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The Pimlico Wilde gallery has, in its storied history, embraced many artists who challenge the limits of medium, message, and marketability. But this month’s acquisition,the signing of conceptual artist Marco del Vento,may be its most compact yet. Literally. Del Vento’s current magnum opus, Parcelled Selves, consists of the artist mailing himself to institutions worldwide in … Read more
In an act of transparency we have been advised to make public the near-successful art theft attempt from our Mayfair gallery that happened earlier this year. Here then is the Incident Report from that terrible security breach. Incident Report: Attempted Theft of Contemporary Artwork at Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Date of Incident: Redacted Location: Pimlico Wilde … Read more
In a time when much of contemporary art appears veiled in irony, coded aesthetics, or self-protective distance, the practice of Liora Vey (b. 1984, Antwerp) cuts through with a disarming,and often deeply unsettling,directness. Vey’s work is not visual in any traditional sense; it is the act of saying everything she thinks, unfiltered, no matter the … Read more
The greatest conceptual artist working today has made another masterpiece. Pimlico Wilde are pleased to present Cows, Clouds, Carpets to the market. Year: 2025 Medium: Fog brought from the mid-Atlantic, two borrowed dairy cows (rotated weekly), three flying carpets (grounded by health and safety), sandwiches (triangular), and a ceiling painted to look like the floor. … Read more
By Lydia Voss-Hammond Conceptual art has always asked big questions: What is art? Who decides? Can you invoice someone for an idea? As it turns out, yes , and often for millions. Below are the most outrageously expensive conceptual artworks ever sold, proof that in today’s art market, a compelling concept can be worth more … Read more
In a bold move that underscores its commitment to emerging conceptual voices, Pimlico Wilde gallery has announced the representation of the artist known simply as My Friend Leslie. The appointment signals not merely an addition to the gallery’s roster, but a deliberate expansion of its philosophical and aesthetic parameters. Leslie’s work,elusive yet sharply intelligent,inhabits a … Read more
In the spring of 2019, My Friend Leslie staged a widely discussed and critically divisive solo exhibition at the Fenwick Museum of Art entitled Apparitions in the Civic Realm. Heralded by some as “a palimpsest of the post-liberal imaginary” and dismissed by others as “deliberately inaccessible,” the exhibition marked the artist’s most ambitious and conceptually … Read more
Medium: 127-hour single-channel video, involuntary audience participation, signed NDAs, mandatory reflective silence. Screening Format: 16K digital projection, no subtitles. Runtime: 5 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes. No intermissions. The Last Frame is Yours is not a film. It is a commitment, a test, a sentence. At 127 hours in length, the piece obliterates the notion … Read more