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STRANIERIINITALIA.IT| Aubrey Williams' exhibition at October Gallery |
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Aubrey Williams remains one of the great enigmas of twentieth-century painting
8th February 2010: October Gallery will present an exhibition of selected works from renowned artist, Aubrey Williams, including paintings from the Olmec Maya and Now series. This extraordinary collection of works on canvas aims to establish new insights into one of the 20th century’s great artistic spirits. Born, in 1926, in Georgetown, Guyana, Aubrey Williams remains one of the great enigmas of twentieth-century painting. He can be seen as a colossus, bestriding the Atlantic, with feet firmly planted in two very different worlds. In 1985, he said: “The Maya were the greatest civilisation of their time… a people who produced a technology and cosmology from which we are still learning today; these people vanished in a very short space of time leaving only tarnished artefacts due, I feel, to their inability to cope with their technology and the changes their achievements engendered within the metabolism of their living environment and ecology; exactly the position we find ourselves in today.” Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, is presenting a concurrent exhibition of Aubrey Williams’ work ‘Atlantic Fire’ from 15th January to 11th April 2010. A joint catalogue published by October Gallery and Walker Art Gallery will include writers Rasheed Araeen, Mel Gooding, Paul Goodwin and Leon Wainwright. AUBREY WILLIAMS Exhibition dates: 4th February - 3rd April Venue: October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AL Telephone: 020 7242 7367 Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12.30 - 5.30pm Courtyard café: Tuesday – Friday 12.30 - 2.30pm Admission: Free www.octobergallery.co.uk Nearest tubes: Holborn/Russell Square Buses: 19, 25, 38, 55, 168 and 188 |