REVIEW: Dennis Loesch – Merge Visible
15 October 2015 • Eric Thorp
The ever growing influence of digitised imagery in painting is beckoning in a new era of abstraction.
Author: Eric Thorp
Eric Thorp is a writer and curator based in London. @thorpstavri
Review: Eddie Peake – The Forever Loop
12 October 2015 • Eric Thorp
A generation of clean cut young artists making very clean expensive art, Peake is part of a sort of post YBA movement who are developing a sophisticated language
REVIEW: Broomberg & Chanarin + Rudiments, Ryan Gander – Fieldwork at Lisson Gallery
6 October 2015 • Eric Thorp
Broomberg & Chanarin’s ‘Rudiments’ is a darkly comic analysis of the absurdity of combat, the fragility of the human condition and the brevity of life.
REVIEW: Jerusalem Season of Culture: In House Festival
14 August 2015 • Eric Thorp
Jerusalem Season of Culture is in its 5th year and and has become one Israel’s most prolific artistic happenings. The season consists of a hugely varied program split up into festivals and events focusing on contemporary art, music and culture.
REVIEW : David Blandy – Hercules : Rough Cut
26 July 2015 • Eric Thorp
David Blandy is a man obsessed with popular culture. His work explores the ability that his interests and chosen aspects of counter culture have had to develop, shape and influence his existence as a human being.
Review: Station To Station – Bo Ningen
21 July 2015 • Eric Thorp
Bo Ningen are a Japanese born, London formed, four piece, Psychedelic, punk band who’s four day residency kicked off last night
Exclusive Interview : Emma Hart & Jonathan Baldock – SUCKERZ
3 July 2015 • Eric Thorp
London based artists Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock’s first collaboration ‘SUCKERZ’ is a beautifully grotesque analysis of the absurdly ritualistic world of the dinner party
Review: Ivar Wigan – The Gods
30 June 2015 • Eric Thorp
In 1995 a group of Atlanta rappers called Goodie Mobb imortalised the phrase ‘DIRTY SOUTH’ – a term used to describe an evolution in Southern American ‘street culture’ that would captivate a young America and become one of the most significant and lucrative movements in the history of American popular culture.
REVIEW: Melanie Manchot – Twelve Peckham Platform
18 June 2015 • Eric Thorp
Addiction is an extremely difficult and sometimes uncomfortable subject to broach. Many of, us in our lives, will deal with some form of addiction or be exposed to and effected by the addictions of others around us.
Look At The E(s)tate We’re In
3 June 2015 • Eric Thorp
The irksome predictability and accelerated growth of London’s gentrification has become a disheartening and complex beast.
REVIEW: Ryoji Ikeda – supersymmetry
28 May 2015 • Eric Thorp
Ryoji Ikeda’s ‘supersymmetry’ blurs the lines between art, music and particle physics in a complex and disorientating installation, which may actually necessitate a PHD to fully fathom.
REVIEW: Catlin Art Prize 2015
10 May 2015 • Eric Thorp
Catlin Art Prize, in it’s 9th year, has firmly established itself as an imperatively important platform and patron for emerging artists. This year’s show of 8 young upstarts previewed last week in the Londonnewcastle space on Redchurch Street – a fitting location to showcase the dazzling maze of inter locking installations.
REVIEW: Theaster Gates – Freedom of Assembly
2 May 2015 • Eric Thorp
Floating around the the meticulously polished concrete floors of White Cube Bermondsey it is difficult to imagine anything looking bad in such a perfectly sized and finished space.
BEARSPACE: One of the most interesting and important galleries to have emerged from the ‘Deptford scene’.
12 April 2015 • Eric Thorp
The indiscriminate gentrification of our nation’s capital seems to know no bounds. The grotesque, sprawling redevelopment of London is slowly but surely smothering what little life and soul remains, creating a dystopian playground for provincial fuckwits with bags of money and a severe taste deficiency.
REVIEW: Luke Burton – Filigree Endings @ BOSSE & BAUM
21 March 2015 • Eric Thorp
There is a delicately moving atmosphere to Luke Burton’s work. A warm feeling of nostalgia which he describes as a perpetual dusk, of sorts.
REVIEW: Norbert Delman – ILLEGAL PERSONAL CONTACT WITH AN OPPONENT @ Maria Stenfors
13 March 2015 • Eric Thorp
The whole show is designed to unsettle and disorientate – inducing anxiety in an attempt to recreate a level of angst and worry experienced by the artist and spawned from an acute fear of failure.
Young Peckham: Bosse & Baum
20 February 2015 • Eric Thorp
With Peckham’s proximity to some of the countries leading art schools there has always been, and hopefully always will be, an active and interesting art scene.
REVIEW: Recognition and Revolution @lisson_gallery
9 February 2015 • Eric Thorp
Lisson Gallery present two very interesting and contrasting shows, both dealing with identity and human expression.
SHIRT and The Art Of Rap
6 February 2015 • Eric Thorp
Nowadays when the art world takes an interest in Hip Hop the results, with exception, are usually corny as fuck. It’s been a long time since the likes of Rammellzee and Basquiet proved that there was something within Hip Hop culture that could hold the interest of the Art world for more than 15 minutes.
Review: Christian Marclay @_WhiteCube, Bermondsey
4 February 2015 • Eric Thorp
The exhibition is an overwhelming, audiovisual celebration which attacks the senses with an uncompromising energy
Hey! Ever wondered what it would be like to own the junk of rich, famous, creative and successful, people?
30 January 2015 • Eric Thorp
Hey! Ever wondered what it would be like to own the junk of rich, famous, creative and successful, people? Well now you can thanks to Garage Magazine.
@BruceAsbestos, A/B Testing at Concrete
24 January 2015 • Eric Thorp
The work in the show is web based and the artist is using Youtube,in particular, as the medium.
The title A/B testing is a method used for internet marketing for companies to test which videos, e-flyers, adverts etc are most popular.
REVIEW: Art Projects, @LondonArtFair 2015
21 January 2015 • Eric Thorp
If you are anything like me you may find the possibility of having to visit an art fair a slightly jarring prospect. These brightly lit trade fairs, where gallerists fawn over collectors in hope of a whiff of their filthy lucre, have more in common with a Rolls Royce dealership than they have with the experience of viewing art in a gallery