Jackie Nickerson featured on The Good Life - London issue !

Jackie Nickerson, Terrain

ART MARATHON SERIES Tuesday | 15th October, 2013 | 12.30-2.00pm | FREE

Brancolini Grimaldi is proud to introduce our first ever Art Marathon Series with a 4-week lunchtime tour starting Tuesday, 15th October. The tours will navigate 4 key areas of Mayfair, taking in some of the best shows of the summer from an extensive selection of galleries. 

Each week we will start at the gallery and then visit 3-4 shows at host galleries near to each other. Each gallery will provide some curatorial insight, which should stimulate some lively discourse. 

Please RSVP to martina@brancolinigrimaldi.com, stating which date you wish to attend and meet at 

Brancolini Grimaldi, 43-44 Albemarle Street

Tuesday, 15th October 2013

Brancolini Grimaldi | David Zwirner | Sprueth and Magers I Skarstedt Gallery

Short Breaths at Brancolini Grimaldi LAST DAY

Tomorrow is the last chance to visit Miles Aldridge's Short Breaths exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi. The gallery is open from 11am to 5 pm.

Hope to see you there !

ART MARATHON SERIES 

Wednesday | 21st August, 2013 | 1pm | FREE

Short Breaths - Installation Shot

Brancolini Grimaldi is proud to introduce our first ever Art Marathon Series with a 4-week lunchtime tour starting 31st July. The tours will navigate 4 key areas of Mayfair, taking in some of the best shows of the summer from an extensive selection of galleries. 

Each week we will start at the gallery and then visit 3-4 shows at host galleries near to each other. Each gallery will provide some curatorial insight, which should stimulate some lively discourse. 

Please RSVP to averil@brancolinigrimaldi.com, stating which date you wish to attend and meet at 

Brancolini Grimaldi, 43-44 Albemarle Street at 1pm

Wednesday 21st August - Area 4

Brancolini Grimaldi | Sumarria Lun | Blain Southern

Miles Aldridge's work will be included in the touring exhibition

Selling Dreams: 100 Years of Fashion Photography. 

The upcoming venue will be at the Auckland Museum from 

6th December 2013 until 28th February 2014.

Miles Aldridge, Le Manège Enchanté #4, 2007



http://www.aucklandmuseum.com

Felicity Hayward seen by Miles Aldridge... featured on Vogue UK

Felicity Hayward by Miles Aldridge

http://www.vogue.co.uk

Miles Aldridge's Short Breath exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi featured on Style Barista...

Miles Aldridge, Actress 2, 2012 

http://www.stylebarista.com

Some of our favourite Miles Aldridge's Polaroids...

Miles Aldridge, Immaculee, 2007

Miles Aldridge, Immaculee, 2007

Miles Aldridge, Immaculee, 2007 

Miles Aldridge, Immaculee, 2007

Second Art Marathon meeting TOMORROW !

ART MARATHON SERIES

Wednesday | 7th August, 2013 | 1pm | FREE

Short Breaths - Installation Shot

Brancolini Grimaldi is proud to introduce our first ever Art Marathon Series with a 4-week lunchtime tour starting 31st July. The tours will navigate 4 key areas of Mayfair, taking in some of the best shows of the summer from an extensive selection of galleries. 

Each week we will start at the gallery and then visit 3-4 shows at host galleries near to each other. Each gallery will provide some curatorial insight, which should stimulate some lively discourse. 

Please RSVP to martina@brancolinigrimaldi.com, stating which date you wish to attend and meet at 

Brancolini Grimaldi, 43-44 Albemarle Street at 1pm

Wednesday 7th August - Area 2

Brancolini Grimaldi | David Zwirner | Sprueth Mager | Simon Lee Gallery

Brancolini Grimaldi's Art Marathon Series listed on Photomonitor !

Miles Aldridge, Chromo Thriller, 2012

http://www.photomonitor.co.uk

Check the preview of the making of BBQ Chic by Miles Aldridge

Installation View at Brancolini Grimaldi
Miles Aldridge, BBQ Chic, 2013

http://www.youtube.com

Miles Aldridge featured on Vogue Germany

Here the link...

Installation Shot from the exhibition Short Breaths

http://m.vogue.de

Miles Aldridge on L'Espresso

Miles Aldridge from The Dead

http://espresso.repubblica.it

TODAY: Miles Aldridge's Short Breaths opens at Brancolini Grimaldi !

Come see Miles Aldridge's new work at Brancolini Grimaldi today! 

Miles Aldridge and Isabella Brancolini

Short Breaths opens on

Thursday July 11th, 7-9 pm

43-44 Albemarle Street
W1S 4JJ London
london@brancolinigrimaldi.com

1st Floor /above the post office


See you there !

Miles Aldridge on BBC London !

Miles Aldridge, Actress 4, 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk


Miles talking about his retrospective at the Somerset House, his new book I Only Want You To Love Me with Rizzoli, Brancolini Grimaldi exhibition and more...

Miles Aldridge's new exhibition Short Breaths opens at Brancolini Grimaldi TOMORROW !

Come see Miles Aldridge's new work at Brancolini Grimaldi tomorrow. 

Miles Aldridge and Isabella Brancolini

Short Breaths opens on

Thursday July 11th, 7-9 pm

43-44 Albemarle Street
W1S 4JJ London
london@brancolinigrimaldi.com

1st Floor /above the post office


See you there !

