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Silver Lining

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Thursday, 28 February 2019 to Saturday, 6 April 2019
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Thursday, 28 February 2019 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Covering three different epochs and ages, these artists highlight the role of art in their lives from socio-political tools to forms of therapy and shared struggles towards meaning.

Pauline Boty, one of the few British women involved with Pop Art, used her position as an artist to denounce male domination in the art world, politics and beyond. As a free and rebellious spirit, she struggled to be recognized in London in the swinging Sixties and railed against the prevailing sexism of those years. Boty developed her own deeply personal, feminist-inspired Pop style. Her early paintings were both sensual and erotic, celebrating female sexuality from a woman’s point of view. Later she incorporated celebrities into her works declaring “people need them, and the myths that surround them, because their own lives are enriched by them. Pop Art colours those myths.”

Niyaz Najafov, a former soldier in the Azerbaijan army, channels his existential anguish into art. Najafov believes he was born an artist and his life has been about making sense of the world around him through the eyes of an artist. As a self-taught painter, Najafov creates magnetic and often tortured figures presenting imaginary characters that disturb and tickle in equal measure. He records everyday scenes with a profound intensity, capturing his struggle with reconciling the distressing and humorous parts to the human condition. Compared to Francis Bacon by the Huffington Post, his art has been described as ‘raw, crude and sophisticated at the same time’ and Najafov leads the new generation of Azeri artists who have sprung up following the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

Markus Martinovitch is a twelve-year-old Russian-German boy with autism who produces extraordinary works. His condition requires heavy medication causing severe side effects such as tremors. He is often unable to paint and suffers prolonged episodes of hallucination. These harmful experiences are transformed through his art to bright and bold exclamations about life itself. During one of his hallucinations, he emerged with a series of works presenting the notion that the world itself might just be an illusion. In his own words, ‘colour does not exist – it is just a reflexion of the light.’ Despite his young age, Martinovitch brings a remarkably mature and considered approach to his works and is unafraid to tackle complex themes regarding inner and outer spaces and the often-strange relationship between existence and meaning.

“Silver Lining is about the enduring way art transforms both the lives of the artists and the viewers themselves and portrays the alchemy of creativity, creative energy and art itself,” said Mila Askarova, founder of Gazelli Art House. 

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39 Dover Street, Mayfair

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