Francesco Pirazzi, Fermo (2019). Oil on canvas. 100 x 96 cm. Exhibition view: Eccentric Spaces, The Artist Room, London (11 January–4 February 2023). Courtesy The Artist Room.
Left to right: Fleur Patrick, Glass Curtains VII (2022). Graphite and oil on board. 21 x 15 cm; Glass Curtains V (2022). Graphite and oil on board. 30 x 30 cm. Exhibition view: Eccentric Spaces, The Artist Room, London (11 January–4 February 2023). Courtesy The Artist Room.
Left to right: Graham Little, Untitled (Mountain) (2021). Gouache on paper. 36.5 x 34.6 cm; William Brickel, Untitled (2022). Oil on board. 40 x 40 cm. Exhibition view: Eccentric Spaces, The Artist Room, London (11 January–4 February 2023). Courtesy The Artist Room.
Left to right: Iva Lulashi, We will also need to sleep, holy love (2022). Oil on canvas. 25 x 30 cm; Ebbra di digiuno (2022). Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm; Do you feel my heart (2022). Oil on canvas. 30 x 40 cm; Leonard Baby, The Face You Make When It's Time To Go (2022). Acrylic and oil on wood panel. 28 x 36 cm. Exhibition view: Eccentric Spaces, The Artist Room, London (11 January–4 February 2023). Courtesy The Artist Room.
Martin Kippenberger, Untitled (Hotel Hessischer Hof, Frankfurt am Main) (1995). Pencil, coloured pencil on Hotel stationery. 29.5 x 21 cm. Courtesy The Artist Room.
The Artist Room’s charming group show, Eccentric Spaces in London (11 January–4 February 2023) borrows its focus and title from a 1977 publication by the late architecture critic Robert Harbison.
Harbison garnered attention within architectural circles for his poetic notion of space as a continually changing and fluid entity, and his dissection of the artist figure as a manufacturer of idiosyncratic, eccentric spaces.
In the light-filled Soho gallery, a collection of works by different artists evoke such spatial allegories, providing a diverse, layered response to Harbison’s words.
Among highlights is a small oil on board by William Brickel, an intimate hotel drawing by Martin Kippenberger, the voyeuristic works of Tirana-born artist Iva Lulashi, and a perforated walnut and pine-wood sculpture by Anderson Borba.
The Artist Room will partake in Latin America’s biggest art fair, ZONAMACO in Mexico City (8–12 February 2023), with a solo presentation of William Brickel’s works.
Main image: Francesco Pirazzi, Fermo (2019). Oil on canvas. 100 x 96 cm. Exhibition view: Eccentric Spaces, The Artist Room, London (11 January–4 February 2023). Courtesy The Artist Room.
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