What Is Contemporary? featured in Photomonitor

www.photomonitor.co.uk


Join us for the artist talk with Domingo Milella, Giancarlo Gentilini and Bruno Botticelli today at 6pm.

Miles Aldridge at the Arts Club Mayfair

In anticipation of his upcoming retrospective at the Somerset House and the first exhibition with Brancolini Grimaldi in London, Miles Aldridge will discuss his work with The Times' art critic Nancy Durrant. 

The artist will also sign copies of his new book, I Only Want You To Love Me, published by Rizzoli.

The publication, as well as I Only Want You To Love Me/Special Edition, can be purchased at the gallery.

The talk will start at 7pm
Book signing at 6.30pm


Space is limited. First come, first served.
RSVP essential: london@brancolinigrimaldi.com

What is Contemporary?

Curated by Domingo Milella and Bacarelli Botticelli
Exhibition dates: 24 May – 6 July 2013

Brancolini Grimaldi announces a group exhibition of contemporary photography and works of art from the past. Curated by photographer Domingo Milella and antiques specialists Riccardo Bacarelli and Bruno Botticelli, the show will place work by Dan Holdsworth, Clare Strand and Milella alongside antique sculpture, painting and artefacts, asking us to think outside of proscribed categories of art, to re-evaluate boundaries imposed by time and place to investigate what is contemporary.
The exhibition aims to bring art from different periods into a single span of time, into a continuous dialogue between now and then. What relationship does a funeray monument of the Duchessa Bona di Savoia from the 15th century have to a photograph by Clare Strand? How does the monumental landscape photography of Dan Holdsworth relate to a piece of marble represnting the Crucifixtion from a Byzantine altar? What does a painting from the front of a cabinet showing a wedding procession from 1400s Perugia tell us about Domingo Milella's photograph of the tomb of King Midas in in Frigia?
When viewed through the long lens of the history of art, photography is still in its infancy. It has only been in existence for around 150 years and its use by artists as a means of expression is an even more recent development. It may seen that photography is a more contemporary medium than say painting or sculpture. A photograph can be dated and fixed to a time period in a way which other media can escape. So how can it relate to artforms of the past and can it escape its contemporary nature?
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has explored many of these ideas in his essay, What is the Contemporary? Agamben describes being contemporary as "like being on time for an appointment one cannot but miss." He goes on to say, "...the key to the modern is hidden in the immemorial and the prehistoric. Thus, the ancient world in its decline turns to the primordial so as to rediscover itself. The avant-garde...also pursues the primitive and the archaic....the entry point to the present necessarily takes the form of an archaeology; an archaeology that does not, however, regress to a historical past, but returns to the part within the present that we are absolutely incapable of living."
It is these ideas and concepts that the exhibition aims to explore through bringing contemporary photography into dialogue with an unexpected and thought-provoking range of art from antique and medieval times through to Renaissance and more recent periods.

Heidi Specker - Termini

Heidi Specker
Termini

1 February - 16 March 2013

Brancolini Grimaldi is delighted to announce Termini, Heidi Specker's third solo exhibition with the gallery.

Termini was created during Specker’s 2010 residency at the German Academy’s Villa Massimo in Rome. Comprised of different series of images, it begins with an interest in Surrealism and Metaphysics at the home of Giorgio de Chirico and progresses to the Rationalism and New Objectivity of Carlo Mollino. The theme of memory and of intellectual legacy is central to the poetics of Heidi Specker. Surfaces, buildings and objects are transfigured, starting with the precision with which they are photographed. The image, which is often a close-up, modifies spaces and proportions, isolating the subjects from the context and making them absolutes.

Piazza di Spagna 31 features images taken at the apartment of the Italian surrealist Giorgio de Chirico that is now a museum. Although the interior is opulently furnished as befitting a successful artist like de Chirico, Specker has chosen to photograph separate objects within the house, from an ornate silver bowl to the edge of sofa cushions. Texture, material and surface come to the fore; in an image of one of De Chirico’s sculptural maquettes, Le muse inquietanti, two figures are draped in what looks like togas. We are reminded both of de Chirico's interest in classicism as well as Specker's on-going investigation into the layering of history in an ancient city like Rome.

Via Napione 2 features photographs of the house of Carlo Mollino, the highly influential Italian architect, designer and dandy whose legacy of modernism and eclecticism has had a huge influence on contemporary design in the last 20 years. Mollino had a long and enduring interest in Egyptian culture and his house reflects his varied tastes, from frames filled with butterflies to leopard skin wallpaper. Specker's images pick out some of the key elements of Mollino's apartment as well as hinting at some of the activities that went on inside there - the image of the blue and white tiles and the red velvet curtain marks a spot where many different women were photographed by Mollino.

Ultimatum Alla Terra takes its name from a Hollywood movie poster (The Day the Earth Stood Still) photographed by Specker pasted onto a clock tower in the EUR district of Rome. This part of the city was developed by Mussolini during the 1930s, but work was halted by the Second World War and the building weren’t completed until the 1960s. This has created a sense of halted time in the area and a juxtaposition of architectural styles. Specker is also interested in the image of the clock throughout art history, particularly its use in Surrealist art connecting these images back to her work at de Chirico’s apartment.

Heidi Specker was born in Damme, Germany in 1962, and now lives and works in Berlin. Her works have been exhibited at Haus der Kunst, München; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg;
Musées des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; National Museum für Moderne Kunst, Tokyo among others. Her photographs are present in several permanent collections, including the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Margulies Collection, Miami; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Sammlung Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich and UBS Bank, Zurich.