Exhibitions 1999
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17 November - 22 December 1999
Form Film
Group Exhibition Doug Aitken, The Complete Arthole, Isaac Julien, Abigail Lane, Tracey Moffatt, Hadrian Pigott, Steven Pippin from film explores the power of the single image, often suggesting a complex narrative, more associated with painting. The artist allows the viewer to spend... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
7 October - 12 November 1999
Doug Aitken
Into the Sun Filmed and photographed in the dusty sound stages and film sets of Bombay, Into the Sun focuses on the frenetic activity of the 24 hour a day film making machine that is 'Bollywood,' relentlessly churning out simple, escapist, formulaic narratives... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
10 - 30 September 1999
Isaac Julien
Three Known mainly for his work in cinema, Three is the most recent of Isaac Julien's works to be made specifically for a gallery context, combining a full screening of the film with three looped sequences back-projected side by side and... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
26 May - 19 June 1999
Tracey Moffatt
Laudanum A series of nineteen photogravures, which have been individually aged, scratched and hand-tinted, Laudanum has been more than a year in the making and has the appearance almost of fine graphite drawings. Once again, Moffatt's roots as an experimental film... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
21 April - 21 May 1999
Cecily Brown
Serenade 'The place I'm interested in is where the mind goes when its trying to make up for what isn't there. When something is just suggested.' Cecily Brown in conversation with Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, (US edition), February, 1999 Cecily Brown graduated... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
3 March - 16 April 1999
Contemplating Pollock
Group Exhibition Thomas Demand, Peter Doig, Andreas Gursky This exhibition joins three important contemporary artists who have each incorporated reminiscences of Pollock into their works in very different ways: Thomas Demand's work Barn, is a photograph of a paper reconstruction based on... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
13 January - 26 February 1999
Robin Lowe
Recently seen in Young Americans 2 at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Lowe is best known for his hyperreal, close-up, psychological portraits of children and babies executed on metal panel. Despite their ostensibly child-like qualities, the subjects' facial expressions often... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
18 November 1998 - 8 January 1999
Yayoi Kusama
Most of Kusama's oeuvre can be traced back to early hallucinations she first had in her childhood of multiplying dots and nets which gradually spread to dominate her universe. These visions developed into obsessive neuroses which fuelled her paintings, sculptures... Victoria Miro Gallery II -
14 October 1998 - 13 November 1999
Hadrian Pigott
Hypergienics, Hadrian Pigott's first major London show since Young British Artists V at the Saatchi Gallery is a culmination of his investigation of the fetishism of domestic manias and the associated lunacy of consumer choice, the social implications of consumption,... Victoria Miro Gallery II