Category Archives: Exhibitions

Bruton + Co is proud to present its upcoming exhibition, ZERO and Beyond, at its Mayfair showroom. The exhibition will bring together works by some of the most influential and innovative international artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries, united by their radical exploration of the lightest colour, white, through masterful use of shade, texture, emotion and surface. The show opens on the 9th October 2025 and will be on view until the end of the year. 

Featuring a dynamic selection of works spanning from the founders of the ZERO movement, Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker, to the Italian master Lucio Fontana and the iconic American artist Cy Twombly, the exhibition will include a rare late 1950s work by Piero Manzoni from a major private collection, a monumental piece by Paolo Scheggi, and an iconic painting by Christopher Wool.

White becomes a vast medium for expression; the selected works show these artists at their most innovative and daring, using textures, materials and instruments to alter and challenge our visual understanding of the colour white, building emotion, tension and depth beyond the traditional connotations of purity and innocence.

Drawing inspiration from the ethos of the ZERO movement and its redefinition of artistic boundaries, Zero and Beyond positions white as defiant and courageous, able to convey ideas of social and political change in times of turmoil. From Uecker’s nail reliefs and Mack’s shimmering surfaces to Ryman’s meditations on paint and Guidi’s hand-combed, cosmic abstractions, the exhibition reveals how artists across generations transformed whiteness into a site of cultural revolution.

“White has long been a paradoxical space in art,” says Olyvia Kwok, founder and CEO of Bruton + Co. “It can suggest purity or erasure, infinity or nothingness. ZERO and Beyond brings together pioneering voices who pushed white beyond its apparent neutrality, opening it into a spectrum of conceptual and material richness. In a time when the market for commercial artworks is fatiguing, we look to works from the past that offer both enduring elegance and market resilience”.

Bruton + Co, which was launched earlier this year, is a new type of art business stretching beyond traditional dealership and advisory models, instead acting as a strategic partner to those looking to buy and invest in art in the ever-changing art market.

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Exhibition Details:
Zero and Beyond
09/10/2025 – 09/01/2026

Bruton + Co
23 Bruton Street,
London W1J 6QF
www.bruton-co.com

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Two years ago, museums fell over themselves marking 150 years since Pablo Picasso’s death. This year, they are doing the same for Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday. But who is it all for?

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The exhibition, Dialogues, pairs 20th and 21st century art by the likes of Picasso, Adam Pendleton and David Hammons with the objects that inspired it

Dates: September 1 – October 15, 2025

Gallery: The 34Gallery

Organized by: The 34 Gallery in partnership with SimukaAfrica.org (SAYA)

Framework: Part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal SDG 3.4 Initiative (Mental Health & Wellbeing), in collaboration with UNV.org

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Silence as a Language

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Trauma leaves many traces, but not always in the form of visible pain. More often it lingers as silence: a frozen state of emotional detachment, an absence that resists articulation. The September group exhibition Stillness, presented by 34 Gallery in partnership with SimukaAfrica.org (SAYA), invites artists across continents to interpret this complex aftermath.

Founded in 2006, SimukaAfrica.org is a Zimbabwe-based charitable organization that supports at-risk youth, families, and survivors of child marriage through education, vocational training, medical outreach, food provision, and psychosocial care. Stillness emerges from this humanitarian framework as part of SAYA’s SDG 3.4 Initiative, aligning with the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. Here, contemporary art becomes not only a site of aesthetic inquiry but also a form of public health advocacy.

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Participating Artists

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The exhibition gathers a diverse roster of participating artists whose works span visual art, photography, digital media, and poetry. Together, they render the contours of stillness in its many forms:

Mary Stone Art – Beside the Absence
A meditation on vacancy, where emptiness itself becomes presence.

Madland – Labyrinth of Self
An inner maze reflecting the disorientation of trauma.

thedumbbandshee – Stillness II
A frozen corridor that suspends both time and body.

Mitochondralorian – Of Echo and Absence
The Room Where Gravity Forgot Me Works that transform silence into echo and weightlessness.

The Last Bard – Ghosts of Echoes / The Waiting Room
Poetic explorations of language as a faltering witness.

Lingfei Shen – Dissolving Together
Figures that fade into one another, caught between connection and loss.

Kira Risugawa – Quietude in the Winter Desolation
A portrait of solitude against a barren winter backdrop.

Oti Tsone – Serene
A seascape where calmness conceals isolation.

Hiroshi Kawazumi – One Quiet Evening On The Hill
Photography capturing dusk as a breath of quietude.

liapsart – Invictus
A surreal landscape of masked figures and avian flight.

Margaret Furr – Emotions
Texts confronting turbulence and fleeting calm.

Usha M Reddy – Echoes Between the Steps
A solitary figure suspended within an architectural void.

Doğan Özdemir – Bipolar
Portraiture fractured into states of discord and duality.

FotoGraafHanneke – The Owl Kept My Silence
A quiet dialogue between human and owl, heavy with unspoken witness.

Brooke Moran – Portrait of Child Self Painted on Collage of Old Suicide Notes
A haunting self-portrait inscribed within fragments of memory.

Shelley Lafferty – Between the Shadows
Shadows and forms overlapping in muted light.

Renata Kaman – All that remains
A body reclined within the earth, fragile yet enduring.

Muriel Lherm – Veins of Quiet
Elaborate floral motifs entwined with tears, balancing beauty and rupture.

Celestino Espinoza López – Dissociative Identity
A vivid portrait where multiple faces collide, reflecting the fractured tension of dissociative identity.

Deborah Kimble – Alone
Layered folds of canvas spiral inward, evoking the wound and quiet gaze of isolation.

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Beyond Aesthetics

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Stillness is less about artistic style than about recognition. By situating creative practice within SimukaAfrica’s humanitarian mission, the exhibition frames art as a therapeutic gesture and a vehicle for advocacy. It reminds us that survivors’ silence is not absence but presence—an embodied condition deserving of attention, dignity, and care.

The exhibition also underscores the role of virtual platforms in contemporary art. Far from diminishing its relevance, the digital format extends reach, connecting artists and audiences who might otherwise remain excluded from institutional spaces or mental health discourse.

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Conclusion

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Through Stillness, 34 Gallery and SimukaAfrica.org articulate an ambitious synthesis of art, health, and advocacy. Positioned within the UN’s SDG 3.4 framework, the exhibition demonstrates how contemporary art can intervene in urgent social realities while honoring the quiet resilience of those who live with trauma.

Exhibition Access: 34gallery.org/open-calls

SimukaAfrica.org: https://simukaafrica.org/

Instagram: @simukaafricaofficial

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