It’s your last chance to see Mathew Weir at the Alison Jacques Gallery. Weir’s exhibition of painting and sculpture is inspired and informed by his fascination with ceramics. His work sheds new light on art history by picking out references and transforming them into something fresh. He places dioramas or ceramic figurines into landscapes constructed [...]
May 11, 2009
Categories: Art News, Ellie Rose, Morgan Quaintance . Tags: alison jacques gallery, art, ceramic, dark, london, mathew weir, may exhibitions, painting, racial stereotype, sculpture . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a Comment
Just a quick post for all of those who remember when the above sculpture was in the foyer at Brighton Uni’s art block. I found this video clip of proverbial sick man of art, and Pinocchio abuser, Paul McCarthey. Those of you who are familiar with Paul’s work know that his stuff teeters on [...]
May 7, 2009
Categories: Discussion . Tags: art, brighton, bunny, morgan, morgan q, Morgan Quaintance, painting, Paul Mccarthy, Pinocchio, Sick, Writers Block . 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
Continued… Warning: Real Noise Approaching In 1966 Steve Reich looped a sample of a black youth saying ‘come out to show them’ non-stop for 13 minutes with just a weird phase pattern to keep it interesting. Thirty years after these initial sound experiments all across Europe every weekend there were warehouses full of people spazzing [...]
March 27, 2009
Categories: Discussion, Wil Crisp . Tags: art, Battery Maritime museum, Bjoern Schuelke, catwalks, david byrne, jino Muneteru, londonsoundart, Milan, minimalism, New York, Nicolas Anatol, playing the building, real noise, steve reich, The Rotators, Toko's Studio Depp . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: Leave a 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: tate, tate britain, tate triennial, altermodern, nicolas bourriaud, contemporary art, art, simon starling, franz ackermann, marcus coates, israel, plover, walead beshty . Author: eleanorrose . Comments: 2 Comments
