Tag: Mark Rothko
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Ten Sculptures by Tim Scott 1961-71– book review
A thorough introduction to and overview of a fascinating artist who has been far too overlooked. The focus on this decade brings to the fore Scott’s paradoxical sculptures and horizontal Brâncuși-ism
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The God That Failed: Louise Bourgeois, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko
An intriguing exhibition situates Bourgeois’ characterful early sculptures alongside the two incipient abstract expressionists
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Bernar Venet – interview: ‘My dream is not to make big sculpture, but sculptures that are new, radical, different’
As his solo show opens at Waddington Custot in London, the man dubbed France’s ‘greatest living sculptor’ talks about curiosity, popularity and the quest for reinvention
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Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away
A minutely focused show captures the great colour-field painter at his most intimate and playful
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Epilogue: Michael West’s Monochrome Climax
West’s willingness to take risks and reject stylistic uniformity shines through in this exhibition of works from an artist who, despite being first rate, remains so little known
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Idris Khan – interview: ‘There was a struggle making these works’
The British artist talks about his new works at Victoria Miro, freaking out in lockdown and encapsulating a year in colour
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Matt Jukes – interview: ‘You need to dream big, so you can shoot for the stars, and maybe reach the moon’
Matt Jukes talks about the pandemic, the effect of lockdown on our mental health, and his immersive, digital artwork Feelscape, which creates an abstract landscape from the emotions of a person’s memory of an event
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Hedda Sterne
Long-known as ‘the only female at the birth of abstract expressionism’, Romanian-born Sterne always denied being an abstract painter, and this gem of an exhibition makes it clear why
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Garry Fabian Miller: Midwinter Blaze
Using early-19th century techniques, Miller works without a camera, experimenting with light to produce mesmerising and haunting images
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Jedd Novatt: ‘I feel the same tension about the next work as I did 40 years ago – the same tension of wanting to achieve something I’m looking for’
In advance of an exhibition of new works, Novatt talks about his long career making geometric sculptures in industrial metals and discusses the thinking behind them
