Colnaghi VIP Launch of new gallery and Vanitas exhibition

On Friday 7 October, Colnaghi CEOs Jorge Coll and Nicolas Cortes, hosted a VIP Party to launch their new gallery at 26 Bury Street in St. James’s.  The party was a highlight of Frieze Art Fair week with art-lovers queuing around the block to see a living art installation in the gallery window, and the "Vanitas" artworks inside.  

The event unveiled the new Colnaghi Gallery space, designed by Colnaghi Creative Director Diego Fortunato, and inaugural ‘Vanitas’ exhibition featuring around 30 paintings and sculptures from the 16th to 20th Centuries.

VIPs in attendance included;  Antoine de Nicolay, Lady Arabella Baring (Countess Nesselrode), Guiomar Fernandez-Castaño and Lady Daisy Fane, Antonia baroness von Weichs, Prince and Princess of Valsavoia,  Spanish Ambassador to the UK, Federico Trillo-Figueroa, and artist Eugenio Ampudia whose video installation was projected onto the Gallery’s library.  

Other VIPs included performance artist Pandemonia, Actress Meredith Ostrum, artist Daisy de Villeneuve, and Basia & Richard Briggs OBE.

Party pictures available Getty Images: http://bit.ly/2e1tXQF

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Artist Alexander Newley announces ‘Portraits in Character' exhibition at St Martin-in-the-Fields,

A solo exhibition featuring portraits of Sir Kenneth Branagh and actors from the plays at The Garrick Season.

Artist Alexander Newley is delighted to announce his solo exhibition ‘Portraits in Character – supporting St Martin-in-the-Fields’, in the Crypt of St Martin’s, Trafalgar Square from 7th to 21st November. The exhibition is to run in partnership with St Martin-in-the-Fields, a fitting location for the exhibition, with its proximity to the National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery, and will mark Newley’s return to the London art world after several years in New York.

In Spring 2017 the paintings and drawings featured in ‘Portraits in Character – supporting St Martin- in-the-Fields’, will be auctioned to benefit the work of St Martin-in-the-Fields, including their outreach with homeless people. For more information about this auction in support of St Martin-in-the-Fields please contact StMartins@activ.org.uk

Newley collaborated with Kenneth Branagh to create a unique series of portraits of several of the leading cast from the Plays at the Garrick season, which comes to a close this November. Alexander Newley spent time with the cast over a period of one year, capturing the actors in character backstage after performances. The result is a series of drawings and paintings capturing the aura of some of the UK’s most celebrated actors; Dame Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Lester, Derek Jacobi, Richard Madden and Lily James.

The exhibition has been previewed by ArtRabbit, ArtSlant, Artweek, Artitute and Artlyst: http://www.artweek.com/events/united-kingdom/art-exhibition/london/artist-alexander-newley-‘portraits-character-supporting

Photograph courtesy of Dame Judi Dench/ Copyright Alexander Newley