Katrine Levin Galleries in collaboration with writer and curator Irene Kukota
present:

OLGA GOLDINA HIRSCH
The Solstice Begins
solo London exhibition

A metaphorical journey through the cycles of life and the transience of memories

WHEN: 16 - 22 SEPTEMBER, 2024
WHERE: Coningsby Gallery, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 4RJ

A solstice occurs twice a year…. Twice a year during the solstice we are given a chance to examine our past and sketch out our future. (Olga Goldina Hirsch)

Olga Goldina Hirsch explores internal spaces of dreams and memories that are recovered from oblivion and materialised on canvas. Her artworks are extensive philosophical commentaries on the role of memory in our lives and on how our memories can aid or block our progress through life.

Working in mixed media and printing, Olga creates spatial depths through layers of transparent tones. The Solstice Begins sets one on a metaphorical journey through the eternal cycles of the Solstice, from life to death to rebirth. The exhibition begins with a White Room filled with childhood memories and sounds and progresses to the depths of Mnemosyne - the source of Memory, and the spring of creativity.

Comprising twenty-one paintings made over the last six years, the exhibition is a meditation on the cycles of life, the ebbs and flows of memory, and the pulsations of cosmic energy through us and the universe.

Olga Goldina Hirsch lives and works in London. Widely exhibited, she is a graduate of the City and Guilds of London Art School. Her work has been featured in the London Underground Programme and can be found in the Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vladivostok.

MAMUKA DIDEBA
Urban Allusions
solo London exhibition

Travel with Prometheus through the magical worlds of Georgia’s Brueghel, Mamuka Dideba

WHEN: 2 - 14 SEPTEMBER, 2024
Monday – Saturday | 11am – 6pm
WHERE: Katrine Levin Galleries at Marie Jose Gallery, 16 Victoria Grove, South Kensington, London W8 5RW

CATALOGUE

My chief goal is to transform the mundane and the realistic into something special and elevated. (Mamuka Dideba)

Mamuka Dideba returns with new works after his critically acclaimed solo exhibition with us in 2019.

Showcasing Dideba’s mastery of both figurative and abstract, Urban Allusions is a celebration of human creativity and the enduring power of knowledge.

The exhibition begins with Prometheus stealing the fire of knowledge from the Gods on Mount Olympus. Shared with humans, the knowledge lights the way to the ever expanding creation of great civilisations.

Dideba’s abstract paintings take you to magical cities built of an ingenious interplay of light and colour, imperceptibly changing tones, and evocative shapes. There, the colours of day and night appear together, symbolising the ongoing cycle of creation and renewal.

Inspired in part by the magical realism of Italo Calvino, these fantastical cities are fragments of ourselves reflected back at us, perceived through our own individual lens of past memories and future aspirations.

Inspired by the Old Masters, Dideba’s figurative paintings present the cities’ quirky inhabitants who seem to exist outside of time. They too are aspects of humanity and ourselves, who in the trial and error of creation at various times feel like a Prometheus, a Jester, or a Triumphant.

The Urban Allusions journey is a beautiful reminder that cities are more than a conglomeration of people and buildings, they are spaces where our shared values, dreams, and hopes converge.

Dideba paints in the Renaissance imprimatura technique that requires enormous skill and patience. He is affectionately dubbed Georgia’s Brueghel because of his deviation from realistic proportions and interest in human behaviour. Born in 1968 in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he lives and works, he is widely exhibited and collected in Georgia and abroad. He will join us for the exhibition.

PRESS: CULTURE CALLING; THE ARTS SHELF; ARTS AND COLLECTIONS

TOMA and IK STENKO
Essence
Mother and Son together in London

WHEN: 29 APRIL - 11 MAY, 2024
WHERE: Katrine Levin Galleries at Marie Jose Gallery, 16 Victoria Grove, South Kensington, London W8 5RW

Toma Stenko unbelievably loves colour. After all, colour flows through everything. We see in colour, feel in colour, and even speak in colour (ever “feel blue” or “see red”?). Colour is the essence of being, and for Toma colour is the essence of love.

Love is the prism through which she sees the world, seeing the best in everyone and everything, in vibrant colours and dynamic strokes. This is her first joint London exhibition with her 11 year-old son, Ik. The two previously had a critically acclaimed show as part of the Venice Biennale 2022 and Toma had her first solo London show with us in 2020.

