Exhibitions

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  Cracked

  Group Show 23 Sep - 29 Oct 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Cracked, an exhibition curated by Leonie Mir and dedicated to hand-moulded ceramics made without the use of a wheel. By removing the structure provided by a wheel, the exhibition focuses on contemporary artists who construct, sculpt and mould clay, demonstrating what can be achieved... Read more

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  Folds

  Group Exhibition 19 May - 2 Jul 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present FOLDS , an exhibition curated with Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar and dedicated to the depiction of folds and drapery. FOLDS aims to bring into focus a subject which has challenged and interested artists throughout history, but often goes unnoticed. Charting its metamorphosis from... Read more

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  Ceramics 1992 - 2020

  Peter Schlesinger 4 May - 2 Jul 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present an exhibition of Peter Schlesinger's ceramics, for the first time in the UK. A group of 9 hand-crafted ceramics dating from 1992 to 2020 will be presented in the gallery from 4th May to 2nd July. A larger group will be presented as a... Read more

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  The Walled Garden

  Kaori Tatebayashi 12 Apr - 7 May 2021 Tristan Hoare is delighted to announce Kaori Tatebayashi's first solo exhibition at the gallery in Fitzroy Square. Ceramics and the natural world are Kaori's passion. Working in hand formed white stoneware she produces portraits of flowers and plants with amazing precision, not only describing how they look, but also how... Read more

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  Equinox

  Alessandro Twombly 24 Sep - 23 Oct 2020 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present ‘Equinox’, an exhibition that introduces the new paintings and sculptures by Italian artist Alessandro Twombly. Read more

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  Frieze Masters Exhibition

  8 - 18 Sep 2020 Lyndsey Ingram and Tristan Hoare are delighted to collaborate on their first Frieze Masters Exhibition! We originally planned a booth presenting early work by the American artist Ellsworth Kelly alongside Moon Jars by Korean artist Kim Yikyung, known as the ‘mother of Korean ceramics’. Kelly greatly admired Korean ceramics, particularly... Read more

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  Synergy

  Group Exhibition 19 Jun - 17 Jul 2020 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present a Summer exhibition focussing on material, texture and form. Ceramics, textiles and watercolours are woven together to produce a grounding exhibition for turbulent times! It is an honour to place three great ceramicists in the same gallery space, all of whom come from Japan... Read more

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  Of Birds and Monkeys

  Kiki Smith & Paolo Colombo 14 Feb - 20 Mar 2020 Paolo Colombo’s deeply lyrical watercolours and Kiki Smith’s mythically charged metal sculptures draw inspiration from the natural world. These works also arise from a fascination with process, fusing a clarity of form with the particularities of texture, gesture, and tone. Both artists display a commitment to the potential of work... Read more

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  Moon Jars: Contemporary Korean Masters

  Group Exhibition 7 Nov - 4 Dec 2019 “In modern art, as everyone knows, the beauty of deformity is very often emphasised, insisted upon. But how different is Korean deformity. The former is produced deliberately, the latter naturally. Korean work is merely the natural result of the artisan’s state of mind, which is free from dualistic man-made rules…... Read more

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  Emotional Fields

  Carolina Mazzolari 20 Sep - 25 Oct 2019 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Emotional Fields, an exhibition of large scale contemporary tapestries by Carolina Mazzolari. In her first UK solo exhibition Mazzolari presents striking hand-embroidered textiles inspired by Kurt Lewin's space diagrams and Carl Gustav Jung's theories on the collective unconscious. These ideas are manifested as woven... Read more

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  Botanica

  Group Exhibition 17 May - 5 Jul 2019 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Botanica, an exhibition curated with Flora Goodwin and Omar Mazhar, which focuses on the work of a diverse group of artists who have sought their inspiration from the natural world. From ancient times through to today, artists have interpreted nature in different ways and... Read more

