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18 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

Five Hides

Five Hides is an exhibition presented by curatorial platform Thorp Stavri, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and through the continued support of Projekt and FAD Magazine.

15 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Openings, Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

ANDY HOLDEN: The Structure of Feeling (A Ghost Train Ride) “A socially distanced journey through a desolate post-cartoon landscape”

The new solo exhibition by Andy Holden at Block 336 was built in the four weeks leading up to the Covid-19 enforced lock-down in Britain and was never opened to the public. Instead, it remained sealed shut like a cartoon-tomb. Transformed for a new era of cautionary and tentative exhibition viewing, it finally opens on Thursday 17th September for six weeks.

15 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

Super Flatland

A dozen artists from Europe and Asia inhabit ‘Super Flatland’ at White Conduit Projects. Some are there as an artistic strategy, either for aesthetic reasons or to generate confusion between what is 2D and what 3D.

14 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Openings, Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

A Happy Accident is the first solo exhibition by Monty Hitchcock

A Happy Accident is the first solo exhibition by Monty Hitchcock and will open at The Union Club on Wednesday 16th September through to 30th October 2020.

10 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

Matthew Krishanu ‘Picture Plane’

Twelve children sit on the floor of a classroom, cross-legged or knees bent up towards their chins. They are brown-skinned with black hair. The painting, called ‘Mission School’ (2017), is by Matthew Krishanu.

9 September 2020 by Lee Sharrock in Art Previews, EXHIBITIONS, Photography

Jess Kohl Solo Exhibition ANIME SALVE at Palazzo delle Arti Napoli

Photographer and director Jess Kohl spoke to Lee Sharrock about her solo photographic exhibition with Collettivo Zero at Palzzo delle Arti in Naples.

9 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff New York, EXHIBITIONS

Ryan Gander: These are the markers of our time

Ryan Gander will open Lisson Gallery’s new space in New York with an exhibition highlighting time as the new currency, reflecting on how – in an age of identity politics, selfie culture and an incessant need to shout the loudest – the focus of our time should be on the value of time itself.

8 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff Berlin, EXHIBITIONS

Takashi Murakami: Michel Majerus Superflat

The Michel Majerus Estate new exhibition is Takashi Murakami: Michel Majerus Superflat, curated by Tobias Berger. Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) and Michel Majerus (1967–2002) both started exhibiting widely in the mid-1990s and can be considered the first generation of artists who fully embraced post-analog.

8 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing continues her exploration of identity, fiction, reality and the mask presenting a series of new works on paper, board, sculpture and film. Conceived over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition focuses mainly on works made during the lockdown. Her new watercolour portraits have all been created in this time of self-reflection motivated by isolation.

8 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

Earth Eaters

EARTH EATERS is an alternative name for the condition Geophagia – the practice in humans and animals of eating earth or more specifically the clay and mineral content within it. It is part of a larger eating disorder called Pica – the consumption of non nutritive substances such as clay, starch, ice and chalk. This behaviour is usually found in people that have underlying deficiencies (blood cells, haemoglobin or zinc).