I’d been meaning to visit Beers Contemporary for a while now and finally popped in on a Saturday afternoon, initially to see Michael Mapes‘ work as I’d seen images of it before. I was intrigued by his deconstruction of a portrait and the way he reconstitutes the image. There was poignancy in the debris from elements […]
Artists
Olafur Eliasson’s response to JMW Turner at Tate Britain
From 10th September Tate Britain is showing the EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free, with extraordinary paintings created during the latter part of the artist’s life. Olafur Eliasson, best known here for his Weather Project installation at Tate Modern in 2003, has created a series of colour experiments based on analysis of seven […]
Inner City Ooz at Display Gallery
Display Gallery, a large space on two levels, opened a few months ago in Holborn and is set to make an impact in the area. I visited on the first day of the current show: Inner City Ooz by brothers Jack & Archy Marshall, also known as Mistr Gone & King Krule. From a visually creative […]
Matisse cut-outs in textiles
It was good to see the wall panels and scarves designed by Matisse for my old boss Zika Ascher on show at Tate Modern this summer. I remember spending days in the basement of his Hampstead home sifting through scarves by, amongst others, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens and Cecil Beaton. Mr Ascher told […]
The Cornershop by Lucy Sparrow
Open till the end of August, The Cornershop by Lucy Sparrow has taken 8 months to prepare. I’m not sure how long the faded celebrity has been hanging around outside but I’m hoping she’ll last the run, as long as she manages her alcohol intake. The bottles in her pockets should cushion any slips. Lucy […]
Spectra by Ryoji Ikeda; a memorial to 1914-18
Spectra by Ryoji Ikeda was a temporary installation organised through that wonderful organisation Artangel and on from dusk till dawn between 4th & 11th August, which I visited on a warm dry night. I could see the beam from my house several miles away while it was on. Ii was inspired by the words of British Foreign […]