Tag: London
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Dom Sylvester Houédard: dsh* and EE Vonna-Michell – Henri Chopin: To Ray the Rays**
This exhibition draws together the concrete typestracts of Houédard with a stunning film by Henri Chopin and EE Vonna-Michell, being shown for the first time in England, that together are an enthralling offer
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Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark
A generous survey captures the full range of the American photographer, who chronicled New York’s gay scene during the 1970s and 80s
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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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Vanessa Baird – interview: ‘I don’t think art can rescue anything’
As two shows of her thrilling, carnivalesque drawings open in the UK, the Oslo-based artist talks about personal upheaval and the role of art in society
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Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen
This feels like a patchy presentation and, despite the promise of ‘masterpieces’, the selection veers more towards Munch’s experimental works
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Ellen Gallagher: Ecstatic Draught of Fishes
Gallagher takes the viewer down into her watery world, where mythology, history and nature collide, in five new, visually compelling works
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Adrian Berg – book review
Marco Livingstone’s lavish book is a tribute to one of Britain’s finest landscape painters and its publication is accompanied by an exhibition of Berg’s works at the Frestonian Gallery in London
