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| AMIKAM TOREN |
| 1945 |
Born in Israel |
| 1974-76 |
Founding co-editor Wallpaper |
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| Individual
Exhibitions |
| 2005 |
Plan B, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
Amikam Toren, John Frankland, Matt's Gallery, London |
| 2004 |
Picnic, t1 + 2artspace, London
Clouds in Trousers, ARTLAB 29 at Imperial College, London |
| 2003 |
Golem, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 2002 |
Bluebeard, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London |
| 2000 |
Ramat-Gan Museum for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
| 1999 |
Bluebeard, Minerva-Bar gallery, Tel-Aviv
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris |
| 1998 |
Armchair Paintings 1989-1998, Minerva-Bar
gallery, Tel-Aviv |
| 1997 |
Hand in Glove, Galerie Gabrielle
Maubrie, Paris |
| 1996 |
Three Takes, Anthony Reynolds
Gallery, London |
| 1993 |
Textes, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
Galerie Carstens, Berlin
Harry Zellweger, Basel |
| 1991 |
Harry Zellweger, Basel
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Chisenhale Gallery, London
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol |
| 1990 |
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (cat.) |
| 1989 |
Safety Regulation Painting No.6, Victoria Miro,
London
Rotterdam Kunststichtung, Rotterdam
Stacks, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1987 |
Pidgin Paintings, Anthony Reynolds Gallery,
London (cat., Patricia Bickers, ill.) |
| 1985 |
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Subverting ... a temporary edition, Camerawork, London |
| 1984 |
Actualities, Matt's Gallery, London (cat., David
Coxhead, ill.) |
| 1983 |
Neither a tree nor a picture, Galeria Akumulatory,
Poznan
Representations, Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London |
| 1982 |
Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London |
| 1981 |
Bluff and double bluff, Matt's Gallery, London
Mirroring, Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London
If painting then..., Riverside Studios, London |
| 1979 |
The Commercial Show, Barry Barker Ltd, London
Replacing, ICA, London (cat., Sarah Kent, ill.) |
| 1977 |
Simple Fractions, House Gallery, London |
| 1976 |
Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1975 |
Urban Landscape Exchange, GLAA, London |
| 1973 |
Annely Juda Fine Art, London |
| 1968 |
Goldberg Gallery, Edinburgh Festival |
| 1967 |
Maserik Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| Group Exhibitions |
| 2005 |
Mythomania, The Metropole Galleries Folkestone, Kent
Whatever Happened to Social Democracy, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö |
| 2004 |
The Solar Anus, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
Bone Quake, 16 Upper Wimpole St, London
Painting, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 2003 |
ChockerFuckingBlocked, Jeffrey Charles, London |
| 2002 |
Face Off: portrait of the artist, Kettle's Yard,
Cambridge (cat.) and touring to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Fluent - paintings and words, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College
of Arts
Reality Revisited, Martin Kudlek, Cologne
Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
Reflections, gf2, London (cat.)
The Green Room, Percy Miller Gallery, London (curated by Simon Moretti)
A B See D, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Live in Your Head, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon
Men at Home, Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv
Makeshift, University of Brighton (cat., ill.) |
| 2000 |
Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
Amikam Toren/Ian Breakwell, Anthony Reynolds Gallery,
London
Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, 1965-75, Whitechapel
Art Gallery,
London (cat.)
British Art Show 5, Edinburgh and tour (cat., ill.) |
| 1999 |
Artfocus, Jerusalem Biennale
British Artists, Galerie Krinzinger,
Vienna
Porcupines/Arthinking 1999, 291 Gallery, London
John Moores Exhibition 21, Liverpool (Prize winner)
Furniture I, Richard Salmon, Studio 4, London |
| 1998 |
Aalst paper biennale, Aalst
4 Schilders-4x solo-4 peintres, De Markten, Brussels
Context, Jewish Arabic Cultural Centre, Haifa (cat.)
A-Z (curator: Matthew Higgs), The Approach, London
Craft, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (cat.) |
| 1997 |
619 KBB 75, mobile, Paris and tour
Humanism 2020, Ein-Hod Sculpture Biannale, Israel
Irredeemable Skeletons, Shillam + Smith 3, London
L'empreinte, Musée National d'Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| 1996 |
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1995 |
Pretext: Heteronyms, Clink Street Studios,
London
Cubitt Gallery, (with Gavin Brown, Jemina Stehll, Paul Noble), London |
| 1994 |
London Landescapes, Associazone Culturale Velan,
Torino
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Original Paintings, Institut Francais, London |
| 1993 |
Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London
(cat., ill. text by Robin Gibson)
Spit in the Ocean, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Second Tyne International, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (cat., ill.)
