Author: jaywp
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Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape
From the works of Nancy Holt and Richard Long in the 1960s and 70s to contemporary artists, this show presents photography, film and land art that engages directly with the freedom and wilderness of Dartmoor
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Enchanted Alchemies: Magic, Mysticism, and the Occult in Art
In 1924, the surrealist manifesto stated that art serves as a magical act, invoking mysteries beyond the visible world and turning the mundane into something wondrous. This exhibition, spanning the century from then until now, whets the appetite for an…
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Material Poetry
The works here riff on the interplay between text and images, between the tangible and the conceptual , blurring the line between the abstract nature of language and the concrete world it often describes
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Lauren Halsey: Emajendat
Halsey’s multicolour, candyfloss, shout-out vision of a universe is an image of what it is to be part of something, to believe and to thrive, to make a mark
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Jean Tinguely
Barbie dolls, garden gnomes, toy gorillas and an exploding penis reveal Tinguely’s mischievous spirit in this fiesta of ideas, movement and noise
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Karolina Albricht, Basil Beattie and Lizzie Munn – interviews: ‘What abstract painting means to me’
Three artists talk about the paintings they are exhibiting in the Saatchi Gallery’s Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London
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Basil Beattie – interview: ‘passageway, corridor, ladder, staircase, tunnel: they are all words I use metaphorically with regard to other human experiences’
Rooted in abstract painting, Basil Beattie has for many years developed a uniquely powerful vocabulary of metaphoric images
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Karolina Albricht – interview: ‘I was fascinated by how an image plays on different levels: an image that describes something, and an image that can transcend, perhaps, and provide access to the divine’
Albricht discusses her ambitious multi-part painting inspired by the Eastern European tradition of Icon painting
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Lizzie Munn – interview: ‘Composing them on a wall, rather than being held in the plane like a painting, the layers are more actual than illusionistic’
A recent graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, Lizzie Munn works between printing, painting, sculpture and installation
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Sammy Baloji
A well-sized survey distils the Congolese artist’s research-heavy practice, which draws connections between colonial and contemporary exploration