Toma Stenko (b. 1979) is an award-winning Georgian artist, film director, and fashion designer who is a graduate of Saint Martins University of Art and Design, London. Her mixed media art is an immersive exploration of love's spectrum in a quest to see the visible in the invisible, the infinite in the finite, capturing the essence of a feeling, the fluctuation of emotion.

Ik Stenko (b. 2013): Born into a family of artists (his father is a renown cinematographer and his older brother a talented graphic designer), Ik has been painting since he was 2 - and he did so everywhere he could – on walls, beer boxes, his parents’ business documents, his mother’s white dresses. When he was 5 he started painting on canvas - blots of paint for which he made up creative titles such as “a Discarded TV that No-one Remembered to Turn Off”, and then the real world, painting melons and bees and asking his parents what he needs to do to make the melons smell and the bees buzz. Today Ik Stenko is 11 years old and he continues to colour the world around him with much skill and infinite imagination.

The exhibition includes paintings from 2020 to 2024, including Ik’s flower series, Toma’s emotional abstractions, and two acrylic-and-digital-print-on-canvas works from Toma’s exciting new Hands Portrait series inspired by her residency in Dubai -superimposed against a dynamic background expressing the sitter’s essence, the hands tell their owner’s story.

Love, flowers, life. Come and recharge with the creative energy of this mother and son duo.

LEVAN LAGIDZE
Macondo

Georgia’s iconic Lagidze comes to London with an exhibition of new works

WHEN: 23 OCTOBER - 18 NOVEMBER, 2023
Monday – Saturday | 11am – 6pm
out-of-hours by appointment

WHERE: Katrine Levin Galleries at Marie Jose Gallery, 16 Victoria Grove, South Kensington, London W8 5RW

Georgia’s iconic Levan Lagidze does not paint specific cities, yet people from around the world see their city in his canvases. He sometimes titles his works “Macondo” - the perfect city of an imperfect memory, whose colours and textures evoke the essence of a special place in our hearts.

Each viewer finds their own Macondo in Lagidze’s multi-faceted paintings which creates a bond transcending cultural differences. An exhibition of new works, Macondo highlights this connection. In today’s world, says Lagidze, art carries a mission for harmonious existence and happiness.

Lagidze paints within paintings, allowing for endless discoveries. I like looking at landscape from above, as seen from a high perspective, all elements - the earth, the sky - are equally important and every detail contains within itself an expression of the whole.

The exhibition comprises three large format paintings (130 x 105cm), five medium format works (73 x 60cm), and twenty paintings from the My Journey series of 35 x 32cm works. Conceived in 2019, the My Journey subseries of playful small pieces references Lagidze’s creative journey and captures his philosophy of sharing experiences in harmony and gratitude. These works allow Lagidze’s art to shine its light in small spaces while also inviting art lovers to create a mosaic of several works whose colours and textures speak specifically to them.

Levan Lagidze (b. 1958, Tbilisi) is a national treasure in his native country of Georgia, with work in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide.

WORLD ART DUBAI 2023

WHEN: 9 - 12 MARCH, 2023
WHERE: World Trade Centre, Dubai, Stand LB03

Delighted to announce our first participation at World Art Dubai with a solo exhibition by the Georgian-born Toma Stenko, whose powerful and often large-scale works are a vibrant and whimsical exploration of love's spectrum in a quest to see the visible in the invisible, the infinite in the finite. 

“I unbelievably love colour. I like researching it endlessly, listening to it, colliding with it, and every time I feel surprised at how little we know about it. It's an infinity...” 

Working in mixed media and incorporating natural elements such as rain drops, Stenko uses her past experience as an artist for stage, film, and the English National Ballet to create immersive works that are alive, expressing the essence of a feeling, the fluctuation of emotion.

Toma Stenko (Georgian, b. 1979) is an award-winning artist, film director, and fashion designer. Her artwork was most recently exhibited at the the Venice Biennale 2022 and commissioned for the Katara International Arabian Horse Festival 2023.

