REVIEW: Jemma Egan – Family Member
Conceptual sculptor Jemma Egan’s poignant show at Lily Brooke in Camberwell is home to a mini-menagerie of metallic pets that plays with our fondness for sentimentalising animals and technology
Author: AJ Dehany
AJ Dehany is based in London and writes independently about music, art and stuff. ajdehany.co.uk
REVIEW: Joseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag Monuments
On the eastern front in 1944, rear gunner Joseph Beuys (b1921-d1986) was—according to his own personal mythology— rescued from a burning Stuka by Tatar nomads and wrapped in fat and felt. These totemic materials predominate throughout the German artist’s work, with the myth as a resonating centre of meaning, both personal and historical, even if the story itself isn’t really true.
REVIEW: Joan Jonas and Jason Moran: A Lecture-Demonstration: Night One (Tate Modern Tanks)
On the first night of Tate Modern’s ambitious programme of her work, Joan Jonas reiterated that she is not a “performance artist”— the term doesn’t seem right today. She’s an artist.
Gillian Hyland at After Nyne Gallery
The photographs are carefully staged and pregnantly static. The work is all about separation: figures alone or figures together who never make eye contac
Review: Im/material: Painting in the Digital Age (Sophia Contemporary)
Nothing is quite what it seems in Sophia Contemporary Gallery’s Im/material: Painting in the Digital Age, a closely curated show including twenty works by eight artists working at the intersection between the immaterial realm of 1s and 0s and the material facts of canvas, ink and paint.
100 Secrets of the Art World (Book and panel at Tate Modern)
Magnus Resch and Thomas Girst’s book 100 Secrets of the Art World (Koenig Catalog) courted attention recently with some revelations about Picasso’s shitty art practices.
IRMA: An Opera – Tom Phillips – South London Gallery
It really is the End Times. We know this because, after fifty years of revisions and variations, Tom Phillips has finished his ‘treated Victorian novel.
Open Ear: Proms at… The Tanks At Tate Modern
The Late Proms have a special atmosphere, more open-minded than the main concerts, with expectations of mixing and mashing up music from all over the map.
Face to Face – Works by BP Portrait Award Artists
The annual BP Portrait Award is a great showcase for the relevance of artists puzzling out how to depict human beings,
Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic
Weaving Magic (2014- 2017) at the National Gallery aims to place Ofili in a tradition of tapestry design represented in the same building by no less than Goya & Rubens
FUCK YOU WHERES MY SUGER? – 4-5 August, Cafe Oto, London
Artists Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood have fomented a technique of combative curation that militates against against the normal pleasantries of social events.
Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always (Towner Art Gallery)
The Towner’s zingy new exhibition is a shout out for the value of popular-minded art as an empowering force that transcends social class and taste.
Deep Fried Thoughts: Roberto Cuoghi “PERLA POLLINA (1996-2016)” at Madre Museum, Naples
“PERLA POLLINA” is a “mid-career retrospective” for Roberto Cuoghi, One third of Italy’s team for the 57th Venice Biennale at Madre Museum, Naples.
Manchester International Festival 2017
“We don’t set any rules about the themes the artists should address, nor about the venues where they should present… Read More
Absolutely modern: Sidney Nolan at Ikon, Birmingham
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) is the most celebrated Australian painter of the twentieth century, best known for his Ned Kelly series… Read More
Slade School summer show: the ones to watch.
The Slade’s graduate show contained enjoyable work of a good standard, a lot of flat colour plane figurative painting but some work I found thrilling. There is a growing fondness in art for creating sculptural installations as sites for performance; I kept happening upon signs saying “Next performance…”
Graphic Witness (Group Show) – Drawing Room, Bermondsey, London
Bermondsey’s Drawing Room styles itself as Europe’s only public non-profit gallery dedicated to drawing.
Exhibition Opening: “Every Day is a New Day” – Phyllida Barlow, Michael Armitage, Portfolio & MASK Prize (Turner Contemporary, Margate)
Phyllida Barlow is representing Britain at the 2017 Venice Biennale so it’s big news for Turner Contemporary to be showing her works from the publicly funded ARTIST ROOMS.