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Daniel Barnes
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Gavin Turk: The Forgotten YBA
by Daniel Barnes
Gavin Turk at Ben Brown Fine Arts Ltd
April 26th - June 14th
Posted
6/12/13
Gavin Turk: his work is mature and yet provocative; he has made a living as an artist and not sold out; and his ideas retain an urgency from not being overstated. But who is Gavin Turk? This exhibition provides a timely opportunity to unravel one of the forgotten stars of the YBA movement.
Turk’s practice has often revolved around ideas concerning authorship, authenticity and value. ‘The Years’ reminds us that Turk handles these ideas with great intellectual subtlety rather than manufact... [more]
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A Disneyland Illusion
by Daniel Barnes
Random International at Barbican Art Gallery
October 4th, 2012 - March 3rd
Posted
1/8/13
The prospect of walking into a room that is filled with one hundred square metres of torrential rain is not one that most of us would relish: but the prospect of playing god and controlling the rain is another thing altogether. Random International’s Rain Room latches on to this dichotomy by creating both a challenge and a source of euphoria with a deluge of rain that you can walk through without getting wet.
As you enter the Barbican’s Curve Gallery, an attendant assures you that you will... [more]
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Seductive Immersion
by Daniel Barnes
Hannah Sawtell at Institute of Contemporary Arts
October 9th, 2012 - November 18th, 2012
Posted
11/2/12
Hannah Sawtell’s Osculator sublimely communicates, with more than a little uneasiness, one of the amazing and frustrating things about the internet: its inconceivable infinity, and its mixture of the useful and trivial.
The title – Osculator – has a deliciously futuristic ring to it. It sounds like a mythical device, derived from some 1960s science fiction vision of how the 21st Century would be, characterised by a high-tech apparatus that allows every human being to see everything all t... [more]
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Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot
by Daniel Barnes
Damien Hirst at Gagosian Gallery - Davies Street
January 12th, 2012 - February 18th, 2012
Posted
1/15/12
Damien Hirst is making a spectacle of himself again. This time he thinks he is the Willy Wonka of the art world, producing sickly sweet spots from his mysterious factory and shipping them out all over the world to feed the insatiable hunger of the super rich. And the golden ticket is a personalised spot painting print for the first person who sees all eleven of the Gagosian shows. It’s the kind of showmanship we have come to expect from Hirst, and – despite our incredulity – we would be sorel... [more]
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Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot II
by Daniel Barnes
Damien Hirst at Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street
January 12th, 2012 - February 18th, 2012
Posted
1/15/12
The idea of one spot painting is mystifying enough, but the idea of hundreds of them in eleven galleries across the world is frankly preposterous. But this is exactly what is happening: Gagosian is presenting ‘The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011’ simultaneously in all his galleries as a kind of survey ahead of Hirst’s retrospective at Tate Modern later this year. The result is surprisingly moving; whether it moves one to wonder or fury, this cacophony of spots offers an opportunity to recon... [more]
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Interview with Karla Black
by Daniel Barnes
2011-12-04
London, Nov. 2011: Karla Black’s nomination for this year’s Turner Prize rounds off a busy year. 2011 began with a group show from the Arts Council Collection at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Then followed the ultimate honour of representing Scotland at the 54th Venice Biennale in a pavilion curated by Glasgow’s Fruitmarket Gallery. Then came the Turner Prize nomination and the bookies seem to agree with the buzz in the artworld – Black is a strong contender and all-round fav... [more]
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Laure Prouvost
by Daniel Barnes
at Frieze Art Fair
October 13th, 2011 - October 16th, 2011
Posted
10/7/11
Imagine a world where incomprehensible signs, piles of everyday detritus and cryptic instructions appeared in unexpected places as if from the ether. This is the world of Laure Prouvost, who is one of the eight artists commissioned for Frieze Projects 2011. For Projects, artists are commissioned to make a site-specific work for Frieze that is to last the duration of the fair, giving the art a visceral immediacy.
Laure Prouvost creates installations that dangle clarity in the midst of confusion and offer fractured narratives... [more]
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The East-West Divide in the London Artworld
by Daniel Barnes
Posted
9/16/11
As a professional devotee of the East London art scene, I found myself transported into another world when I went for a wander around the private views in Cork Street W1. Private views are a staple of the art world: galleries open their doors after hours and provide drinks so that artists, curators, gallerists, critics and audiences can meet. Beyond this standard, however, there is a divide between East and West London galleries which reveals an art world replete with difference and rich in opportunit... [more]
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