LEVAN LAGIDZE
Another Day

an exhibition of new works and book launch of first retrospective

WHEN: 21 NOVEMBER - 3 DECEMBER, 2022
Monday – Saturday | 11am – 8pm
Out-of-hours and Sundays by appointment

WHERE: Katrine Levin Galleries at Marie Jose Gallery, 16 Victoria Grove, South Kensington, London W8 5RW

One of Georgia’s greatest living artists, Lagidze believes that “in today’s world art carries a mission for harmonious existence and happiness.” You will never forget your first experience of a Lagidze. 

An exhibition of new works, “Another Day” showcases Lagidze's undeniable mastery and inspiring optimism and is accompanied by his first retrospective, “Untitled”, superbly written by the renowned art historian, Dr. Ketevan Kintsurashvili.

Inspired by the multicoloured nature of the world and the geometry of cities and landscapes, Lagidze awakens cherished emotions of viewers across cultural backgrounds. Blocks of colour are both in the forefront and hidden, allowing for endless discoveries while the ingenious spacing of rich textures draws you into the depth of a seemingly infinite space.

“Levan Lagidze … is among the best artists of our time who define the cultural processes and inspire us with their mastership.”
Prof. David Lordkikanidze, Director General, Georgian National Museums

Using a palette knife within a grid-like structure, Lagidze describes his process as “measuring eternity with careful steps”. Flattening the perspective, he looks at the world from the height of the cosmos so each element acquires equal importance. Fragments of his paintings are complete in and of themselves and are also part of a universal whole, creating a sense of paintings within paintings.

“For him painting is a form of gaining a greater awareness ... looking at his paintings, you desire time in quiet contemplation”
Maka Bezhuashvili, Curator, Georgian National Museum

Alternating between vibrant and meditative works, the new collection is both a testament to Lagidze’s unwavering belief in the best of human nature and to the continued evolution of his art.

LEVAN LAGIDZE (b. 1958) lives in Tbilisi, Georgia and rarely travels abroad. His work is in the permanent collection of Georgia’s National Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery and Museum of Modern Art in Russia, and the Zimmerli Art Museum in the United States, to name a few.

IN SEARCH OF HARMONY: YUNNAN VISIONARIES
Gao Xiang and Chen Li

WHEN: 9-14 May 2022
Monday – Friday 11am - 6:30pm | Saturday 11am-1:00pm

WHERE: Coningsby Gallery, London, W1T 4RJ

A unique opportunity to see art by two exceptional talents from Yunnan in the centre of London, to feel the harmony and to raise your spirits. Shown together for the first time.

Harmony is hard to come by. One place that seems to get it right is China’s Yunnan Province. Once so isolated that even Chinese visitors experienced culture shock, Yunnan transformed within the span of a single lifetime into a hub of artistic expression and a place where past, present, and over 40 million people and numerous ethnic minorities – each with their own belief systems, language, and customs – co-exist in peace.

 Balancing prestigious universities, luxury shopping centres and steel-and-glass highrises with traditional wooden houses, ancient Buddhist temples, and 19th century Christian churches, Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, is a study in contradictions whose imperfect balance demands continuous recalibration.

 Rising to the task is Kunming’s vibrant artistic community for many of whom the region’s stunning natural landscape, Buddhist philosophy, and distance from the centres of politics inspires a more introspective expression.

 Among them are Chen Li and Gao Xiang – two childhood friends with compelling and very different perspectives to harmony and balance.

 Chen Li is inspired by nature. His work is intuitive, full of emotion, rendered in a style best described as dynamic harmony, combining freedom of movement with a deep sense of peace. A dual master of oil painting and a unique Chinese woodblock printing technique perfected in Yunnan, his work was acquired and exhibited by The British Museum as an exceptional example of Chinese modern art.

From our Visitor’s Book:
“When I see his paintings, I know everything will be ok”
“Brilliant colours, textures, and dynamic strokes”
“He makes me feel happy”

Gao Xiang is inspired by history and mythology. Conceptual yet full of soul, he questions opposites, finding balance in duality – past and present, dreams and reality, the perception of truth. A multi-disciplinary artist, he speaks through symbols where the image of a horse plays a prominent role. His works are exhibited by leading museums in Asia and Europe and commissioned by the Grand Palais in Paris.

