Waddington Custot

10/06/2021

'Peter Blake: Collage' is published today! This monograph, created by Waddington Custot in partnership with @ThamesandHudson, is the first complete overview of collage by Peter Blake, from his early assemblages to his most recent 'Late Period'. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
With a foreword by Blake’s art school friend #DavidHockney, 'Peter Blake: Collage' combines an illuminating essay, artist interview and numerous colour images, which capture the spirit of Blake's decades-long career and his significant contribution to this historic medium.⁠⁠
--⁠⁠
The publication coincides with 'Peter Blake: Time Traveller', an exhibition opening at Waddington Custot on 18 June.⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
Design by @designbypraline. Paper provided by @fedrigoni_uk. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
@peterblakeartist #PeterBlakeCollage #PeterBlake #TimeTraveller #collage #britishpopart #collage #bristishpopartist #popart #popartist #iconicart #monograph

'Peter Blake: Collage' is published today! This monograph, created by Waddington Custot in partnership with @ThamesandHudson, is the first complete overview of collage by Peter Blake, from his early assemblages to his most recent 'Late Period'. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
With a foreword by Blake’s art school friend #DavidHockney, 'Peter Blake: Collage' combines an illuminating essay, artist interview and numerous colour images, which capture the spirit of Blake's decades-long career and his significant contribution to this historic medium.⁠⁠
--⁠⁠
The publication coincides with 'Peter Blake: Time Traveller', an exhibition opening at Waddington Custot on 18 June.⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
Design by @designbypraline. Paper provided by @fedrigoni_uk. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
@peterblakeartist #PeterBlakeCollage #PeterBlake #TimeTraveller #collage #britishpopart #collage #bristishpopartist #popart #popartist #iconicart #monograph

28/05/2021

'Peter Blake, king of collage' – @Apollomagazine crowns #PeterBlake in the newly published June issue. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
There are only three weeks to go until the opening of our exhibition 'Peter Blake: Time Traveller', which will celebrate the British Pop artist's legacy over a career spanning seven decades. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
'Peter Blake: Time Traveller' at Waddington Custot from 18 June-13 August 2021. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
@peterblakeartist #TimeTraveller #collage #britishpopart #bristishpopartist #popart #popartist #iconicart #aliceinwonderland #alice #apollomagazine @thamesandhudson @gayfordmartin

28/05/2021

'Peter Blake, king of collage' – @Apollomagazine crowns #PeterBlake in the newly published June issue. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
There are only three weeks to go until the opening of our exhibition 'Peter Blake: Time Traveller', which will celebrate the British Pop artist's legacy over a career spanning seven decades. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
'Peter Blake: Time Traveller' at Waddington Custot from 18 June-13 August 2021. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
@peterblakeartist #TimeTraveller #collage #britishpopart #bristishpopartist #popart #popartist #iconicart #aliceinwonderland #alice #apollomagazine @thamesandhudson @gayfordmartin @vamuseum

'Peter Blake, king of collage' – @Apollomagazine crowns #PeterBlake in the newly published June issue. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
There are only three weeks to go until the opening of our exhibition 'Peter Blake: Time Traveller', which will celebrate the British Pop artist's legacy over a career spanning seven decades. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
'Peter Blake: Time Traveller' at Waddington Custot from 18 June-13 August 2021. ⁠⁠
---⁠⁠
@peterblakeartist #TimeTraveller #collage #britishpopart #bristishpopartist #popart #popartist #iconicart #aliceinwonderland #alice #apollomagazine @thamesandhudson @gayfordmartin @vamuseum

28/05/2021

Our current exhibition 'Paul Feeley: Space Stands Still', is open for one more week. Named a must-see by @theartnewspaper.official, don't miss the opportunity to discover this important American painter and sculptor, last shown in London over 50 years ago.⁠
---⁠
In this film, we hear from Miranda Chance, who describes the importance of Feeley's painting technique and discusses his exploration of the sculptural possibilities of painting. ⁠
---⁠
‘Paul Feeley, Tiberius’, 1961, oil-based enamel on canvas, 94 1/2 x 67 1/2 in, 240 x 171.3 cm⁠
⁠---⁠
#PaulFeeley @mirandachance1 #waddingtoncustot #spacestandsstill #abstract #abstractpainting #londongallery #feeley #symmetrical #canvas #artoftheday #installationimage #tiberius #HelenFrankenthaler #sculpturalpainting #classicalsymmetry

