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…
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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…
Textiles – Rachel Scott at Hales Gallery
Rachel Scott 10 August – 12 August 2017 Reception: Saturday 12 August, 2pm Hales Gallery presents a collection of works by weaver Rachel Scott. The exhibition is the first in a two-part series entitled ‘Textile’ at Hales London this summer. Scott Previously showed her work in September at Makers House which Burberrys set up in…
The Human Root
Libya: A Human Market Place It takes a considerable amount of balls or cojones in Spanish, to be a war photographer. Certainly there’s a frisson talking to the Pulitzer Prize winning Mexico City born Narciso Contreras, 41, accompanied by the thoughts of how well you would perform yourself in a situation that requires extreme…
The Accelerated Collage and the City
By Giuseppe Marasco Unnatural Vibers