Exhibitions
SIMON STONE
GLANCE- NAILED DOWN
17th – 30th September 2010
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STATEMENT
Continuing the spirit and enthusiasm that the Football World Cup generated around South Africa, Myerson Fine Art is delighted to be representing Simon Stone in an exhibition of new paintings taking place from 17 – 30 September 2010 in an intimate gallery setting in the heart of Marylebone.
Considered by South African art critics, gallerists and collectors as one of the country’s finest painters, Stone has set aside the best of each painting produced over a three year period to be exhibited in London.
Please feel free to visit the gallery during the course of the exhibition and should you have any queries, do not hesitate to contact us.
VISITOR INFORMATION
Dates: 17 – 30 September 2010
Private View: 21 September 2010
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10:30am - 7pm
Venue: A & D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street, W1U 6LY
Entry: free
Contact: Mandy-Lee Myerson or Vicci Baigrie
Mobile: +44 (0)7738 713 696
Telephone: +44 (0)207 209 8999
Email: info@myersonfineart.com
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RISING UP
23rd March to 3rd April 2009
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STATEMENT
South African based artist Penelope Stutterheime will be exhibiting her latest paintings in an exhibition titled ‘Rising Up' with Myerson Fine Art. The exhibition will be held at Eaton Terrace Gallery, 40 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia SW1W 8TS from 22 March - 3 April 2008.
Here comes an uplifting and exhilarating exhibition of work that is well worth seeing, offering viewers a refreshing and different way of seeing the world in our current and uncertain times.
The primary medium used by Stutterheime is oil paint on canvas, utilising an impasto application. Her subject matter has evolved through landscape, portraiture and still life to an abstract and esoteric form, drawing inspiration from the landscapes. The work is highly symbolic referencing dream images and the unconscious, and conveyed through colour and form, the images are a representation of transformation and journey. The viewer is invited to relate primarily to the work on an emotional level.
The paintings express life viewed as different sounds, colours, tones, forms - like pixels, each moment builds onto the next making up the whole. With this, the work represents a tapestry of life as a landscape of layered hues. With no beginning and no end these abstract glimpses into the infinite and expansive whole are experienced as kaleidoscopes of rich impasto colour.
The colour notations in the work represent feeling ‘tones' which are also music based. By working abstractly, Stutterheime frees herself from any restraints of theme and form, but instead is inspired by the rhythms and patterns of the classical music that she listens to whilst working, and the rhythms and patterns of her own life, all of which can be seen woven into the textures and colours of her artwork. The resulting artwork is an experiential process, both in the act of creating the work and viewing it.
INFORMATION ON THE ARTIST
Penelope Stutterheime
Born in 1958, Cape Town, South Africa, Stutterheime is largely self taught and has been painting for twenty nine years. She has participated in both solo shows and a number of group exhibitions. This includes a sell out solo exhibition in 2008 in South Africa followed by a successful group exhibition in London. Her work is collected by corporate and private collectors throughout the world.
Visitor Information
Date: 23 March to 3 April 2009
Opening hours:
10 am to 8pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
10am to 6.30pm Wednesday and Friday
11am to 5pm Saturday
11am to 5pm Sunday
Venue: Eaton Terrace Gallery, 40 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia, London SW1W 8TS
Entry: Free
Medium: Oil on canvas
Contact: Myerson Fine Art
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Telephone: 0207 209 8999
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Beyond Matter
20th to 25th October 2008
STATEMENT
Beyond Matter is an exciting exhibition of new works by six contemporary South African artists, taking widely varying approaches to art-making. Mediums include oil paint, beeswax, bronze and wool dust, as well as the elements of fire, water and air.
In the search for the essence or the ‘real' matter of life, each artist's work reflects a constant flow between inner reflection and external searching.
South African Art is recognised as being rich with world class talent, and of reflecting - seemingly compulsively - the country's historical and ongoing narrative of internal struggle. In Beyond Matter however, Regi Bardavid, Penelope Stutterheime, Sandile Zulu, Brendhan Dickerson, Bonita Alice (now resident in London) and Peter van Straten have been invited to consider their work and concerns as South African art-makers outside the narrative of struggle. By exploring beyond the physical and material and by challenging perceptions of our world there is a possible reinterpretation of what is considered to be reality. The theme is multi layered, encompassing ideas and the exploration of quantum physics, spirituality, the imagination and desire. With this in mind each artist has been invited to go Beyond Matter.
