The October Gallery Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Keepers of the Mimi Spirit

Beyond the Surface

Xu Zhongmin and Ye Yonqing

Hai Shuet Yeung

Julieta Rubio and Charles Beauchamp

1997

19th November 1997 to 20th December 1997

Yoruba Diasporas II - Ancestral Signs

This exhibition looks at signs as ancestral iconographic forms, exploring ways in which some contemporary Yoruba artists use highly eometric and patterned work to reference and reinvent their ancient sign language. Work by Osi Audu, LeRoy Clarke, Mestre Didi and James Phillips.

8th October 1997 to 15th November 1997

Yoruba Diasporas I - Metamorphosis

An exploration of the complex contemporary worlds of Yoruba artists in Brazil, Trinidad, Haiti, Cuba, the USA, England and Nigeria. Work by E. Taiwo Jegede, Prosper Peirrelouis, Manuel Mendive, Mario Cravo Neto, Z.O. Oloruntoba and Twins Seven Seven.

3rd September 1997 to 4th October 1997

Keepers of the Mimi Spirit - Aboriginal Art from Arnhem Land

Art from Australia's 'top-end'. Work from Arnhem land is distinguished by its use of delicate cross-hatching techniques and the representation of the mimi spirits, spirit ancestors of the Kwinjku and other Aboriginal peoples that inhabit the desert plateaux of this harsh northern land.

2nd July 1997 to 2nd August 1997

Beyond the Surface - Contemporary Turkish Marbling

Coinciding with the Sufi Music Village a look at an abstract art-form from Turkey that mirrors the universal order byusing the chance effects of oil and water.

28th May 1997 to 28th June 1997

Xu Zhongmin and Ye Yonqing - In Dialogue

A 'dialogic exchange' between two Chinese artists who attended the same arts academy in Southern China. Ye Yong Qing now teaches at this institution while Xu Zhong Min is living and working in the UK. The exhibition was presented on the occasion of the return of Hong Kong, by the United Kingdom, to the People's Republic of China.

7th May 1997 to 24th May 1997

Hai Shuet Yeung - Innovation in Abstraction

Abstract work on paper by a Chinese artist now living in England. The exhibition, coinciding with the launch of a book of the same name, was presented in collaboration with Eastern Art Report.

9th April 1997 to 3rd May 1997

Julieta Rubio and Charles Beauchamp

New acrylic on canvas work by the Austrian-born artist who is the Artistic Director of the October Gallery.

5th February 1997 to 29th March 1997

Elisabeth Lalouschek - New Works

New acrylic on canvas work by the Austrian-born artist who is the Artistic Director of the October Gallery.

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The Gallery is closed during official holidays and for the entire month of August.

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