Viewing articles tagged with 'Collage'

Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB

Jimmy Robert: Akimbo

‘Akimbo’ is the largest presentation of Jimmy Robert’s work in the UK to date: a survey spanning nearly two decades of Robert’s video, collage, drawing and sculpture. ‘Akimbo’ aims to embody the action of its title (standing with hands on hips) as a defiant posture which converges works in new arrangements to create new conversations and fresh perspectives. Throughout his practice questions of intimacy and touch, and what it means to see and be seen are explored using the body as a vehicle for enquiry. Review by Joshua Lockwood-Moran

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The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls

Laura Mulvey is best known for her essay describing the phenomenon of the 'male gaze,' where the act of looking in visual media is coded as male, or specifically for heterosexual male viewers, leaving women as passive objects that are meant to be looked at and desired. While not directly referencing Mulvey, Suzanne Bocanegra investigates this concept of women as the target of the gaze in 'Poorly Watched Girls,' using multiple media to question whether the performance of watching women can ever truly be enough to understand them as subjects in their own right. Review by Deborah Krieger

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Humber Street Gallery, 64 Humber St, Hull HU1 1TU

Jamie Reid: XXXXX: Fifty Years of Subversion and the Spirit

Raised as a socialist and a druid and initiated into political activism at a young age, Jamie Reid blames his parents for his rebellious streak; which at the age of 71, shows no sign of abating. The self-described anarchist uses iconoclastic collages and seditious ransom note-style idioms to marshal a cultural insurgence against the status quo; while his kaleidoscopic paintings reject materialism and individualism through a meditative connection with nature. Review by Christopher Little

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Carlos/Ishikawa, Unit 4, 88 Mile End Road, London, E1 4UN

Richard Sides: Invisible World

The lighting, music and layout are such key parts of Richard Sides' work that 'Invisible World' is an exhibition to experience rather than see. João Abbott-Gribben reviews Sides' solo show at Carlos/Ishikawa gallery in London.

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Luxembourg & Dayan, 2 Savile Row, Mayfair, London W1S 3PA

The Ends of Collage: London

While on one count, the show’s conception of collage is flawed, it presents a complete and compelling account of its connection to other mediums. Review by Henry Broome

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DREI, Arndtstrasse 4 D-50676 Cologne

Martin Soto Climent: Paradise

Under the concept of Paradise, an allegorical figure of a lost origin and promised destination, Martin Soto Climent explores the writings of Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han concerning respect and erotic experience. The artist proposes a way to liberate the identity of intimacy, consumed in our days under the rule of an overwhelming system.

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Frutta, Via Giovanni Pascoli 21, 00184 Roma, Italy

Stefano Calligaro and Alex Ebstein

Alex Ebstein's pieces are somewhere between paintings and collages. Ebstein uses yoga mats to investigate the space between abstraction and figuration, suggesting the body through material rather than direct depiction. Stefano Calligaro's own visual slang is built up around acrylic columns, pizza boxes and shopping-lists-on-rhymes freely hung in the space of the gallery, translating the clichè symbols of Rome into a new visual alphabet of signs.

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Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin: Democratic Luxury

Part of the first generation of Turkish artists considered to be globally active and nationally influential, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin is considered one of the most significant figures in the established contemporary art scene of Istanbul. The exhibition 'Democratic luxury' is a major retrospective of his practice, bringing together works produced between 1990 and 2015.

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narrative projects, 110 New Cavendish Street London, Fitzrovia W1W 6XR

Gareth Nyandoro, Richard Parry: Round - tripping

'Round - tripping' takes the marketplace as its starting point, offering takes on it filtered through the artists' own, culturally-specific lenses. Helena Haimes reviews the exhibition.

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