Lowry, New Contemporaries, Surrealism - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

Lowry, New Contemporaries, Surrealism - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

16 November, 2011
by: Tom Jeffreys

Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.

From Wednesday 23rd November
LS Lowry @ Richard Green
The distinction between public museums, commercial galleries and private collections continues to collapse apace, as Mayfair art dealer Richard Green hosts a "museum quality" exhibition of 38 works by celebrated Northern artist LS Lowry. Earlier this year Richard Nagy wowed the crowds with an exhibition of drawings by Egon Schiele – an artist significantly under-represented in UK museums – and now it's the turn of Lowry, whose works Tate continue to keep buried in storage.


From Wednesday 23rd November
Bloomberg New Contemporaries @ ICA
The annual Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition arrives at ICA this winter as a showcase for the works of the finest final year graduates and postgraduates from across the country. There's work across a whole range of media chosen this year by artists Pablo Bronstein, Sarah Jones and Michael Raedecker. The standard of work – as you'd expect – does vary, but New Contemporaries has an excellent track record of discovering the next generation of talent.


From Friday 25th November
Lukas Strebel – Antoglyph @ Printspace
An exhibition of startling surrealist photography at Printspace on Kingsland Road this winter. The works on show are by Emmy award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Director of Photography, Lukas Strebel - best known for work on Garrow's Law and Little Dorrit - and date from his days as an artist in the 1970s. Painstakingly staged, and all shot in black and white, the images on show are rich with symbolism and hints of some hidden personal narrative beyond.


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