London Gallery Weekend saw the city host an exciting array of gallery programming for its third edition.
Beginning on 2 June 2023, the weekend promised unique arts offerings from Central, North, East, and West of the city. It holds the title of the biggest free gallery weekend in the world.
Pace Gallery featured the striking exhibition Lee Ufan and Claude Viallat: Encounter (2 June–29 July 2023). Showcasing painting, sculpture, and installation, the show delves into the artists' relationship to abstraction and materiality.
Viallat's playful shapes in a cheerful palette of pink, red, blue, and burnt orange complement Ufan's muted, monochrome abstractions. The artists unpack their subversive practices through these new and historical works, accomplishing a captivating display.
Over at Victoria Miro, Chris Ofili's dream-like paintings depicted transgressive behaviours in a kaleidoscopic palette. The exhibition, The Seven Deadly Sins (2 June–29 July 2023), features new, large-scale paintings of awe-inspiring, otherworldly atmospheres.
Other highlights include Phoebe Unwin's colour-soaked oil paintings at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, Sahara Longe's flattened yet soft-edged paintings of people at Timothy Taylor, and Lisa Milroy's intriguing still lifes of everyday objects at Kate MacGarry.
