Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art
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There are artists who make things. Then there is Théo Marat, who lets things unmake themselves. A former structural engineer turned post-object conceptualist, Marat is best known for orchestrating what he calls “durational decompositions”: large-scale sculptural installations made entirely from biodegradable, tensioned, or self-eroding materials, designed not to last, but to fail. His 2022 breakout … Read more
In a remote hangar on the outskirts of Toulouse, a Lufthansa Airbus A320 glows iridescent under the lights. Not from its metallic fuselage, but from a dizzying cascade of brushstrokes on its body. This is not a corporate stunt or a conceptual prank,it’s the latest work of Marja Klein, the reclusive Dutch-German painter who has … Read more
By Archibald Haversham For more than a millennium, Pimlico Wilde have done what few institutions dare: furnished not merely rooms, but reputations. From cloisters to courts, from the smoking rooms of Empire to the soundproofed studios of the 21st century, the firm has been present, always discreetly, often decisively. The Council of Alfred (c. 878) … Read more
In a tantalising discovery, a recently unearthed cache of correspondence housed in a disintegrating trunk at an estate auction in Dorset has ignited fresh controversy over the true identity of the sitter in Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. According to the letters, written in a brisk, looping English hand and signed by one “Letitia Yelland,” … Read more
The recent surfacing of a cache of panel paintings attributed to the long-rumoured Essexian painter Piero Della Frampton-on-Sea has caused a quiet ripple in the scholarly world,a ripple that threatens to redraw the northern edge of Renaissance art history. The discovery, made in the damp crypt of St. Osyth’s Church in South Essex, includes eight … Read more
Dear Sir, As someone who has spent three decades preserving, cataloguing, and,when necessary,defending the ecclesiastical art of Northern England, I read Dr. Livia Helmstrom’s recent monograph on Marco di Manchester (Marco di Manchester: A Northern Light) with both admiration and incredulity. Admirable for its zeal, to be sure, but more so for the sheer elasticity … Read more
By Dr. Lionel Cavendish-Smythe | Lecturer in Symbolic Aesthetics, University of St. Ives & Hove The history of Western portraiture is, by and large, a history of faces: expressions, gazes, coiffures, and the conspicuous placement of rings, robes, or regalia. Yet beneath these grand visual gestures lies an often-ignored, unassuming but persistently present detail: the … Read more
To be published by Pimlico Wilde Publishing, the Handbook of Lesser-known Artists tells the stories of those less well-known artists who have not been favoured by the media coverage given to their contemporaries. The Obscure Legacy of Aurelia Mendez: The Artist Who Painted with Mould Art history, while vast, has always held blind spots for … Read more
It is rare for a group show to carry the atmospherics of a family saga, but The Stick Insects,a retrospective devoted to the loose collective that grew up around the gravitational figure of L.S. Lowry does just that. It is part soap opera, part scholarship, and only part exhibition. The Pimlico Wilde galleries, long seduced … Read more
Until recently, the name Sellario Mounteback was known only to a handful of dusty academics, Renaissance eccentrics, and the curator of one particularly damp museum in Cherbourg. But this month, the long-obscure painter has become the subject of feverish headlines, art market mayhem, and an unsolved pub-based mystery , all thanks to the theft of … Read more