LONDON.- October Gallery is showing a new exhibition of works by Gandalf Gavan. This will be his first solo exhibition in London. Born in 1975 in Berlin, Gavan lives and works in New York and Mexico. He studied at the Repin Academy of the Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, also Bard College and Columbia University in New York, where he also worked as an adjunct professor of art, teaching printmaking. He has exhibited in Europe (Manchester, Berlin, Geneva), South America, the U.S. and Mexico. His works are rendered via a prolific use of media – painting, drawing, glass, neon, anamorphic mirror, photography, ceramics and weaving. A formalist by training, Gavan’s works project a dazzling energy, the shapes and forms are both playful and exuberant, “I am attracted to art that has that sense of humour and tension between seriousness, ambivalence and play.” (The Brooklyn Rail). The new works created in the art