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35 YEARS OF AZZOPARDI | RETROSPECTIVE

Past viewing_room
11 June - 3 July 2020
  • “Azzopardi’s mission is to be free to play with the drama and joy of everyday life. She breaks her subjects down into vibrant segments and into moments we have all experienced and she captures them forever in paint.”
     
    – Angus Granlund, Director, Head of Day Sale, Modern British & Irish Art, Christie's London.

     

    • Deborah Azzopardi, The Great Escape, 2015
      Deborah Azzopardi, The Great Escape, 2015
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Femme Fatale, 2016
      Deborah Azzopardi, Femme Fatale, 2016
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Girl with the Diamond Earring, 2013
      Deborah Azzopardi, Girl with the Diamond Earring, 2013
  • LOVE IS THE ANSWER: AFTER NYNE MEETS DEBORAH AZZOPARDI

     

    Deborah Azzopardi is known internationally for her distinctive, playful and colourful pop art images that celebrate the drama and joy of everyday situations. She will launch a series of new works at the exhibition and will show, for the first time, the original paintings selected for a special edition of postcards for HABITAT – the Dating card series. It is the popularity of such published images that has contributed to Azzopardi’s global success and resulted in her originals being sought-after by serious international collectors.

     

     

    Take us back in time – when did you discover your passion for art?

    It’s always been there. I think all artists know, it’s just a case of whether they can or have the courage to follow their dream.

     

    - Read Full Interview here

     

     

    • Deborah Azzopardi, Gossip, 2016
      Deborah Azzopardi, Gossip, 2016
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Everlasting Love, 2017
      Deborah Azzopardi, Everlasting Love, 2017
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Racing Heart, 2017
      Deborah Azzopardi, Racing Heart, 2017
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Sunday Morning, 2016
      Deborah Azzopardi, Sunday Morning, 2016
    • Deborah Azzopardi, The Empty Chair, c. 2004
      Deborah Azzopardi, The Empty Chair, c. 2004
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Side Exit, c. 2004
      Deborah Azzopardi, Side Exit, c. 2004
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Physical Attraction..., 2017
      Deborah Azzopardi, Physical Attraction..., 2017
    • Deborah Azzopardi, That's The Way Love Goes, 2016
      Deborah Azzopardi, That's The Way Love Goes, 2016
  • DEBORAH AZZOPARDI & CYNTHIA CORBETT | THE MONOCLE ARTS REVIEW SUNDAY - BRUNCH - 47

     

    Deborah Azzopardi · Deborah Azzopardi & Cynthia Corbett | The Monocle Arts Review Sunday - Brunch - 47
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Delaying Technique, 2016
      Deborah Azzopardi, Delaying Technique, 2016
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Through My Eyes, 2017
      Deborah Azzopardi, Through My Eyes, 2017
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Big Trouble..., 2017
      Deborah Azzopardi, Big Trouble..., 2017
    • Deborah Azzopardi, BBrrrrinngggg, 2006
      Deborah Azzopardi, BBrrrrinngggg, 2006
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Bing Bong, 2005
      Deborah Azzopardi, Bing Bong, 2005
    • Deborah Azzopardi, ....may I come in, 2008
      Deborah Azzopardi, ....may I come in, 2008
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Secretive, 2004
      Deborah Azzopardi, Secretive, 2004
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Bye!...Slam. . , 2008
      Deborah Azzopardi, Bye!...Slam. . , 2008
  • Such is the enduring influence of Avedon and Warhol, today’s art world would like very different without them. “There would...

    Such is the enduring influence of Avedon and Warhol, today’s art world would like very different without them. “There would be no Banksy. There would be no Damien Hirst” explains Cynthia Corbett, founder of her eponymous gallery in London “They created the celebration of celebrity and commented on the phenomenon in a sometimes dark, sometimes controversial – but always visually appealing – way.  What’s going to be interesting for visitors is that they’re not only going to be hugely entertained by the art works, but, they’re going to get a history lesson.”

  • “Sometimes you just want to curl up under a blanket. With a good book. A piece of chocolate. A man.

     

    This is what Deborah Azzopardi’s pictures make me feel like doing. They are me. They remind me of the time I had a red convertible sports car. I had two, actually. And yes, they are you, too.

     

    You immediately, automatically, engage with the narrative of Azzopardi’s conversational visual humour.  Laughter is the best aphrodisiac, as you know.  Never before has the erotic dream been painted by a woman so well.  Think of all the furtively duplicitous sexual innuendos (worth seeing) in art history, made for the titillation of the male patron; one of the purposes of art being to arouse emotions, yes.  Whilst I see some Japanese Shunga prints coarse next to Azzopardi’s more idealistic visions of contemporary urban life, the fantastical makes Azzopardi playfully sexy.  And fun!  Her pictures make you feel the same way, as she makes you feel the atmosphere of what goes on behind closed doors.

     

    Azzopardi gives your fantasies a place to live, and grow, aside from the likes of Millais’s Pre-Raphaelite, ‘Isabella’, where Freudian-slips slip up against Victorian prudish angst and erections in the shadows. Azzopardi is more titillating than salacious, more sensual than sexual.

    - Deborah Azzopardi by Estelle Lovatt FRSA

    Read Full article  here

    • Deborah Azzopardi, He Loves Me, 2010
      Deborah Azzopardi, He Loves Me, 2010
    • Deborah Azzopardi, I Believe In Love, 2016
      Deborah Azzopardi, I Believe In Love, 2016
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Freedom, 2006/2020
      Deborah Azzopardi, Freedom, 2006/2020
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Contended, 2005
      Deborah Azzopardi, Contended, 2005
    • Deborah Azzopardi, One Lump or Two?, 2014
      Deborah Azzopardi, One Lump or Two?, 2014
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Sometimes Unpredictable, 2014
      Deborah Azzopardi, Sometimes Unpredictable, 2014
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Fruity, 2009
      Deborah Azzopardi, Fruity, 2009
    • Deborah Azzopardi, Love Is The Answer, 2016
      Deborah Azzopardi, Love Is The Answer, 2016
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  • For this exclusive exhibition we are pleased to once again partner with BFAMI and pledge a donation of 20% from the sales of these wonderful Azzopardi originals as well as limited editions to include Femme Fatale (2016), Guilty Pleasure (2016), Girl With The Diamond Earring (Ed. 2/15, 2013), Gossip (Ed. 6/10, 2016) and The Great Escape (Ed. 14/15, 2015).

  • 35 YEARS OF AZZOPARDI | RETROSPECTIVE

    VIEW FULL EXHIBITION HERE ‘America has Lichtenstein, we have Azzopardi!’ A major retrospective of British Pop artist Deborah Azzopardi
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