TAJIRI
15 Feb - 30 Mar 2017 Shinkichi Tajiri (b. 1923 Los Angeles, USA – d. 2009 Baarlo, The Netherlands) is primarily a sculptor who plays with the themes of violence and eroticism in metal assemblages where he brings loose elements of metal and junk together to form a new coherence. Highly experimental and multicultural Tajiri was... Read more
