Frieze is one of the largest art fairs around, attracting many collectors, buyers and art aficionados to the city which in turn causes many shows to pop up around town. Geoff Leong has once again joined forces with artist-curator duo Vanya Balogh & Cedric Christie to support and exhibit over 100 artists in the circular 20,000 Sq ft multi storey Q-Park car park beneath Cavendish Square. Whilst unusual in terms of location, this annual event likes to challenge, entice and entertain all art lovers and visitors.

Featuring a range of mediums such as sculpture, film, photography, painting and as well as performative talks and live presentations from both emerging and established artists. This year, the show also includes a marble sculpture by Andy Elton in the gardens of Cavendish Square.

The exhibition runs daily 12-8pm, from 14-19 October 2014. 

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Entre Chien et Loup is a new online exhibition from French photographer Maxime Ballesteros. Named after that special time of day, just before night, where things start to melt together, where the familiar becomes unknown and the lines between domestic and wild, comfort and fear blur together.

Known for his provocative images, Maxime likes to capture the most intense and beautiful aspects of life – the climax of a party, sex, and a fair amount of high heels and leather. This online collection is no different.

Entre Chien et Loup is available to view until 5th October 2014 at hauserandhauser.com. 

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To coincide with Frieze London, one of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs, the ICA has announced a week-long free programme of live events to take place at The Old Selfridges Hotel this October. With Isabel Lewis, Korakrit Arunanondchai, NTS Radio, Siobhan Davies Dance and Rhizome all involved in the project, expect a host of performance, music, art, dance and discussion each day.

Launching the programme on Tuesday and Wednesday, Brooklyn-based dance artist and curator Isabel Lewis, will host a series of ‘occasions’ in partnership with Frieze Projects and Liverpool Biennial, which conjure the ancient Greek symposium where philosophizing, drinking and the erotic were inseparable.  On Thursday evening, New York-based artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, who will also be participating in the ICA exhibition ‘Beware Wet Paint’ (24 September – 16 November 2014) will present an evening performance. On Friday night, the focus will be music with a live event presented in collaboration with ICA’s Associate Artists, NTS Radio. Saturday will see Siobhan Davies Dance present the live movement installation Table of Contents.

ICA Off-Site: The Old Selfridges Hotel, Tuesday 14 – Saturday 18 October 2014 at 1 Orchard Street, London, W1H 6JS

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Tags: Frieze London, ICA, Selfridges

After the success of HONORE in Paris, TRACES is now coming to London as part of PUBLISH/CURATE.

Exploring the concepts of technicality and texture, TRACES is a group show at the TJ Boulting Gallery. Each artist involved presents a unique technique, including lithography, etching, collotype, frottage, screen-printing, mono-print, photogram, transfer, etc. The artists – whether they have developed their own process or have kept in line with classical tradition of printing and drawing – have, as a result, created interesting textural works.

Discover work from artists such as Adeline De Monseignat, Akiko Takizawa, Asger Carslen, Augustin Steyer, Ayca Koseogullari, Boo Saville, Charlotte Schnabl, David Noonan, Eloise Van Der Heyden, Hugo Wilson, Ivy Armour, Tamsin Relly, Victoire Thierree, Victoria Ahrens, Whitney Mcveigh and William Roper-Curzon.

Traces will open from the 1st – 23rd of August, 11am-6pm or by appointment.

TJ Boulting Gallery is located at 59 Riding House St, London W1W 7EG. 

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Art Social ’14 is a four day arts and culture festival from pioneering charity and not-for-profit private members’ club, The House of St Barnabas. From Thursday 31st July, until Sunday 3rd August you’ll find an innovative programme of talks, interactive workshops and live music performances in the ornate surroundings of its’ 19th century chapel.

Acclaimed and emerging artists have been commissioned to produce visual and sonic installations throughout the Grade 1 listed Georgian town house. The three central artistic collaborations are; Patrick Murphy X Keaton Henson, Barby Asante X Tony Nwachukwu and Margot Bowman X Actress & Giganta. Their work will be exhibited at the House throughout August, around which the rest of the festival will revolve. Expect talks on subjects such as Art in the Public Realm, Digital Democracy: Art Online, Architecture and the City and more. The specially curated, ticketed events commence on Thursday and finish with a Open House, all day event on Sunday featuring family friendly activities, performances, talks and a tea party.

