Paul Carey-Kent, Author at FAD Magazine

May 16, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Auction as Show

Unsurprisingly, the leading auction houses are all selling photographic work to coincide with Photo London (18-21 May). By way of a warm-up, I looked at them as exhibits rather than as potential purchases. Do they make for a good visit?

May 9, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Richter in Southampton

Gerhard Richter is the most expensive and famous living painter, so it is quite a coup for Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery to reopen with a major show of his work (in conjunction with Artist Rooms, to 18 August).

May 2, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

William Tucker: Thingness, Thoe and Patina

William Tucker’s retrospective covering 65 years (Pangolin Gallery to 2 June) impresses with three bodies of work which feel quite distinct: 1960’s geometric objects; 1970’s tubular forms, and, from the 1990’s on, the often-massive ‘lumps which are more than lumps’ – often hands or torsos.

April 25, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Art Stuff from London, EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Women Can Paint

Well it’s hardly news. But suddenly it you can’t move for top shows of female painters! The point of ‘Women Can’t Paint’ at the ASC and Turps Banana galleries is to prove that they can, contrary to Georg Baselitz’s notorious barb.

April 18, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS

Picasso’s Visual Puns

Picasso isn’t strongly associated with setting up ambiguity in his paintings in the same systematic way as Dali is through his ‘paranoiac critical’ method in which elephants become swans etc. However, a couple of motifs from the tremendous show at the Tate may change your mind..

April 11, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS

Atypicalia

What’s the value of early or atypical work by a highly marketable artist? Such work is doubtless consigned for sale in the hope that some of the repute of more characteristic work will rub off.

April 4, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Moss see shows at White Cube and Tate Modern

Until last week, I’d have said ‘moss + art (-Kate) = Andrea Büttner’, as the German artist has often exhibited moss gardens, having an interest in lowly forms and how they connects to shame.

March 28, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in ART, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

If Mayfair is London’s main gallery hub, what comes second?

A couple of years back, Fitzrovia and the East End would spring to mind. Now a case also could be made for Vauxhall or Peckham.

March 21, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Art Stuff from London, EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Alexandra Bircken: Capsizing the Gallery

There is what amounts to a tradition of single work installations which radically transform the architecture of the gallery.

March 14, 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Are We Virtually There Yet?

Is virtual reality the way ahead for art? Like any new technology, it can have its clunky moments and effect can come at the cost of substance. Yet I have already experienced a persuasive work..