London Art Fair 2016

London Art Fair, the UK’s premier fair for Modern British and contemporary art, returns to the Business Design Centre, Islington, from 20-24 January 2016. For its 28th edition the Fair has announced Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, as its museum partner for 2016. This follows two successful partnerships with The Hepworth Wakefield (2014) and Pallant House Gallery (2015).

Important works drawn from the Jerwood Collection by artists including: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, John Piper, John Tunnard and Christopher Wood will feature in an exhibition at London Art Fair 2016.

Natasha Hoare has been appointed as guest curator for ‘Dialogues’ for Art Projects 2016. Dedicated to fostering a community of emerging international galleries, ‘Dialogues’ is a unique and much anticipated section of the Fair featuring collaborative presentations between invited UK and international gallery partners.

London Art Fair is also delighted to announce that Federica Chiocchetti has been appointed as guest curator for the 2016 edition of Photo50, presenting ‘Feminine, Masculine’. Loosely inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 masterpiece Masculin Féminin, the exhibition aims to explore the challenge of representing the mysterious, at times ineffable and immaterial, dynamics that occur or do not occur between a woman and a man.

Presented with a feminine narrative voice, it features the work of primarily, yet not exclusively, contemporary female artists that subtly play with the theme. Without the intention of offering any definitive answer, the idea is to present a suggestive and allusive visual journey into the struggle and fascination of dealing with the other sex, mixing satire, sadness, romanticism and exploring emotional clichés.