Various Artists Fig-1 50 projects in 50 weeks: Richard Hamilton Gavin Turk Jake & Dinos Chapman Grayson Perry Anish Kapoor Antony Gormley Tracey Emin Wolfgang Tilmans, Gilbert & George, Howard Hodgkin Harland Miller Peter Doig Michael Craig-Martin Jeremy Deller Bridget Riley and others The rare deluxe portfolio, 2000-01, comprising 50 offset lithographs, each signed in ink, very few were signed by the participating artists, published by Fig-1 2000 Ltd., and Spafax Publishing, London, with title-page and text, the sheets folded as issued in the original silver solander box with debossed cover and spine, each sheet, 419 x 595mm (16 ¼ x 23 1/4in) (folio) Fig-1 was an audacious project held in 2000 curated by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling. The concept was simple, to take a disused building in London's Soho and to hold a different exhibition a week for 50 weeks, the project featured 49 artists with Richard Hamilton exhibiting twice bookending the project in the first and last week. Fig-1 was a cultural phenomenon, and weekly the space was mobbed by the great and the good of the London art scene, flocking to see work by the old guard of London such as Richard Hamilton Howard Hodgkin Anish Kapoor Bridget Riley the established YBAs including Jake & Dinos Chapman Tracey Emin Gavin Turk and up and coming soon to be megastars such as Peter Doig Grayson Perry and Harland Miller all brought together in a constantly evolving melange of gallery, studio and museum, it was a tremendous success and in many respects came to define the manner in which art is presented in the new millennium.
Various Artists Fig-1 50 projects in 50 weeks: Richard Hamilton Gavin Turk Jake & Dinos Chapman Grayson Perry Anish Kapoor Antony Gormley Tracey Emin Wolfgang Tilmans, Gilbert & George, Howard Hodgkin Harland Miller Peter Doig Michael Craig-Martin Jeremy Deller Bridget Riley and others The rare deluxe portfolio, 2000-01, comprising 50 offset lithographs, each signed in ink, very few were signed by the participating artists, published by Fig-1 2000 Ltd., and Spafax Publishing, London, with title-page and text, the sheets folded as issued in the original silver solander box with debossed cover and spine, each sheet, 419 x 595mm (16 ¼ x 23 1/4in) (folio) Fig-1 was an audacious project held in 2000 curated by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling. The concept was simple, to take a disused building in London's Soho and to hold a different exhibition a week for 50 weeks, the project featured 49 artists with Richard Hamilton exhibiting twice bookending the project in the first and last week. Fig-1 was a cultural phenomenon, and weekly the space was mobbed by the great and the good of the London art scene, flocking to see work by the old guard of London such as Richard Hamilton Howard Hodgkin Anish Kapoor Bridget Riley the established YBAs including Jake & Dinos Chapman Tracey Emin Gavin Turk and up and coming soon to be megastars such as Peter Doig Grayson Perry and Harland Miller all brought together in a constantly evolving melange of gallery, studio and museum, it was a tremendous success and in many respects came to define the manner in which art is presented in the new millennium.
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