contemporary art Archives

Yulia Iosilzon Interview – “I can’t fully describe how I feel when I enter the transparent painting. It feels very different from painting on canvas. There’s always a way back.”

4 November 2019 • Hector Campbell

Israeli born, London based artist Yulia Iosilzon recently sat down with art historian, writer and curator Hector Campbell to discuss how her sculptural background influences her paintings, her exploration of colour and narrative, and her current exhibition Paradeisos at Carvalho Park in New York

Practice in Action: A Review of Theaster Gates at Richard Gray Gallery

1 August 2019 • Caira Moreira-Brown

What results from urban planning, social practice, and a hunger for change? Theaster Gates at Richard Gray may be it. The latest exhibition from the Chicago based artist emphasised the intersection of fine art and social progression.

Art Night Putting Walthamstow’s Art and Culture on the London Map

21 June 2019 • Staff

Art Night returns this year for it’s fourth run in Walthamstow and King’s Cross. This year differs to the last in that Walthamstow was awarded the first London Borough of Culture. The festival shall run on Saturday 22nd of June, starting around 7pm and finishing around 3am.

How does art taste? How does it feel to eat it, touch it, sit on it? Find out at AMP gallery as it becomes an artist-led cafe

7 April 2019 • Irene Machetti

How does art taste? How does it feel to eat it, touch it, sit on it? AMP gallery have turned into an artist-run-cafe to investigate. 12 artists will deliver holistic edible experiences, designing everything from furniture to butter.

ASC Gallery and Recreational Grounds present the works from PADA’s residency

27 March 2019 • Irene Machetti

PADA studios presents two new London exhibitions, at ASC Gallery and Recreational Grounds. The shows gather together the work of 12 artists in total, resulting from their residency in PADA’s industrial park in Portugal.

Emma Fineman’s Surreal comeback is even more intriguing than its precedent

24 February 2019 • Irene Machetti

Emma Fineman solo show, REALMS OF THE (UN) REAL, to open at PUBLIC Gallery, 6th March. The exhibition explores the many facets of our ontological space, imagining them within an absence of temporal constraints.

Abuse II, The Uncanny. Alessio Bolzoni’s continuing (disturbing, positive!) project

4 February 2019 • Irene Machetti

Alessio Bolzoni is publishing the second part of his photographic project exploring abuse. Abuse II, The Uncanny which transforms dance and flexibility into a fierce critique of physical abuse.

Rammellzee: A Roll of Dice

25 November 2018 • Eric Thorp

There are very few artists that could claim to be truly original and even fewer that could prove it, but no truer a word could be said than when referring to Rammellzee.

Lot 5 Collective present Face Value at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery

26 October 2018 • Irene Machetti

Lot 5 Collective’s fourth exhibition, Face Value, will be staged at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, Mayfair from 8-17 November.

ART PROOF podcast episode 1: John Costi

23 September 2018 • Eric Thorp

Art Proof is a new art podcast conceived and hosted by arts journalist Eric Thorp, creative project coordinator Nicholas Stavri and painter Rowan Newton.

Skarstedt’s Summer Group Exhibition

1 August 2018 • Mark Westall

Skarstedt’s Summer Group Exhibition includes artwork from the likes of George Condo, Cindy Sherman and David Salle and KAWS

FUGITIVE FEMINISM

26 June 2018 • Mark Westall

The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents a five-day convening of artists, academics and activists focused on contemporary Black feminist politics, examining the impossibility of Black women’s claims to womanhood and the new spaces that are created by a politics of refusal. Generating conversations across the diaspora and across generations, a range of thinkers and practitioners present a series of talks, workshops, film screenings and performance.

Miriam Austin: Gimmel

26 June 2018 • Mark Westall

Gimmel will be Miriam Austin’s second solo exhibition at Bosse & Baum. Based in London, New Zealand-born Austin has a rich multidisciplinary practice that explores the relationship between ritual, myth, ecological fragility, and the politics of the body

Contemporary Art vs Pop Art

25 June 2018 • Mark Westall

If art is all about movements, then there aren’t many bigger than Contemporary and Pop Art. The early 20^th century provided us with some truly iconic pieces, and many of them were associated with some of the most prolific artists in history that could be placed under the Contemporary and Pop Art umbrellas.

Collier Schorr solo exhibition In Front of the Camera

25 June 2018 • Mark Westall

Modern Art are showing a solo exhibition of work by Collier Schorr. This is her 4th solo exhibition with the gallery.

EXHIBITIONS

The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week

24 June 2018 • Tabish Khan

This week’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London includes: Animals, colour, wood, viruses, neon, Frankenstein & crosses.

Exhibition of new work Blobz from cult American artist, Kenny Scharf opens in London

24 June 2018 • Mark Westall

Cult American artist, Kenny Scharf, the grandfather of Street Art, who alongside friends Haring and Basquiat founded the street art movement in 1980s New York with his surreal pop art murals, is to have his first UK exhibition for ten years in London.

Coming soon: Banksy and his greatest hits 2002 -2008

4 June 2018 • Mark Westall

Banksy’s original gallerist Steve Lazarides and his Lazinc co-founder Wissam Al Mana are going to exhibit an influential collection of Banksy’s most iconic images this summer.

James Ostrer explores race, greed and the tribal elite in his new show opening next week.

30 May 2018 • Mark Westall

In 2016 world-renowned curator Azu Nwagbogu invited James to show his 2014 ‘Wotsit All About’ series in Lagos, Nigeria. Naturally, Nwagbogu expected Ostrer to come along with his fetishised junk food portraits that had warned the west of over-consumption.

The power of food. An interview with Inês Neto Dos Santos

23 April 2018 • Irene Machetti

Inês Neto Dos Santos is a Portuguese artist who recently graduated from the Royal College of Arts in London. She has always demonstrated a keen interest in the relation between human beings and the elements surrounding their daily lives.

INTERVIEW: British artist and architect, Mark Dziewulski, exhibits work from the Venice Biennale 2017 for the first time in London

17 April 2018 • Staff

FAD caught up with British artist and architect, Mark Dziewulski ahead of his new exhibition where he will be exhibiting some of his work from the Venice Biennale 2017 for the first time in London.

Get a portrait painted live for only £200, from L.A. artist Joel Mesler in Mayfair gallery next week

12 April 2018 • Mark Westall

As part of Simon Lee Galleries Viewing Room programme they open an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist and art dealer, Joel Mesler. For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Mesler will exhibit paintings from his ongoing body of work based on the alphabet.

NEWS

Wilhelm Sasnal Sleep

12 April 2018 • Mark Westall

For his 2018 exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, Wilhelm Sasnal is going to present a group of new paintings in which present-day reality, memory and art history are concurrent and indivisible strands.

Lorenzo Belenguer interviews arts presenter and curator Kate Bryan

5 July 2017 • Staff

Art collections in hotels used to be a miscellany of prints of ships, cows, seascapes, landscapes and buildings, depending on whether it was by the coast, or an urban or rural site. And that was it. Hopefully, things have changed and today they are presented as a cohesive series of artworks; some of them with an activist element.

INTERVIEWS

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