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Still (expanded post)
I enjoyed Roelof Bakker‘s exhibition ‘Still’ at Hornsey Town Hall in November, although I personally feel this series is too dispersed or diverse and needs further editing into a smaller group or...
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2011, The Year Ahead
Happy New Year! At this time of year it seems appropriate to take a look at some highlight exhibitions programmed for the year ahead. Riflemaker kick off 2011 with an exhibition entitled Analog paying...
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Gauguin, etc.
I finally visited the Gauguin exhibition at Tate Modern this evening after having walked away three times seeing how packed it was in there. On one day they were open late, it was sold out until 7pm...
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Drawing in space
Bridget Riley‘s Composition with Circles 7 (2010), installed at the National Gallery, London, makes use of circles in a similar manner to Susan Hiller‘s Magic Lantern discussed in my previous article...
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All That Glitters Isn’t Necessarily Gold
Hew Locke: Starchitect. Image courtesy of the artist, ArtSway and Hales Gallery, London. Hew Locke‘s exhibition at ArtSway consists of works made of a variety of gold and silver plastic from pound...
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The Gallery as a Dance Hall
It has been a while since the last article, however this is due to a lack of cohesion within the contemporary art world recently, but now a clear trend has appeared for visual artists making works that...
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Artists Making a Mark with their Bodies
Following on from the article The Gallery as a Dance Hall, it appears there is also a resurging interest in performative mark making. In Trisha Brown‘s Walking on the Walls a group of performers climb...
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Life as a Veneer
In retrospect, at a selection of exhibitions in London over the winter a number of works emerged which use veneers and discuss thin surfaces. At the end of 2012 Henrik Schrat exhibited a series of two...
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Are We Communicating Yet?
Recently a theme has emerged of artworks addressing communication modes and creating interventions in language. In The Pool Exhibition for Goldsmiths MFA, Jin Wook Moon has created a new language...
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