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15 January 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Art of Motherhood

Birth is obviously a rather important event in all lives, yet outside of the nativity, it hasn’t received commensurate attention as a subject for art – compared with the less creative matter of death, for example.

8 January 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Post-Cubism? Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva has been shown little in the UK, so Waddington Custot’s substantial survey is well worth catching (to 15 Feb*)

2 January 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Ridiculous?

It is perhaps a little ridiculous for me to set out my own forthcoming show, but then it is called ‘Ridiculous!’. The cool new venue of Elephant West, 100 yards from White City tube station, presents in exhibition, film and performance – my choice of 18 artists who are not afraid to look stupid.

19 December 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Openings, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Chichester Multiplex

There are two ways to go if you have a large museum space available: one or two big shows or the combination of several smaller shows.

11 December 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Heavy in Bilbao

These days Bilbao’s art fame rests mainly on Frank Gehry’s iconic Guggenheim, finished with 33,000 titanium sheets and containing eight of Richard Serra’s massive works from the series Torqued Ellipses, 1996-98. Gehry and Serra fit with a – rather macho – tradition of working sculpturally in heavy materials consistent with the Basque region’s industrial base. Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) and Jorge Otieza (1908 –2003) are the most famous Basque artists of the 20^th century, but I found contemporary practitioners, too, on a recent visit.

4 December 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Deep Time in the Netherlands

How can art accommodate the burning issues of global warming in the context of our history and the possible end of it? Several shows in a recent visit to the Netherlands seemed to touch on such matters…

27 November 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Pieter de Hooch and Everyday Life in Delft

Pieter de Hooch (the Dutch say ‘hoe-k’) was born in Rotterdam in 1629, but lived in Delft during the 1650’s, where he painted 40 of his 150 known works before leaving for Amsterdam in 1660, where died around 1680. In Delft now, only the second solo show ever of his paintings* aims to lift him ‘out of the shadow’ of Delft’s most famous son, Vermeer.

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