For further information and images please contact Mandy Myerson on 07738713696 or email info@myersonfineart.com
Visitor Information
Date: 20 to 25 October 2008
Opening hours: 10 am to 9pm, Monday to Thursday
10am to 6pm Friday and 10am-2pm on Saturday
Venue: Menier Gallery, Menier Chocolate Factory, 51 Southwark St, London SE1 1RU
Entry: Free
Contact: Myerson Fine Art
Mobile: 07738 713 696
Telephone: 0207 209 8999
Email: info@myersonfineart.com
Additional Info: www.myersonfineart.com
INFORMATION ON THE ARTISTS
Bonita Alice
An overriding theme in the work of Bonita Alice is that of our desire for connection to place. Previously exploring our heightened need for a personal heaven, and reflecting on memory, Bonita has come to realise that the landscapes she depicts in her work are not external ones at all, but instead exist internally. Through these imagined landscapes she visits different locations and times, in defiance of the limitations of linear time. Her visual references are genres that are concerned with a heightened experience of the real... contemporary graphic novels and Japanese prints.
Having developed her work through various mediums, Bonita is currently creating drawings, as she says, much like a sculptor. Using dyed wool 'dust' (the waste generated from the cutting of commercial felt) and glue; she constructs these, usually circular, images. Bonita initially began using the 'dust' in a series of works relating to death, and has continued to use it as a means of evoking a texture reminiscent of the past and of nostalgia.
Then...II No. 1
Wool dust, fabric dye, archival glue on paper
69cm diameter
Regi Bardavid
Regi Bardavid is known for her search on the unconscious as a medium towards intuitive insight and creativity. Her works are an exploration towards the spontaneous, where relinquishing self control allows images to appear.
Finding a similarity within the practices of traditional South African healers, Bardavid searches for something bigger and more meaningful than herself. A mystery that is significant of life, spirituality and the unknown.
This deconstruction of established knowledge is a landscape of the psyche, where the expression is nothing but the creative act. The work is neither descriptive nor semantic, but rather embodies a primordial, archetypal energy.
Working with beeswax, oil and pigments her paintings become a layered tactile journey of mark making and colour. Bardavid's process includes meditation, free drawings, pouring paint and incisions. The painting paints itself. Her intuitive works are a way to contact her subconscious so as to reach the collective unconscious.
Una Lacrima
Oil and beeswax on canvas
100x100cm
Brendhan Dickerson
Brendhan Dickerson is a South African sculptor who creates complex counter-balancing mobiles and fire sculptures that satirically comment on the ironies of daily life.
Despite the hard mediums he uses, Dickerson's mobiles appear to be sensitive line drawings suspended in space, which become animated when stirred into motion. This further reflects his fascination with precariousness, and the fact that the world is constantly changing and transforming.
Nuclear Family
Bronze and stainless steel
100x55x55cm
Peter van Straten
Through his work Peter van Straten sheds light onto those liminal places where normal thought breaks down, where a 2 or a 7 might be found in binary code, intending for his paintings to be like windows through which we could temporarily flee the monopoly which our reality has become.
Into the scenes he finds or remembers, he bleeds such aspects of our present experience that most provocatively and emotively tug at consciousness, layering experience with subtleties almost to the point of madness.
Mystic rather than surrealist he bends the mundane towards the utopian, luring and tempting the viewer into an altogether more playful and illuminating landscape of the self.
The Glimpse
Oil on canvas
90x70cm
Penelope Stutterheime
The primary medium used by Stutterheime is oil paint on canvas, utilising an impasto application. Her subject matter has evolved through landscape, portraiture and still life to an abstract and esoteric form, drawing inspiration from the landscapes. The work is highly symbolic, tapping into drawing from dream images and the unconscious, and conveyed through colour and form, the images are a representation of transformation and journey. The viewer is invited to relate primarily to the work on an emotional level. These paintings are a portrayal of Stutterheime's inner spiritual process. 
Hidden Places
Oil on canvas
46x52.3cm
Sandile Zulu
Although influenced by many external forces, such as science, history and politics, the overriding theme linking all of Zulu's work together is that of creation, destruction and identity.
Using fire as his primary medium, this powerful element has the ability to both cleanse and destroy whilst combining air and water to control and manipulate the fire creates an evocative metaphor of life. He also uses fire to explore his complex interests in science, astronomy, genealogy and pan-African philosophy, and has created a working method that relies on both rhythm and repetition. These patterns and repetitions often express an indeterminate space in which time is rendered as rhythm.
Although his process is one of deep introspection and meditation, Zulu has also looked to science and scientific method in a search for a language to articulate the inherent wholeness of these natural, psychological, cosmological relationships.
Describing fire ‘as a torch to spread light on an investigation', the process of burning engages in a transformative act that may be healing, enlightening or cathartic.
Brown Print No. 6
Fire, water, air, earth on canvas
145x180cm