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Victor Pasmore | Patrick Heron: VIII Sao Paolo Biennial
Great Britain 1965, Revisited
Until 31 January 2025
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
38 Bury Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6BB
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Frankie Rossi Art Projects are delighted to announce an exhibition of work by two of Britain’s pioneering abstract
artists: Patrick Heron (1920-1999) and Victor Pasmore (1908-1998). The presentation will revisit their seminal joint exhibition at the VIII São Paulo
Biennial in 1965, which marked a major moment in both artists’ careers and the reception of British abstraction outside of the UK, US and Europe.
With no photographic record of the exhibition in Brazil, the reimagining provides the opportunity to encounter the historic show through several
important works originally included in the presentation, as well as additional key pieces from the same period.
As two of the most prominent artists working in Britain at the time, Heron and Pasmore were selected by the British Council to represent Britain at
South America’s biggest art exhibition, which toured venues in Santiago, Lima and Caracas over the following two years. While the two had never
exhibited together in a dedicated two-man show before, their work mutually balanced a nonrepresentational, formalist vision with natural artistic
intuition. Their approaches countered the highly recognisable Pop Art style which 昀氀ourished in the 1960s, while their expressive brushwork and
asymmetry embodied a distinctly European aesthetic, o昀昀ering a sharp contrast to the American-style painting that would have dominated the British Council’s selection committee’s view at the time.
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Frankie Rossi Art Projects bring together a selection of works from the original show to create a time capsule of a
career-de昀椀ning moment for both Pasmore and Heron. Through their abstractions that broke geographical boundaries, the exhibition ultimately
provides a special insight into two of the most innovative modern British artists in an era where their work was never more in harmony.
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Patrick Heron (1920-1999), Clear Blues in Green and White : August 1962, 1962. Oil on canvas 38 x 48 inches; 96.5 x 121.9 cm © Patrick Heron
Trust. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image courtesy of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert.
Patrick Heron (1920-1999), Big Red Horizontal with Ultramarine: 1964, 1964. Oil on canvas. 60 x 84 inches; 152.4 x 213.4 cm © Patrick Heron
Trust. All rights reserved, DACS 2024. Image courtesy of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert.
Victor Pasmore (1908-1998), Brown Development No. 3, 1964. Oil and wood on plastic, 60 x 60 inches; 152.5 x 152.5 cm © Estate of Victor Pasmore. All rights reserved DACS 2024. Image courtesy of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