 From our Visitor’s Book:
"Very powerful horse pagodas. They speak to the heart and soul."
"So beautiful. The horses look as if they have souls.”

The exhibition features a selection of artworks by Gao Xiang and Chen Li, side-by-side for the first time since we curated solo shows for each artist.

GÁBOR WINKLER-NEMES
The Essence of Music

WHEN: 7-19 March 2022
Monday – Saturday 10am - 6:30pm | Sunday by appointment

WHERE: Coningsby Gallery, London, W1T 4RJ

Inaugural London exhibition by the powerful Hungarian painter and violinist

Music and fine art have often been intimate companions and never more so than in this powerful exhibition of works by Gábor Winkler-Nemes. A synesthet (he sees music in colour), Winkler-Nemes captures the essence of legendary musicians such as Menuhin, Rostrapovich, Karajan, Richter, Gould, Oistrakh. Their power is palpable even if you are not close to classical music, their personalities transcend the confines of the canvas.

A formally trained artist and amateur musician, Nemes’ exploration of light and colour is also influenced by his extensive studies of traditional stained-glass techniques and ancient cultures. His brilliantly innovative compositions, rendered in mixed media in a style somewhere between pointillism and stained-glass, bring us face to face with that elusive quality – genius.

The exhibition includes paintings and limited edition giclee prints. Gábor Winkler-Nemes (b. 1981, Budapest) lives and works in Hungary.

LEVAN LAGIDZE

Promise

For the first time since 2018, Georgia’s legendary Levan Lagidze is coming back to London with Promise

WHEN: 15-27 November, 2021
Monday – Saturday | 11am – 8pm
Sunday by appointment

WHERE: D Contemporary, 23 Grafton Street, Mayfair, W1S 4EY

LEVAN LAGIDZE is one of Georgia’s greatest living artists whose work is held in the permanent collections of major museums including the Tretyakov Gallery and Museum of Modern Art in Russia, the National Picture Gallery in Georgia, and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in the United States.

Inspired by Georgia’s landscapes and cityscapes Lagidze creates vibrant and deeply textured canvases. Outwardly abstract the compositions contain traces of the figurative. Perspective has been flattened and each element within a canvas is given equal importance, so that the earth is as important as the sky. His aim is not to prioritise, not to ascribe secondary or primary values but to allow every fragment to form part of a universal whole. This creates a sense of paintings within paintings, as the smaller elements within larger canvases draw the eye and appear to stand alone, creating a Labyrinthian sense of art within artworks. Paint is applied thickly using a palette knife creating texture, depth, and a sense of things hidden.

Often vibrant, Lagidze’s canvases reflect the multicoloured nature of the world, with blocks of colour both in the forefront and also concealed, to be re-discovered by the viewer. The rhythmic use of line and colour creates a harmony that is echoed in his meditative series, where variations on shades of the same colour create the sensation of being drawn into an ever-unfolding depth. The popular “My Journey” subseries of smaller canvases when exhibited together suggest a mosaic.

Born in 1958 in Tbilisi, Georgia (then part of the Soviet Union), Lagidze graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1981. He founded and led the Tbilisi Artists’ House in 1983 and served as Chairman of Georgia´s Young Artists’ Union from 1986 to 1989. In 2011, he founded the Lagidze gallery in Tbilisi.

Promise is an exhibition of new works that expands on Lagidze’s central idea of sharing experiences and looking deeper beneath the surface to find true happiness. What is his Promise? Join us in November and find out.

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YUNNAN VISIONARIES

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The Yunnan Province of China is a hidden jewel of creativity. Since the time of the Emperors and throughout the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) its remote location became home to many exiled artists and intellectuals, creating a centre of artistic endeavour in the most unlikely of places.

Yunnan is a place where the past coexists with the present. In its capital, Kunming, ox-driven carriages and hutongs live side-by-side with skyscrapers and luxury cars. In this place of UNESCO heritage sites, stunning natural beauty, and largely Buddhist philosophy, artists tend toward an introspective approach informed by the “normal” of their culture, gifting us a fresh perspective.

Yunnan Visionaries is the first time two extraordinary artists from Yunnan, Chen Li and Gao Xiang – two childhood friends having taken very different chosen paths in life – come together in a powerful exhibition of works that explore harmony and balance from their very different perspectives.

