Marian Goodman Gallery, 5-8 Lower John Street, London W1F 9DY
William Cooper reviews the 'internationally' made works of Gabriel Orozco. He finds that in refusing to stick with one traditional medium, Orozco immerses himself in a place and creates objects that discuss, reflect upon and communicate these cultures' ideas.
Grand Union, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Birmingham B5 5RS
A play on surface and representation. Folds of fabric rendered in tapestry. A double weave. Allegory in an architectural frame. At the bottom of the tapestry real flowers mark the outside space of the forest. On the wall of the inside space hangs a floral tapestry. Double nature, twice removed. The object (re)presenting itself. A text by Fay Nicolson drawing on her time spent in Grand Union, Birmingham, for her solo exhibition OVER AND OVER PURE FORM.
Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, 2514 HA The Hague (Netherlands)
The large-scale installation 'A Burning Bag as a Smoke-Grey Lotus' by Gareth Moore pursues the artist's ongoing investigation into the physical and symbolic functions and properties of sound.
The Foundry, Rue de la Fonderie, 65700 Maubourguet, Midi-Pyrenees, France
The London based organisation a/political opened The Foundry on the 13th June with ‘The Copenhagen Declaration' - a collaboration by Jens Haaning and Santiago Sierra.
Cell Project Space, 258 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA
‘m-Health’ is a six day project at Cell Project Space which seeks to transform an ordinary gallery into an environment for leisure and relaxation. Review by Hatty Nestor
Museum of Bath at Work, Julian Road, Bath BA1 2RH
Amid the steel and soot, grease and cogs, belts and tools of the factory, haunts an alien presence. It’s a surreal stage set in the heart of the museum, reconstructing the interior of a working class household in the early twentieth century. Review by Rowan Lear
Grand Union, 19 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS
OVER AND OVER PURE FORM presents a body of interconnected works exploring embodied learning and the distance between experience and images.
Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt St, Manchester M15 4GB
This is an exhibition of paintings that exist on their own terms, for their own sake, works that provide a physical presence and don’t just passively sit on a wall to be admired. Review by Tom Emery
Tenderpixel, 8 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE
'The Infinite Lawn' navigates the ambiguous object of labour via material margins, centralising marginality. James Gormley reviews
Picnic Picnic, 155 John Street, Sheffield S2 4QX
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Taking its inspiration from the punch-lines and pitfalls of creating entertaining and amusing work, 'Tuff Crowd' invites artists whose practice absorbs and highlights the humour in the act of being an artist, asking the audience to broaden their understanding of what conceptual art can be. Review by Lindsey Mendick
Berloni Gallery, 63 Margaret Street, London W1W 8SW
Woodeson’s modernism is more hot than cool. Despite employing techniques of repetition and reduction, the work has a striking emotional impact. Not only do we become aware of the materiality of the objects in the space, but of our own flesh. Review by Philomena Epps
Gagosian Gallery, 6-24 Britannia Street London WC1X 9JD
The mixing of contemporary and older works allows for formal cues to take precedent over historical context. These juxtapositions allow for new comparisons to be made. What do Warhol and Latham hold in common? What does Kapoor’s piece suggest about the current status of the medium? Review by Katherine Jackson
Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN
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Fiona Haggerty explores the potential of artists and makers working within the realms of what has traditionally been termed the applied arts to challenge and redefine this area.
L21, San Martí, 1 Palma de Mallorca 07012, Spain
Despite its literary counterparts, the title of this exhibition is taken from a Madrid band called A Room with a View (1990-2000). In the same way the group began to distance itself from the premises of hardcore music to explore less related sound modules, these featured artists use photography to rehearse other connected discourses with a language – visual – in continuous transformation.
