Viewing articles from 2014/07

Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield, S1 2BS

E-Vapor-8

E-Vapor-8 Installation View (2014)

Momentarily, Site Gallery becomes curator Francesca Gavin’s own mix-tape, a pieced together compilation of artist’s work that furthers the legacy and embellishes the myth of the rave culture that died out in the 90s. Review by Tim Barnes

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CFA Berlin Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin Mitte, Germany

Raymond Pettibon

Installation view, CFA Berlin

In Pettibon's work punks are suddenly dreamy and gay, women become merciless judges and victims of their own agency and gunmen turn into mothers' boys

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Contemporary Art Gallery, 555 Nelson Street, Vancouver, Canada

Kelly Richardson: Legion

Leviathan

Richardson creates immersive projection environments that question our relationship to the natural world.

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The Fruit Market Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DF

Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie, The Fruitmarket Gallery (2014)

Jim Lambie’s new exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh is gutsy and exuberant with the artist’s iconic striped floor-piece setting the tempo. Review by Laura Campbell

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Sprüth Magers London, 7A Grafton Street, London, W1S 4EJ

Louise Lawler: No Drones

Installation view, Louise Lawler, 'No Drones', Sprüth Magers London (2014)

Lawler emphasizes the aspects of viewing art we continually overlook as she makes pointed observations about the art world system, its complex rules and its institutional practices. Review by Aindrea Emelife

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Studio Voltaire, 1a Nelson’s Row, London, SW4 7JR

Judith Bernstein: Rising

Judith Bernstein 'Rising' 2014. A Studio Voltaire Commission, courtesy of the artist and The Box, Los Angeles. Photo: Andy Keate

On the far wall of Studio Voltaire’s main exhibition space hangs ‘Birth of the Universe’ (2014), a large-scale painting by the American artist Judith Bernstein (b.1942). Blood red labia stretch open to reveal a fluorescent yellow cavity and a bright blue spiral. Two white penises ejaculate into the orifice, and it is out of this colourful admixture that the entire universe is born.

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Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 Copenhagen, Denmark

Shahzia Sikander: Parallax

Parallax installation view

Shahzia Sikander transforms miniatures into detailed, living, digitally animated stories.

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The Drawing Centre, 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013

The Intuitionists

Platform

Considering the role of the collection, the database and the aggregate in drawing.

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Hannah Barry Gallery, 4 Holly Grove, Peckham, London SE15 5DF

A Strong Affinity

Hydraulic Power Pack Sledge, A Strong Affinity, Installation view at Hannah Barry (2014)

‘A Strong Affinity’ resonates somewhere between a science-fiction novel and an industrial blizzard. Review by William Davie

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Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR

Grace Schwindt: ‘Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society’

Grace Schwindt: 'Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society'

In The Agony of Power Baudrillard asserts that the demise of the radical left in 1968 can be situated in a double refusal to be dominated or to dominate through power structures. The desire for autonomy from the bonding of a life in the production of capital, fractured into a bricolage of ideologies that saw the traditional modes of resistance transmute into the spectacle of violent acts by political agencies such as the Red Army Faction in Western Germany.

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