Month: April 2011
Neal Fox was born 1981 in London, studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Art and illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. Fox is co-founder of LE GUN, an illustrative collective and their publication of the same name. He lives and works in London.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2011
BEWARE OF THE GOD, Daniel Blau Ltd., London
2009-2000
Light Years From Home, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
2008
Little Drop of Poison, LOFT 19, Paris
2007
The Invisible Republic, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
2006
The Aubergine Tongue, The French House, London
Group exhibitions (Selection)
2010
LE GUN at Art Brussels (Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève)
2009
Bare Bones, Dazed and Confused Gallery, London,
Art Basel (Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich)
2008
Don’t stop me Now,Trolley Gallery, London
LE GUN “The Family”, Rochelle School, London
Art Basel (Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich)
2007
L.H. Browns Shoe Shop of Curiosities, London
2006
International Festival LE GUN, Nog Gallery, London
Literature (Selection)
2000 Light Years From Home, Neal Fox, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, 2009
LE GUN 1 – 5, London, 2004—11
Little Drop of Poison, Journal LOFT19 #1, Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, 2008
The Aubergine Tongue, Neal Fox, London, 2006
September 12, 2003 – October 31, 2003
December 3, 2004 – January 30, 2005
July 7, 2010 – July 30, 2010
Glen Baxter
Christa Dichgans
Neal Fox
Dan McCarthy
Matt Mullican
Don van Vliet
Andy Warhol
u. a.
December 23, 2010
A selection of fine and rare pictures from the early years of photography, 1839-1859. As a parallel exhibition at Paris Photo, we will show unusual and rare portraits from the 1850’s by artists like Roger Fenton, Charles Marville or Charles Nègre.
March 17, 2011 — March 27, 2011
TEFAF 2011. www.tefaf.com
MECC, Forum 100, 6229 GV Maastricht, The Netherlands
October 8, 2010 – November 11, 2010
Infamous for their Fuck Faces and their gruesome Hell and Fucking Hell war-landscapes, the Chapman brothers made their first big appearance in 1997 at the Sensation exhibition in the Royal Academy of Art. These stars of the London art scene will now be coming to Munich to put on Cained and Disabled, the next chapter, an exhibition comprised of sculptures from the “Litte Death Machines” series, as well as portraits, à la Dorian Gray, from the cycle One Day You Will No Longer Be Loved.
Dinos Chapman was born 1962 in London and Jake Chapman 1966 in Cheltenham. Dinos studied painting and Jake sculpting at the Royal College of Art in London. Their works have been shown in important museums around the world (Tate, London, Groninger Museum, Groningen etc.) and can be found in notable international collections, such as those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum Kunst Palastin Düsseldorf and the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
Jake and Dinos live and work in London.
May 2, 2008 – May 24, 2008
September 13, 2008 – October 6, 2008
In the weeks from the 13th of September to the 6th of October the Gallery Daniel Blau will be exhibiting works by Neal Fox, a young artist from London and recent introduction to the art world.
Fox’s artistic roots lie with illustration as with the experiences and tales he gathered from a complex web of characters ranging from the beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso to Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Grace Jones and the occulist Aleister Crowley.
The same pubs and haunts in Soho that became the gathering points for London’s artistic, bohemian and alcoholic culture, of which Fox’s grandfather was a part, are now frequented by Neal Fox and a new generation of eccentric minds. The remarkable life of his grandfather, John Watson, inspired Mr. Fox as a teenager to explore the myths of a life as a WWII bomber pilot in Germany, a writer of several novels and some “trashy paperbacks about cowboys and gangsters,” a chat show host, publisher and drinker in Soho.
Fox’s earliest illustrations were based on his grandfather’s books, and Watson still appears in most of his ink drawings, always dressed in a dark trenchcoat holding a drink and looking on as mastiffs attack a bear in an Elizabethan arena or flying a helicopter filled with playmates, as a a naked Oliver Reed and a peg-legged Keith Moon engage in a vicious swordfight.
The large inks on paper by the twenty-six year old artist show scenes of apomorphium hallucinations, trainrides through Europe, and surreal depictions of Andy Warhol, Basquiat and Truman Capote at the infamous Studio 54. The viewers’ glances are seemingly returned by some of the subjects in the drawings, and one is thus introduced as a photographic voyeur to the distorted perspectives of Neal Fox’s fantastical illustrated trips.