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  Youth

  Tristano Di Robilant 15 Mar - 13 Apr 2019 Tristan Hoare is pleased to announce Youth, the gallery’s first exhibition of works by Italo-American artist Tristano di Robilant. Di Robilant (b.1964) lives and works in Rome and London. Best known for his sculptures in ceramic and glass, he works in a variety of media, including drawing, photography and writing.... Read more

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  Imagining Tina: A Dialogue With Edward Weston

  Maryam Eisler 7 Feb - 2 Mar 2019 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Maryam Eisler’s second solo exhibition, Imagining Tina: A Dialogue with Edward Weston. For this series, Eisler reimagines the passionate love affair between the great American photographer Edward Weston and fellow photographer, muse, lover, and activist Tina Modotti. Eisler attempts to relive Edward and Tina’s... Read more

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  Japanese Ceramics

  Takatori 6 - 19 Dec 2018 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present, Takatori-Yaki an exhibition of Japanese ceramics from Kyushu: the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. In the late 17th century, the great warrior-general Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched several military campaigns against neighbouring Korea. During this time, entire families of skilled Korean potters were forcefully brought... Read more

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  Simple Forms | Taizo Kuroda

  La Frontiera, Paris 15 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 For Taizo Kuroda, Simple Forms represents a return to the point where it all began. Kuroda travelled from Japan to Paris in 1966 as a young man looking for inspiration, and the time he spent there set in motion his path to becoming an artist. Since his return to Japan... Read more

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  The Collection of Monsieur X

  Pierre Le-Tan 28 Sep - 17 Nov 2018 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present The Collection of Monsieur X, curated by Umberto Pasti. The exhibition will feature a diverse grouping of artworks, chosen and arranged by Pasti, which will be illustrated in Le-Tan’s distinctive style and exhibited around the gallery. The artworks will range from classical to contemporary... Read more

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  Stillness

  John Stewart 7 Jun - 7 Jul 2018 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Stillness, an exhibition of flowers and nudes by John Stewart. John Stewart (1919 – 2017) lived a fascinating life – born in London and raised in Paris, he was drafted into the British Army for six years, of which three-and-a-half were spent in POW... Read more

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  Geometrica

  Group Exhibition 22 Feb - 28 Mar 2018 The Oxford English Dictionary defines Geometry as ‘the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogues.’ If we remove the word ‘mathematics,’ anyone guessing what was being described might be forgiven for thinking it was art. Elements in the description... Read more

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  Studio Africa! : African Studio Photography

  Group Exhibition 16 Nov - 20 Dec 2017 The photography scene in Africa begun with the arrival of the colonial powers in the late 19th century. Studios were set up and run by Europeans as successful businesses, mainly focusing on images of ‘exotic’ Africa to sell to the outside world. Over time as the Europeans left, their African... Read more

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  Industry

  Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre 14 Sep - 27 Oct 2017 Curated by Robert Sheffield Architecture, history, economics, religion, social anthropology, photography, art; perfectionism, dedication, captivating, curiosity, beauty, daring, skill, talent, exceptional, original, bold and brave. These are just some of the words that come to mind when I look at the starkly beautiful works of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.... Read more

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  Frosorina

  Paolo Colombo 19 May - 30 Jun 2017 Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Frosorina, Paolo Colombo’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. The title of the exhibition is a homage to a traditional folk song from Epirus, an ancient region of north-west Greece. In Frosorina, Colombo’s paintings and photographs illustrate a lyrical series of moments. Created... Read more

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  Lead

  Alejandro Guijarro 9 Mar - 28 Apr 2017 'Although he has made it with deep scholarship, Guijarro's is not a dry enquiry nor a research project. It is a way of making photographic objects whose twin beauties perfectly complement each other. These lovely swirling or choppy marks of painterly activity are a beautiful reflection on what it means... Read more

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  Cell-(estial)

  Flavie Audi 7 Nov 2016 - 10 Jan 2017 Flavie Audi is best known for her glass creations. For her first London solo exhibition, she has used photography, film and her signature glass-works to investigate the points at which the natural and artificial worlds meet. Often perceived as a natural material, glass is in fact a man-made element, a... Read more

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  Searching For Eve in the American West

