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SUMMARY:London Art Fair 2017\, Islington
DESCRIPTION:The 29th edition of London Art Fair takes place from 18-22 January 2017. \nAnnually launching the art world year\, the Fair provides a supportive environment for collectors of all levels. Museum quality Modern British art is presented alongside contemporary work from today’s leading artists\, covering the period from the early 20th century to the present day. Featuring 129 Exhibiting Galleries from paintings to photos. \nIn addition to the main Fair you’ll also find two curated sections focusing on younger galleries\, new work and contemporary photography; Art Projects and Photo50. Follow #LAF17 on Facebook\, Twitter and Instagram. \nWeb \nOpening Times & Tickets\nTickets in advance £11.50 to on the door £22\, £5.50 off with a National Art Pass \nTuesday 17 January\nVIP Preview: 3pm – 6pm*\nPreview Evening: 6pm – 9pm \nWednesday 18 January\nPhotography Focus Day\n11am – 9pm \nThursday 19 January\nThursday Late in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro\n11am – 9pm \nFriday 20 January\n11am – 7pm \nSaturday 21 January\n11am – 7.30pm \nSunday 22 January\n11am – 5pm \nTalks and Tours Programme\nWednesday 18 January – Photography Focus Day\n Christiane Monarchi\, editor of Photomonitor and curator of Photo50\, chairs Made Together:\nparticipating and collaborating in photographic practice – a discussion in which Anthony Luvera\,\nBaptiste Lignel\, Melanie Manchot and Wendy McMurdo: four artists presenting work in London Art\nFair 2017’s Photo50 exhibition ‘Gravitas’\, discuss the importance of interaction\, participation and\ncollaboration between artist and subject in their lens-based practice\n(12pm – 1pm) \n Brett Rogers OBE\, director of The Photographers’ Gallery\, chairs a discussion on Collecting\nContemporary Photography in association with The Photographers’ Gallery exploring current trends in\nthe photography world and how to grow your contemporary collection. Panel members will include\nHelen Trompeteler\, Christiane Monarchi Hannah Watson\, gallerist and photobook specialist and\nNicholas Campbell\, founder of Narcissus Arts.\n(4.30pm – 5.30pm) \nThursday 19 January\n Iain Robertson\, Head of Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, chairs The Art Business Today\, in\nassociation with Lund Humphries – a debate around the current state of international art business\,\nreflecting on emerging trends\, new opportunities\, and the sector’s future in the wake of Brexit and on\nthe eve of the Trump inauguration. With Yasmin Railton\, Jeffrey Boloten and Melanie Gerlis\n(11.30am – 12.30pm)\n Georgina Adam\, Art Market Editor-at-Large at The Art Newspaper; Art Market Contributor at The\nFinancial Times\, chairs The Economy of Museum Loans\, in association with The Ingram Collection. Jo\nBaring\, Director at The Ingram Collection talks to collectors Tim Sayer\, art collector\, and Valeria\nNapoleone\, discussing the current infrastructure that exists to facilitate partnerships between public\ninstitutions and private collectors across the UK\n(1pm – 2pm)\n Seven models and dancers perform Collection Tautologique & Moral by Regina Frank in collaboration\nwith Carlos Cabral Nunes (Curator – Perve Galeria). With silent interactions and actions the\nperformers will feel and fulfill sculpture-dresses made from original painter’s linen\, bringing textiles to\nlife. The performers will walk\, dance and interact slowly\, like moving sculptures\, creating a tension\nbetween performer / object\, viewer and artwork\n(Thursday 1pm – 1.45pm & 6pm – 6.45 pm & Friday 1pm – 1.45pm)\n Farah Nayeri\, culture writer for the New York Times\, chairs Internationalism Through Art – How Art\ncan Flatten the World – a talk that looks at the ways in which the art world is capable\, or otherwise\, of\ncrossing cultural and geographic boundaries. On the panel will be Miguel Amado\, a curator of\ninternational renown and guest-curator of the Dialogues section of the Fair\, Legacy Russell\, UK\nGallery Relations Lead at Artsy\, and Guido Maus\, Director of Maus Contemporary\n(4pm – 5pm)\nThursday Late in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro\n Thursday Late in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro provides the opportunity to visit the Fair after\nhours and enjoy an insightful programme of talks\, tours and performances. Highlights include Liam\nGeary Baulch’s performance Sea Squad presented by The Nunnery\, a performance piece that\nchannels the power of