Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London Post-Easter. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you. If you’re looking for museum exhibitions to visit, check out last week’s top 5 where all three remain open to visit.
Edward Burtynsky: New Works @ Flowers Gallery
To coincide with his major, and spectacular, exhibition at Saatchi Gallery Flowers is showing a selection of works by photographer extraordinaire Edward Burtyksny. With snaps of a giant coal terminal, a receding glacier and erosion he manages to capture the scale of both nature and our impact on it. Until 6 April.
Alexis Rockman: Conflagration @ Huxley-Parlour, Swallow Street
The rich greens of the trees mixed with the intense orange of the fires destroying them really captures the sense of what we’re seeing in the world around us as wildfires rage across the globe. There’s also a great texture to them when you see them up close that adds depth to the paintings. Until 13 April.
Helen A Pritchard: The Homeless Mind @ TJ Boulting
We live in an age of excess where we produce so much waste. Helen Pritchard takes this material and makes art from it – whether it be bottles in a wall based work or building materials to make totemic sculptures that tower over us, asking us to reconsider how we view the materials we so easily discard. Until 14 April.
The Future is Female @ The Garrison Chapel, Chelsea Barracks
Sculpting has historically been seen as a male profession and this exhibition brings together a diverse selection of female sculptors ranging from Jill Berelowitz’s spiralling sculpture made from female torsos to Charlotte Colbert’s video work of the sleeping benefits supervisor that Lucien Freud once painted. It’s all housed within the spectacular old chapel of the Chelsea Barracks. Until 6 April.
Woody De Othello: Faith like a rock @ Stephen Friedman Gallery
Ceramic vessels sit upon wooden palettes and sprout hands and legs – anthropomorphised in an exhibition that feels playful but also reflects Indigenous cultures that would imbue vessels with sacred energy. Falcons and horse’s heads, vessels with ears and mouths, alongside his paintings reference both the natural world and animistic rituals. Until 13 April.
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