Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want
Southbank Centre
18 May – 29 August 2011

'Since the early 1990s, Emin (b.1963) has used her own life as the starting point for her art, exposing the most harrowing and intimate details of her personal history. Sometimes confrontational or sexually provocative, her work resonates with the 'personal political' legacy of feminist art while at the same time speaking to relationships in general. Disarmingly frank and yet often profoundly private, much of Emin's art - as this show makes clear - is also animated by her playful and ironic wit.'

Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955 - 1989)
Autograph ABP
27 May - 30 July 2011

'Autograph ABP presents a solo exhibition of large-scale photographs by Rotimi Fani-Kayode. Produced during the 1980s in a career spanning only six years, often in collaboration with his late partner Alex Hirst, Fani-Kayode’s photographic scenarios constitute are seminal in their exploration of complex notions of desire, diaspora, displacement, spirituality and the black male body. His work evokes ancestral memories through provocative symbolism, fusing archetypal motifs from European and African cultures and subcultures, inspired by what Yoruba priests call ‘the technique of ecstasy’.'

Size:Matters
Art Sensus
17 June – 13 August 2011
'SIZE:matters is a powerful exhibition which showcases selected modern photographers' use of the modern technology to achieve works on a scale prefered by the Old Masters. Exhibiting these artists together for the first time, it becomes apparent that whilst the works featured are truely diverse and groundbreaking, each one builds on the traditional subject matter of oil painting; through the still life, landscape and portraiture genres. Yet, ironically, it is their use of traditional references that enables them to uncover new layers of meaning as they juxtapose these with the contemporary.'

Sasha Huber – Transatlantic Interventions
Next Level Projects
1 July – 27 July 2011

'As the title tells the theme of the exhibition is based on the complex entanglement of art and politics, which predominates the world found by the artist, Sasha Huber. An interdisciplinary who uses the medium of photography and video no-less to express visual culture in her pursuit of the origin of racist assumptions and the influence of racist representations in culture, society and political system of our age through looking back.

Rentyhorn breaks down racist mechanism of power, as they appear in society, by denouncing the existence of well-known place names that function as a metaphor of human mistrust. From de-mounting Louis Agassiz in the mountain peaks of Switzerland, the figure continued to influence the development of Sasha Huber concepts. Titled “What's in a Name? Louis Agassiz, his mountain and the politics of remembrance' is an intervention essentially engaging the strength of the association and relationship to the environment as key. Through the central manifold of performance the artists directs the gaze towards the history of racism, colonial hegemony, slavery, bio politics, the problematic distinction between “pure” and “mixed” race and fear of miscegenation.'

Foto8 – Summershow 2011
Photo8
8 July – 12 August
'The Foto8 Summershow is London’s greatest photographic spectacle, a veritable ‘salon de photographie’ – an inspiring array of framed and mounted images of all shapes and sizes, installed from floor to ceiling. London’s prestigious HOST Gallery in EC1 is the setting for the Summershow where 150 images will be exhibited: to be seen and judged by respected industry professionals from the photography, arts and media worlds.'

Paul Hill – White Peak, Dark Peak
Eleven Fine Art
From 8 July to 20 August 2011

'Eleven is very pleased to present White Peak, Dark Peak, an exhibition of photographs by Paul Hill, curated by John Ferreira. The exhibition provides an opportunity to view an important body of work that has not been exhibited in London for close to 20 years.

Between 1978 and 1990, Hill embarked upon a visual odyssey across the Peak District that culminated in the publication of a monologue entitled White Peak, Dark Peak. Long out of print, this book is today viewed as a landmark in the history of British photography.

Much of the photography found in today’s worlds of advertising, fashion, photojournalism and contemporary art is designed to stimulate an immediate emotional response from the viewer. This is not the case with Hill’s White Peak, Dark Peak images. In part inspired by Minor White, Hill’s landscapes are produced within a tight tonal range of grays, whilst the skyline, invariably, has been removed from the image. The latter technique draws the viewer into a two-dimensional plane and as a consequence creates an invitation for contemplation of the very nature of the terrain itself.'

Made In Hungary
Michael Hoppen Gallery
9 July – 20 August 2011
'The Michael Hoppen Gallery, in conjunction with the Royal Academy, is delighted to present an exhibition of rare vintage Hungarian photographs from the early 20th Century. This exhibition includes many rare items from a substantial collection of vintage photographs. The show coincides with the large and important retrospective at the Royal Academy curated by Colin Ford. Both exhibitions celebrate the extraordinary richness of Hungary’s modern photographic tradition with diverse subject matter ranging from fashion, reportage and portraiture, often experimental in nature.'
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