cheerleading – with individuals working together as a team to make\nstatements in formation and through the wit and rhythm of ‘cheers’ (7pm – 7.45pm)\n A series of tours starting with Collector and Curator: can you be both? led by Melanie Keen\, Director\nof Iniva (5.30pm – 6.30pm). This is followed by Fair Highlights with Own Art (6.30pm – 7.20pm). In\nthe final tour of the day\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art guides visitors through general highlights (7pm –\n7.45pm) \nFriday 20 January\n Melanie Keen\, Director of Iniva chairs Iniva presents: Care and Concern – supporting contemporary\nwomen artists – a discussion that explores methods of support for women’s art practice from the\nmultiple perspectives of collecting\, curating and philanthropy with Day+Gluckman’s Eliza Gluckman\,\njournalist\, curator and advisor to Women for Women International Nadja Romain and programme\ncurator of Stanley Picker Gallery Stella Bottai\n(11.30am – 12.30pm)\n Marilyn Scott\, Director of The Lightbox\, Woking\, chairs Public Galleries: Art Outside of London\, in\nassociation with The Lightbox – this panel looks at traditional and alternative funding models\, the\nimportance of core collections and the support you can offer public institutions nationwide to ensure\ntheir survival with speakers Simon Wallis\, Director of The Hepworth Wakefield\, Sarah Philp\, Director\nof Programmes at Art Fund and Tim Craven\, curator at Southampton City Art Gallery\n(1pm – 2pm)\n Writer and broadcaster Michael Bird chairs Sculpture Today – A Conversation\, in association with\nLund Humphries – a discussion about the changing definition of sculpture since the post-war period\,\nand its appeal and status today. Featuring Polly Bieleka\, Gallery Director at Pangolin London\, and\nMelissa Hamnett\, Curator of Sculpture at the V&A\n(2.30pm – 3.30pm) \nSaturday 21 January\n Modern British Art and the Idea of Europe\, in association with Apollo is a discussion chaired by\nThomas Marks\, editor of Apollo which asks what British art can tell us about the cultural links\nbetween this island and the continent. Is modern British art more international than often\nconsidered? And will it look more or less so in the future? with Simon Martin\, Creative Director of\nPallant House Gallery\n(2pm – 3pm)\n Further highlights on Saturday include Images of youth – who calls the shots\, in association with\nPhotoVoice. Speakers include Jack Lundie (Director of Communications\, Oxfam)\, Christiane Monarchi\n(Founding Editor\, Photomonitor and curator of this year’s Photo50) and photographers Ailyah Otchere\nand Michelle Sank. This panel discussion asks whether photographers’ images are representative of\nthe stories that young people themselves want to tell and how photography can address tensions\nbetween youth identity and representation\n(3.30pm – 4.30pm) \nSunday 22 January\n On the final day of the Fair\, artist Sarah Pimienta (Director\, Social Fabric) and artist educator Lala\nThorpe lead Interactive education workshops in association with Parasol unit foundation for\ncontemporary art. The drop-in workshop is inspired by Tschabalala Self’s new exhibition at Parasol\nunit foundation for contemporary art. Tschabalala Self constructs exaggerated depictions of female\nbodies collaging a combination of sewn\, printed and painted materials\, traversing different artistic\nand craft traditions. You can drop-in at any time and this workshop is suitable for all ages with all\nmaterials provided\n(12pm – 3pm) \nTOURS\nVisitors can also book onto insightful daily tours of Art Projects led by Pryle Behrman and on Thursday 19\nJanuary Pryle will be joined by Miguel Amado\, who will lead a tour of ‘Dialogues’. On Photography Focus\nDay\, experience photography highlights with a tour from Jean Wainwright\nIniva lead two tours showing how to bring a curator’s eye to collecting and on Own Art’s tours you can\nhear personal insights from exhibiting gallerists and discover emerging artists.\nSotheby’s Institute of Art are also offering daily highlights tours with different focuses – photography\,\ncontemporary\, Modern British and emerging markets \nShare this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n\n	Related\n
URL:http://www.artexhibitions.org.uk/event/london-art-fair-2017-islington/
LOCATION:Business Design Centre\, 52 Upper Street\, Islington\, London\, Greater London\, N1 0QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art Fair,London,Paintings,Photography
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