Alexia Goethe Gallery is pleased to present Photographs, a solo exhibition by Lionel Scoccimaro. Through a diverse body of work Scoccimaro explores l'art populaire and questions cultural hierarchies as well as the status of photography itself. Lionel Scoccimaro is not a photographer, which is what makes his photographic work so interesting. In actual fact, he is more than a photographer. If he appears to sculpt the image, it is to take the medium of photography even further. He uses this to explore territories that are new, underground, virgin or charted by other pioneers.

"Jason C. Kuo's in-depth study of the paintings of Gao Xingjian significantly enriches our understanding of a major cultural polymath. This lavishly illustrated book enables us to make important connections between painting and writing, a type of synthesis often downplayed by western post-Enlightenment tendencies toward cultural specialization but very much at the heart of the Chinese literati tradition." Paul Gladston (University of Nottingham), principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and author of Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History. "In The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian, Jason C. Kuo offers his readers a multifaceted lens through which to frame an engagement with the remarkable pictorial, filmic, and literary art of the Chinese writer and 2000 Nobel laureate in literature, Gao Xingjian. A central theme in his oeuvre is reflection on his life as a writer in self-exile in France, a life at once burdened with the memory of his homeland and yet artistically liberating. Kuo illuminates our understanding of the meaning and significance of his art by situating it within a critical discussion of the contemporary context of global modernity, a context that challenges our notions of national cultural identity in an age of mobile subjectivity and the deterritorialization of cultural practices." Stephen J. Goldberg (Hamilton College), author of Dislocating the Center: Contemporary Chinese Art Beyond National Borders. "The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian presents almost 300 paintings by the contemporary artist, poet, film-maker, author, and Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian. Jason C. Kuo's erudite study not only details Gao's development as an intellectual, but also contextualizes and explores his attitudes toward writing, painting, and film-making in the interstices of 'East' and 'West'." Katharine P. Burnett (University of California, Davis), author of Dimensions of Originality: Essays in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Criticism. "The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian by Jason C. Kuo is a most thought-provoking and intelligent study of the art of Gao Xingjian. Kuo, driven by a desire for synthesis in his scholarship, brings a modernist practice to bear on a long tradition of intellectual discourse in China." Frances Klapthor, Baltimore Museum of Art.

In collaboration with the artist's foundations and family, YSP is proud to present the first major UK exhibition of sculpture by Joan Miro, one of Europe's most important 20th century artists. The exhibition describes the extraordinary wealth of Miro's sculpture, much of which was made in the second half of his life. With key works set in the landscape, the exhibition fulfils the artist's desire that sculpture must stand in the open air, in the middle of nature. YSP publication to accompany the Miro: Sculptor exhibition. The fully illustrated catalogue features texts by the artist's grandson Emilio Fernandez Miro, Pilar Ortega Chapel from the Successio Miro, poet and art critic Jacques Dupin and Peter Murray CBE. Exhibition photography by Jonty Wilde"