London Fashion Week 2022 highlights – Bold Steps Forward
It’s been a hot start to the summer, with London once more packing its trains, taxis and bars with another… Read More
Author: Jasper Spires
Jasper Spires is an arts writer based in London, UK. He has been published in The Spectator, MoneyWeek and FAD Magazine, with articles that examine the philosophical mechanisms present in contemporary artworks and the cultures that surround them.
In Determinism’s Ugly Face.
Gagosian keeps curating exhibitions with fascinating intellectual bents, but Haunted Realism stands out amongst the rest.
“Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945 -1965” Barbican Art Gallery – The Procession of Catharsis
“Postwar Modern” collects not only some of the most impactful artwork produced following the Second World War, but draws crucial focus to the impact that trauma can have on the subjectivity of the artist.
Van Gogh Self Portraits – To be Blue.
The first thing to notice about Van Gogh Self-Portraits showing at the Courtauld is that there are always two Vincents… Read More
Ebecho Muslimova – A Humanity that’s Impossible to Contain.
In the combined age of computer-generated images, and concepts which sound more like selling points than reasons to make something,… Read More
Deeep Art Fair: Finding the Emotion in AI Art.
Running now in Shoreditch, Deeep AI Art Fair is a showcase of the latest up and comers making art using… Read More
The Morozov Collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton: An Impressionist Tragedy of Things Past.
In a seamless dialogue between the past, Romantic ideals hidden amongst present culture, and the philosophical desires of individuals enraptured… Read More
Signifiers, Strangeness and Other Impressionist Philosophies: Anne Baldassari on curating The Morozov Collection.
Anne Baldassari is the General Curator of The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art exhibition, showing from 22nd September at… Read More
Kate Bickmore Studio Visit: Landscapes of the Flesh.
The quintessential characteristic of London’s weather is that you can never tell what it’s going to do next. Forming a… Read More
Studio Visit: Dominic Harris
The air is hot, stifling really, as the city heaves itself into one of those irrepressible cycles that make up… Read More
Together in Resonance: How Rave Culture Can Change the World.
At the fringes of Mayfair, a striking pair of artists have built twinned monuments to the power of disruption and… Read More
Paolo Canevari Interview
Paolo Canevari’s art has been sculpted from the shadows of the modern world, but he hasn’t lost hope. Working with pitch-black rubber, used tires, and exhausted oil, he turns the waste products and omnipresent aftermath of industry into poignant structures that highlight how human beings have reshaped the world.
Paolo Canevari “Self-Portrait / Autoritratto” Cardi Gallery, London.
Paolo Canevari’s latest exhibition distils his artwork’s contention between the power of mankind, and the possibilities of polyvalence. Showing now at the Cardi Gallery in London, Canevari’s retrospective “Self-Portrait / Autoritratto” wrestles with his metamorphic practice, developed over the last thirty years.
Gretchen Andrew “Other Forms of Travel” Annka Kultys / London
Gretchen Andrew’s most recent exhibition “Other Forms of Travel” is a playful testament to the power of art in the… Read More
Rachel Whiteread “Internal Objects” Gagosian / London
Rachel Whiteread’s latest exhibition, “Internal Objects’, is an ode to lost bodies and the ghosts of our language. Showing now at Gagosian in London, Whiteread’s sculpture gives a unique incarnation to the uncanny, through its focus on the specific process by which familiar shapes and objects can be made alien to their observer.
Arturo Herrera “From This Day Forward” Thomas Dane Gallery / London
Arturo Herrera’s most recent work, exhibited in “From This Day Forwards” is a phenomenological shotgun blast. Showing at the Thomas Dane Gallery in London, soon to be freed from the restraints of a Covid-19 Lockdown, Herrera’s dynamic collage works most prominently to overwhelm the senses, in a blitz of overlapping imagery and colour, even as we vehemently struggle to understand it.