Shows 2015
Group Shows
‘Black Paintings’
9th Oct – 14th Nov
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
Doppelgänger
March 5th – 29th
No Format Gallery
Harrington Way,
London SE 18
Shows 2014
Solo Shows
Nachrufe
Sept 5 – Oct 4
Galerie Braubachfive Braubachstr. 5
D-60311 Frankfurt
Obituaries & Other Works
High House Gallery
Clanfield, OX18 2SH
7 – 29 June 2014
http://www.highhousegallery.com/exhibiions
Group Shows
The Future Can Wait
Oct 14 -18
Victoria House, Bloomesbury Sq., London WC1B 4DA
http://www.thefuturecanwait.com/
14 Feb – 22 March
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
Shows 2013
Solo Show
DOA: The Good The Bad and The Beautiful
APRIL 5 – MAY 25
GUSFORD | los angeles
7016 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90038
Group Shows
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT
Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4 New Sensations
OCT 12 – 17th
Victoria House, Bloomsbury Sq.,
London WC1
Art with a Heart
AUG 29th
GUSFORD | los angeles
7016 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90038
W-A-R
May 23 – June 20
Jacob’s Island Gallery
56 Butler’s & Colonial Wharf
10–11 Shad Thames
London SE1 2PY
Shows 2012
Solo Show:
Hugh Mendes: Obituaries
23 Feb – 31 March
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
Group Shows:
‘The Id, The Ego & The Superego’ (Jackson, Mendes, Nolan)
Oct 10th – Nov 17th 2012
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
‘The Future Can Wait’
B1, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA
October 9th-14th 2012 11am-6.30pm
‘The Serpent’s Tail’
08 Sept – 06 Oct 2012
Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam
Hazenstraat 60
1016 Sr, Amsterdam
http://www.witzenhausengallery.nl
‘The Perfect Nude’ (curated by Dan Coombs & Philip Allen)
05 June – 05 Aug
Charlie Smith, London
336 Old Street
London EC1V 9DR
http://www.charliesmithlondon.com
‘New Generation British Painters’
7 Apr – 12 May
Marine Contemporary Gallery
1733, Abbot Kinney Blvd.,
Venice, Los Angeles
CA. 90291
http://www.marinecontemporary.com
‘The Id, The Ego & The Superego’
4 May – 3 June
Galerie Braubachfive
Braubachstr. 5
D-60311 Frankfurt
www.braubachfive.eu
9/10/11
Curated by Angelica Sule & Richard Gallagher
9 September – 1 October 2011
Location: Kenny Schachter/ROVE Gallery, Lincoln House, 33-34 Hoxton Square,
London N1 6NN
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday 10 – 6 and by appointment
Web: www.rovetv.net
8.46 EDT/13.46 GMT, September 11th 2001
‘Only love and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against their murderers.’ Ian McEwan
‘The work of Hugh Mendes freezes the fleeting moments of Fleet Street by preserving the ephemeral nature of newspapers, and the historical content they inevitably contain, embalming them in paint and canvas forever. Rather than perusing headlines like junk food, we are left with a lasting taste of the social and political to ponder at will and at length.’ Kenny Schachter
Throughout human history there have been certain moments and events that have affected global consciousness in such a profound way that the world stands still. On September 11th 2001, we experienced one such moment as the twin towers came crashing down in New York. Now, on the 10th anniversary, Hugh Mendes looks back over his personal record of the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath presented through painting, drawing and original newspaper clippings.
Mendes has been painting images of newspaper clippings for the last ten years. They came to prominence in his work following 9/11, which was the day of his MA graduation. That day he showed a painting of Osama bin Laden pointing a gun at a triumphant George Bush. It had been painted about a month previously in response to Bush’s contested election victory. As the external examiners were marking the show, Mendes absentmindedly turned on the TV at home. The first thing he saw was the second plane flying into the twin towers and he started videotaping immediately. It was not until the next day that he realised the Arab with gun clipping that he had found blowing down Brick Lane, was of Osama bin Laden. It seemed a shockingly prophetic painting. He then collected all the papers for the next week, and made a series of paintings sourced from the coverage of the 9/11 attacks. It catapulted him into working exclusively with newspaper clippings as source material. He has explored the repercussions of the so called ‘ War on Terror’ and the subsequent devastation of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
With the rather timely killing of Osama bin Laden, this memorial exhibition represents a selective history of the last decade and how it has been described to us through the media. Transcribing newspaper articles, the paintings filter the information we receive on a daily basis to give us only hints at what is happening. While having a focus on the fall out of the 9/11 attacks, we also catch a glimpse of what else is considered newsworthy. Exercising his own journalistic integrity, Mendes presents his potted history of the last decade, showing the devastating alongside the more trivial. A painting of Farrah Fawcett’s obituary sits alongside a clip referencing the 9/11 trials. Nothing is too extreme or too banal. We are given facts but out of context. It is Mendes’ own personal newspaper.
Beasts Royal
28th November 2010 – 8th January 2011
11 Mare Street, London E8
Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc
List of Artists:
Leonora Carrington, Natasha Chambers, Oliver Clegg, Angela Cockayne, Adam Dant, Jill Tegan Doherty, Annabel Elgar, Noel Fielding, Nancy Fouts, Jen Franklin, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Bert Gilbert, Carolyn Gowdy, Marcelle Hanselaar, Andy Harper, Lynn Hatzius, Paul Hazelton, Aly Helyer, Dan Hillier, Jimp, Nicholas Jolly, Damien Meade, Hugh Mendes, Raul Pina, Max Reeves, Steph von Reiswitz, Paul Sakoilsky, Lindsay Sekulowicz, David Spero, Tatiana de Stempel, Samantha Sweeting, Raisa Veikkola, Jessica Voorsanger, Daryl Waller, Kate Walters, Simon Willems, EC Woodard.
Press Art
30 Jan – 20 Jun 2010
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen,
Museumstrasse 32,
CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
3 July – 24 Oct ’10
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg,
Monchsberg 32,
5020 Salzburg, Austria