20/05/2021

'...anyone can make a mark’. — Paul Feeley.
---
In October 1959, #PaulFeeley penned his twenty-point Art Policy for Bennington College, in which he took a resolutely democratic approach. Feeley advocated for participants in the programme to ‘be unafraid of the lack of apparent absolutism in the visual arts, rather to preserve the sense that anyone can make a mark’.
---
Paul Feeley, 'Syphos', 1958, oil-based enamel on canvas, 209.3 x 156.2 cm.
⁠---⁠
#PaulFeeley #BenningtonCollege #waddingtoncustot #spacestandsstill #abstract #abstractpainting #londongallery #feeley #canvas #artoftheday #installationimage

26/04/2021

As our Paul Feeley exhibition continues, we're sharing insights and stories from the gallery team as they reflect on some of their favourite works in the show. In this film, we hear about 'Alnitah' and how Feeley's forms, which were inspired by classical themes, aren't quite as symmetrical as we're first made to believe.
---⁠
The exhibition is free to visit, but bookings are advised and can be made via the link in our bio.
---⁠
Emma Hodgson on 'Alnitah', 1964, oil-based enamel on canvas, 151.1 x 151.1 cm.
---⁠
#PaulFeeley #waddingtoncustot #spacestandsstill #abstract #abstractpainting #londongallery #feeley #symmetrical #canvas #artoftheday #installationimage

09/04/2021

London Galleries Prepare for 12 April Reopening

We're counting down to the launch of our Paul Feeley exhibition on Monday 12 April!

https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/london-galleries-prepare-for-12-april-reopening/

Many galleries struggled with their doors closed, and not just financially. But they also adapted new ways of showing and selling art.

18/03/2021

First London Gallery Weekend to feature a whopping 87 galleries including David Zwirner, Gagosian and Sadie Coles

First London Gallery Weekend to feature a whopping 87 galleries including David Zwirner, Gagosian and Sadie Coles

Citywide event launching in June will focus on three different areas of the UK capital

02/03/2021

Our FIAC Online Viewing Room is now open!

You can now explore our FIAC Online Viewing Rooms presentation. Jean Dubuffet's 'Réchaud-four à gaz IV (Autoportrait) 12 mars 1966', is included in our selection. In this work, Dubuffet’s Art Brut expression upends the classical ideal of portraiture. Depersonalising the figure, Dubuffet does not attempt to convey any physical likeness, nor a sense of beauty.⁠
---⁠
Our presentation includes further works by #BarryFlanagan #ChuTehChun, #PabloReinoso, #SergePoliakoff, #JoanMiró, #PierreSoulages, #FabienneVerdier, #ZaoWouKi and #BernarVenet⁠.⁠
---⁠
Jean Dubuffet, 'Réchaud-four à gaz IV (Autoportrait) 12 mars 1966', 1966, vinyl paint on canvas, 116 x 89 cm.⁠
---⁠
#JeanDubuffet⁠ #waddingtoncustot #fiac #fiaconlineviewingrooms

25/02/2021

Our new digital exhibition ‘Work on Paper’, is now live online!

Our new digital exhibition ‘Work on Paper’, is now live online! Explore the group presentation via the link below. #PierreSoulages #HansHartung #ChuTehChun #FabienneVerdier #ZaoWouKi #workonpaper #digitalexhibition #waddingtoncustot

https://waddingtoncustot.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/22/

24/02/2021

'Work on Paper' Launches Tomorrow

Our new digital exhibition explores the work of five major figures associated with French art: Chu Teh-Chun, Hans Hartung, Pierre Soulages, Fabienne Verdier and Zao Wou-Ki. All engage with ideas of lyrical abstraction and Tachisme, movements that thrived in Paris in the mid-20th century.

Here we see a 1949 work by #HansHartung. The drawn and painted composition sets calligraphic marks against a neutral background. Hartung’s energetic strokes delineate and divide the space. Before being acquired by Waddington Custot, this piece had been in the same private collection, in France, for almost 50 years.

