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The 21st Century’s Neon Goya – Ansel Krut at Painter’s Painters Exhibition Saatchi Gallery
Until 28th Feb 2017 Ansel Krut Napoleon On Elba 2008 Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm By Giuseppe Marasco Ansel Krut with out wanting to has influenced a whole generation of painters. If you have a knowing eye you can spot this influence everywhere. Such an Influence can be detected in Ryan Mosely….
Justin Mortimer – Kult
25th June 2015 by Giuseppe Marasco In this solo show Justin Mortimer portrays iconic events from the news and internet, fusing these images into new configurations. Mortimer makes the case of the natural parallel to the overwhelming and unending choices that painters make, offers an answer to processing traditional Social Media in the 21st Century….
Mexican Wrestling at the Royal Albert Hall
10th July 2015 As part of the Year of Mexico in the UK 2015, for the first time ever and for one day only, the mythical, dangerous, acrobatic and heroic world of Mexico’s masked wrestlers, 16 of Mexico’s finest, led by the legendary Blue Demon Jr, join battle under the Royal Albert Hall’s mighty dome….
Frank Bowling at Hale’s Gallery
9 September 2015 British Painter & Royal Academician, is one of the last remaining giants of Abstract expressionism. I been speaking with about the natute of the language we use when talking about painting. Does language perform adequately, are there other examples that would better serve the nature and thought of painting. The Dean of…
Georges Shaw – My Back to Nature – National Gallery May 11th – 30th October 2016
George Shaw is the National Gallery’s ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist. George’s National Gallery exhibition is currently at Abbot Hall, Kendall (and will tour to four other UK venues). A retrospective exhibition at Yale Centre of British Art will open in October 2018 http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/learning/associate-artist-scheme/george-shaw George Shaw often uses a very wry sense of observation…
Barry Thompson — Fistful of blood and feathers
2016 There is a clear and thoughtful link between our contemporary joys, freedoms, play and the social change of the great Wars from which it was borne. Rituals or rites of passage surface, in the gently rendered graffiti of a post-war park, or the places of first kisses. This exhibition offers a delicate dream like…
Moon landing – Out of Nowhere, PEER gallery Paintings and drawings by influential 1960s abstract painter Jeremy Moon are making a rare appearance in public
25 July, 2016 Giuseppe Marasco Jeremy Moon’s ‘Out of Nowhere’ exhibition at the Peer gallery Abstract: Jeremy Moon’s ‘Out of Nowhere’. Photograph: PEER gallery Paintings by Jeremy Moon are like brightly-coloured UFOs that have somehow found their way to earth. Although an influential figure in abstract painting and the 1960s London art scene, exhibitions of…
Yayoi Kusama, Victoria Miro gallery, review: ‘Infinity in a pumpkin’ A collection of spectacular mirrored environments, sculptures and paintings immerse the viewer in an expansive sublime plane
5 July, 2016 Giuseppe Marasco Portrait of Yayoi Kusama. Photograph: Noriko Takasugi Portrait of Yayoi Kusama. Photograph: Noriko Takasugi Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama reflects on the cosmos and something beyond the physical in an exhibition of new work at Victoria Miro galleries. After negotiating a snaking queue to get in, I was met by a…