  Maryam Eisler 3 - 12 Nov 2016 A fascination with the American West has exercised a profound attraction for artists and photographers for over two centuries. Ansel Adams’ work in particular is regarded as part of a tradition of Western American photography that began in the late nineteenth century and included the works of Carleton Watkins, Eadweard... Read more

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  ENSŌ

  URSULA SCHULZ-DORNBURG AND TAIZO KURODA 16 Sep - 21 Oct 2016 Ensō: A circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. The Buddhist minimal concept of Ensō, where focused repetition leads to perfection, brings two artists together. The first, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, is a Dusseldorf based... Read more

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  Wild Surfaces

  Edith Marie Pasquier 19 - 26 Jun 2013 “These photographs are images of birds such as we have rarely seen.” Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum Wild Surfaces is a body of work in which Edith Marie Pasquier has sought out contact with wild animals and attempted to replicate her experience using a variety... Read more

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  Hairstyles

  J.D. Ojeikere 1 Mar - 13 May 2013 The exhibition focuses on a group of J.D Ojeikere’s iconic hairstyles. Born in Western Nigeria in 1930, Ojeikere’s formative years were spent as a photographer for the Ministry of Education in Lagos and later in the West African Publicity Agency. He opened his own studio ‘Foto Ojeikere’ in 1975, around... Read more

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  Art in Progress

  Leonora Hamill 15 - 28 Feb 2013 Art in Progress is inspired by art schools across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The series, which started in 2009, consists of images of studios where the students work. Shot with a large format camera and printed analogically, the images are intentionally detailed, frontal and neutral. “I have a... Read more

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  Momentum

  Alejandro Guijarro 5 Oct - 9 Nov 2012 “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” Niels Bohr (Father of Quantum Mechanics, 1885-1962) Momentum is a three-year project in which Alejandro Guijarro traveled to the great Quantum Mechanics institutions of the world. Using a large-format camera, he photographed the blackboards as he... Read more

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  Rise and Fall

  Rose Klabin 31 May - 12 Jul 2012 For her first solo exhibition in the UK, Brazilian artist Rose Klabin will show two innovative series, both of which integrate the subject matter into the production of the artwork. The first series, Corporate Identity, saw Klabin spending two weeks at a paper factory in the south of Brazil. First,... Read more

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  The Ruins of Detroit

  Yves Marchand & Raomain Meffre 27 Feb - 27 Apr 2012 “Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension.” The Ruins of Detroit is a five-year collaboration between French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. Together they have documented Detroit’s abandoned buildings, thus bringing to light the current state of... Read more

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  Stornoway

  Charlotte Colbert 19 May - 22 Jul 2011 Named after the small town on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Stornoway is a series by London-based screenwriter and photographer Charlotte Colbert, and chronicles a journey through Scotland. Each image is a triptych of photographs of a similar subject captured moments apart. The sequencing introduces movement and... Read more

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  Symblances Lyriques

  MARIE PASSA DE SAFAR 28 Apr - 28 May 2010 Marie Passa de Safar graduated in architecture and design and worked as an architect for many years. In 2007, she turned her attention to photography. She currently lives and works in Paris. Semblances Lyriques refers to the artist’s interpretation of the world around her, a ‘lyrical‘ rather than ‘objective’ viewpoint.... Read more

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  Studio Sidibé

  Malick Sidibé 11 Mar - 16 Apr 2010 When Mali became independent from France in 1960, a great sense of freedom and confidence coincided with economic expansion. Luxury shops appeared for the first time and young Malians, inspired by magazines and record covers from Europe and America, started wearing Western clothes.They formed clubs which became meeting places, where... Read more

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  SONNENSTAND

  URSULA SCHULZ-DORNBURG 18 Nov - 19 Dec 2009 Lining the medieval pilgrimage route from Barcelona to Santiago de Compostella are nine hermitages dating from the 10th century. It was along this ancient road that the Islamic and Christian cultures collided between the 8th and 10th centuries and each chapel reflects this unique blend. Meaning ‘Position of the Sun’... Read more