Piotr Łakomy

Piotr Łakomy @ The Sunday Painter, Sep 30 – Nov 5

29 September 2016
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Piotr Łakomy is presenting solo exhibition Room Temperature at London’s The Sunday Painter, opening on September 30 and running to November 5.

This will be the second solo show at the gallery for the Poznań-based artist. He works across a variety of media, creating installations that appropriate objects and references from the urban space. Both promotional image and press release are abstract and minimal, including a poem by author of Age of Anxiety, English expat poet W. H. Auden called ‘Prologue: The Birth of Architecture’:

“Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,
And all the untilled air between
Is private pagus or demesne.”

Recent exhibitions include Statements, (2016) at Art Basel and a self-titled show at London’s Carl Kostyal in 2015.

Visit The Sunday Painter webpage for more details.**

Piotr Lakomy 'Art Basel Statements', (2016). Courtesy the artist + Art Basel.
Piotr Lakomy ‘Art Basel Statements’, (2016). Courtesy the artist + Art Basel.
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GRANPALAZZO 2016, May 28 – 29

26 May 2016

Independent international art fair GRANPALAZZO 2016 is on in at Zagarolo’s Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, running May 28 to 29.

Now in its second year running, the fair is showing 28 artists represented by 28 galleries in the Italian town, situated outside of a major city centre and the global art circuit. Rather than presenting booths, artists from Belgium, Canada, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, Switzerland and the United States will show their work in dialogue with the  17th century Borghese palace to, as the press release states, “create a succession of poetic visions, styles, research”.

Some artists worth a mention include Anna Barham, Brian Kokoska, Piotr Łakomy, Daniele Milvio, Hamish Fulton and Maryam Jafri, represented by Arcade, Valentin, Antoine Levi, Hester, Espaivisor and Laveronica, respectively.

The weekend programme will also feature a range of live initiatives including performances, educational workshops and a bookshop, as well as a special project by Gabriele De Santis and a presentation of GIFs from smART – polo per l’arte‘s Stop and Go exhibition including Lorna Mills and Carla Gannis, among others.

See the GRANPALAZZO website for details.**

Header image: Brian Kokoska, PoisonIV (2015). Installation view. Photo by Sylvie Chan Liat. Installation view. Courtesy Galerie Valentin, Paris.

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Piotr Łakomy @ Lock Up International, Feb 29 – March 6

29 February 2016
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Lock Up International will host a solo show by Piotr Łakomy in Mexico City opening February 29 and running March 6. 

There is little information given around the coming show, Untitled_Map 2011, but Łakomy’s work, which takes recognisable items and objects and makes them somehow into brief memorials, may seem to fit perfectly within Lock Up International’s transient set up. The project, set up by artist Lewis Teague Wright opens shows around the world, occupying different storage units for short periods of time.

Meanwhile, there will also be group show Safety Box Deposit in Frankfurt, opening March 4 and running to March 11. The show is co-curated by Lock Up and Celena Ohmer and it is inside a bank vault, with each artist making something to be unlocked.

Artists for Safety Box Deposit include Bruno Zhu, Emily Jones, Yuri Pattison and Sydney Shen.

See Lock Up International‘s exhibitions page for (limited) details**

Safety Deposit Box, event image (2016). Courtesy Lock Up International.
Safety Deposit Box, event image (2016). Courtesy Lock Up International.

 

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Piotr Łakomy @ Carl Kostyál, Nov 12 – Dec 6

10 November 2015
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A solo exhibition by Poznań-based artist Piotr Łakomy is on at London’s Carl Kostyál, opening November 12 and running to December 6.

There’s little information about the exhibition itself except for an image of the neglected, slowly disappearing hexagonal pavers of Poland’s past on the Facebook event page.

However, notable recent exhibitions the Polish born Łakomy has taken part in include John at London’s The Sunday Painter with Hannah Lees and David Musgrave, as well the Museum of Modern Art’s Private Settings, Art after the Internet global group exhibition in Warsaw, curated by Natalia Sielewicz last year.

See the Carl Kostyál website for (limited) details.**

Piotr Łakomy, Life Size Shadow (2013) @ The Sunday Painter. Installation view.
Piotr Łakomy, Life Size Shadow (2013) @ The Sunday Painter. Installation view.

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John @ The Sunday Painter, Apr 2 – May 3

31 March 2015
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The Sunday Painter is bringing an inaugural four-artist exhibition titled John to its newly renovated London space, where it will run from April 2 to May 3.

The London gallery welcomes four different artists to take part in the group show John. From the UK, there are London artists Hannah Lees, who recently participated in a website art commission for OPENYOURKIMONO, and David Musgrave, who has exhibited at Tate Britain and appears as part of MoMA’s collection in New York.

Lees and Musgrave are joined by Polish artist Piotr Lakomy, who showed previously at The Sunday Painter with a solo show titled Life Size Shadow in the summer of 2013, as well as US artist Allyson Vieira.

See the exhibition page for details. **

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