“Art Social ’14 is where The House of St Barnabas will bring its social and cultural mission together – we believe that to be socially progressive you should be culturally progressive – Art Social is a celebration of that mission,” states Nadra Shah, the Festival Director.

Tickets from £8 – £12.50 and are available from eventbrite.co.uk

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Seana Gavin’s latest exhibition creates a space where past, future and parallel worlds collide. End Times showcases collages where everything that has been and will be all co-exist in the present moment. The imagery and symbolism of ancient civilisations and tribal cultures allow her work to explore the relationship between the past and a concept of the future.

Gavin, a  BA Visual Arts graduate, has had solo shows at the concept store 3939 and The B Store on Saville Row. Her artworks themselves have been published in many art and culture magazines including Twin.

End Times opens today and will be shown until the 23rd of July at Celestine Eleven.  

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French gallerist Almine Rech-Picasso has opened her London gallery in the heart of Mayfair’s prestigious Savile Row.

Rech’s latest group exhibition entitled “Pittura Oggetto,” running now till the 27th July, presents work produced by prominent Italian artists during the 1960s and 1970s, including Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino and Turi Simeti. Natacha Carron has focussed on the repetitive, serial, and monochromatic aspect of works produced during the period, gravitating towards structures, which engage with notions of time and space.

The Almine Rech gallery represents leading contemporary artists including Francesco Vezzoli, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Jeff Koons, Gavin Turk, Jannis Kounellis, Ugo Rondinone, James Turrell, Syvie Fleurie and Hedi Slimane.

Almine Rech, 11 Savile Row, Mayfair, W1S 3PG, London

Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm

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In 2005, Delaine Le Bas was introduced to photographer Tara Darby at Room, her first solo exhibition at Transition. Over the years the two have developed a strong creative, working partnership, which is celebrated here for this seminal collaborative exhibition. Displaying a series of performative images, the show Portrait, encompasses elements of Kabuki, Lindsey Kemp and punk. You’ll find a psychological exploration of the physical exploitation of the artist as object. Full of music, photography, installation and costuming, the gallery becomes an immersive theatre representing the many facets of the artist’s personality.

‘I used to be called Kate Bush and witch at school,’ writes Delaine. ‘Lately I have been thinking about Poly Sterene, X-Ray Spex, listening to John Peel, going to jumble sales, being a member of CND, and Dikiomengro Tan at Chapter where I first did the Kabuki make-up after being taught by a friend from West Sussex College of Design who was part of the Kemp Company. But going to Poland recently was huge in my re-discovering of why I had gone to art school in the first place – my access to this world that I wanted to be part of.’

Tonight, there is a private viewing at 6pm and on Thursday the 10th July at 6pm, Delaine Le Bas and Tara Darby will be in conversation with Alex Michon, talking about their collaborative project; their influences, working practices and on the importance of costuming in the work of Delaine Le Bas.

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The ICA is playing host to a three-day art book fair this week, in association with Claire de Rouen Books. You’ll be able to find publications on a range of themes such as art, photography, fashion and design, and as well as the books themselves, the fair promises to bring zine aficionados, legendary specialists, magazine experts and artist book connoisseurs together with visitors in a unique gathering any book lover will appreciate. Room&Book will be the first art book fair in London to focus exclusively on the role of the book dealer.

Participants confirmed are: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare, Bookmarc, Christian Flamm, Claire de Rouen Books, Diagonal Press,Ditto Press, Elegantly Papered, Koenig Books, Louis Vuitton Maison Librairie, Luminous Books with Anagram Books, Maggs Bros (Carl Williams and Titus Boeder), Oliver J Wood, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, Simon Finch, Sims Reed, Test Centre Books, The Village Bookstore, 20th Century Art Archives.

For more information head to ica.org.uk.

