Viewing articles from 2018/10

Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Anni Albers

Anni Albers installation view

Albers didn't settle, she was intellectually and physically restless in her bid to elevate her discipline in the world of art and architecture. Review by Selina Oakes

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Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG

Amy Sillman: Landline

Amy Sillman, Dub Stamp, 2018, a multi-part series of double-sided acrylic, ink, and silkscreen works on paper, 152.5 × 101.5 cm each

The fact that the show extends throughout all the galleries of the institution functions as a clear statement that the artist has disembarked in the UK – ‘Landline’ is her first institutional exhibition in the country. This also, however, allows visitors to view the breadth of Sillman’s artistic landscape: one where abstraction and figuration coexist, through her multifarious drawings, print works and pieces executed with oil and a variety of media. Review by Carolina Mostert

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

Berlinde De Bruyckere: Stages & Tales

Installation view, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Stages & Tales, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2018

Each is a pallet with layers of folded and stacked hide, forming their own contours and falls, where the odd pinks, yellows and blues of these objects speak of the fatty animals these hides once were, and the treated material they will become. Review by Stan Portus

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William Benington Gallery, Unit 3, 50 Tower Bridge Road, London, SE1 4TR and Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR 97209, USA

Amy Stephens: Land | Reland

Hood trail

Each work across both shows and throughout Stephens’ practice exists as part of an interlinking chain. She continually returns to and reuses ideas, allowing them to land and re-land, resisting the ossifying force of finitude and following the fluidity of nature’s endless cycles. Review by Sara Jaspan

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Studio Voltaire, 1a Nelsons Row, London SW4 7JR

The Oscar Wilde Temple

Oscar Wilde Temple by McDermott & McGough, Studio Voltaire, London 3 October 2018 to 31 March 2019.

Referring to martyrdom’s queer capacity, McDermott & McGough’s ambitious installation ‘The Oscar Wilde Temple’ at Studio Voltaire promotes an awareness of cross-generational queer activism. Review by Ryan Kearney

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Plymouth, UK

The Atlantic Project: After the Future

Echoic Candy (4-Bar)

Over the course of three weeks, a variety of unusual sites throughout Plymouth have been transformed into exhibition spaces, from pedestrianised streets and dilapidated buildings to shop-front windows, as part of The Atlantic Project: After The Future, a pilot biennial for the South West region. Review by Eva Szwarc

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The British School at Athens

Andreas Lolis: Prosaic Origins

Untitled, 2018
 copyright Panos Kokkinias 
Courtesy NEON

Arriving at the British School at Athens to view the current show, Prosaic Origins, I am informed by the artist, Andreas Lolis, that I have walked past and missed, not one, but two pieces in his new exhibition

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Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda, Eye Museum, installation view, copy right studio hans wilschut

Standing outside Eye Museum in Amsterdam, after being amazed by the hyper-tight angles of the structure wrapped around - and forming - the building, one notices a myriad of tessellating shapes etched into its skin.

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Parasol unit, 14 Wharf Rd, Hoxton, London N1 7RW

Heidi Bucher

Heidi Bucher, installation view at Parasol unit, London, 2018.

Wood panelled rooms with French windows, parquet flooring, linen duvets and night gowns embroidered with edelweiss. What is on display at Parasol unit are not the surfaces themselves but their skins, cast in latex by the Swiss artist Heidi Bucher whose importance has been increasingly recognised since a posthumous retrospective at the Migros Museum in Zurich (2004). Review by Samuel Glanville

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Various

What We Talk About When We Talk About Work

What We Talk About When We Talk About Work, a programme of talks taking place at northern art institutions over the past year, invited prominent artists and curators from the region along with invited European guests to discuss emerging themes and ideas within contemporary art.

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Puck Verkade: A Vortex of Considerations

Puck Verkade Breeder Episode 1, 2017

When I encountered the work of Dutch artist and film maker, Puck Verkade, a few weeks ago, it was the kind of experience that trailed behind me for a few days afterwards as I tried to untangle it all. There were parts that made me laugh, that struck me, that made me uncomfortable and I had an overwhelming feeling that it was laughing at me trying to make sense of it. So, I stopped, and decided to speak to the artist behind it. Text by Kit Edwards

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Museum Frieder Burda | Salon Berlin, Auguststraße 11-13 10117 Berlin

Candice Breitz: Sex Work

TLDR (Featured here: Connie, Nosipho Vidima)

The film feels more like a piece of entertainment than it should, and it left less of an impact on me than the interviews themselves. One, in which a woman describes a horrifying act of rape by a police officer, will linger with me for a long time. Review by Siobhan Leddy

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