I visited the Basque Country last week for an art-and-tapas fest. Unfortunately the tapas side of things falls outside the remit of this blog so I will mainly be discussing the art and architecture that I saw. Vitoria-Gasteiz, despite being the region’s capital, hasn’t had the superstar-architect treatment that Bilbao has. Its major art institution [...]
Electronic Organs and that
Rostone’s solo show at the Centre Fold Gallery in Guernsey is opening tomorrow and it’s going to be amazing! Imagine elaborately-layered, nostalgia-filled spray-painted porn and you’re quarter of the way there. I was at the Gallery two weeks ago and witnessed Rostone’s excitement at the arrival of a massive electronic organ. Apparently he’s painted it [...]
April 2, 2009
Categories: Art News, Lauren Barnes . Tags: castle cornet, centre fold gallery, contemporary art, ehquestionmark, electronic organ, guernsey, kuildoosh, porn, readerswives, readerswives collective, rostone, street art, w.s-s.k . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
It’s Cracking in Krakow!
I’ve just got back from Krakow where I mainly ate pork, cabbage and grilled smoked cheese with jam on it. I’d been warned (by locals) that Krakow was a pretty rubbish place to see contemporary art, but amidst the ridiculously decorated churches and houses of fin-de-siècle symbolist nutjobs (also very good), we found some. As [...]
March 31, 2009
Categories: Lauren Barnes, Reviews . Tags: andy warhol, art, bunkier sztuki, capitalism, cheese and jam, communism, contemporary art, david lachapelle, first step, galerie starmach, krakow, national museum krakow, poland, rafael jablonka, sherrie levine . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 1 Comment
Tate Triennial: Altermodern
Curator-bashing is the art historian’s new favourite sport. Poor Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the Tate’s fourth Triennial exhibition, Altermodern. The premise of the show is that we have entered a new phase of post-post-modernity called Altermodern. It’s all about globalisation, decentralisation and the artist as traveller. The show has been criticised as ‘the residue of [...]
March 19, 2009
Categories: Lauren Barnes, Reviews . Tags: altermodern, art, contemporary art, franz ackermann, israel, marcus coates, nicolas bourriaud, plover, simon starling, tate, tate britain, tate triennial, walead beshty . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 2 Comments
