admin - MPHQ Project Space London I Cologne / MPHQ Pictures

Oliver Abraham

Oliver Abraham, born in Cologne in 1972, studied from 2001 to 2004 at the School for Photography„Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm“ in Berlin under Prof. Arno Fischer. He works with an 8 x 10 inch large format camera and since 2004 has been photographing contemporary artists, musicians and actors. After photographing Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, he started a project photographing whistleblowers, activists, and journalists- ‚Freedom of Speech’- which was shown in Cologne at Galerie Julian Sander and at the Paris Photo at the Grand Palais.

https://galeriejuliansander.de/artist/oliver-abraham/

Martha Parsey

Martha Parsey, born in London, is a painter and film-maker who, after a career as a child actress, studied Fine Art and Film at Central St Martins College of Art, the University of the Arts London, the University of the Arts Berlin and the German Film and Television Academy.

Her films on Francis Bacon, made in collaboration with David Sylvester, have been screened at the ICA and Hayward Gallery, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Haus der Kunst, Munich and at Ordovas Gallery, New York. Shortlisted for the Lexmark European Art Prize and the Sovereign European Art Prize, her paintings have been exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and the US, with her work in a number of prestigous collections including the Ovitz Family Collection, the Zabludowicz Collection and the Musée National d’art Moderne, Paris.

In 2018 Martha founded MPHQ Project Space London I Cologne.

http://www.marthaparsey.com

Cedric Christie

What is sculpture? What do you want it to be? I DO NOT KNOW. YOU TELL ME. You asked the bloody question; I was hoping that you would be happy looking with your eyes. Now you want to look with your ears. Next you’ll be asking me if it’s any good or not, and that’s like explaining the taste of a lemon to a baby.

Cedric Christie lives and works in London. His work is a critical appraisal of colour and modernism, as well as the exploration of the journey to form and meaning.

Cedric is represented by Rocket Gallery, London.

https://www.rocketgallery.com/cedric-christie

GIANT STEPS

LONDON MEETS COLOGNE

Martha Parsey I René Kemp
Cedric Christie I Boscher Theodor
Andy Earl I Oliver Abraham

Opening Sunday 7th April 2019. Exhibition runs till 3rd May.

PRESS RELEASE:

GIANT STEPS brings together six artists from London and Cologne: a painter, a sculptor and a photographer respectively, that deal with the cross-over of media and the tension between figurative representation and formalistic abstract theory.

The title ‘Giant Steps’ derives from the jazz album released by John Coltrane in 1960 which was groundbreaking in changing perceptions of composition and improvisation.

This exhibition shows the vibrance of expression when these two meet. Seen through the juxtaposition, dissonance and harmony when figuration and abstraction interact, not only within the individual work of each artist but in the accumulative and exponential sum of the total of this exhibition’s collective parts.

Each of these artists draws on and directly refers to their artistic history, be it Theodor’s direct references to Bonnard, Warhol and Kirchner, Earl’s to Manet, Parsey’s to Malevich and Hockney, Abraham’s to Avedon and Penn and Christie’s to Ruscha and Gilbert and George. This is fertile ground for creative invention on which all six of these artists flourish.

http://kunstaspekte.art/event/giant-steps

https://www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/view/giant-steps-featuring-cedric-christie

MPHQ Project Space London I Cologne

We Could be Heroes

SUMMER SALON I We Could be Heroes

Painting I Print I Photography I Sculpture
Light I Objects I Video

MPHQ presents: Dillwyn Smith, August Sander, Francesco Clemente, Cedric Christie, Lord Snowdon, Boris Becker, Regine Schumann, Pascal Rousson, Gerhard Richter, Reinhart Wolf, Gereon Krebber, Chargesheimer, Paula Baader, Rene Burri, Krzysztof Honowski, Martha Parsey, Oliver Abraham, Stacie McCormick, Simon Liddiment, Roxana Halls, Tina Schwarz.

Opening Friday 13 th July 2018 6-9pm. Exhibition runs till 4th August.

Going Underground

MAKE ART NOT DRAMA

Preview of the MPHQ Project Space, opening Friday 11th May, showing painting, prints, films and fashion from Martha Parsey. Exhibition runs until 9th June.