Image:© the artist Courtesy White Cube 3 September – 2 October 2010 White Cube Mason’s Yard Known for works that meditate on notions of time, landscape and travel, as well as political and historical memory, Almond brings these themes together in two bodies of work: a series of time-lapse photographs taken in the Faroe Islands, […]
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Jess Flood-Paddock: Gangsta’s Paradise Hayward Gallery Project Space Private View Tuesday August 3rd 2010d
In her first solo exhibition at a major institution, the British artist Jess Flood-Paddock (b.1977) presents a sculptural scenario that explores the historical and cultural specificity of moral behaviour, populist self-help texts, the links between anthropology and infotainment, and the comedy and tragedy of scale – specifically gigantism. Often concerned with the questions of what […]
Continue Reading...Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop Review by Jeffrey Andreoni
The ultimate creative act is that of creating a living breathing person, but Banksy has surpassed even that feat by creating a living breathing artist. In his never-ending quest to poke fun at the pretentions of the artworld, Banksy has done what every anti-artworld artist wished they could do: sell shit. How did he achieve […]
Continue Reading...Liz Neal New Paintings at Satorial Gallery Wednesday 9th March
Image:Isabella 2010. Acrylic on linen, 130 x 130cm. Sartorial, Liz Neal, New Paintings, 7-9pm, About the paintings … ‘I have been continuing to downsize my practice in accordance with the current climate. I have also had to embrace Acrylic paint. It’s a practical thing. I can no longer lurch around the flat covered in wet […]
Continue Reading...THE REAL VAN GOGH: THE ARTIST AND HIS LETTERS Royal Academy from January 23rd
JOSE-MARIA CANO ‘The Wall Street 100’ at RIFLEMAKER DAIRY (WAKEFIELD STREET, LONDON WC1) from Monday 9th November
Monday 9 November – Saturday 5 December at RIFLEMAKER DAIRY (WAKEFIELD STREET, LONDON WC1) One hundred portraits painted in wax of subjects seen purely from an economic viewpoint. Includes: Barack Obama, Bernard Madoff, the Queen… Private view: Monday 9 November 6-9pm Jose-Maria Cano is looking a little waxy 🙁The Times)
Continue Reading...ANKA DABROWSKA & JENI SNELL -CONCRETE JUNGLE (PROJECT SPACE) at Satorial Private View Thursday 29th October
Exploring the conflicting and troubling relationship between childhood innocence and the architecture of war has been a consistently developed theme throughout my work. Once attending a school built on top of a WWII German Gun Battery, I aim to highlight elements of my personal experience; the strangeness, absurdity and contradictions of a place marked by […]
Continue Reading...LEONARDO DREW at FAS Contemporary Art Private View Wednesday 7th October
Drew’s sculptural work consists of constructions made of fabricated and collected objects, each item specifically made to look like found pieces. This work is more of a reassembling and a reconstruction rather than traditional assemblage. There is an overall feeling of impermanence to the work with the re-contextualising of the objet trouvé to form items […]
Continue Reading...Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid Private View Tuesday 6th October
Pumphouse Gallery Battersea Park, London Nobuyoshi Araki , Rut Blees Luxemburg , Guy Bourdin , Tim Braden, Roe Ethridge , Walker Evans, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, André Kertész , John Latham, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jonathan Monk, Lisa Oppenheim , Lucas Samaras , Michael Snow, Juergen Teller , Andy Warhol, Wim Wenders From the lyrics of OutKast’s […]
Continue Reading...Blair Thurman: Never Bet the Devil Your Head from September 18th
Mask of the Special Red Death 2009 Plywood, acrylic, neon glass and wire 330 x 207 cm / 129.90 x 81.50 in 18 Sep 2009 – 13 Nov 2009 The Alexia Goethe Gallery is proud to present Blair Thurman’s first solo exhibition in London. Using the vocabulary of guns, motorcars and trailing highways his installations […]
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