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Artist spotlights, reviews, insights, and art world news from our team.

‘Country Life’, Tom Bull and Nicholas Johnson at Artvisor in Fitzrovia

‘Country Life’, Tom Bull and Nicholas Johnson at Artvisor in Fitzrovia

Artvisor is delighted to host the exhibition Country Life, featuring works by Tom Bull and Nicholas Johnson, taking place at an off-site space in Fitzrovia from 15 December 2023 until February 2024.  Conceived by Tom Bull and Piero Tomassoni, this exhibition transforms a domestic setting near Regent Street into an eerie space of sensory overload. Tom Bull’s site-specific new installation, Country Life, together with Nicholas Johnson’s large-scale botanic paintings, turns the main exhibition room into an immersive environment. Johnson’s works delve into the detailed world of plants, highlighting the beauty and complexity of nature through vibrant colours and meticulous attention...

Piero Tomassoni Awarded for Arts and Culture at the Italian Embassy

Piero Tomassoni Awarded for Arts and Culture at the Italian Embassy

From the left: Alessandro Belluzzo, Chair of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK; Matteo Augello, prize recipient; Lucia Savi, Head of Curatorial at the Design Museum, jury member; Piero Tomassoni, prize recipient; Brunello Rosa, Chair of Talented Italians in the UK On 7 December 2023 Artvisor founder Piero Tomassoni was recognised for his contribution to fostering the relationship between Italy and the United Kingdom in the field of Arts and Culture on the occasion of a ceremony held by the Talented Italians in the UK Association (TIUK) and the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for...

Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy of Arts

Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts’ long-standing male solo shows have witnessed a rupture at the arrival of the Serbian conceptual pioneer Marina Abramović (b. 1946, Yugoslavia). In collaboration with curator Andrea Tarsia, the artist is the Academy’s first female artist to have a retrospective in the main galleries in its 225-year history. Marina Abramović, ‘The Spirit in Any Condition Does Not Burn’, 2011. While many found Abramović’s absence to be counter-intuitive to her ‘artist-is-present’ approach, the Royal Academy placed impetus on the exhibition being a ‘reperformance’. Abramović’s intention was certainly not compromised and instead challenged the visitor to focus more deeply...

‘Guest Relations’ at Jameel Arts Centre

‘Guest Relations’ at Jameel Arts Centre

The landmark Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai welcomes a new group exhibition, Guest Relations, this winter. The exhibition runs until 28 April 2024. Curators Murtaza Vali and Lucas Morin join forces for a show that investigates the nature of commercial hospitality through art, architecture, and urban planning. Taking the hotel as its subject, this exhibition brings together the work of 34 artists whose archival and architectural research exhibit the historical, political and cultural metamorphosis of the concept of tourism from colonial hubris to present-day globalisation. Ahmed Mater, Abraaj Al Bait Towers, 2012 The exhibition appropriately draws on the nature of...

Artvisor’s Collaboration with 60 Curzon Features on The Financial Times

Artvisor’s Collaboration with 60 Curzon Features on The Financial Times

Artvisor has been featured in the Financial Times’ ‘The best new city residences for design lovers’ for our collaboration with 60 Curzon, Mayfair. ©The Financial Times Limited 2024. All rights reserved. The article notes ‘A date at the Curzon  Home to some of London’s most prestigious galleries, 60 Curzon in Mayfair puts art at the centre of the scene. The development, designed by the late Thierry Despont, has been curated with pieces by British artist Vanessa Jackson and Royal Academician David Nash, while the 32 apartments including two penthouses (from £10.95mn through Knight Frank and Savills) will offer works by photographers Sasha Gusov and Cyrus Mahboubian and the...

60 Curzon Garage

‘(Untitled) Radical Objecthood’ exhibition at 60 Curzon, London during Frieze Week

Artvisor is pleased to announce Untitled (Radical Objecthood), an exhibition that explores the idea and meaning of sculpture today through a group of artists across generations and geographies, interlacing nonlinear narratives and reaffirming the centrality of the physical object in contemporary practice. Curated by Piero Tomassoni, the exhibition takes place in the garage of the new Mayfair landmark building 60 Curzon, evoking the seminal contemporary art show Contemporanea, held in the underground parking of Villa Borghese in Rome exactly fifty years ago. Works on display by Mario Merz and Vincenzo Agnetti act as a symbolic link and homage to the...