Moving into View, Royal Festival Hall, London, and touring (cat.) |
| 1992 |
And What Do You Represent?. Anthony Reynolds
Gallery, London
With Attitude, Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels
15/1, Melania Basarab, London
Surface Values, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge |
| 1991 |
Kunstlandschaft Europa, Kunstverein Freiburg |
| 1990 |
Counterpoint, Gimpel Fils, London |
| 1989 |
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 16, Walker
Art Gallery, Liverpool (prize winner)
The Tree of Life, touring to Manchester, Penzance, Exeter, London,
Sheffield, Bradford, Durham,
Eastbourne, Peterborough, Edinburgh, Ayr, Lincoln, Coventry (cat., ill.)
Anthony Reynolds Gallery (Dering Street), London
Evidence, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1988 |
Fragments of False Houses, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery,
London |
| 1987 |
Instalment - 5 British Artists, Plan K, Brussels
(cat., ill.)
On a Plate, Serpentine Gallery, London
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 15, Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool (cat., ill. no 4) |
| 1986 |
No Place Like Home, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Furniture Sculpture, Victoria Miro Gallery, London |
| 1985 |
Masterpieces of the Avantgarde: Three Decades of Contemporary
Art - The Seventies,
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
New Art I, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1984 |
Problems of Picturing, Serpentine Gallery, London
(cat., Sarah Kent, ill.)
Aperto, Venice Biennale |
| 1983 |
Photo(graphic) vision, Winchester
Gallery, Winchester |
| 1982 |
Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London
Un nuovo classicismo, Premio Lubiam, Padua |
| 1981 |
Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London
The Garden of Knowledge, The Critics Gallery, Warsaw |
| 1978 |
London Calling, Acme Gallery, London and to
Peterloo Gallery, Manchester
Sound, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
| 1977 |
On Site, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol |
| 1975 |
Garage Art Ltd, London |
| 1974 |
Off the top of their heads, Artists' Meeting
Place, London |
| 1972 |
Sculpture and sculptors drawings, Annely Juda
Fine Art, London |
| 1971 |
London Art Spectrum, Alexandra Palace, London |
| 1967 |
Paris Biennale |
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| Bibliography |
| 2005 |
Rebecca Geldard, 'Amikam Toren, John Frankland', Time Out, 27 July - 3 August
Richard Dyer, ‘Ceci n’est pas un tableau – The Work of Amikam Toren’, Third Text, Volume 19, Issue 2, March |
| 2004 |
Martin Coomer, ‘Amikam Toren at Artlab’, Time Out, 11 -18 February |
| 2003 |
Richard Dyer, 'Amikam Toren Ceci n'est pas un tableu', Contemporary,
No.50 (ill.)
John Slyce, Art Monthly, March (ill.)
Sally O'Reilly, Time Out, 19-26 February |
| 2002 |
Rebecca Geldard, Time Out, 10-17 July (ill.)
Helen Sumpter, 'Close Shave', Evening Standard Hot Tickets, 28 June
- 4 July |
| 2001 |
Mark Wilsher, 'The Green Room', Art Monthly,
March |
| 2000 |
Richard Dorment, 'Idealists with Big Ideas', Daily Telegraph,
February |
| 1999 |
Lisa Panting, 'Furniture I and II', Contemporary Visual
Arts, Issue 23, p.57 (ill.) |
| 1998 |
Mark Currah, Time Out, 16-30 December (ill.) |
| 1997 |
Matthew Higgs, 'Amikam Toren', Art Monthly,
February (cover, ill.) |
| 1996 |
Sarah Kent, 'Amikam Toren', Time Out, 4-11 December
(ill.)
