Spectrum London
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Spectrum London is a London art gallery which shows contemporary figurative painting. It is noted for its promotion of the anti-establishment Stuckist artists.
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Spectrum London is the first West End commercial gallery to show the Stuckists, in a show Go West in October 2006.[1][2][3] This "major central London exhibition" elevated the hitherto artworld outsiders into "major players", and occasioned controversy because of a satirical painting of Sir Nicholas Serota and nude paintings of Stella Vine by her ex husband Charles Thomson."[4][5][6] Thomson's and Joe Machine's paintings sold, before the show opened, to buyers from the UK, Japan and the US.[7]
Royden Prior, the director of Spectrum London, said, "These artists are good and are part of history. Get past the art politics and look at the work." [8][1] Edward Lucie-Smith wrote an essay for the show.[9]
The gallery also exhibited work by Michael Dickinson,[10] who was released from ten days in a Turkish jail without charge after exhibiting a collage of the Turkish prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, as a dog.[11]
In March 2006, in association with Sceptre publishing and the Italian Cultural Institute, Spectrum London presented author John Berendt in conversation with Venetian artist, Ludovico De Luigi, during the artist's first solo show in the UK.[12]
Other artists previously shown at the gallery include Rita Duffy, Peter Murphy, Cheryl Brooks, Gerry Burns (winner of the Daily Mail's inaugural "Not The Turner Prize", Sir Peter Blake and Eduardo Paolozzi.[13]
Spectrum London exhibits at the London Art Fair and Art Madrid.[14]
The gallery is at 77 Great Titchfield Street, London W1.
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- ^ a b "Stuckists art group in major show" BBC online, August 23, 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ "The Stuckists go west at Spectrum London" artdaily.com. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ "Go West" telegraph.co.uk online gallery. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ Morris, Jane (2006)"Getting stuck in" The Guardian online, August 24, 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ Barnes, Anthony (2006) "Portrait of an ex-husband's revenge" The Independent on Sunday. Retrieved 9 October, 2006, from findarticles.com
- ^ Teodorczuk, Tom (2006) "Modern art is pants" Evening Standard, 22 August, 2006. Retrieved 9 October, 2006 from thisislondon.co.uk.
- ^ Gleadell, Colin (2006) "Market news: Roger Hilton's child-like drawings, 'stuckist' paintings and Edward Seago" Daily Telegraph online, 3 October, 2006. Retrieved 9 October, 2006
- ^ "The first West End show for the Stuckists" saatchi-gallery.co.uk. Retrieved 9 October, 2006
- ^ Lucie-Smith, Edward (2006) "Stuckism" spectrumlondon.co.uk. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ "Michael Dickinson, Stuckist artist jailed in Turkey for a collage, now free. See his work at Go West" stuckism.com. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ "Keeping Turkey out of the EU" (Video interview with Michael Dickinson on More 4) channel4.com. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ "Ludovico De Luigi in Conversation with John Berendt" Italian Cultural Institute web site. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ "Laptop dinner by Pii at Spectrum London" allinlondon.co.uk. Retrieved October 9, 2006
- ^ "Spectrum London" Artfacts.net. Retrieved October 9, 2006
