Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
Rose English: A Premonition of the Act
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English's work deconstructs the performance before it has even happened and before it can be seen. Emma Rae Warburton reviews
Green Art Gallery, Al Quoz 1, Street 8, Alserkal avenue, Unit 28 PO. Box 25711 Dubai, UAE
1497
In group exhibition '1497' images, scents, texts, and objects allude to a home in which history has taken place, amidst roofs on fire, a greenhouse filled with tropical plants, an orphaned balcony, scattered threads, a soup made from stone, and chapters pulled from books not yet written.
Ingleby Gallery, 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh EH8 8DL
Resistance and Persistence
With four Giorgio Morandi paintings at its heart, ‘Resistance and Persistence’ uses adjacencies to stimulate conversations between unlikely works. Review by Joy Harris
Gagosian Gallery, 976 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10075
Linda McCartney and Mary McCartney: Mother Daughter
The familiar bright eyes of Paul McCartney peer over visitors entering Gagosian’s latest photographic exhibition on Madison Avenue. A scarlet rose in his mouth and a slightly stunned expression, the iconic musician’s portrait introduces visitors to the exhibition’s intimate yet charismatic disposition. Review by Phoebe V. Bradford
Modern History, Vol. 1-3, Various Venues, 2015
Contemporary as Historical: Curating the Recent Past
From April to November 2015 three exhibitions curated by Lynda Morris – 'Modern History' Volumes I, II and III took place at galleries located in towns within Lancashire and Greater Manchester - The Grundy in Blackpool, The Atkinson in Southport, and Bury’s Art Museum and Sculpture Centre - attempting to give an indication of cultural and visual trends of Northern life from 1969 to the present. Hannah Allan considers the implications of curating the recent past.
SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH
Iván Argote: An Idea of Progress
Colombian artist Iván Argote's examines and re-appropriates the aesthetics and ideals that developers are imprinting onto London's increasingly uniform landscape. Review by Bobby Jewell
Marsden Woo Gallery, 23 Charlotte Rd, London EC2A 3PB
Christoph Zellweger: Domesticated
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Christoph Zellweger has turned the exhibition space into a contemporary shrine of physical self-improvement. Review by Aris Kourkoumelis
Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN
Jerwood Encounters: Common Property
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Like walking through a Tumblr homepage – heaving with fan-art, glitch-gifs and pop – the show triggers questions about the ownership of culture and copyright in the age of CTRL + C. Siobhan Leddy reviews 'Common Property'.
Block 336, 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA
Corey Bartle-Sanderson: HOMEWARE_update
HOMEWARE_update is the first a solo exhibition by London-based artist Corey Bartle-Sanderson. The work probes ideas relating to duplicity and artifice through sculpture, installation and photography.
Museum of Cycladic Art, Vasilissis Sofias ave. & 1, Irodotou str., Athens 10674
Mario Merz: Numbers are prehistoric
Mario Merz's latest survey exhibition 'Numbers are prehistoric' will shed light on the late Italian artist’s multi-faceted practice, treading the thin line between visual and written expression. The exhibition features previously unseen material, and is displayed in the Stathatos Mansion at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens.
South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UH
Heman Chong
Heman Chong is a storyteller obsessed with stories. His precisely constructed works take the reader into a world where equal weighting is given both to small private acts of creation, and to the great moments of life and death. Review by Betsy Porritt
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Durslade Farm, Dropping Lane, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL
Qwaypurlake
Drawing inspiration from dystopian literature, ‘Qwaypurlake’ presents the audience with a narrative proposition: to reimagine the Somerset landscape as dominated almost entirely by water, a future world in which humans have been marginalized. Review by Laura Mansfield
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF
Another Minimalism - Art After California Light and Space
As winter whittles down the daylight hours outside The Fruitmarket Gallery’s windows, inside, its spaces emit a series of elemental yet serene surges of colour and light. This is art made of nothing but the essentials of seeing, it is the legacy of the California Light and Space movement. Review by Katherine Pahar
Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: God’s Reptilian Finger
Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s works are rooted in intricate layers of history and conspiracy. Phoebe Cripps reviews his solo exhibition.
