PROJECTS
Stefan Gierowski at Cadogan Square
8 October - 29 October 2022
Artexcelled is delighted to collaborate with Stefan Gierowski Foundation on the exhibition during Frieze ‘Stefan Gierowski’ which will include paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.
Please contact us to be invited to our opening or arrange a private viewing.
Franciszka Themerson at Cromwell Place
4 October - 17 October 2021
The European ArtEast Foundation has collaborated with Artexcelled and GV Art London to present the exhibition of Franciszka Themerson at Cromwell Place in London. The exhibition was curated by Jasia Reichardt, the niece of the artist.
The exhibition included 12 works, which were made during the 1960s, the period when the colours of Franciszka’s work were drifting between black and grey. Some were in three dimensions with plaster and mixed media, others, on canvas with oil paint, others still, on paper with gouache and ink.
Franciszka Themerson at the Barbican. Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945 -1965
3 March - 26 June 2022
Contact us to learn more about Franciszka and Stefan Themerson.
Franciszka Themerson at the Barbican
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945 –1965
Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Eduardo Paolozzi and David Hockney are shown alongside artists who came to Britain fleeing Nazism, such as Frank Auerbach and Franciszka Themerson.
Four paintings by Franciszka Themerson have been loaned from the Themerson Estate for this remarkable exhibition at the Barbican Art Centre.
Jane Alison, exhibition Curator and Head of Visual Arts, Barbican, says: ‘The postwar period in Britain was crying out to be revisited. I had a strong sense that art in the twenty years that followed the war was more vital, distinctive and important than has been previously appreciated. The key to unlocking that was to focus on “the new”, to pay close attention to a defining sensibility, and to include previously marginalised figures in dialogue with those whose contributions are widely celebrated. I hope that PostwarModern, which so resonates with a Britain struggling to overcome crisis, will be a revelation. It is certainly an exhibition for our time.’
Franciszka Themerson at Tate Modern
Visit Tate Modern to see Franciszka Themerson painting at Tate Modern permanent collection.
Franciszka Themerson was born in Warsaw 1907, lived in Paris 1938–40, and then, from 1940, lived in London until her death in 1988. She was principally a painter, although, throughout her life,she worked in several other fields of the visual arts. Active in London, from 1940 on,she became a part of the British art scene. She collaborated with her husband, the writer Stefan Themerson, on experimentalfilms, illustrated books for children which he wrote, and in 1948 she founded with him the avant-garde publishing company Gaberbocchus Press, of which she was the art director.
To learn more please see the recently published Themerson Archive Catalogue.
It’ available through the MIT Press, Amazon and many book stores.