Morandi – Lines of Poetry: Estorick collection

Morandi ; The Italian Master of Still Lives                            By Giuseppe Marasco Lines of Poetry. Open Til 28 April The Cheshire cat, Smiles through out, this exhibition. Morandi, the essentialist, shares a sibling similitude with those masters of the singular; Gericult, studying cadavers to produce his great masterpiece the…

Light Fantastic! – At the Light Show – Hayward Galllery

Perhaps because despite the fact that it says Spring on the calendar, it’s really still winter, with record low temperatures predicted to last til at least mid April. (Anyone want to bet on Snow in June?) I’d left it until now to see the Light Show at the Hayward Gallery. I’d essentially waited til the…

Lichtenstein In London – Occasional evidence of an odd vulnerablity

By Giuseppe Marasco New Tate Modern Show Of interesting in this show are the Landscapes Liechtenstein Attends to. There is at play a concern with the vanishing point, and the flatness of the canvas surface. The vanishing point is traditionally associated with the limit of the spectators sight , and so the limit of what…

Disappearing Hands And Phantom Limbs found across London

By Giuseppe Marasco Disappearing hands, seeming standing in, fit, for work and handedness no longer present, no longer visible. A last evidence, slowly dissolving, of the construction of the material present. This hand, the pocket bubble of time that it may represent, lingers on a little longer like a tracer. Soon about to be eaten…

POMPEII & HERCULANEUM sTRIKE bACK!

The spiral of  the entrance ushered then into the black … sets the scene, entering into the underworld where we stumble upon all array of objects, that look as if they had been touched just yesterday, or even just a couple of hours ago. Still humming with life I would want to talk of ghosts…