This exhibition is the second in a series of three, where contemporary artists engage with the work of Alberto Giacometti. Titled Encounters, they are at the Barbican’s new gallery on level 2. I wrote about the first one in an earlier post which featured Huma Bhabha. This time it is the turn of British-Palestinian artist […]
Places
Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery
The Anatomy of Painting, Jenny Saville‘s retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery was one of the must-see shows of the summer for anyone interested in painting. The exhibition covers her career from early works including this piece below, Propped, one of her graduate show paintings. It was originally displayed opposite a mirror to enable the […]
Artist Rooms: Richard Long at Tate Modern
Richard Long is the current artist at The Artist Rooms at Tate Modern. He’s one of those artists whose work makes me slow down and breathe more slowly, something increasingly necessary in our current times. One of his mud paintings, Waterfall Line, is painted directly onto the gallery wall and exudes an energy that I […]
Alien Shores at White Cube Bermondsey
Alien Shores was a group show running over the summer at White Cube Bermondsey It explored contemporary interpretations of landscape, not something I was expecting to be gripped by but I was completely wrong. I’d planned to pop in quickly but ended up spending a substantial amount of time there as it was so engaging. […]
Noémie Goudal’s Supra Strata at White Cube Bermondsey
It’s rare that I devote a full blog post to a single work of art but this video by Noémie Goudal, part of the Alien Shores exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, had me transfixed. The photo above marks the beginning of the 17 minute video which I watched till the end. The lush imagery gradually […]
Ken Nwadiogbu at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Ken Nwadiogbu‘s solo show, Yellow is the new Black, was recently at Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery. I was struck by the melancholy in these paintings, a sense of wistfulness. We have to face a certain loss when moving on to something new in our lives, something that came across very strongly in the exhibition. Many of […]