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| Established | 19 January 2000 |
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| Location | London, SE11 |
| Coordinates | 51°29′28″N0°06′30″W / 51.491168°N 0.108423°W |
| Type | Art Gallery, Modern Art, Contemporary Art |
| Founder | Tommaso Corvi-Mora |
| Public transit access |  Kennington  Elephant & Castle |
| Website | www |
Corvi-Mora is a contemporary art gallery based in Kennington, South London. [1] The gallery represents emerging and established international artists including Turner Prize nominees Roger Hiorns [2] [3] and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. [4] [5]
Corvi-Mora was founded by Tommaso Corvi-Mora in 2000 at premises in London's Warren Street [6] after the closure of the gallery Robert Prime which he founded in partnership with Gregorio Magnani in 1995. [7] [8] Corvi-Mora moved to a space on Kempsford Road in 2004 with the contemporary art gallery greengrassi. [9] [10] [11]
Notable exhibitions include Sorrow for A Cipher by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in 2016, [12] [13] Roger Hiorns in 2004 [14] and 2015, [15] The Commune Itself Becomes a Super State by Liam Gillick in 2007, [16] Rachel Feinstein in 2007, [17] and Richard Hawkins in 2009. [18]
The gallery currently represents over 30 artists, including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, [19] Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, [20] Alvaro Barrington, [21] Jennifer Packer, [22] Brian Calvin [23] and Tomoaki Suzuki. [24] [25]
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Walk in to the cool, top-lit ground floor space at Corvi-Mora right now and you are likely to experience a jolt of keen optical pleasure.
In 1995 Tommaso Corvi-Mora opened London gallery with Gregorio Magnani.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Sorrow for a Cipher, Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, until 8 October
Tommaso Corvi-Mora is pleased to present new work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition features a new group of paintings, including portraits and figures in landscapes.
Created in the artist's London studio, the sculpture first appeared in March 2007 at the Corvi Mora Gallery, London.