Archive
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Line(s) of Desire
Its opening coinciding with the sixth edition of 1-54 Marrakech, an exhibition at IZZA highlights nine artists from Morocco and beyond working wonders with textiles
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Christina Kimeze – interview: ‘Making art has been the only consistent thing in my life’
As she holds her first institutional UK solo show, at the South London Gallery, Kimeze explains why, after gaining a degree in biology, she enrolled at the Royal Drawing School, and how literature and roller-skating colour her work
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Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches
There is so much to be said, and much still to be learned, about this one astounding and complex painting, and this two-year evolving display at Compton Verney hopes to offer an enlightening introduction
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Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes
Ambiguous images and twisted and brooding forms rewrite the meaning of landscape in this exploration of subconscious desires, dreams and irrationality
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Tadek Beutlich: On and Off the Loom
The monumental textiles, striking prints and tiny figurative works on show cement Beutlich’s place as a visionary textile artist and printmaker who eschewed traditional methods and materials
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Markus Lüpertz – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
A beguiling exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery places two distinctive artists into a balletic dialogue illuminating painting’s shifting relationship with the pilasters of classical art, figure and landscape
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Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
The RA turns over its grand halls to an erudite, even academic look at half a century of Brazilian painting. There are some interesting finds amid the abundance
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Margherita Manzelli interview – ‘I developed a way of denying being a complete painter’
As a major survey opens at Centro Pecci, the Italian artist discusses her lifelong struggle with the machismo of painting and why she has turned to robots
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There: a Feeling | Gregg Bordowitz
In his first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, the American artist and activist shares stories, prints and films reflecting on connection, survival and contagion
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Yulia Mahr – interview: ‘My work is more akin to poetry. It’s a moment of sensory storytelling’
Mahr’s work incorporates film, photography and installation with a rich language of layering, collaging and photographic experimentation. She discusses her artistic evolutions, her explorations of the female body as a ‘site of complexity’ and the studio space she and her…
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