IONE & MANN is honoured to present ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES II, an exhibition curated in collaboration with Paul Carey-Kent. This year’s edition brings together six artists whose work challenges conventions of representation to reach meaningfully simple results - enriched by their conversations with art history as well as life experience.
ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES was conceived by Paul Carey-Kent to highlight and celebrate artists whose practices, spanning decades, are deserving of attention now, making this a counterpoint to all the prizes / shows / lists that are fixated on youth and/or the simple fact of having recently graduated from an art school. What, after all, does it mean to be ‘contemporary’? Is it linked to youth? 'Contemporary' is defined as ‘living’ or ‘occurring in the present’. John Peter Askew, Phil Illingworth, Maria Lalić, Jonathan Parsons, Michael Samuels and Michael Stubbs have been occurring in the present for over forty years, making relevant, materially fresh and visually exciting works – all with formal beauty, typically of some rigour, but also plenty of ideas. A rare achievement of long-term commitment, belief and quiet dedication, marks them as Advanced Contemporaries.
