Viewing articles from 2016/01

Green Art Gallery, Al Quoz 1, Street 8, Alserkal avenue, Unit 28 PO. Box 25711 Dubai, UAE

1497

1497, Installation View

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.

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Ingleby Gallery, 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh EH8 8DL

Resistance and Persistence

Rachel Whiteread, Step, 2007 – 20018, plaster, pigment, resin, wood, and metal (five units, one shelf), 14 x 40 x 20 cm

With four Giorgio Morandi paintings at its heart, ‘Resistance and Persistence’ uses adjacencies to stimulate conversations between unlikely works. Review by Joy Harris

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Gagosian Gallery, 976 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10075

Linda McCartney and Mary McCartney: Mother Daughter

Linda McCartney and Mary McCartney: Mother Daughter, installation view at Gagosian Gallery, New York

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

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Modern History, Vol. 1-3, Various Venues, 2015

Contemporary as Historical: Curating the Recent Past

John Davies, New Street Station Birmingham, 2000

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.

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SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH

Iván Argote: An Idea of Progress

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

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Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN

Jerwood Encounters: Common Property

Larry!Monument

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'.

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Block 336, 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA

Corey Bartle-Sanderson: HOMEWARE_update

HOMEWARE_update, Installation View

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.

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Museum of Cycladic Art, Vasilissis Sofias ave. & 1, Irodotou str., Athens 10674

Mario Merz: Numbers are prehistoric

Numbers are prehistoric, Installation View

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.

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South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UH

Heman Chong

Heman Chong, An Arm, A Leg and Other Stories, 2015. Installation view at the South London Gallery

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

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Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Durslade Farm, Dropping Lane, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL

Qwaypurlake

Installation view gallery room 3 a

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

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

Another Minimalism - Art After California Light and Space

 Spencer Finch, Shadows (After Atget), 2007, Installation view: Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

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

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Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET

Maisons Fragiles

Installation view, Maisons Fragiles, Hauser & Wirth London, 2015

‘Maisons Fragiles’ introduces an exhibition that explores fragility as a transient yet malleable subject by using the perspective of artists whose work stretches over six decades. Review by Phoebe V. Bradford

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