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Closing this Saturday: Franco Bellucci: Works (c. 2010–2018). Untitled, c. 2010 [detail]. Various materials. 13 x 29.5 x 13.4 cm, 5 1/8 x 11 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.

a. SQUIRE is thrilled to announce the acquisition by The Pier Arts Centre of Untitled (c. 2010) by Franco Bellucci, one of more than fifty works which form The Charles Asprey Gift. It will go on public view in Stromness, Orkney, later this year. ‘Through Their Eyes - The Pier Arts Centre Collection and the unfolding Asprey gift’ opens today meanwhile and will remain on view until 7th November. With huge thanks to @charlesaspreytyersstreet and Kari Adams!

Bogdan Ablozhnyy is profiled by Hugo Bausch Belbachir in Flash Art Volumes #003, out now. Thank you @hugobauschbelbachir @flashartitalia @flashartvolumes ! Images: 1. Installation view, Bogdan Ablozhnyy at Frieze London 2025, a. SQUIRE, booth F09. 3-6. 0,01 s, 2025. Castle Lighting C-50 strobe, ebony cello bow frog, London Blue topazes, carbon fibre, aluminium, acrylic lacquer, resin. 13.7 x 349.5 x 73.7 cm, 5 3/8 x 137 5/8 x 29 in.

Franco Bellucci, Untitled, 2015. Various materials. 52 x 25.5 x 15.4 cm, 20 1/2 x 10 x 6 in. #francobellucci

Installation views of Franco Bellucci, Works (c. 2010–2018), which continues this week. Full documentation is now online 🌐 #francobellucci

Franco Bellucci Works (c. 2010–2018) 28 March–9 May Opening on Friday, 6–8 pm

Elizabeth Englander’s ‘The Elizabethan Lumber Room’ closes on Saturday 🫨 In the exterior vitrine hang five Spirit Sweaters, offerings to the spirits of Bloomsbury. As Jean Watt writes for The Toe Rag, “…five miniature jumpers hang in the vitrine outside: a version of the Thai spirit house shrines outside homes and businesses where offerings are left in hope of good fortune. That the display and its carpet match the gallery interior is sweetly comic. One of the jumpers has a tiny version of the Second World War icon Rosie the Riveter, another has the word ‘Paris’ emblazoned behind a woman’s lingeried silhouette. Coming together with the purposefully makeshift sculptures inside, they draw out a quality to Englander’s visual language that recalls a line from a previous exhibition at Theta: ‘Art could be improvised, accidental, absurd, clumsy, whimsical, disturbing. It could be funny. It could be liberatory.’ Images: 1. Spirit Sweater (Paris), 2025. Old sock, thread, wire. Laid flat: 18 x 16.5 cm, 7 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. 2. Spirit Sweater (brown), 2025. Old sock, thread, wire. Laid flat: 12 x 19.3 cm, 4 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. 3. Spirit Sweater (roses), 2025. Old sock, thread, wire. Laid flat: 17 x 17 cm, 6 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. 4. Spirit Sweater (green), 2025. Old sock, thread, wire. Laid flat: 12.2 x 17 cm, 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. 5. Spirit Sweater (Rosie the Riveter), 2025. Old sock, thread, wire. Laid flat: 13 x 18 cm, 5 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. @jeanwatt @thetoerag

“The designers of Alessi once described their cartoon-cute utensils as ‘anonymous presences’, a phrase that clings to Englander’s sculptures. So close are they to ‘something else’ that they approach anonymity. In Buddhist tradition, parinirvana signals the end of the reincarnation cycle, liberation from rebirth, and therefore from identity itself. Unlike the Buddha, though, these are no benign teachers. Facial features are absent; they keep their secrets. Only [UNESCO] Betty has a face, but her expression is strained to the point of strangulation.” —Ethan Price on ‘The Elizabethan Lumber Room’ for the March issue of ArtReview. Thank you @mrethanprice and @artreview_magazine ! Images: Elizabeth Englander, Parinirvana (dreamcoat), 2025. Wood, wire, hydrocal, jute, paint, mylar. 15.2 x 44.6 x 8.6 cm, 6 x 17 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.

a. SQUIRE is proud to announce the gallery’s first participation in Art Basel with a solo presentation by Eli Coplan for Statements. Art Basel Messe Basel 16–21 June 2026 Images: Eli Coplan, Event Current, 2024 [detail]. Modified LCD television, polarising film, live broadcast. Television: 64.7 x 112 x 6 cm, 25 1/2 x 44 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. Polarising film: 63 x 99.1 x 0.02 cm, 24 3/4 x 39 x 0 in. @al3h66lqwvhbheu61yeiglenz8z8 @artbasel

Elizabeth Englander, ‘Parinirvana (gold)’, 2025. Dress, thread. 7.5 x 66 x 17 cm, 3 x 26 x 6 3/4 in. The Elizabethan Lumber Room continues this week! Full documentation online.

The gallery is exceptionally open today from 12–6 pm! Elizabeth Englander’s ‘The Elizabethan Lumber Room’ is now on view until 7th March. From top to bottom: 🗄️ Parinirvana (pussyhat), 2025. Sweater, wire, stuffing, thread. 42 x 56 x 24.5 cm, 16 1/2 x 22 x 9 5/8 in. 🗄️ Parinirvana (mom’s kilt), 2025. Kilt, thread. 8.5 x 68.6 x 10.2 cm, 3 3/8 x 27 x 4 in. 🗄️ Parinirvana (Barbieland), 2025. Wood, hydrocal, jute, paint, mylar. 14.5 x 36 x 12.5 cm, 5 3/4 x 14 1/8 x 4 7/8 in. 🗄️ Parinirvana (Old Earth), 2025. Wood, wire, hydrocal, jute, paint, mylar, glitter. 20.8 x 44.7 x 16.5 cm, 8 1/4 x 17 5/8 x 6 1/2 in.

Opening tonight: Elizabeth Englander, The Elizabethan Lumber Room. Image: Parinirvana (UNESCO Betty), 2025. T-shirt, wire, stuffing, thread. 39.5 x 54 x 28.5 cm, 15 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.