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FAD Magazine covers contemporary art – News, Exhibitions and Interviews reported on from London

Kyosai: The Israel Goldman Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts

I must admit that before I visited the Kawanabe Kyosai exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, I wasn’t familiar with his work, and expected to see something in the vein of the revered Japanese artist Hokusai. Kyosai is considered to be a close successor of Hokusai, however, the exhibition felt more like looking at the work of an illustrator and satirist than a fine artist. 

Damián Ortega Masks

Just opened at Gladstone Gallery is an exhibition of new works by Damián Ortega. Known for his
uncanny ability to transcend ordinary objects into entities with complex narratives, the artist presents a
series of sculptural masks that explore the significant social, economic, and personal narratives embedded in the ephemera of the everyday.

Seeing Through Glass

Now the show in Leeds presents a 50-50 mixture of glass specialists and wider-ranging artists working in the material, all illuminatingly categorised by the material property foregrounded in the processes used. ‘SOLID’ features cast or moulded glass; ‘GAS’, sculptures made by blowing into the glass; ‘LIQUID’ the results of manipulating molten glass. Here’s one of each that order:

FOOD ART | an introduction

From next week, I will start a new column for FAD exploring the shared space between food and art. This article is an introduction to this research. Called FOOD ART, it will explore the intersections, collaborations, and engagements between the two cultural spheres.

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