27/01/2021

An introduction to Jean Dubuffet's 'Jardin de souffle cor avril 1956'.

We're participating in the inaugural edition of ‘BRAFA in the Galleries’, which is now live online. Our digital BRAFA Art Fair presentation features a curated selection of works by modern masters and prominent contemporary artists, including Jean Dubuffet’s 'Jardin de souffle cor avril 1956'. Watch this video to discover more about Dubuffet's exemplary collage work, with a discussion of the piece in our Cork Street gallery space. ⁠#WaddingtonCustot #jeandubuffet #brafa

https://www.brafa.art/en/exhibitor-detail/610/waddington-custot

01/12/2020

Waddington Custot's cover photo

01/12/2020

'NEW WORK: Peter Blake', the fourth iteration of our digital exhibition series, opens today and is now accessible via the link below. The NEW WORK initiative was launched online earlier this year to premiere and showcase painting and sculpture by significant contemporary artists.
https://waddingtoncustot.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/0ede2f232b18430c82d78084a0eb788c/

The online exhibition features a collection of figurative portraits in miniature; lockdown measures implemented in London this year created the space for Blake to return to these paintings in oil, which he began five years ago. Each painting features a portrait of an imaginary woman, close-cropped to the frame and confronting the viewer directly with an intense gaze.

#PeterBlake #Blake #NEWWORK #WaddingtonCustot #artwork #painting #portrait #portraiture #disney #paintings #minature

22/11/2020

frieze

frieze

Of Song and Active Silence: Fabienne Verdier ⁠
⁠
Fabienne Verdier paints in response to the way a soprano sings a specific operatic aria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The paintings’ swirling, vortex-like strokes are made with the use of massive horsehair brushes which Verdier operates from a specially built mobile platform above the canvas.

In this video, filmed this past summer in the remote countryside of the Val-d’Oise, France, Verdier talks about her practice on the occasion of the new exhibition of her paintings, Vortex, at Waddington Custot in London.

06/11/2020

Bernar Venet Signs to Waddington Custot

Waddington Custot is pleased to announce its representation of conceptual artist Bernar Venet. Best known for his swooping, linear sculptures in steel, Venet rose to prominence through the avant-garde art scene in the mid-1960s as he developed a radical new approach, combining mathematics and scientific language, alongside artists such as #DonaldJudd, #DanFlavin and #LawrenceWeiner.⁠

Read more about the announcement on ARTnews, Artsy and Artnet News. https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-bernar-venet-joined-waddington-custots-artist-roster
---⁠
#BernarVenet #WaddingtonCustot #venet #artnet #artsy #artnews ⁠#abmb #artbasel #artbaselmiamibeach #artist #portrait #artwork #conceptualartist

The artist will present his first solo exhibition at the gallery’s London space in 2022.

04/11/2020

Number of London galleries plan to accommodate collectors ‘by appointment’ during second coronavirus lockdown

Late opening today! This evening (4 November) Waddington Custot will remain open until 8pm. In light of the upcoming change in restrictions and to offer visitors an extended chance to experience art in person, the gallery has extended its hours alongside over 25+ other London galleries, with neighbouring galleries on Cork Street including Goodman Gallery, Sadie Coles, Holtermann and Saatchi Yates, to name just a few.

The late opening provides a final opportunity to physically experience Fabienne Verdier's monumental 'Vortex' works before the gallery temporarily closes in line with the UK lockdown measures coming in on Thursday.

If you are unable to visit the gallery today, you can continue exploring our programme online. Head over to our 'Fabienne Verdier: Vortex' viewing room or immerse yourself in the artist and exhibition films on our website.⁠

Read more about the initiative on The Art Newspaper.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/london-galleries-plan-to-stay-open-by-appointment-during-second-coronavirus-lockdown

#WestEndGalleryNight #waddingtoncustot #corkstreet #corkstreetgallery #londongallery #londongalleries #fabienneverdier

Some dealers say they will continue to accommodate private viewings for buyers, while opening hours are extended in the West End tonight

30/10/2020

TEFAF Online New York 2020 - Barry Flanagan’s 'Hells Bells'

We are participating in the inaugural edition of TEFAF Online New York 2020, a new digital art fair initiative that allows galleries to present a single artwork.⁠ A VIP preview runs online from today until 31 October, with the public opening dates from 1–4 November.

