Important Event to Attend: YOUNG MASTERS (The Cynthia Corbett Gallery): DIALOGUES

Isabelle van Zeijl Grand II, 2015 Edition of 7 Perspex face mounted C-print on dibond in Italian handmade frame 60 x 50 cm Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett Gallery

THE CYNTHIA CORBETT GALLERY
YOUNG MASTERS: DIALOGUES
Contemporary works inspired by the Sphinx Fine Art Old Master Collection
12 – 24 October 2015
Sphinx Fine Art
125 Kensington Church Street
London, W8 9LP( Young Masters is a not for profit initiative of The Cynthia Corbett Gallery)

It is with great pleasure that we announce an exhibition of “Young Masters: Dialogues” at the renowned Old Master Gallery Sphinx Fine Art. The curated exhibition carefully juxtaposes Old Master works from the Sphinx Fine Art collection with newer contemporary work created by Young Masters artists 2009-2014 and new guest artists. These artists include both established artists and recent graduates from leading London art schools (including Royal Academy Schools, Wimbledon College of Arts and the Royal College of Art).

This exhibition questions and celebrates the role of the past in contemporary art, by traversing genre, medium and time. In this exhibition, works from across the world and from a wide range of cultural backgrounds are brought together, giving this show a real international scope. A wide range of contemporary approaches to art history is surveyed, through both associative pairings and direct dialogue with a specific work in the Sphinx Fine Art collection, resulting in intriguing connections and dialogues, thus creating a thought-provoking exhibition.
All works are available for sale, and the profits are reinvested into the initiative to allow the furtherance of support to young and emerging artists. Daisy McMullan (MA Curating, Chelsea College of Arts) is the curator of this exhibit.

Artists featured: | Lluis Barba | Matt Smith | Oliver Jones | Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf | Red Saunders | Richard Saja | Rosie Emerson | Shane Wolf | Tom Farthing | Yigal Ozeri | Amy Hughes | Annie Kevans | Bartholomew Beal | Charlie Moxon | Charlotte Piper | Chris Antemann | Christian Voigt | Derrick Santini | Dijan Kahrimanovic | Durbin Lewis | Eleanor Watson | Elisabeth Caren | Elise Ansel | Emilie Taylor | EVEWRIGHT | Fabiano Parisi | Felicity Hammond | Ghislaine Howard | Isabelle van Zeijl | Juergen Wolf

The Young Masters Art Prize is a not-for-profit initiative of The Cynthia Corbett Gallery which launched in 2009. The Prize is a unique competition, open to international and UK-based artists, celebrating artistic skill and innovation with awareness of the Old Masters and the art of the past. The third edition took place in 2014 to great critical and popular acclaim, receiving national and international press coverage, incorporating the inaugural Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize. German painter Juergen Wolf was awarded First Prize by a judging panel that included art historian Godfrey Barker, collector, Werner Grub, Associate Director of Young Masters, Daisy McMullan and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts, Charles Saumarez Smith. The fourth edition of the Prize will open for applications in Autumn 2016, with an exhibition of shortlisted artists and a Prize giving taking place in Summer 2017.

The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, an international contemporary art gallery established in 2004, represents emerging and newly established contemporary artists and is a regular exhibitor at major international contemporary art fairs. The Gallery has an annual exhibition program in London and New York, as well as collaborations with galleries worldwide. The Gallery also works with a number of established American, British and European artists whose works have been published and acquired by international museums and institutions including: The Related Group (Jorge Perez), Miami, Florida; 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, Oregon. In 2014, the Gallery celebrated its 10 Year Anniversary with a major group exhibition at the Cork Street Gallery in Mayfair, London, including works by Tom Leighton, Deborah Azzopardi, Colin Wiggins and Klari Reis. Most recently in 2015, the Gallery has begun working with the estates of American sculptor David Hayes and French conceptual artist Ultra Violet.

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