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…
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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…
Restorative Moment as we wait for Spring in the Midst of Our second Christmas in London
I hear on the grapevine that The Cherry Trees are in blossom in Japan. And soon the delightful and sublime Spring Mochi will be on sale in Piccadilly road! But alas! In London it has just snowed today, and continues to so as well speak. It collects, and there is an inch about everywhere. Hand whisked…
Ice Age art : arrival of the modern mind
7 February – 26 May 2013 Now open British Museum – London By Giuseppe Marasco We are all related to the persons who made this art. The exhibitors have through done a good job through the modern and luxurious exhibition design, injecting the excitement of just how cutting edge this art was, and appreciating the…
Damn you Ciprian Muresan, what are we meant to do without an object to fetishize?
By Giuseppe Marasco Perhaps the first thing you should say on seeing this show is, Damn you Ciprian Muresan, what are we meant to do without an object to fetishize? Where does, the work exist? Perhaps that’s the big hole that this artist wants you to look at. Placing the work in an unreachable space….