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If you like this video please Buy Me A Coffee - - so we can continue to make more content reviewing art exhibitions and interviewing artists. Each coffee bought is hugely appreciated as together we can build a channel with wonderful films about art. Founder Robert Dunt vlogs about the London Art Fair 2024 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. He reviews and discusses this art fair, art exhibition and points out certain paintings such as those by Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Victor Pasmore, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin and others. Subscribe to :: Robert Dunt - - ... Support the channel - Subscribe to my other channel TravelDog - food and travel films - TravelDog - The show guide says - This years’ Fair welcomes a fantastic line up of galleries, with exceptional Modern British art, and an ever increasing line up of Contemporary and international galleries including representation from Japan, Sweden, Lithuania, Turkey and South Korea. First introduced in 2014, we are thrilled to celebrate the 10th year of the Museum Partnership with Charleston. Situated in the South Downs National Park, Charleston was the modernist home and studio of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and the regular meeting place of some of the 20th century’s most radical artists, writers and thinkers, known collectively as the Bloomsbury Group. It is where they came together to imagine society differently and has always been a place where art and experimental thinking are at the centre of everyday life. At the Fair, Charleston will present select works by Bloomsbury group artists and will also launch their 50 for 50 campaign, an ambitious search for 50 of the most significant Bloomsbury group artist paintings still held in private collections to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2030. Inspired by London Art Fair’s partnership with Charleston, the 2024 Platform section of the Fair, guest curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, brings together art that shines a light on Queer love and life. The exhibition, entitled A Million Candles, Illuminating Queer Love and Life, takes its name from Woolf’s eponymous novel Orlando in which she wrote: “A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”. At a time when LGBTQIA life is increasingly under threat in the UK and globally, Rolls-Bentley calls on the words of queer ancestors as she brings together art that reflects the resilience, the beauty and the passion of queer love and life. This year’s Photo50 exhibition is guest-curated by Revolv Collective. The thematic exhibition entitled Grafting: The Land and the Artist is centred in expanded photographic practice and presents a collection of works by early and mid-career artists who explore the subject of labour and its diverse representations within the context of the land. Returning for its second year is the Encounters section curated by Pryle Behrman. Established to support emerging and international galleries, Encounters returns to showcase the freshest Contemporary art from across the globe, as well as more established galleries wishing to present new bodies of work by mid-career artists exploring new mediums or themes. This year Encounters expands upon the notion of the unexpected, presenting over 20 galleries that offer an exciting diversity in artistic approach, theme and geography, drawing on practices and narratives that remain underrepresented in mainstream art discourse. The Fair is also a fantastic place to learn about art and our programme of talks, discussions and tours are made free for our visitors, giving interactive, educational and engaging insight to the art on show. Find out more on pages 48 to 52. Finally, I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all our sponsors and partners for their generous support of this year’s Fair and to the Fair Committee for their guidance and expertise. I hope you will enjoy exploring London Art Fair 2024.
