Frank Horvat (1928-2020)

Postponed several times since 2020,
the exhibition Frank Horvat, From Paris to London
is at last opening on May 12th 2022, for a month.

Organised with the invaluable help of his daughter Fiammetta Horvat, the exhibition is a journey from Paris to London in the late 1950’s, through his legendary eye, inventive and creative, always combining artifice and realism.

One of Photo London’s major public exhibitions is also paying homage to his work as one of the outstanding French fashion photographers of the late 20th Century.
Photo London 2022, May 11-15, Somerset House.

In association with Frank Horvat Studio.

Exhibition from May 12th to June 12th,
in Masons’ Yard.

Catalogue

Frank Horvat, Wedding gown on bus, for BR VOG, Paris, 1961.

Frank Horvat, Self-portrait in Brick Lane market, London, 1955.

Frank Horvat, Fashion in metro, for Jardin des Modes, Paris, 1958.

We have partnered with Sophie Schneideman Rare Books for an exhibition of prints and books in our gallery in Mason’s Yard for the London Original Print Week 2021.

ART & THE BOOK

14 Masons Yard, London, SW1Y 6BU
1st - 8th May 2021
11 am - 6pm

Should you wish to make an appointment, please book through the London Original Print Week system here, or email
anya@benjaminspademan.com
sophie@ssrbooks.com

Please click below for the exhibition lists:

Benjamin Spademan Print Week List

Sophie Schneideman Print Week List

Exhibition Opening
Thursday 5th December 2019
5-9pm

5 - 20 December 2019

Before he started Gallery 1900-2000 with his son David, Marcel Fleiss spent time with some of the leading jazzmen of the 50s.

As a privileged witness of the New York and Paris scenes, in the years 1951 to 1954, he took a large number of photographs, many of which were published in Jazz Hot and other jazz magazines and books. 

They were recently presented in Paris at the Librairie Métamorphoses.

For the first time in London, 32 of these photographs have been selected by Marcel Fleiss.

“I was lucky enough to live in New York in the early 50’s, the New York of Jazz. My parents had found a room for me in the house of some friends’, so that I could learn English at the same time as the family fur trade.

So I had the chance to discover the jazz clubs of the time, and to photograph musicians such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, Billy Taylor, John Lewis, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Lee Konitz, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Art Blakey, Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan”.

'“I was one of the few photographers admitted to Thelonious Monk’s concert at the Salle Pleyel in 1954. Monk was grumpy and taciturn. I invited him to my parents’ apartment with the Renauds, Sacha Distel, Jean-Louis Viale, Jean-Marie Ingrand and some others, to listen to records”. 

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Regards de famille on Hauteville House

17 - 31 May 2019

To mark the re-opening of Hauteville House,
Victor Hugo’s exile house in Guernsey, Channel islands,

and the recently republished
Hauteville House, Victor Hugo décorateur
(Paris-Musées),

artworks and photographs by Victor Hugo’s great great grand children,
Marie and Jean-Baptiste Hugo,
will be presented until May 31.

&

In partnership with
the Institut Français in London, 

for the 3rd edition of the festival Beyond Words,
a talk will be given by
Jean-Baptiste, Marie and Laura Hugo, 
Gérard Audinet, Director of the Paris and Guernsey Maisons de Victor Hugo,
and French and British biographers of Victor Hugo Jean-Marc Hovasse and Bradley Stephens.

May 16th 2019, 7.30 pm
Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT

www.beyondwordslitfest.co.uk/all-about-victor-hugo/

More
www.mariehugo.com
www.jeanbaptistehugo.com

5 - 8  October 2017 Frieze Masters

5 - 25 October 2017 Mason's Yard

Part of the collection will be exhibited at our stand at Frieze Masters, the other part will be on show at our shop in Mason's Yard.

Benjamin Spademan is presenting a group of books which he started putting together some ten years ago, when he acquired in Paris a monograph on Henry Moore, with an original drawing and presentation by the artist on the title page. Next came a Francis Bacon, and a collection began to form. To qualify, books had to have been personally transformed by the artist, usually as a gift to another person. 

