Wednesday, 29th September 2010
2:52pm
Robilant + Voena’s new exhibition of 20th-century Italian art, ‘The Gallant Apparel: Italian Art and the Modern’, is small but perfectly formed. With a careful selection of works, it charts the development of post-war modernism in Italy through to the present day. Special attention is given to Lucio Fontana, whose six important works underpin the spatialist concern of the other exhibiting artists, from Enrico Castellani to Ettore Spalletti.
Fontana’s iconic slash paintings are punctuated with emblematic works by Alighiero Boetti and Gino De Dominicis, whose Untitled, 1993 (see above), has a subtle blue face that looks down from the gallery’s...
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Friday, 17th September 2010
12:21pm
Sprüth Magers, London, is hosting the first solo show of new works by the German artist Thomas Scheibitz in over two years. Presenting a selection of his recent drawings and sculpture, ‘A moving plan B – chapter TWO’ is an intelligent hanging of works that makes these rather thin and graphical pieces appear carefully considered, meticulously planned and fully realised.
What Scheibitz’s work lacks in depth is made up for in his flawless compositions and satisfying colour palette. The focus of ‘A moving plan B – chapter TWO’ is a large frieze of stimulating drawings (marker pen and paint) on...
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Friday, 10th September 2010
11:17am
For those previously unfamiliar with the work of Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) the Tate gives an excellent introduction. The exhibition is broken down into areas of his interest or periods of discovery through his travels to give a comprehensive, broadly chronological, overview of his work. It demonstrates that Muybridge was not only an inventor, making his own equipment able to capture his iconic images of motion and then display them with an animated projector, but also a successful scenic photographer, winning a medal in 1873 from the International Exhibition in Vienna, and important documenter of the rapidly developing Western states of...
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10:52am
Back in March, Kensington Palace announced a £12m makeover to ‘transform the visitor experience’, including greater access to the palace’s Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, some 12,000 items worn by the royals, from Queen Victoria to Diana, Princess of Wales. During the improvement works, UK theatre company WILDWORKS has transformed the rest of the Palace into a magical story-telling exhibition of the seven princesses and two Queens who once inhabited ‘The Enchanted Palace’. Taking advantage of the intermittent period to be more creative and experimental than previous exhibitions, WILDWORKS has produced an interactive treasure hunt for the visitor. The journey...
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Friday, 3rd September 2010
12:12pm
In a bid to appease my pedestrian rage on the busy streets of Edinburgh’s fringe this month, I decided to take a trip out of the city and away from the galleries to Jupiter Artland, a majestic outdoor sculpture park entirely commissioned and curated by the private estate’s co-owner, Nicky Wilson.
Jupiter Artland currently houses some 23 works, small and large, by all the great contemporaries, including Ian Hamilton Finlay, Cornelia Parker, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, to name just a few. Some are subtler than others, which make for a fun treasure hunt no matter how old you are...
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Wednesday, 1st September 2010
6:43pm
Up until 5 September, the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne is hosting an exhibition called ‘Familiar Visions – Eric and James Ravilious: Father and Son’. ‘Familiar Visions’ presents Eric Ravilious’s instantly recognisable paintings of the Sussex landscape alongside James Ravilious’s less well known black-and-white photographs of rustic Devon; much of the work in the show confirms that both artists harboured an authentic love of the English countryside. I have always admired Eric Ravilious’s depictions of planes and submarines, and his Betjemanesque scenes of monumental chalk figures on rolling downland, like the Uffington White Horse and Long Man of Wilmington. However, I...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
