What am I doing Here…: Travelscapes

opening reception Thursday 29 February, 6-8pm.

the exhibition will be held at: 34 Bourdon Street London, W1K 3PR
Wednesday to Saturday 2-6pm or by appointment

In 2024, Belmacz and Isaac Benigson Special Projects will present What am I doing Here…: Travelscapes, an exhibition inspired by a question of travel and landscape, and the changes that occur during the alteration of location. The title What am I Doing Here is an allusion to Bruce Chatwin’s collection of essays, and his last published work in his lifetime. Bernard Levin, the infamous and revered columnist and broadcaster, said we travel because we think somewhere over the next hill there is still mystery, there is still something to be found that has not yet been found. We travel abroad for the same reason we travel inward, for the mystery we hope to find. To travel may be better than to arrive. This presentation of paintings will bring together artists and friends to examine notions of introspective thought, pilgrimage, walking, exploration, voyage and counter feelings of tourism, the sinister and the sunburnt.

This exhibition was born out of a conversation during Isaac Benigson’s visit to Mexico City, to attend Georgina Gratrix’s 2023 presentation of paintings. He began thinking about how artists record their travels. The exhibition’s basis is rooted in the two foremost travellers in his scrapbook of references, Bruce Chatwin, the extraordinary thinker and writer and the fictional film character, the journalist, David Locke, from Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger, from 1975. In London, What am I doing Here…: Travelscapes, has been realised through further conversations and with the support of numerous agential friends; including Julia Muggenburg, whose ongoing dialogue has helped form the tenues of the thinking explored here, and a special thanks to Silka Rittson Thomas.

Artists:

Hawazin Alotaibi
Stuart Dodds
Joe Fox
Georgina Gratrix
Timothy Hyman
Vivienne Koorland
Nina Milner
Myles Oxenford
Tobit Roche
Caspar Giorgio Williams

What am I doing Here…: Travelscapes | press release

What am I doing Here…: Travelscapes | online presentation

Installation View
Georgina Gratrix
Overseas, 2011

oil on board
50 x 72 cm
Stuart Dodds
Tunisia, The Madina Yves' Room John Pawson, 2023

oil on board
19.5 x 16 cm
Stuart Dodds
Sidi El Béchir Tunisia, 2023

oil on board
20 x 15 cm
Stuart Dodds
Lisboa Portugal Santa Maria Maior, 2023

oil on cardboard
14 x 16.5 cm
Stuart Dodds
Bo-Kaap Green Mosque, 2023

oil on board
18 x 14.5 cm
Stuart Dodds
Portugal Colares - Azenhas do Mar, 2023

oil on cardboard
21 x 17.5 cm
Stuart Dodds
Lisboa Santa Maria Maior, 2023

oil on cardboard
16 x 19.5 cm
Stuart Dodds
Sidi El Béchir Tunisia, 2023

oil on cardboard
13 x 16 cm
Stuart Dodds
Italy Lago Maggor, The Gothic Villa, 2023

oil on board
21.6 x 17.5 cm
Stuart Dodds
Lago Maggiore Lake Verbania Pallanza Intra Suna, 2023

oil on cardboard
19 x 13.5 cm
Installation View
Myles Oxenford
Moonlight Serenade, 2023

oil on canvas
40 x 64.5 cm
Myles Oxenford
12:51, 2023

oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
Myles Oxenford
Under The Sun, 2024

oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm (framed)
Nina Milner
How did I Get Here, 2024

oil on canvas
49.5 x 31.5 cm
Georgina Gratrix
Becky's House, 2022

oil on canvas
20 x 30 cm
Georgina Gratrix
Irma's Double Joy Jar with Sunglasses, 2022

oil on linen
50 x 40 cm
Georgina Gratrix
Three Views of a Vase III, 2020

oil on linen
55 x 45 cm
Georgina Gratrix
Bathers, 2014

watercolour on paper
50 x 70 cm
Vivienne Koorland
Oval Vignette, August 18, 2004

oil on linen
61 x 46 cm
Installation View
Tobit Roche
Nr Humayun's Tomb (Afsarwala's Mosque & Tomb), 2013

oil on canvas
24.5 x 30 cm (framed)
Tobit Roche
Deli to Jaipur National Highway no. 8, 2014

oil on canvas
55 x 71 cm (framed)
Joe Fox
Kiss Goodbye, 2023

blow pen paint on paper
61.5 x 68 cm (framed)
Caspar Giorgio
Williams Untitled (Passenger), 2023

watercolour and ink on paper
17.5 x 25 cm
Caspar Giorgio Williams
Untitled (Tangier), 2023

watercolour and ink on paper
28 x 20.5 cm
Caspar Giorgio Williams
Untitled (What An I Doing Here), 2023

watercolour and ink on paper
25 x 17.5 cm
Hawazin Alotaibi
It Winks, 2023

acrylic and printmaking on canvas
45 x 45 cm
Timothy Hyman
Conversation in a Taxi (Me and Hodgkin), 1978

oil on wood
85 x 127 cm (framed)
Tobit Roche
Red Hill Garhwal Uttarkhand, 2021

oil on canvas
42 x 32 cm (framed)
Installation View
Installation View

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