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 [...]
July 29, 2009
Categories: Lauren Barnes, Reviews . Tags: antony gormley, artium, basque country, bilbao, bilbao airport, cai guo-quiang, calatrava, european field, frank gehry, guggenheim bilbao, norman foster, one and other, sophie calle, spain, vitoria-gasteiz, zubizuri bridge . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
If you still have time, go quickly because a gorgeous Italian sculptor, Giuseppe Penone ( b1947) is currently holding an exhibition at the Ikon in Birmingham. Saturday Guardian puts it as top of their recommended. For starters, as a venue, the Ikon is beautifully constructed inside and out and one of those revamp successes. By [...]
July 6, 2009
Categories: Brenda Baxter, Reviews . Tags: environment, giuseppe penone, ikon birmingham, sculpture . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
Tracey Emin and Jay Jopling’s White Cube have a long-standing relationship. Although some believe the relationship is fed through a thirst for money, fame, and success, her latest exhibition demonstrates why Emin is so well renowned. A mixture of her drawings, textiles, prints and a single installation are based around the self-proclaimed theme of ‘love’. [...]
June 17, 2009
Categories: Meghan Goodeve, Reviews . Tags: animation, love, print, textiles, those who suffer love, Tracey Emin, White Cube . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
A lot of people were upset when the Photographers Gallery moved from that sweet spot right next to Leicester Square tube and relocated round the back of Oxford Street, but I went there today and it’s not all that bad. The original space was a bit like a bungalow, whereas the new building is splayed [...]
May 10, 2009
Categories: Art News, Discussion, Reviews . Tags: andy warhol, Gerhard Richter, hauser and wirth, painting, photographers gallery, Wolfgang Tillmans . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
It struck me, whilst shuffling around the recent Roni Horn exhibition at Tate modern, that two identical metallic cylinders placed in adjacent rooms are sometimes just two identical metallic cylinders placed in adjacent rooms, and not a subtle sense based intervention. In all honesty much, if not all, of Roni Horns work is what it [...]
May 6, 2009
Categories: Art News, Discussion, Reviews . Tags: 2009 TURNER PRIZE, barbara kruger, Conceptual art, enrico david, lucy skaer, roger hiorns, Roni Horn, Takeshi kitano, TATE MODERN, turner prize 2009 . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
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
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