Mark Currah, 'The Pleasure of Aesthetic Life', Time Out, 13-20 November |
| 1995 |
Tania Guha, 'Ye Old Worke', Time Out, 27 September
- 4 October |
| 1994 |
Sue Hubbard, Time Out, 2-9 March
Domenico Papa e Paola Piccato, 'Mostre di gruppo', Tema Celeste, Autumn
Angelo Mistrangelo, 'L'avanguardia nelle gabbie vuote', La Stampa,
14 July
Stephan Berg, 'Das Leben Der Bilder Und Der Tod Der Dinge', Artis,
August
Guido Curto, 'Landscape', Flash Art, November
a.v, 'Pittori Inglesi in Fuga da Soho', Torino Magazine, winter |
| 1993 |
Christoph Vogele, Das Kunst-Bulletin, No. 12
Ross Sinclair, 'II Tyne International', Art Monthly, September
Andrew Wilson, Art Monthly, February, (ill.) |
| 1992 |
Richard Dyer, 'And What Do You Represent?', Galleries,
December
Claude Lorent, 'Quand L'Attitude Devient Art', Art & Culture, November
Andrew Wilson, 'London Summer Round-Up', Art Monthly, September
Maire Agassi, Studio, (in Hebrew), January |
| 1991 |
Sabine Gebhardt, Basler Zeitung, 30 November
Michael Corris, Artforum, Summer
Marco Livingstone, 'l'heritage du pop art anglais', Art Press 160,
July/August
Andrew Wilson, Forum International, No.8, May
Andrew Renton, Flash Art, May/June, No 158
Enrique Juncosa, Lapiz, March
Patricia Bickers, Art Monthly, April
Sarah Kent, 'Surface Tension', Time Out, 13-20 March |
| 1990 |
Terry Grimley, 'Games painters play', Birmingham Post,
14 December
Robert Clark, Amikam Toren, The Guardian, 27 December
Tim Hilton, Critic's Choice, The Guardian, 5 December
CV Journal of the Arts, 'Amikam Toren; Actualities', interview, December
- February 91
Geraldine Norman, 'Contemporary Art Market', The Independent, 26 November
Sarah Kent, 'Counterpoint', Time Out, 12-19 December |
| 1989 |
Jonathan Watkins, Art International Autumn No
8
Michael Archer,'Non Destructive Testing', Artscribe International September/October
Richard Shone, Exhibition Reviews, Burlington Magazine, May
Sarah Kent, 'Amikam Toren', Time Out, 15-22 March |
| 1988 |
Margit Fullenbach and Thomas Frangenberg, 'Amikam Toren,
Fenster und Turen',
Apex, no 2
Peter Fleissig, 'Artists for Architecture', Building Design, 18 March
Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, 'Amikam Toren', Flash Art, January - February,
no 138
Conor Joyce, 'Amikam Toren', Artscribe, January - February, no 67 (ill.) |
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1987 Sarah Kent, 'Amikam Toren', Time Out, 28 October
- 4 November
Michael Archer, 'Amikam Toren', Art Monthly, October (ill.) |
| 1986 |
Christiane Bergob, 'Report from London', Kunstforum,
(ill.)
'New Art: Anthony Reynolds Gallery', City Limits, 28 August - 4 September
Sarah Kent, 'Works on Paper', Time Out, 6-12 March
Michael Archer, Artscribe, December - January, no. 55 (ill.)
Nena Dimitrijevic, Flash Art, December - January (ill.) |
| 1985 |
Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, 'New Art I and II at Anthony
Reynolds', Artscribe,
December-January, no. 55
Michael Newman, Art Monthly, November, no. 91 (ill.)
Sarah Kent, 'Private Pursuits', Time Out, 31 October - 6 November (ill.)
Nigel Pollitt, City Limits, 25-31 October (ill.)
Waldemar Januszczak, 'Galleries Briefing', The Guardian, 22 October
Monica Petzal, 'New Art I', Time Out, 11-17 July
Sarah Kent, 'Critical Images', Flash Art, no. 121, March |
| 1984 |
Kenneth Baker, 'Amikam Toren: Matt's Gallery', Artforum,
September
John Russell Taylor, 'Appearances of radiant relief', The Times, 4
August |
| 1983 |
Sanda Miller, 'Amikam Toren: Galerie Lewis Johnstone', Art
Press, September
Michael Archer, Art Monthly, September (ill.) |
| 1982 |
Catherine Elwes, Art Monthly, November (ill.) |
| 1981 |
Sarah Kent, 'When Is a Chair ?', Time Out, 20
February
Waldemar Januszczak, 'Amikam Toren: Riverside', The Guardian, 26 February |
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