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East London’s Truman Brewery is currently showcasing the UK’s largest graduate art, design & fashion show, Free Range. 2014 is the initatives fourteenth edition, spanning seven weeks, a hundred courses and 3000 students, all exhibiting their hard work. It is the perfect place to see what the young creatives and future trend-makers are up to, a place to feel inspired and also marvel at their craftsmanship. With work being shown across five disciplines, design, fashion, photography, Art, interiors and architecture, the sheer scale puts Free Range on the map as one international art fair not to be missed.

The exhibitions are free and open to the public until 14th July.

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Today, the International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, COLLECT, opens at the Saatchi gallery. The showcase brings together 36 of the world’s finest galleries, all representing exceptional work from their portfolio of artists alongside seven Project Space artists. You’ll find contemporary objects ranging from ceramics and glassware to jewellery and woodwork from over 400 artists, making COLLECT the place to view and collect museum-quality contemporary craft.

“It’s such a privilege to work with the exhibitors at COLLECT, who bring expertise and exceptional work from well-known makers and new talent. Working on COLLECT for over a decade now, it’s rewarding to see the fair develop year on year, and to welcome an ever increasing variety of work from around the world. I’m particularly looking forward to seeing new work and galleries from Asia this year, and I always come away from the event learning something new.” – Daniella Wells, Show Director, COLLECT 2014.

Twin favourite Shimell & Madden are being represented by Tyger Glyn and you can find their work on show at stand no. 7.4.

COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London from 9 – 12 May 2014 

Find out more about the event at craftscouncil.org.uk

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Last week, when Team Twin flocked to Rififi in Mayfair to celebrate the release of our tenth issue, we met Clym Evernden, a freelance artist and illustrator. Clym started drawing at a very young age and it was during his teens that his illustrations became ocupied by fashion, often inspired by specific models such as Karen Elson, Carolyn Park and Devon Aoki, but at our party last week, it was designer Simone Rocha and blogger Ella Catliff that caught his attention.

“I’ve drawn ever since I can remember, however I’ve illustrated and been commissioned since I was around 21, when I was first commissioned by Clare Coulson for Harpers and Queen,” since then Clym’s work has featured in the pages of Vogue, Elle, Fantastic Man, i-D and AnOther Magazine, but he is now working more and more as a live event illustrator, something he himself pioneered: “I like to work from life as this helps to capture the spirit, movement, and atmosphere of my subject matter.” That it does, and with the aid of social media, these live illustrations are becoming big news in the fashion world, seeing as he was recently commissioned to illustrate live at a dinner hosted by Carine Roitfeld in Paris, in which he illustrated guests such as Arizona Muse, Kendall Jenner, and Susie Bubble.

“I tend to go for people who have extreme proportions, whether it be a long fringe, big nose, or gangly limbs,” states Clym, when asked about what attracts him to certain people, “my taste is certainly not restricted to drawing model type figures, in fact I often find these the most boring.” It’s certainly people that inspire him most, which is why he says he spends many an hour people watching. Other inspirations? “I also love music, the atmosphere and mood of a track can inspire me. At the moment I’m listening to Suede and recalling that whole trashy 90’s soho thing.”

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Tim Barber, a previous Twin contributor, opened his latest exhibition over the weekend. Relations, which showcases Barber’s most recent work, is a continuation of his photographic journey displayed at Capricious 88. The show draws from everyday experiences, pulling together rather mundane subject matter but delving deeper to find more complex narratives within. The title of the exhibition relates to the tension felt between the countless relationships in the images as well as the relationships the photographs have with each other.

Relations is open at Capricious 88, 88 Eldridge Street, New York until 23rd June 2014. 

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ArtCube, launching late in the summer, is an artists and creative’s playground. A place to purchase, display and create art and crafts at Second Home’s exciting 18,000 square foot warehouse right in the heart of Shoreditch. To give you a taste of what’s to come, this upcoming bank holiday weekend will play host to PopArtCube.

