ANDREW LITTEN & ARTHUR LANYON

ZONA MACO ART FAIR 2020, MEXICO CITY

5-9/2/2020

EXHIBITION FOREWORD :

Anima Mundi will be exhibiting at Zonamaco Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, from 5-9th February 2020 on stand NP7.

We join an exclusive roster of prestigious galleries including Lisson Gallery, Kasmin Gallery and Pace Gallery at Latin America’s premier art fair welcoming a platform of creative exchange for over 70,000 international collectors. We are very excited to preview new works in the flesh by Andrew Litten and Arthur Lanyon, in advance of their hugely anticipated 2020 Anima Mundi solo exhibitions...

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Paintings are created with an unguarded, empathetic attitude, like so many expressionistic artists, a rawness of approach combined with an often viscous application of paint is also key to the extreme experience felt from the work. Gesture and nuance inspire extreme emotive reading, perhaps subversive, tender, passionate, ambivalent, malevolent or compassionate, our response becomes one of allure or repulsion.

Litten is a self-taught artist. Early success came when his work was included in an exhibition titled ‘Nudes’ in New York City, (along with Jacob Epstein and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), where his work was highlighted and reviewed by the New York Times. Shortly after he had four consecutive solo exhibitions each of which included publications at Goldfish, Cornwall. Other notable exhibitions included ‘Move’ at Vyner Street, London, during Frieze Art Week 2007, where his work ‘Dog Breeder’, created a twisted and emphatic statement. He was also included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London in 2010. In 2012 he held a major solo exhibition at Millennium in St Ives, Cornwall and that year was given a guest solo exhibition at L13 Light Industrial Workshop, London. He has also held large-scale solo exhibitions at Spike Island and Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones was conceived with support from The Arts Council, UK and exhibited at Anima Mundi in 2018, his follow up solo exhibition ‘Concerning the Fragile’ will be presented at Anima Mundi in 2020. Works have been included in numerous international curated mixed exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, Siena, Milwaukee and New York City and in Venice during the 54th Biennale. Most recently paintings have been exhibited in four major museums in China. Andrew Litten paintings feature in numerous international collections including the Milwaukee Art Museum Collection. He is represented by Anima Mundi.

ARTHUR LANYON SELECTED ARTWORKS :

Arthur Lanyon is a British artist born in Leicester, England in 1985. He lives and works from a studio near Penzance, Cornwall.

Lanyon paintings are multi-scale and energetic combining intuitive figurative motifs with a painterly, gestural, abstracted language.

Born in to an artistic family, his father was the painter Matthew Lanyon and his grandfather the celebrated, influential and world renowned modernist painter Peter Lanyon. He won the Hans Brinker Painting Award in Amsterdam in 2007 and gained a first class degree in Fine Art from Cardiff University in 2008. Upon graduating he was featured in Saatchi’s ‘New Sensations’ exhibition. In 2014, his work was in the long-list for the Aesthetica Art Prize and was included in the award’s published anthology. His debut Anima Mundi solo exhibition ‘Return to Whale’ opened in 2016, which was followed by ‘White Chalk Lines in 2018. His latest exhibition ‘Arcade Laundry’ opens in 2020. Works have been exhibited extensively notably including Untitled Art Fair in Miami; Zona Maco, Mexico City; the Saatchi Gallery London; The House of St Barnabas, London; CGK, Copenhagen; Tat Art, Barcelona and Herrick Gallery, Mayfair.

Arthur Lanyon paintings are held in private collections worldwide. He is represented by Anima Mundi.