LEVAN LAGIDZE

Coming Back

19 NOVEMBER - 19 DECEMBER 2020

One of the best online exhibitions this winter
(Culture Whisper)

Kicking off with an interactive Private View and Intimate Conversation with Georgia’s legendary Levan Lagidze and continuing with ever changing videos taking you behind the scenes to his process and inspiration, this month-long immersion into new works is a ray of hope amidst the pandemic, for hope is at the heart of his extraordinary works.

Coming Back is a message of hope

In the broader sense, it is the coming back to ourselves, to what is most important in life, to the deeper truths that we often ignore while running on the treadmill of life as we know it.

Lagidze’s message is to share experiences in harmony and gratitude. His works are full of life, crammed with energy, showing you something new every time. He paints within paintings – art within artworks; a mosaic of gems that make a masterpiece.

On show are all new works, including 22 pieces from Lagidze’s “My Journey” subseries of gem-like and playful small works (each only 35 x 32cm) where he urges you to create a mosaic according to your imagination and feelings.

Lagidze (b. 1958) is based in Tbilisi, Georgia. His art is collected by national museums in Georgia, across the former Soviet block countries, and in the United States.

HOW LOVE FEELS

An exhibition by guest artist, TOMA STENKO

WHEN: 9 - 21 March, 2020

WHERE: Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, 1-5 Flitcroft Street, London, WC2H 8DH (Fitzrovia, off Tottenham Court Road)

Romantic, sexual, maternal, forbidden, self, broken and new – love is a roller-coaster of emotions that we all share. In this stunning exhibition of new works, premiered by us in London, Toma Stenko shares her exploration of what love means to her – the family, the couple, a mother keeping her baby close and a boy watching his mother are all portrayed in a kaleidoscope of colour.

But it’s not all sweetness, the viewer walks away with a bittersweet feeling – is love really all rainbows? This exhibition exposes the darker side – the censorsed, the oppressive and the betrayed. These are immensely powerful works.

Toma Stenko (b. 1980) is a Georgian-born and Moscow-based artist, film director, and fashion designer whose works in mixed media delve into the complex emotions of love. A graduate of St Martin’s, her work receives praise and a flourishing audience whenever it is exhibited. This is her first London exhibition.

How Love Feels will take place over two floors of the Painting Rooms, a Grade I listed venue just off Tottenham Court Road in central London.

Private View: Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 6:30-8:30, RSVP requested

Artist Talk: Wednesday, 18 March, 6:30-8:30, Toma Stenko in conversation with author and art critic, Simon Hewitt, followed by a screening of a short film about the artist. RSVP requested

AN EVENING OF TRADITIONAL RE-DEFINED

WHEN: 5 December 2019, by invitation only

WHERE: Ratiu Foundation, 18 Fitzhardinge, Manchester Square, London, W1H 6EQ

In collaboration with Ori Bespoke

modern lighting and decor by Ori Bespoke, inspired by the once-lost traditional Chinese Su silk hand embroidery

and

oil paintings and Chinese woodblock prints by Chen Li, a dual-master who draws upon tradition for creative innovation and whose work is on display at The British Museum

LEVAN LAGIDZE

Bach Exercises New York 

WHEN: 9 - 15 September, 2019

WHERE: Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, Soho, New York, NY 10012

A New York City preview of paintings by one of Georgia’s greatest living artists, Levan Lagidze

Georgia is an ancient land of inspiration, diversity, and artistic mastery. Levan Lagidze is one of its greatest living artists.

Lagidze’s works are collected by Russia’s iconic Tretyakov Gallery and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Georgia’s National Picture Gallery and the Tbilisi Fine Art Museum; America’s Zimmerli Art Museum, and major public and private collections worldwide. In October 2018 the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi opened a new building with a hall dedicated to his work.

The New York exhibition completes the tri-city Bach Exercises series which spanned over a number of years Tbilisi, London, and New York, with new and evolving works created by Lagidze for each city.

The New York exhibition also introduces a new sub-series titled “My Journey”. This series of gem-like and playful small works urges the collector to create a mosaic according to their imagination and feelings. The title references Lagidze’s own creative journey and captures his key philosophy to share experiences in harmony and gratitude.

