Miguel Kohler-Jan

Gallery Elena Shchukina is delighted to present From EGO to ID, an exhibition of disparate art, objects and furniture created into vignettes. Wall works by gallery artists Allan Forsyth, Onyeka Ibe, Miguel Kohler-Jan, Laure Hatchuel-Becker and Paul Wright stand in dialogue with design pieces. In From EGO to ID (the latter a play on Interior Design), EGO represents personal identity. In this case EGO is the art, objects and furniture themselves, with their individual characteristics. The ID represents our natural and instinctual response to the pieces and the groupings -...

Gallery Elena Shchukina is pleased to present the first ever UK exhibition of works by Franco-Uruguayan artist Miguel Kohler-Jan (1929 - 2011). The show focuses on Kohler-Jan's vibrant oil paintings as well as his more muted natural sand on canvas pieces. The oil works incorporate a combination of numbers, letters and geometric shapes. The sand works echo pre-Columbian designs and the role of the military in South American politics. An innovative artist who embraced variation as a means to explore and understand form, Kohler-Jan's two great passions were...