Hypnotic Rhythms – Frieze London 2021 – I’ve arrived, wearing all black attire at Regents Park, hoping to be proved wrong. Armed only with the barcoded Frieze London guest pass in my iPhone holster, at the behest of Art Bible online whom commissionedme to pen an article based on the question of ‘Innovation’, focused primarily…
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A Dash and a Splash
All Mixed Up is the – We ran out of money and we put this up instead show. I say yes please, can we have more of this!!! In fact I don’t know why galleries have needed all those massive budgets over the last few years. The Hayward could do 10 shows with the same…
Matejko’s Copernicus: A cosmic sublime
The Deep Space Time artist Julie Hill looks at the intertwining of the divine and cosmic in this portrait of Copernicus where the parallel is made to a ships captain navigating his ship of reason into a forever expanded universe. His reordering of our solar system could be perhaps considered our first modern growing up….
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A subtle game of Spot the difference: Mantegna and Bellini at the National Gallery
Hurry! Show Ends 27th January A subtle game of contrasts ensues comparing the delicacy of Mantegna’s Egg Tempera to the swarthy fleshy seduction of Bellini’s Oil Painting Technique: ‘The Presentation of Christ in the Temple’ by Giovanni Bellini, about 1470–1475 ( Fondazione Querini Stampalia Onlus, Venezia ) These two brothers in-law struck up a productive dialogue…
Cock Chopping
To reflected that reality the painting should have to be Populated as plentifully as a room full of Kusama Philli
Review : Monochrome ; Painting in Black & White
The National Gallery opens on artist dirty trade secrets. Til 18th February Going Noir in its latest exhibition Monochrome at the National gallery is particularly good for learning. I recommend the catalogue (£18) it’ll end up being one of the most helpful books about technique. Artists could be most experimental, as these near complete studies let…
Medea Electronica
Questions of the nature of home and the core of identity becoming centre of these songs that linger. The Greeks constantly rewrote their myths to explore fresh contemporary situations. Mella pushes the form to deal with a deeper psychological study. Contemporay pop almost always stays stuck in an ostenscibly simplifed loop of rationed out, flat…
The Return of Ulysses – At the Roundhouse Camden
By Giuseppe Marasco Venice began by seeking refuge from the savage Barbarians who ransacked Italy after the fall of the Roman Empire, from the very beginning the Venetian lagoon offered a refuge to her people. As a Republic it owe everything to the sea, it’s independence, it’s wealth It’s beauty. It was the material gate…