We're showing Barry Flanagan’s 'Hells Bells', one of the artist’s most celebrated renditions of the iconic ‘leaping hare’. In the sculpture, the hare takes a giant leap –ears aloft and limbs outstretched in a burst of youthful energy– over a steel lattice plinth which evokes a pyramid.⁠

Enjoy a preview of the work here: https://www.waddingtoncustot.com/exhibitions/162/

Barry Flanagan, 'Hells Bells', 2005, bronze on steel base 242 x 220 x 67 cm.⁠

#TEFAF #tefafonline #tefafnewyork #barryflanagan #sculpture #bronze #hare #artwork #artist #artonfilm #newyork

Waddington Custot participates in the inaugural edition of TEFAF Online, a new digital art fair initiative that allows galleries to present a single artwork. A VIP preview runs online from 30–31 October, with the public opening dates from 1–4 November. Waddington Custot has selected to show Barr...

29/10/2020

Fabienne Verdier: Vortex

Read Veronica Simpson's review of 'Fabienne Verdier: Vortex' at Waddington Custot, published by Studio International.

'I am a huge fan of Verdier’s work, as well as her sensibility... The power is here in this new London show'.

https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/fabienne-verdier-vortex-review-waddington-custot-london

28/10/2020

Are the blue-chips down? How London’s art elite are coping with Covid

Waddington Custot Senior Director Jacob Twyford speaks to Alastair Smart at The Telegraph about the gallery's experience of dealing with covid and how digital initiatives have been vital, but are not a replacement to physically viewing art.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/blue-chips-londons-art-elite-coping-covid/

London is one of the world’s art capitals. But how do you sell ultra-expensive works when buyers can barely visit your gallery?

22/10/2020

Fabienne Verdier: Vortex

In celebration of Fabienne Verdier’s new solo exhibition, on view at our Cork St gallery, we have launched Vortex, a new app for iPhone and iPad. Through imagery, video, text and sound, this digital initiative enhances the experience of visiting the show, while also offering a window into Verdier’s working process for those unable to physically see the exhibition.

Downloadable via the link below, this free app allows visitors to hear the very arias that inspired each of Verdier's works.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/fabienne-verdier-vortex/id1535052978

16/10/2020

Fabienne Verdier 'Vortex' Live

'Fabienne Verdier: Vortex' is now open at our Cork St gallery. In celebration of the exhibition launch, we have created a multisensory film bringing together art and opera.

The film includes an exhibition tour led by #Frieze Senior Editor Matthew McLean, together with the talented soprano Ana Beard Fernández, who performs the very arias that inspired Verdier’s paintings.

'Fabienne Verdier: Vortex' runs at Waddington Custot from 6 October – 17 November 2020.

https://youtu.be/n6hBSPNcTQ0

In celebration of the launch of 'Vortex', an exhibition of new monumental works by the renowned contemporary artist Fabienne Verdier, Waddington Custot hosts...

14/10/2020

Waddington Custot's cover photo

14/08/2020

Pablo Reinoso

Pablo Reinoso

Thanks to HYPEBEAST!

"London’s Waddington Custot gallery is celebrating the work of the contemporary French-Argentine sculptor with a series of digital solo exhibitions throughout the month of September. A presentation of some of the artist’s most iconic works will complement the online project in the gallery space."

The first digital exhibition will launch September 4, while the second part will launch September 23 on Waddington Custot’s website. Both will run until October 25. The gallery presentation will open to the public from September 4 to 27 at Waddington Custot gallery in London.

14/07/2020

NEW WORK: David Batchelor, is now open online, marking the third iteration of the Waddington Custot digital exhibition series and the gallery’s first solo presentation by the Dundee-born artist. Bringing together a collection of Batchelor’s most recent sculptural works, the exhibition emphasises the artist’s distinct approach to colour, one defined by and tied to experiences of the city.

The works on display are created from offcuts and found materials, which are then embedded into a concrete structure, relating to the manifestation of colour in the built environment. These pieces echo the jagged cement-and-broken-glass compositions that often adorn the top of brick walls in towns and cities.
https://waddingtoncustot.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/5/