In 1961, Austrian Kiki Kogelnik left behind the Viennese avant-garde scene, trading it for Santa Monica. In the US, she was influenced by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. Responding to this male-dominated world, she introduced feminism and criticality to the already fertile ground of mass media and consumer culture, becoming an interesting (and underexposed) outlier of pop art in the process. This MOSTYN Gallery show is the first in the UK to focus solely on her ceramics output. Dovetailing nicely is a new body of work from Canadian artist Athena Papadopoulos, which questions traditional binary perceptions of gender and sexuality.
The World of Interiors: Exhibitions to see, Print, September 2020
Coast: 10 Inspiring Galleries by the Sea. Print, October 2020
Shire Magazine: Contemporary Art at MOSTYN. Print (May/June 2020).
Shire Magazine: Exhibitions at MOSTYN Gallery. Print (September/October 2020).
Welsh Coastal Life: Diary: What is happening on and around the Welsh Coast. Print (April 2020).
North Wales Magazine: The Great days Out. Print (August 2020).
York Press: Athena Papadopoulos’ Cain and Abel Can’t and Able at MOSTYN gallery in Llandudno. Online – available at https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/18620000.athena- papadopoulos-cain-abel-cant-ableat-mostyn-gallery-llandudno/?ref=rss
Cura magazine: Athena Papadopoulos
Drawing from the biblical story of Cain and Able, Papadopoulos reflects on her own personal experiences of sibling rivalry and competition within romantic relationships but also, crucially, the struggle between good and evil.
Untitled (Sea Monster) (detail; c. 1974), Kiki Kogelnik. Courtesy Kiki Kogelnik Foundation
After moving to New York in the early 1960s, the Austrian-born artist emerged as one of the few women associated with the Pop art movement. She is perhaps best known for her series of Hangings: life-size tracings, cut-outs and paintings of human figures. But from 1974 ceramics became a key part of her practice. This is the first UK exhibition to focus on her work in this medium, by turns fantastical and darkly comic.
Widewalls: Riot of Objects – Kiki Kogelnik’s Ceramics On Show at MOSTYN, 17 August 2020, by Elena Martinique
Llandudno gallery celebrates its American GI history
An exhibition’s being launched to celebrate the role of a north Wales resort in hosting thousands of American service personnel in the Second World War.
The Mostyn building – now an art gallery – provided food and recreation for American troops living in Llandudno, a complete contrast to the building’s use as a drill hall in the First World War.
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION & BOOK LAUNCH Thursday 13.12.2012 – 7.15pm
Radovan Kraguly / Fernando Garcia-Dory
Join me to hear Radovan Kraguly discussing his work with fellow artist Fernando García-Dory on the occasion of the launch of the publication of his important survey exhibition at MOSTYN entitled The Milky Way. With essays by Alfredo Cramerotti, Ian Hunter, Aleksander Bassin and Fernando García-Dory himself, the book draws attention to Kraguly’s important work depicting the estrangement of man from nature.
Everybody welcome.
The publication, The Milky Way, published by MOSTYN will be available at a special reduced price on the evening.
RADOVAN KRAGULY
THE MILKY WAY
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FERNANDO GARCIA-DORY
A DAIRY MUSEUM
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CHRISTMAS OPENING TIMES
Late night opening
6th, 13th, 20th Dec until 8pm
Christmas Eve | 10.30am – 5pm
Christmas Day | CLOSED
Boxing Day | CLOSED
New Years Eve | 10.30am – 5pm
New Years Day | CLOSED
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