Paul Carey Kent Archives

13 November 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Hailing Hans Hartung

Hans Hartung (1904-89) seems to be an increasingly highly regarded artist, whether measured by market or exhibition profile.

6 November 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Acceptance: Alice Anderson at the Atelier Calder

I visited the current recipient, Alice Anderson, and it was immediately obvious what can be gained. The spacious house is isolated in a classic Loire Valley landscape. The natural world, from which Calder abstracted many of his forms, is right up close through the extensive windows of the thirty-metre long studio. Not surprisingly, Anderson is taking the chance to work on a larger scale..

30 October 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Rising in the East? Chinese Abstraction

The western profile and marketability of contemporary Asian art has risen sharply in recent years, principally through the Japanese Gutai (‘concrete’) and Mona-ha (‘school of things’) and the Korean Dansaekhwa (‘monochrome painting’) schools, with their distinctive titles

23 October 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Golden Fiac

If the various editions of Frieze and Art Basel are the market leaders in fairs, then FIAC in Paris (16-20 Oct) is not far behind.

16 October 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Mandala Zone

If two’s a tendency and three’s a trend, then mandalas – orient-originated schematized circular representations of the cosmos through intricate geometry – are in fashion at the moment.

9 October 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Climate Change in Retrospect

It’s a sign of the pervasive effect of global warming on our current thinking that as I wandered round Frieze Masters, I found works from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s which seemed plausibly related to the theme – whatever their original agenda:

3 October 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Frieze London 2019

Frieze London – the more contemporary half of the fair – seemed in good health this year. Here are seven works that interested me. We start uncomfortably:

25 September 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Art Stuff Berlin, EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Comfort Stops

Spend a day wandering around a large art fair or a city’s galleries, and you will need the odd ‘comfort break’. In Berlin recently, however, there were several interesting works featuring the process itself.

18 September 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

New at Art Berlin

What are art fairs good for? They get a bad press, but I particularly like the chance to catch up with developments in the work of familiar artists. Art Berlin (11-15 Sept) gave plenty of such chances. Here are five directions which were new to me:

11 September 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Artists Writing: Paul Winstanley

Michael Craig-Martin is almost as famous for his collection of writings ‘On Being An Artist’ as he is for his impeccably flat yet crisply sculptural drawing style.