Festivities start on Friday 2nd May with a Black Grey White Dinner where London’s young creative crowd can come an feast on a candlelit dinner and marvel at the incredible art installations from 30 of London’s finest student talent, accompanied by live performances from Azari & III. Tickets also give you free entry to the Space Cowboy’s afterparty at Casa Negra. From Saturday to Monday, you’ll find over 100 artists work, with a chance to buy the pieces along with workshops, live art and music performances.

For more information about the event and to buy tickets head to art-cube.co.uk.

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We’re celebrating our tenth issue this season, which means it’s been five years since our first Twin book was released. To celebrate, we thought we would look back over the issues, reminisce a little. In Twin V we spoke with actors, artists, playwrights and more for a feature called Top Girls, a look at the emerging British names set to be stars. Here, Twin caught up with some of those girls to see where they are now…

Lily Jones

When we last spoke to Lily, an artisan baker, she had only just written a business plan, hired staff and opened a café on Columbia Road. Things are now a little more global: “I have been working on a bakery project in Kochi, India which is now open for business and I also consult for 5 bakeries in the Middle East.” As well as her international feats, Lily recently released her second book, Sweet Tooth and also (somehow) finds time to act as co-founder of The YBFs, “a food & drink awards which spotlights and celebrates new, innovative talent in the industry. Our 3rd annual event this year will be hosted at Tate Britain.” Busy just doesn’t cut it.

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Harley Weir

As well as working on projects with subjects such as “the suburban heaven” in which she grew up, Harley teaches part-time and is attracting jobs that are more in tune with her interests. “[I am] finally putting a few brain cells aside for fashion, which I have come to admit (as hard as it was) is my trade.” With past clients such as British Vogue, Paul Smith, Another Magazine, Topshop, I-D Magazine, Supreme and Stella Mccartney to name a few, it’s safe to say this photographer has come a long way since her sexual photo-diary.

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Rachel De-lahay

Rachel’s debut play THE WESTBRIDGE was about to open at the time Twin V was released and it went on to win Best Play at the Writers Guild Award. De-lahay also received acclaim for her second piece of theatre, ROUTES, winning the Evening Standard Award for Best New Playwright.

This young writer is about to open her third play in Birmingham this May, before it comes south to the Tricycle Theatre in London. For her next move, we will see her work on screen as she has just completed a pilot for a new BBC drama. “I’m [also] currently writing a feature film with Film Four and Independent (the producers who made We Need To Talk About Kevin) and was selected as Screen Nations Screen Star of Tomorrow, and am developing my own comedy drama series for Channel Four as well as adapting a blog for Fox Television.” De-lahay is certainly a name we are going to see much more of in the future. Watch this space.

Billie JD Porter

For Billie it was never really about the DJing; that and the music writing/promoting acted as a platform to help her get on her way (at the tender age of 14 we might add). Documentaries were the end goal and having just spent seven months in South America, working on a series of films for the BBC called ‘Secrets of South America,’ it seems that dream is now a reality. But what of the parties? “There’s a lot less chaos in my life at the moment. I’m not sure if that’s a permanent thing though.”

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Julia King

“Around the time that I was in Twin I won a Holcim Award in the ‘Next Generation’ category, an international competition that recognizes innovative projects and future-oriented concepts which really helped kick start my career.” And what a career this architect already has. One that has brought sanitation infrastructure to 2000 plus people in a resettlement colony in Delhi called Savda Ghevra, through her work with CURE. This year has been spectacular for King she states, “I was awarded the Emerging Woman Architect of the Year by the Architectural Journal and won a SEED Award for ‘Excellence in Public Interest Design‘ for the sanitation project in Savda Ghevra.” But that’s not all of them, last year King was also included in ICON magazines ‘Future 50′ – a snap shot of 50 young designers and architects who are pushing the boundaries of their disciplines and trying to change the world. And that PhD she was working on when we last spoke, well that will be completed this summer.

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Photography: Nick Dorey, originally published in Twin V

Photgrapher Coco Young’s first solo exhibition explores the interactions between memory and photographic images. The title itself, After Midnight refers to those early hours of the night, when we either happen to be a sleep or perhaps a little intoxicated and so the show looks to see whether reality can be affected by the last images we saw or those visuals stored in our minds during these liminal states. To find out more about Coco Young look out for the upcoming issue, Twin X, where we speak with the photographer in her creative base in New York’s East Village. 

