Keeping up with the Smiths: a London gallery unites artists with the same surname

Installation view of ‘The Smiths’ at Marlborough, London.Installation view of ‘The Smiths’ at Marlborough, London.Smith may be among the most common surname in the western world, but there’s nothing generic about the eclectic clique of more than 30 artists who have come together for an unlikely family reunion at London gallery Marlborough. Bridging multiple generations, disciplines and styles, ‘The Smiths’ includes work by both household names and less familiar artists exhibiting side by side.

The summer group exhibition stemmed from a debate between Marlborough director Pascal Spengemann and Maurizio Cattelan about whether interesting connections might emerge from an arbitrary common thread. When the Italian art provocateur revealed he had always wanted to stage a show with a line-up of Smiths, the gallery set to work realising it.Courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery

Among the more eminent Smiths on view, there’s an unassuming gelatin silver print by musician and poet Patti Smith; a mixed media floral collage by fashion designer Sir; a haunting Lewis Carroll-inspired print from Kiki Smith; and a delicate copperplate etching suspended from the gallery ceiling by Anj Smith.

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