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Interesting show
by adamjbwalker
Group Show at Flowers
July 2nd, 2010 - July 24th, 2010
Posted
7/30/10
What a Relief incorporated a range of works by various artists, some very contemporary. All were linked by containing an element of 'relief' from the wall, but still being on the wall, thus occupying a space somewhere between painting and sculpture. The show was well conceived and curated, with a very strong selection of artwork on display. Highly recommended. [more]
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Ellipsis - into the unsayable.
by Firstsensefilms
Sonia Ali, Maxime Angel, Laura Bushell, Ewan Eason, Matthew Holder, Katie Honan, Lucinda Lloyd, Lucy Whitford at Debut Contemporary
July 23rd, 2010 - July 29th, 2010
Posted
7/26/10
A fascinating and exciting show with eight new artists exploring 'what's unsaid.' Avoiding shock and obvious political messaging, each artist respects the mute quality of art, it's form of speechlessness and silent writing to probe the limits of the sayable - whether in terms of language and indentity, abstract qualities of fate or time, or the language of pencil, paper, paint, neon and latex. Materials are to the fore here (and perhaps at time an echo of arte povera) and the curators are to be... [more]
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Art Review: Aviary
by T Evans
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Art Gallery
February 27th, 2010 - May 23rd, 2010
Posted
4/19/10
In a gloriously original and creative move, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s first UK solo exhibition taps into an audiovisual buffet of nature. At the Barbican’s ‘Aviary’, visitors find themselves unwitting participants in a dance of nature as birds ‘perform’ in an art installation.
A dark space opens into a cheerful seaside promenade, complete with wooden decking and islands of sand and grass. Curiously, Les Paul guitars, bass, and cymbals rest in these spaces. As your senses ad... [more]
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Magic and Melancholy - Enchanted Palace
by Angela Singer
Boudicca, Stephen Jones, Echo Morgan, William Tempest, Vivienne Westwood, Wildworks, Aminaka Wilmont at Kensington Palace, London
March 26th, 2010 - May 11th, 2011
Posted
5/11/11
by: Tom Jeffreys
http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/magic-and-melancholy-enchanted-palace-2485/ [more]
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Neurologically stimulating creations
by Jeffrey Andreoni
at Hayward Gallery Project Space
October 20th, 2009 - December 6th, 2009
Posted
12/24/09
This exhibition is simply brilliant and I was more touched by this exceptionally human art than I was by most of the pieces I saw at the last Documenta (Juan Davila excluded).
One of the "offenders" (I would prefer to use the term people) said that it was shame she had to be imprisoned to discover art. Too true! In the United States the government spends more money on incarcerating people than on educating them - I hope this doesn't become the case in the UK.
In this society, art and creativity are... [more]
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Anish Kapoor at Royal Academy of Arts
by R Jh
Anish Kapoor at Royal Academy of Arts
September 26th, 2009 - December 11th, 2009
Posted
9/2/12
As the first living artist to land a solo show at the Royal Academy, Anish Kapoor’s self-appellated show is an incredibly daring, sensory, and truly contemporary display of the artist’s oeuvre and sculpture today.
Whilst you endure the overwhelming queues outside, the jagged tower of shiny metal spheres, Tall tree and the eye - a new sculpture provided for the exhibit - whets your appetite for the ensuing unctuous crimson wax and grey sludge and slither, spliced with wide concave and convex... [more]
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A mixed bag
by yellow_tom
Sophie Axford-Hawkins, Ellen Burroughs at THE HEPSIBAH GALLERY
August 27th, 2009 - September 2nd, 2009
Posted
9/18/09
I'd never been to the Hepsibah Gallery before this event and let me just say before I start this review, what a lovely space! A real hidden gem.
On to the exhibition...as the description above states, this was a joint project between artists Sophie Axford-Hawkins and Ellen Burroughs, although it seemed less of a collaboration than something thrown together at the last minute.
Axford-Hawkins makes objects of real beauty, twisted and intricate pieces that perfectly suited the organic materials displa... [more]
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Web site looks great, really looking forward to Lambeth Open
by Lambeth Open
at Lambeth Open
October 2nd, 2010 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Posted
9/8/09
The web site is looking great, with now twenty two venues on the map. Apparently more on the way. This is going to be fantastic event for the borough. Shame the council are not supporting it! [more]
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LambethOpen.com
by Lambeth Open
Borough-wide at Debut Contemporary
October 3rd, 2009 - October 4th, 2009
Posted
9/4/09
For more Lambeth artists open that weekend go to the original artist led event:
http://www.lambethopen.com [more]
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"Re-Surface" by Marina Kassianidou at Tenderpixel
by Elena Castro
Marina Kassianidou at T E N D E R P I X E L .