The criteria for selection were drawn broadly, to include visual artists of all kinds - painters, sculptors, illustrators, cartoonists, stage & fashion designers - and allowing all kinds of art, from highly finished drawings, collages and watercolours to fairly minimal interventions. The books too covered a wide range of types, from livres d’artistes, to standard monographs, to periodicals, exhibition catalogues and ephemera such as invitations. 

In the process of selection, the focus was always on the quality of the image and the interest of the inscription.The earliest examples, John Constable and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, are both intensely personal family affairs. In the case of Constable a present for his god-daughter, the child of his close friend and future biographer; and of Rossetti a celebration - together with his sister, the poet Christina Rossetti - of their mother’s 80th birthday.

In the course of the 20th Century, the practice of artists inscribing books with original drawings became more established, and the circle of recipients widened enormously. A high proportion though remained to people connected to the artists milieu - patrons, collaborators, fellow artists, art critics and museum directors- including such names as Colette, Picasso, Marie Cuttoli, Peggy Guggenheim, Florence Gould and Kenneth Clark.

A catalogue presents the whole collection.
180 x 250 mm, pp. 221, 107 items.

FINANCIAL TIMES / HOW TO SPEND IT / 30.09.2017
Curiosities and cabinets at Frieze Masters
by Emma Crichton-Miller

[...] The rare book dealer Benjamin Spademan offers a collection of works that hover between books and art: books embellished with the signatures and drawings of artists, from Henry Moore to Henri Matisse. (...) there is a book of poetry by Isaac Watts inscribed, touchingly, by John Constable to his goddaughter, with watercolour drawings, as well as 20th-century volumes of works by Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and Picasso inscribed by the artists.

A two part exhibition 

24th May - 25th June 2017

and 1st - 30th November 2017

 

Handwritten and Handmade

For the first time, Robert Perkins presents
45 years of collaboration with poets,
including Nobel Prize Laureates
Octavio Paz and Seamus Heaney,
and also Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbury, Basil Bunting, W.S. Merwin, James Merrill, Louise Glück, Jean Valentine, Jon Galassi, David Whyte...
 

A catalogue presents the whole collection,
with introductions by art critic Ilka Scobie
and Ewan Clayton, author of The Golden Thread, A History of Writing.

Link to the catalogue

More information and detail on Robert Perkins on
robertfperkins.com

Press release here

LIGHTS / LUCI
2013

Orsina Sforza is a painter.

She was born in Milan and lives and works in Rome.

Over the last two decades, Sforza has been creating luminous sculptures.

All are unique, hand-crafted pieces, using only the simplest materials - paper, hand-sewn fabric, common household sundries (rubber gloves, doilies, cleaning cloths, stitched oil paper).

Each light has its own title and gender.

The festive Marie Antoinette collection moves in sumptuous, unpredictable shapes echoing primitive sea creatures or giant meringues. Candid Nijinsky's immaculate petals glitter like a cold fire and The Bernini coruscate, shining a gentle light through their rich and colorful draperies.

Selected shows:

June 2013, “Mapping”,  Il Frantoio, Capalbio

March 2013, “WOOD GLASS PAPER”, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome

April 2012,  Philippe Mallouin, Orsina Sforza, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia 

April 2011, ”LUCI 2011”, Spazio Rossana Orlandi for Fuori Salone, Milan

April 2010, “LUCI 2010”, Zeus for Fuori Salone, Milan

June 2010,  show for the auction “ITALIA” at Phillips de Pury, London

October 2008, “LUCI 2008”, Babuino Novecento, Rome

1997, ”LUCI”, Bonomo Gallery, Rome

1994, ”Lumi”, Antonia Jannone Gallery, Milan

 Orsina Sforza’s lights have sold all over the world and at auction.

Read more

www.orsinasforza-luci.com