Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press , Barry Flanagan, Toby Tobias Kidd, John Latham, Cally Spooner, Anne Tallentire EXTROSPECTION curated by David Thorp

Pi Artworks London is pleased to announce EXTROSPECTION curated by David Thorp. EXTROSPECTION is 2020-21 season opening show of the gallery and coincides with Frieze London week.

EXTROSPECTION brings together works from Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press , Barry Flanagan, Toby Tobias Kidd, John Latham, Cally Spooner, Anne Tallentire.

Conceptual art was an international movement and, after New York, London was an important centre. The artists selected for EXTROSPECTION all have a strong link to London. They are drawn from different generations, from those instrumental in establishing conceptual art as a discipline to those active today.

Over the years Conceptual art has come to be used as a popular catch all for everything that isn't conventional painting and sculpture. But did Conceptual art actually run its course by the 1970s? Or has it endured as a distinct discipline that manifests core principals such as an analysis of language; the poetic potential inherent in everyday objects; an anti-authoritarian attitude; a questioning of the nature of art. Using the structures, codes and institutions of the world as its system? A distinct discipline formed by the extrospective consideration of things external to the artist;  putting ideas about art and its place in the world over the artists' mental and emotional processes?