August 13th, 2009 - September 5th, 2009
Posted
8/31/09
This is a very good and very well thought-out exhibition. It is probably one of the best exhibitions by an emerging artist that I have seen this past year.
It comprises of drawings and paintings on various surfaces that are installed around the gallery in ways that work well with the gallery's actual structure. For example, a piece of linoleum is cut to fit exactly on the side of a cupboard on which a painting, approximately the size of the cupboard door, is leaning. The artist seems to have w... [more]
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Language and Surfaces @ Fold Gallery's Unrelated Oxides
by greyblatons
Natasha Bailey, Joshua Kim, Susan Kordalewski, Wendy Mclean, Iain Sharpe, Dan Shaw-Town, Liesel Thomas, Amanda Wasielewski at Fold Gallery
August 7th, 2009 - August 23rd, 2009
Posted
8/10/09
The month of August for London is the holiday month for London in regards to art. Not so in Hackney. A group exhibition at Fold Gallery this month curated by three artists that are also in the exhibition. As far as summer exhibitions go this is set up for a bland, over-hanged space with absolutely no room was made for cohesion. It was a surprise that Unrelated Oxides exemplified a focus in a group exhibition. The premise of the exhibition is a correlation with a quote, by Sebastian Faulks, that d... [more]
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Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism - Last few days
by Elena Castro
Liubov Popova, Aleksandr Rodchenko at Tate Modern
February 12th, 2009 - May 17th, 2009
Posted
5/13/09
Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, now in its last few days at Tate Modern, provides an exciting opportunity to view a diverse body of works by two remarkable artists.
The exhibition presents a range of works, from paintings and drawings to collages, posters, textiles, fashion designs, costume and set designs and furniture. Many strong pieces are included. Popova’s Painterly Architectonics present a brilliant play of colour and form while her Space-Force Constructions on plywood challenge... [more]
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Isa Gensken
by Nicholas James
Isa Genzken at Whitechapel Gallery
April 5th, 2009 - June 21st, 2009
Posted
4/10/09
ISA GENZKEN 'OPEN SESAME' at The Whitechapel Art Gallery
5th April - 21st June 2009 Admission free
A turbulent new voice of German sculpture launches the brilliantly expanded Whitechapel Art Gallery, re-opened to an eager audience in April. It's a kind of split identity exhibition that assaults the senses and kicks into the imagination. A graduate of the Berlin and Dusseldorf academies in the 1970s Genzken's sculptural playground bears the hallmark of Professor Joseph Beuys, in her direct ac... [more]
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From the Sawdust Review
by SawdustReview
Runo Lagomarsino at Mummery + Schnelle
February 4th, 2009 - March 14th, 2009
Posted
2/25/09
The horrors of colonialism are presented under a punning title; cute and clean. Yet this cleanness, this simplicity leaves so much space for thought that we cannot help but reflect to try and complete the fragments of thought presented in the pieces, and this is not due to any facts or arguments but to the strictly artistic expression of these horrors.
Full review at http://sawdustreview.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/runo-lagomarsino-at-mummery-schnelle/
Peace [more]
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indian highway - gateway to quality art from india
by simon mack
Ayisha Abraham, Ravi Agarwal, Shaina Anand, Nikhil Chopra, Raqs Media Collective, Sheela Gowda, Sakshi Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, N.S. Harsha, M.F. Husain, Jitish Kallat, Amar Kanwar, Bharti Kher, Bose Krishnamachari, Nalini Malani, vish math, Tejal Shah, Dayanita Singh, Kiran Subbaiah, Ashok Sukumaran at Serpentine Gallery
December 10th, 2008 - February 22nd, 2009
Posted
2/10/09
yes - i visited the Serpentine Gallery a few weeks ago, intending to pop in for a cursory look but remained for an hour or so revisitng former rooms and works and taking sneaky pictures . the exhibtion is a great multi-media showcase of emerging indian art and is strongly recommended.
simon mack - artist/curator
(www.artinliverpool.com/simonmack) [more]
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