Viewing articles from 2018/P56
V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ
V&A Dundee
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The V&A Dundee is Scotland's impressive new design museum, illuminated by refracting light from the Firth of Tay, it is situated at the centre of what was once Dundee's maritime infrastructure and recently opened to the world's press as they were given the opportunity to explore the city's new £80m centrepiece. Review by Paul Black
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
Disappear Here: On perspective and other kinds of space
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“Disappear Here is not a history of perspective”, immediately declares the introductory wall text. Instead, RIBA’s exhibition offers a selection of curiously, sometimes bewilderingly, diverse, subversive readings of the system of spatial representation. Review by Henry Broome
Lily Brooke Gallery, 3 Ada Rd, Camberwell, London SE5 7RW
Charlie Godet Thomas: WHAT IS IT, THIS TIME?
In his current show WHAT IS IT, THIS TIME? at Lily Brooke gallery, Charlie Godet Thomas transforms the immateriality of flat text into three-dimensional sculptural objects, capturing the moment words carve an emotional space in the mind of a reader and the outside world. Review by Matthew Turner
The Showroom, 63 Penfold St, Marylebone, London NW8 8PQ
Feminist Library
Placing the ‘Expressions’ exhibition in direct dialogue with the ‘Feminist Library on Loan’ at The Showroom shows that local histories of women and non-binary people are important. Together, the two projects manifest a visible platform exposing the experiences of those living in the Church Street Ward in the context of feminist chronicles. Review by Ashley Janke
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH
Spellbound
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Spellbound is an exploration of meaning; instead of being disturbing for the reasons one might expect - it is in fact rather sad - it conjures a world where individuals struggle to guard against misfortune - to use the only defence they have against loss - that of magical thinking; and it becomes evident that we still possess that thought process today: in the form of the lovers’ padlocks cut from Leeds Centenary Bridge - a contemporary act of ritualistic magic, still existing in a western secular society. Review by Paul Black
National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Pl, London WC2H 0HE
Michael Jackson: On the Wall
The religious aspects of the exhibition are divided. Some works stand as testament to Jackson’s enigmatic international appeal. One room contains footage from the 1992 Dangerous world tour, revealing delirious crowds, a mass euphoria even outstripping Beatlemania: while the Fab Four played to 55,000 people at Shea Stadium in 1965, Jackson’s concert in Bucharest is estimated to have been attended by nearly 100,000. And the numbers don’t stop there: more than 1,000,000 fans are said to have congregated outside Jackson’s memorial service at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles, while the televised spectacle itself is said to have been watched by more than 1,000,000,000 people worldwide. “We’re more popular than Jesus,” said Lennon of the Beatles in 1966. One wonders where this places Jackson. Review by Rowland Bagnall
Turf Projects, 46-47 Trinity Court, Whitgift Centre, Croydon CR0 1UQ
Hazel Brill: Shonisaurus Popularis
For an artist whose work often deals with fantasy and simulation, Las Vegas is an ideal subject for Brill, its evolution as a setting for desire, is a perfect mirror for her distinctive, cinematic and kaleidoscopic installations. Review by Piers Masterson
CGP London, The Gallery by the Pool, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA
The Everyday Political
As the exhibition attempts to showcase an emerging contemporary art scene in the North East, Lenihan and Meikle while critiquing the banal geographical rubric used by the current Great North Exhibition – this exhibition is not part of the official programme – the pair insightfully identify ‘restorative nostalgia’ and the appeal of the ‘off-modern’ as two subjects that fixate the cultural landscape of the region. Review by Piers Masterson
Hayward Gallery, London
Lee Bul
A few months ago, a group of scientists claimed the octopus might be an alien from outer space...
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Between the Visible and Invisible
Maraya Art Centreis pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, ‘Between the Visible and the Invisible’ curated by Dr. Azadeh Fatehrad
LADA
LADA Screens - Adam Patterson
Selected as part of the 2018 LADA Screens Open Call, "Lookalook" documents a live performative walk in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Waldo 117 Dearborn Lane Rockport, ME 04856 USA
The Infinite Image
The Infinite Image is an exhibition that brings together five impressions made from Mesopotamian cylinder seals (c.3000- c.300 BCE) with five contemporary painters who use diverse strategies to resuscitate, reactivate, and recombine art-historical images and motifs.
Jerwood Visual Arts, London
Jerwood Solo Presentations 2018
Jerwood Solo Presentations is now in its third year and continues to provide a much needed platform for emerging artists to make and display new work.
