Masterpiece London has established itself
as the world's leading cross-collecting fair, offering the finest works of art,
design, furniture and jewellery, from antiquity to the present day. This
unmissable event at the height of London's summer season provides an
unparalleled opportunity for new and established collectors to discover
exceptional works for sale from 160 international exhibitors.
This year’s
edition showcases rare and important Impressionist and Modernist paintings;
compelling presentations celebrating British art and design; exquisite
jewellery; art and objects from antiquity as well as contemporary work by
artists including Marina Abramović, Ibrahim El Salahi, Chiharu Shiota and Rob
& Nick Carter. The Royal Bank of Canada returns as the Fair’s principal
sponsor for the fifth successive year.
Masterpiece
Presents
MASTERPIECE PRESENTS, in
collaboration with FactumArte and Lisson Gallery, will showcase new works by
Marina Abramović, Five Stages of Maya Dance, in an immersive,
specially conceived area. This unseen body of work comprises five alabaster
portraits of Marina Abramović which merge performance, light and sculpture.
Their hauntingly physical presence decomposes into intricately carved
landscapes of alabaster as you move around the pieces.
New
Additions
Longstanding Masterpiece
exhibitors including Richard Green, Adrian Sassoon, Wartski, Robilant + Voena,
Verdura/Herz-Belperron and Dickinson are joined by carefully selected new
additions for 2018 including: ArtAncient, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Cahn, CINDY CHAO
The Art Jewel, Day and Faber, DIE GALERIE, Galerie Yann Ferrandin, Flowers
Gallery, James Graham-Stewart, Hammer Galleries, Hauser & Wirth, Galerie
Henze & Ketterer, Hill-Stone, Hunter / Harrison, Kallos Gallery, Landau
Fine Art, Lullo • Pampoulides, Maruani Mercier, Moussaieff Jewellers, Sarah
Myerscough Gallery, Jill Newhouse Gallery, Partners & Mucciaccia, R &
Company, Fabio Salini and Vigo.
Cross-Collecting
Masterpiece’s cross-collecting
ethos can be seen throughout the Fair, where exhibitors specialising in a wide
variety of disciplines and eras are brought together, offering the broadest
spectrum of works of any art fair, with classical and contemporary shown
side-by-side.
Visitors will encounter presentations which carefully combine
furniture, sculpture and works of art from all periods, unified by quality.
Examples of this ethos can be seen at Benjamin Proust, Perrin Fine Art,
Robilant + Voena, and Safani Gallery & Geoffrey Diner.
Reflecting this breadth, new
exhibitor ArtAncient’s presentation will feature a rare ‘shooting star’
meteorite, formed 4.6 billion years ago, whilst specially commissioned
contemporary artwork will be presented at Blain|Southern with an installation
by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota.
Les Enluminures and Daniel
Crouch will stage a carefully curated presentation entitled ‘A Brief History of
Time: From Matins to Mars’. The booth will display celestial maps, instruments,
illuminated manuscripts and medieval and Renaissance jewellery, inviting viewers
to contemplate the perception of time across history.
Hauser & Wirth’s
‘Wunderkammer’, or cabinet of curiosities, will also combine disciplines with
contemporary and modern works by Louise Bourgeois, Phyllida Barlow, Subodh
Gupta and Philip Guston, presented alongside 18th and
19thcentury furniture.
Impressionist
and Modernist Presence at the Fair
This year, highly important
Impressionist and Modern works will be exhibited at the Fair by a number of
exhibitors. Landau Fine Art’s presentation will include a Picasso oil painting
which hung for decades behind the desk of his only dealer, Paul Rosenberg.
Gladwell & Patterson will be bringing a preeminent example of a late
waterlilies painting by Monet and, celebrating its 90th anniversary
this year, Hammer Galleries will be bringing an early work by Joan Miró along
with Marc Chagall’s Peintre au coq rouge.
DIE GALERIE are collaborating
with M. F. Toninelli Art Moderne to present a focussed booth with work by three
key Surrealists: Max Ernst, André Masson and Roberto Matta, including a
monumental bronze statue by Max Ernst, whose work will also be shown at
Ludorff’s stand. German Expressionist works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl
Schmidt-Rottluff and August Macke, will be displayed by Galerie Henze & Ketterer.