Inside Every Square of His Works is a Separate Universe

Lagidze looks deep beneath the surface, saying that “a relationship with painting is a participation in this infinite happy game.” Inside every inch of Lagidze’s complex works is a separate universe. He says that creating a composition is like “measuring eternity with careful steps”, where a blank canvas demands and promises complete immersion into the subject matter. In this state, concepts such as distance and time dissolve into an all encompassing here and now. For Lagidze, “there is no contemporary or not contemporary art. All artists that have ever immersed themselves in the language of art are in the present”.

Inspired by Georgia’s spectacular landscapes and cityscapes, and simultaneously open and mysterious, Lagidze’s gem-coloured and textured works weave a tapestry of experiences, inviting you on a journey of discovery.

Listening to Bach I see the infinite

The rhythm of Lagidze’s gem-like colours invites you to pause, savouring the moment of discovery of hidden layers and textures. This spacing and rhythm is what links his compositions to Bach. “Listening to Bach I see the infinite … Each measure, rhythm, accent and pause is so precise that his music is always new and unexpected. This is the magic of universal composition. The music you can see or the painting you can listen to…”

MAMUKA DIDEBA

Magical Worlds 

WHEN: 1 - 6 June 2019

WHERE: Shapero Rare Books, Modern Art Gallery, 32 St. George St., Mayfair, London W1S 2EA

RUSSIAN … AND GEORGIAN … ART WEEK LONDON 2019

My chief goal is to transform the mundane and the realistic into something special and elevated. (Mamuka Dideba)

One of the oldest cultures in Europe and Central Asia, Georgia is a land of inspiration, diversity, and artistic mastery. It is the home of Mamuka Dideba.

The art of Dideba, who is dubbed "Georgia's Bruegel", brings joy through a unique expression of the wonder, the subtle humour, and the warm and often surreal philosophical outlook that is quintessentially Georgian.

A master of figurative and abstract, Dideba paints in exquisite Renaissance-era imprimatura technique that lights up the paintings from within - a process that requires enormous skill.

Inspired by the Old Masters and Georgia's rich history, Dideba explores beauty through vivid characters whose unconventional forms and faces convey their essence with gentle humour.  The whimsical background and clothing of the figures incorporate elements of Dideba’s abstracted works, acting as an unconscious bridge between the genres.

His abstracted paintings lure deep inside their magical and irresistibly contemplative worlds through an ingenious interplay of light and colour. It is possible to “walk” for hours through their imperceptibly changing shades.

Born in 1968 in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, Dideba studied at the prestigious Nikoladze School of Art and the Tbilisi State Art Academy. Dideba is known as “Georgia's Bruegel” because of his deviation from realistic proportions and interest in human behaviour.

CHEN LI

Woodblock Prints

WHEN: 3 - 8 June 2019

WHERE: Coningsby Gallery, London, W1T 4RJ

Coinciding with the display of Chen Li’s artwork at The British Museum

Chinese art and Western art have different views about reality. But when I paint, I ignore [these] rules to create living artistic images. (Chen Li)

China’s frontier Yunnan Province is a place of spectacular landscapes and predominantly Buddhist philosophy. It is the home of Chen Li.

Chen Li is a master woodblock printmaker and an extraordinary painter with a unique vision and boundless originality. His joyful, dynamic, and intoxicatingly peaceful works convey the life-affirming energy of Yunnan.

In his woodblock prints, Chen Li uses Yunnan’s rare “waste-block” or “suicide” technique that leaves no room for error. All colours are printed from a single woodblock, each step carving over the previous one until the block is destroyed. Only a single edition is possible.

Our fourth solo exhibition of Chen Li’s works coincides with the display of his “Human Buddha” woodblock print at The British Museum, just 8 minutes walk from the gallery. This work was acquired by the Museum after our first solo exhibition of his woodblocks in 2018.

LONDON ART FAIR 2019, STAND P30

WHEN: 15 - 20 January, 2019

WHERE: Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH

You are invited to the London Art Fair 2019. Find me at Stand P30, in the Art Projects area dedicated to showcasing contemporary art from across the world.

Please email me for a complimentary pass to the Fair.

