Tag: Studio International
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Contemporary Drawing: Recent Studies
Drawing has played a pivotal role in the work of most artists since the beginning of time. Following the rejection of traditional teaching methods during the 1960s when abstract art dominated, a more private character for drawing was assumed. With…
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The Art of Nothing: Ivo Mesquita and the Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo
The ‘Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo’ is now one of the major international displays of contemporary art, along with two other grand showcases of modern and contemporary art; the estimable ‘Venice Biennale’, first held in 1895; and ‘Documenta’…
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Bauhaus: 1919-1933
The complete building is the final aim of the visual arts. Their noblest function was once the decoration of buildings. They were inseparable parts of the great art of building. Today, they exist in isolation, from which they can be…
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The Art of Seduction
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now London: Merrell, 2007 This book is the catalogue of the current Barbican Exhibition in London. It forms a substantial volume, divided into ten chapters, covering different specs of the subject.
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Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint
20 September-11 November 2007 Serpentine Gallery, London When we speak of executing something – an article, a work of art, a musical composition – we speak of working towards some kind of resolution, of there being a sequence of events…
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BP Portrait Award 2007
National Portrait Gallery, London 14 June – 16 September 2007 When this annual exhibition was launched 28 years ago it suffered some hostile critical reception but has now built itself into something of a national institution, and I personally try…
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Sharon Booma’s Odes and Intimations of Immortality
The seductive allure of Sharon Booma’s paintings defies description. Viewing one of the artist’s oil and mixed media inventions, one feels an attraction to surface beauty, the pull of colour and texture, and then the plunge into deeper mystery. Booma’s…
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Allora and Calzadilla: Clamor
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London 17-29 April 2007
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Camouflage
Imperial War Museum, London 23 March-18 November 2007