The
Best of British
Masterpiece is an important
destination for collectors of British art and design and many of this year’s
exhibitors are celebrating the work of British artists as well as those who
have lived and worked in the UK. This focus is encapsulated by Richard Green
whose presentation ‘Best of British from our Shores and Beyond’ includes pieces
by J.M.W.Turner, L.S. Lowry and John Constable.
Modern and Post-War British
artists, including Eileen Agar, Duncan Grant, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley
and Graham Sutherland, will be presented by The Redfern Gallery, Osborne
Samuel, Philip Mould, Offer Waterman, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Piano Nobile.
In celebration of the 300 year
anniversary of Thomas Chippendale’s birth, Ronald Phillips and Apter-Fredericks
will be presenting important pieces by the British cabinetmaker. British
furniture will also be championed by Oscar Graf, whose stand will explore the
theme of ‘Victorians & Edwardians’, displaying beautiful pieces in a
variety of styles from 1860-1910. Jewellery exhibitor Didier Ltd. will include
a focus on British designers on their booth with pieces by Wendy Ramshaw and
her husband David Watkins.
Design,
Furniture and Decorative Arts
ith a booth inspired by the
Surrealist poet and patron Edward James, David Gill Gallery will be bringing
together contemporary works from their roster of artists and designers
including Zaha Hadid, Michele Oka Doner and Mattia Bonetti. Modern and contemporary
design will also be presented by 18 Davies Street Gallery, Rose Uniacke and
Modernity Stockholm.
New exhibitor Sarah Myerscough Gallery will showcase
unique handcrafted contemporary pieces of design by John Makepeace amongst
others, and Sinai & Sons Ltd. will focus on the work of Italian painter,
sculptor, interior decorator and engraver Piero Fornasetti. Hitomi Hosono’s
exquisite collaboration with Wedgwood will be revealed at Adrian Sassoon, and
Katie Jones will present a selection of contemporary Japanese applied arts.
Jewellery
Extraordinary contemporary
jewellery will be shown by leading designers including Fabio Salini whose new
collection made with carbon fibre will be revealed for the first time at the
Fair. Taiwanese fine jewellery brand CINDY CHAO The Art Jewel will be
presenting designs from their Black Label and White Label collections and
coloured diamond specialist Moussaieff also join the fair this year.
Rare
antique jewellery by masters such as Cartier, Boucheron and Fabergé will be offered
at SJ Phillips, Hancocks, Véronique Bamps and Epoque Fine Jewels. Van Cleef
& Arpels, Verdura/Herz-Belperron and Grima will present both their heritage
collections and unique contemporary pieces.
Sculpture
at the Fair
Masterpiece’s exhibitors include
leading sculpture specialists Lullo • Pampoulides, Pangolin London, Univers du
Bronze, and Galerie Sismann who will display European Old Master sculpture
alongside contemporary sculpture by Johan Creten. Other highlights in this
field include Alexander Calder’s unique Red Bull which will be at
the centre of Collisart’s stand alongside American Modernist works by Marsden
Hartley, Edward Hopper, and Arshile Gorky.
Landau Fine Art are bringing a
rare black marble Reclining Figure: Curved by Henry Moore, dating
from 1977, which is one of the artist’s seminal and unique carvings and will be
displayed close to their stand.
Other prominent pieces and installations
throughout the Fair’s main areas include a large sculptural light installation
created by Jeff Zimmerman being offered by R & Company and Larry Bell’s
monumental VFZ
2, a unique work formed from True Sea Salt and Cerise
laminated glass presented by Hauser & Wirth. Blain|Southern will bring State of
Beingby Chiharu Shiota and two new works, the monumental Twice by
Richard Hudson and Solar Disk by Emily Young will be offered by
Bowman Sculpture.
Talks
Masterpiece London will be
holding talks, workshops and tours throughout the public days of the fair as
part of a Talks & Education Programme, in association with Chopard. This
includes a new initiative - a Curator and Art Trade Day on Saturday 30 June
co-chaired by Thomas Marks, Editor of Apollo, and Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Chairman
of the Fair, which will include a call for papers from academics.
This is in addition
to a series of ‘How to Look at’ talks, providing visitors with the tools needed
to get the most out of viewing and buying a range of disciplines of art.
Throughout the Fair there will also be free to attend on-stand talks with
exhibitors, where specialists will give visitors an insight into some of the
highlights on display.
Link: Masterpiece London 2018