I will be showing oil paintings and reduction woodblock prints by the extraordinary Chen Li (b. 1971, Yunnan Province, China), whose work has been acquired by the British Museum in June 2018, during his first year on the international stage, and will go on display in the Asian Galleries circa June 2019.

CONVERSATION WITH LEVAN LAGIDZE
Reception with the Ambassador of Georgia to the UK, HE Tamar Beruchashvili

WHEN: WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEMBER, 6.30 PM - 8.30 PM

WHERE: La Galleria Pall Mall, St. James's, London, SW1Y 4UY

Coinciding with the solo exhibition Bach Exercises
Exhibition Dates: 19 November - 8 December | 11.00am - 6.30pm
Katrine Levin Galleries at La Galleria Pall Mall

An exhibition by the iconic Georgian painter, Levan Lagidze, who returns to London for the first time in 20 years

CHEN LI

Spirit of Landscape

WHEN: June, 2018

WHERE: Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, St. James's, London, SW1Y 4UY

Following the excitement from the critically acclaimed solo show of Chen Li's reduction woodblock prints, this is Chen Li's third London solo show, showcasing his extraordinary lyrical paintings. Chen Li will make a rare appearance from China for the occasion.

Chen Li (b. 1971, Kunming) is an artist of vast imagination and superb range. Inspired by the spectacular landscapes and Buddhist philosophy of his native Yunnan Province, Chen Li weaves East and West into a unique visual language full of harmony, spontaneity, and a brilliant interplay of colours and textures. His poetic works are at once tranquil and dynamic, conveying a deep emotional impact and a great sense of joy.

TALK BY DR. KATIE HILL
Painting and Regionality in Contemporary China

WHEN: 21 June, 2018 | 18:30 - 19:30  |  Drinks and refreshments until 20:30

WHERE: Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, St. James's, London, SW1Y 4UY

There is much more to Chinese Contemporary Art than we get to see in the West. Join us for a talk by Dr. Katie Hill about the variety of aesthetics in painting traditions that have evolved in the many regions of China since the 1980s.

Dr. Katie Hill is an author and art historian who regularly writes, edits and speaks about Asian Art in collaboration with institutions such as Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery in London. Dr. Hill is also the Program Director for the MA in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art at Sotheby's Institute in London and the Director of the Office of Contemporary Chinese Art, a consultancy that works to promote Chinese artists in the UK.

The talk is part of our current solo exhibition by Chen Li, "Spirit of Landscape"

CHEN LI

Reflections in a Blue Lake: Reduction Woodblock Prints

WHEN: February, 2018

WHERE: Coningsby Gallery, London, W1T 4RJ

Chen Li's award-winning reduction woodblock prints bring his unique vision and abundant originality to an age-old technique, creating pure magic. Chen Li (b. 1971, Kunming) uses a rare woodblock reduction technique perfected in Yunnan. He prints all colours from a single woodblock, using thick oil-based colours that result in a mesmerising textured surface. Each step along this process destroys the previous one. Only a single edition can be printed and the process can never be repeated.

TALK BY DR. ANNE FARRER
Texture, Design and Colour: the Reduction Print in Modern China

WHEN: 22 February, 2018

WHERE: Coningsby Gallery, London, W1T 4RJ

Talk: 6:30 - 7:30 pm  |  Drinks and refreshments: 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Dr. Anne Farrer is an author, curator, and historian of Chinese printmaking.

Dr. Farrer is currently Senior Research Fellow of the Muban Educational Trust and a Programme Director for the MA in East Asian Art at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She is a former Assistant Keeper of "Chinese Paintings, Prints, and the Chinese Central Asian Collections" at the British Museum where she has created major exhibitions. Her exhibitions and publications include Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Route; The Brush Dances and the Ink Sings; and Chinese Printmaking Today: Woodblock Printing in China 1980-2000.

IN CONVERSATION WITH GAO XIANG

WHEN: 1 November, 2017

WHERE: Coningsby Gallery, London, W1T 4RJ

Katrine Levin Galleries invites you to a gallery tour and conversation with the internationally acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Gao Xiang, from 12-2pm on Wednesday, 1st November.  Gao Xiang (b. 1971, Kunming) has been widely exhibited and collected by museums in Asia and in Europe. This is his first show in the U.K.