Elizabeth Gilpin, Tatiana de Pahlen & Carolina Cavalli will be launching their book YOUth, at the exhibition at the Half Gallery in New York. Bringing together images derived from the blogosphere, the publication creates a dialogue between photographers, visual artists, creative writers and authors (such as Coco Young, Coni Dietrich, Tatjana Radicevic, Colin Michael Simmons, Sophie Van Der Perre, Logan White, Ryan Young) who share their youth in the present-age.

After Midnight opens at the Half Gallery, New York on May 2nd. The YOUth book launch will be at the gallery from 6-9pm the same day. 

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Tags: Carolina Cavalli, Coco Young, Elizabeth Gilpin, Half Gallery, Tatiana de Pahlen, YOUth

The ICA’s exhibition featuring London-based poet and artist David Robilliard’s paintings is now open. The selection of paintings being shown combine figurative elements with text taken directly from Robilliard’s own poems. The evocative prose alludes to intimate sexual encounters and passing infatuations that ultimately conjure an image of 1980s queer London.

The ICA plans to release a new 80 page book to coincide with the exhibition which will include an introduction by Gregor Muir (ICA Executive Director) and main text by Andrew Wilson (Curator of Modern & Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain), as well as host an event on May 2nd where Gregor Muir is joined by Louisa Buck (critic and contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper), Toby Mott (The Mott Collection) and Charlie Porter (Men’s Fashion Critic for the Financial Times) to consider the paintings, drawings and poetry of London artist David Robilliard.

David Robilliard: The Yes No Quality of Dreams, exhibition, Upper Gallery: open until 15 June 2014

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Image: David Robilliard, Life Isn’t Good It’s Excellent, 1987, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy private collection, Frankfurt

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Francesca Gavin, Twin“s Art Editor, has curated an online-online exhibition available on Artsy.net as well as the Artsy iPhone app. Decline and Fall, which is available available now, features work from artists Amy Bessone, Ben Sansbury and Sara VanDerBeek to name a few. The title is taken from Evelyn Waugh’s novel and refers to Edward Gibbon’s famous tome about the decay of the Roman Empire, which aims to to show how these references (like modern vanitas paintings) can also be seen to reflect the cultural, moral, and social upheaval of contemporary life.

Tags: Amy Bessone, Artsy, Ben Sansbury, francesca gavin, Salvatore Arancio, Sara VanDerBeek

For those who are yet to discover Wolfgang Tillmans, this coming May proves to be the perfect time to explore the world through the lens of the German fine-art photographer. The turner prize winner, most renowned for capturing contemporary landscapes, club scenes and astronomical phenomena is set to publish Wolfgang Tillmans the artist’s first complete record of work across his twenty-five year career. Published by Phaidon Press, the updated and expanded publication will present the German photographer’s latest projects over the last ten years alongside an essay by New Museum curator Joanna Burton and an interview with Stuart Comer, the chief curator of media and performance at the MoMA. What’s more, Wolfgang Tillmans will also feature new writings by the artist himself across the 240-page hardback edition.

Tillmans is mot renowned for his observation and exploration of the world through photography, stating “I take pictures, in order to see the world.”

Dividing his time between London, Berlin, New York and Frankfurt, Tillmans is praised on an international scale, showcasing his work at the Serpentine Gallery and Tate Britain in London to appearing in i-D, Interview and Spex Magazine. For a rather short lengthened career thus far, Tillmans has achieved incredible recognition for his photography, going on to be the first photographer to win the Tate annual Turner Prize in 2000 and if that isn’t enough, Between Bridges, Tillmans non-profit exhibition space in Berlin, re-opened this January and has so far featured works by Patrick Caulfield and Jochen Klein.

Wolfgang Tillmans is undoubtedly one of the most influential artists of his generation and Wolfgang Tillmans is set to be an unforgettable milestone in his career. Pre-order at uk.phaidon.com

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