Pushing the boundaries of visual art and film. We sat down with Sarah Perks from Cornerhouse. Cornerhouse in Manchester is one of the UK’s foremost facilities for visual art. Established in 1985 they have gained an international reputation for film and visual art; featuring a cinema, bar, café, bookshop, and art gallery. They will move to a new …
Dislocation and the unfamiliar city. José Parlá began his artistic career as a street artist. Once in possession of this fact, the resemblance of his canvases to palimpsestic city walls is apparent and his concrete ‘floor sculptures’ become recognisable as sections of fag-butt-strewn pavement. This exhibition at Haunch of Venison showcases work made in response to cities – …
Irony, puns, wit and whimsy at Serpentine Gallery. The unconventional retrospective of Rosemarie Trockel features artists ranging across centuries and disciplines. Trockel is not the first artist to include others in her ‘solo’ show. Jeff Wall placed his photographs next to paintings in Brussels and Grayson Perry used the British Museum’s collection. Yet this exhibition …
Danish artist Astrid Kruse Jensen’s striking photographic series Disappearing into the Past contains a poetic displacement of imagined realities. Her previous work involves sophisticated technology, unusual uses of light and intense detail. What emerges is a sense of stillness and absence, a kind of fictional scenery. Sharp lines, bright colours, empty landscapes and a recurring … Continue reading
A new permanent collection at the Design Museum reveals insights into exceptional and iconic everyday objects. Installation View, F Type Post Box, David Mellor Design Ordinary Things, Installation View, with Deyan Sudjic Director Design Museum Anglepoise Lamp, George Carwardine ECKO Model AD-65 Radio, Wells Coates Installation View, Traffic Light, David Mellor, Road Sign, Jock Kinneir … Continue reading
Thomas Joshua Cooper’s landscape photographs at Haunch of Venison dissolve the boundaries between the beautiful and the Sublime In the Critique of Judgement, his extensive analysis of the aesthetic experience, Immanuel Kant distinguishes between our experience of the beautiful and the Sublime. He posits that the beautiful, in nature as in art, is a question … Continue reading
Unexpected meaning in Edinburgh. Maybe I’m supposed to feel a bit sick. Reading the heavily dense text of the Fruitmarket Gallery information leaflet, while standing in the ground floor room of the current exhibition is not advisable. In this solo show of work by Massimo Bartolini, the first work I encounter is La Stada di … Continue reading
Site-specific sculpture and Maoist mythology at Lisson Gallery. I was excited about the Richard Wentworth exhibition. I’ve always been moved by encounters with his work, his elevation of the ordinary to the extraordinary seems a valiant quest. I want to see the world as he does, alive to the importance of the outwardly unremarkable, the … Continue reading
Běla Kolářová articulates something unusual in her posthumous exhibition at Raven Row. The French novelist Georges Perec sought to investigate what he referred to as the infra-ordinary, the essence of the quotidian, of the habitual. He posits that the common things in life – where we eat, where we sleep, ‘bricks, concrete, glass, our table … Continue reading
The South Gallery at Hauser & Wirth currently houses an enigmatic collection of Eva Hesse’s artwork, made during a stay in Germany in 1965. This exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, reliefs and sculptures from Hesse’s short, yet pivotal time in Germany. There, Hesse’s studio space was an abandoned textile factory in Kettqig an der Ruhr. … Continue reading
Tucked a few streets behind the heave of Piccadilly Circus, the White Cube Mason’s Yard offers a moment of quiet reflection. Martin’s work belongs to an artistic past more interested in the interior world of the mind than overt political or social concerns. One room at the gallery contains delicate bronze casts of honeycombs created by … Continue reading
Successful opening night at Underdog Gallery Sublimate, Sublime, Subliminal in Bermondsey. Russell Baker Eva Schlegal Per Fronth Stephanie Donsø Andrea Mariconti (detail) Nicola Samori Alan Rankle (detail) Astrid Kruse Jensen -Photographs © Daniel Callanan This exhibition is running in conjunction with Sublimate, Sublime, Subliminal at Lloyd’s Club from 25 January till 13 April 2013. Continue reading
Chris Bracey’s Star glows in the window of Scream London and visitors are drawn in with the promise of neon lights, site-specific installations, unconventional materials and decadence. Scream presents its third annual group exhibition, The Space Between the Stars, hosting international and British stars alongside new talent. The show initially looks like a brightly coloured, superficial … Continue reading
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