Andreas Gursky and Renny Tait: Photos as Paintings as Photos
14 February 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
One point everyone mentions about Andreas Gursky’s method is that he intervenes digitally to painterly effect.
Tag: Paul’s Art Stuff on a Train
The Definition of Drawing in Bath
7 February 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Jerwood Drawing Prize* is always interesting both for many of the works in themselves, and for its expanded definition of drawing –
Bridget Riley’s succession: by self and otherwise
31 January 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
At 86, Bridget Riley has a show, predominantly of recent work, at David Zwirner. It’s a mixed bag. Two stunning black disc works, a brave inclusion as they are from the early sixties and provide a tough measure for the rest of the show…
Donald Judd: Stack ’em High?
24 January 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
The aim of Sprüth Magers’ impressive show ‘Crossroads’ (to 31 March) is to present Craig Kauffman in the context of Robert Morris and Donald Judd.
New Year New Spaces
10 January 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s a case for being gloomy about the prospects for London’s smaller galleries, several having closed last year, but new ventures are still making their way.
Just About the Size of It
27 December 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
My wife is 5 foot 2, so ‘Small is Beautiful’ seems a fair premise to me, and the 35th of Flowers Gallery’s annual series (to 6 Jan) boosts the case
How to Show It
13 December 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery experience is work + space + installation, and while that is a sensible order of importance, the presentation can certainly make a big difference.
New Actions in Painting
5 December 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
That means I must have visited 5,000 painting-based shows this century. Yet there are approaches in the gesturally-themed group show ‘Control to Collapse’ which I can’t recall seeing in any of them..
Methods of Evasion: RM Fischer and Clive Hodgson
29 November 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Two excellent shows opening recently show contrasting approaches to the artist identifying self with work
Visiting the Bethlem Gallery
22 November 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
To Beckenham, in London’s near-Kentish outskirts, to visit the Bethlem Gallery. It’s in a sparkling newly-adapted art deco building, along with the Bethlem Museum of the Mind.
The Studios Visit
8 November 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Blocks of artists’ studios increasingly hold open days, which make for entertaining and varied visits quite different from the single artist version.
The Ghosts of Saatchi and Fold
1 November 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
It would be hard to conjure a bigger contrast than that between the Saatchi Gallery’s majestic four levels and FOLD’s modest basement space.
What’s the most unnatural sky colour among painters?
25 October 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
The amber sky which distracted London last week made me wonder: what’s the most unnatural sky colour among painters?
Marden, Lalic, Terre Verte
18 October 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Gagosian Mayfair has a rigorous suite of paintings by Brice Marden, highly regarded in the US for 50 years but hardly seen in the UK this century.
Saws, Buns and Feathers: some unusual quality at Frieze…
11 October 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s always plenty of interesting stuff at Frieze London and Frieze Masters, whether or not you like it as art. Here are four unusual works which I did also rate highly as art.
Comprehensive Whiteread
27 September 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
What makes a top show? Most obviously, quality and presentation. Matthew Collings is good on the former; and knocking down walls to put all the work in one opened-up space works wonderfully.
Anti-Heteronormativity in Berkshire
20 September 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Curator, collector and FAD writer Marcelle Joseph’s ‘You see me like a UFO’ (9 Sept – 7 Oct*) is well worth a trip to her home in leafy Ascot.
Art of the Postcard
6 September 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Jeremy Cooper, closely involved with the emergence of the YBAs back in the day, is better known now for his collection of postcards made by artists, which features in his 2011 book ‘Artists’ Postcards: A Compendium’ and has been accepted by the British Museum
Franco Grignani, the famous unknown artist
30 August 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Franco Grignani probably belonged in the category of artists you’ve never heard of yet whose work you turn out to have seen
Summer Sillies
23 August 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Undeflected by the fact that there’s an unusually high number of good shows on this August (see HERE) this month is traditionally the one in which to report on silly things.
The Other Giacomettis
15 August 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tate Modern’s Giacometti retrospective (to Sept 10) is the best chance to see the sculptor as more than an existentialist.
Alma-Tadema’s Death by Petals
9 August 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Leighton House is a sympathetic environment for the significant Alma-Tadema retrospective (to 29 October) which has arrived in London from his native Friesland.
Documenta 14 : Giant Show with Haystacks
26 July 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Last week I was in Kassel for Documenta 14, the quinquennial Big Daddy of serious curation which features some 300 artists.
Sculpture Projects Münster+Documenta 14+Hanover who are Peles Empire?
19 July 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Passing through Munster, Kassel and Hanover last week, I saw work by the collaborative project Peles Empire at all three.