Christian Marclay at White Cube Bermondsey
Bridging the visual, the audible and the kinetic, Christian Marclay’s new work for White Cube Bermondsey builds on his earlier explorations of sound and visual art that we know to have produced charming results. For this show he facilitates a whole host of artistic disciplines in a comprehensive look at how it’s possible for the … Continue reading
4 x 4 at Stephen Friedman Gallery
The Stephen Friedman Gallery is for this exhibition, a gallery of four rooms. Each one of these rooms is home to a movement in Modernism – the first is a haven for Minimalism, the second for Geometric Abstraction, the third a den for female Pop Art and the last a refuge for Neo-conceptualism. 4 x … Continue reading
Elmgreen + Dragset: Tomorrow at V&A Museum
Buried away in the burrow-like back end of the V&A museum’s first floor is Norman Swann’s flat, into which artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset invite you to enter, upon just one condition: that you play the part of a gracious intruder. In the film of the same name written by the artist duo for … Continue reading
Novelty
The below text explores the idea of Novelty in contemporary art as per the exhibition curated by myself and Josh Berry at Asylum, SE15 this weekend gone. NOVELTY There’s a fine line between newness and novelty. It’s a line that divides the illustrious and the new from the tacky. It separates the alluring from that … Continue reading
George Butler
British reportage illustrator George Butler has drawn the Syrian conflict for national newspapers. I interviewed him about capturing the conflict, and the documentary form as a whole. In August 2012 and February this year George Butler crossed the Turkish border to Syria to record in pen, ink and watercolour snapshots of life under conflict. His … Continue reading
Andy Wicks: The Doldrums at Occupy My Time Gallery
Andy Wicks’ two-month residency at Occupy My Time Gallery, SE8 has culminated in three distinct outcomes dedicated to Deptford, which together he’s entitled ‘The Doldrums’. Each one of these outcomes claims one of the three concrete gallery walls, and each one – entitled Forged Histories, Re-rooted and Jetty – take a different physical dimension, which … Continue reading
Emma Hart: Dirty Looks at Camden Arts Centre
Tongues sealing paper as a loved one licks a letter shut, tongue trowels digging up cement slabs, tongues like ties: tongue-tied? Two tongues to make a rosette – the Best in the Show – tongues as handles, which if tugged upon could open an MDF cupboard; next to which other members of the MDF home … Continue reading
Dieter Roth: Diaries at Camden Arts Centre
The Dieter Roth that visitors meet at Camden Arts Centre is an oblivious artist, the retrospective of the German-Swiss native, reveals an unknowing creative. This sense is particularly clear in Solo Scenes, 1997-8, a collection of videos of the artist ‘at work’ displayed in the last room. These videos track Roth’s movements in the final … Continue reading
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Marina Abramovic: 512 Hours at the Serpentine Gallery
Marina Abramovic’s 512 Hours opened at the Serpentine main gallery this week after months of anticipation. However, much of the coverage in the lead up to the show has been focused on the Queen of Performance’s so-called desire for this to be a show of “nothingness” – a judgment that could quite easily flatten mounding … Continue reading →
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