Ian Monroe The Instantaneous Everything Private View October 31st more details www.haunchofvenison.com

Private view 5th October

Opening Thursday 25 September, 6 to 9 pm XAVIER HUFKENS www.xavierhufkens.com

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His paintings strive towards direct expression by focusing on the act of painting itself. His canvases stand on the border between deliberate composition and free gesture. De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color. While de Kooning’s work captures the speed of paint strokes on canvas, paradoxically, he was known at times to spent months completing a single work. A subtlety and depth resides in the flat plane of his paintings, which transfixes the onlooker. The work of Willem de Kooning represents in a superb manner, the act of making.
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20.9. - 31.10.2008 Eröffnung / Opening 19. September 2008 19 - 22h

Scott Myles STABILA, detail, 2008 series of 24 giclee photographs each 49.5 x 39.5 cm
www.meyer-riegger.de

Private View: Thursday 18 September 18.00-21.00
Vegas Gallery 64 - 66 Redchurch Street LONDON E2 7DPwww.vegasgallery.co.uk
An Urge to Merge
For his solo exhibition at Vegas Gallery, British artist Simon Willems will be showing several paintings which explore themes of escapism, vulnerability, and artificiality versus authenticity. The pieces bring together aesthetic strategies developed in ealier work; the use of reflective and highly textured surfaces, and detailed depictions of non-human subjects whose toy-like sheen challenges viewers’ attempts to project meaning and affect onto them. Willem’s themes and painterly techniques mesh into holograms that appear alternately and simultaneously as arbitrary combinations and painstakingly choreographed assemblages of imagery and ideas.
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MAIN GALLERY:
Stefan Saffer, Derek Bailey and Will Gaines
“one guitar, two shoes and countless holes”

PROJECT ROOM:
Jill Simonsen

Opening reception on Wednesday, September 17th from 7 to 9 pm.

The exhibitions run through October 11th.
“I think of this exhibition as a jam session between an artist, a musician and a tap dancer. You can join in with whatever you bring.” - Stefan Saffer
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17 September - 19 October 2008 Preview Tuesday 16 September 2008, 6-8pm
White Cube Mason’s Yard is pleased to present Robert Irwin’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Irwin has been one of the most influential artists working in the US over the past five decades. A pioneer of the ‘Light and Space’ movement of the 1960s, Irwin’s work focuses on perceptual phenomena, such as light, volume and scale, with installations that are conditioned by the site in which they take place.
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