Untitled, O/09/17, oil on canvas. This painting will be on exhibition and for sale at The Exhibition

The Exhibition, Fitzrovia Gallery, 139 Whitfield Street, London, 3-9 July 2023

Good news for those wanting to see my art in London. For the first time in a decade, my art will be exhibited in central, in a group show with a collection of emerging and established artists. For details visit The Exhibition website here: https://the-exhibition.co.uk/

The Day I Never Met You: Alexander Adams | Natela Iankoshvili; Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, 26 June-31 July 2021

The two-artist exhibition “The Day I Never Met You” at Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin brings together landscapes in spectacular colour and pinpoint detail. The explosive colour and dramatic brushwork of Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili and the painstaking detail and anti-natural black and white of British artist AlexanderAdams form a startling complementary pairing for the first time at the gallery. Bringing together two artists who have never had a chance to meet in person but over the years have continued to communicate through their work.

This exhibition features new paintings by AA, alongside paintings by Iankoshvili.

Gallery website: https://www.galeriekornfeld.com/text/alexander-adams-and-natela-iankoshvili

Exhibition review/artist profile: https://www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/the-day-i-never-met-you/

Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History

Alexander Adams, Professor Frank Furedi (foreword), Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History, (Societas) Imprint Academic (UK/US, distr. worldwide), paperback/e-book, 170pp (approx.), £14.95/$29.90, mono illus., published worldwide today, 6 October 2020

"Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public culture. It examines the various causes and uses of image/property defacement as a tool of political, national, religious and artistic process. This is one of the first books to examine the outbreak of iconoclasm in Europe and North America in the summer of 2020 in the context of previous outbreaks, and it examines the implications of iconoclasm as a form of control, censorship and expression.”

The new book (published by Societas, 2020) is available from the publisher and all bookselling outlets.

AA interview with Jasun Horsley (Auticulture/Liminalist)

Listen to a new two-hour podcast in which AA and Jasun Horsley talk art, culture, elitism, class and Britishness. Listen here: https://auticulture.com/the-liminalist-230-culture-wars-with-alexander-adams/

AA speech/interview, Barbican, London, 2 November

I am pleased to announce that I shall be appearing at the Barbican in early November. As part of the Battle of Ideas I shall discussing my book Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism (Societas, 2019), with a chance to for audience questions. The event takes place on Saturday 2 November 12.00-13.00, Barbican, London. I believe the event will be followed by a book signing. Tickets for the event are one- or two-day entry tickets to the festival.

Details are here: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/from-fine-art-to-superhero-comics-the-culture-war-in-art/

AA awarded 2018 Artist Scholarship by Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, Monaco

I am pleased to announce that today I was awarded the 2018 Artist Scholarship from the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation, Monaco. To mark this honour there will be events and projects this year including the publication of On Art (verse and drawings), a new story booklet with Aloes Books, a broadside of a drawing and poem (in English and Polish), an exhibition of new paintings in Paris, a catalogue of new paintings in French, interviews and other events to be announced. My thanks are due to the foundation and supporters.

Link to the foundation announcement: http://www.mbartfoundation.com/news/item/476

9 January 2018

The Exhibition, central London, 3-9 July 2023