Exhibition Review - Subodh Gupta: 'Invisible Reality' Hauser & Wirth Somerset till 2nd May 2016.





Gupta's pots are stained with secular rituals of the sacred.  - Drenched Co.

Comment: "To me, Gupta's pots allude to the sacramental ordinary, the idea that our inner lives are inextricably intertwined with those of objects and perhaps something beyond, something unknowable. Gupta's pots, passing from one form to another in the fires of meals long past are here helpfully engorged by the artist for a closer look, in the heat of a different kind of attention. " - Raj



See http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/2720/subodh-gupta-invisible-reality/view/



Caption: Image above: Installation view   Subodh Gupta©  Hauser & Wirth Somerset  2016  Photo: Ken Adlard 
Image courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #SubodhGupta #HauserWirth #HauserWirthSomerset  #InvisibleReality #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #somersetart #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture  #artinstallation #installationart #pots #sacramentalordinary #secularritual #sacredritual #stain #india #artindelhi #delhiart #artdelhi #artinindia #indiaart #artinindia


Exhibition Review - Jane Bustin:'Rehearsal' Copperfield, London till 20th May 2016.

Image of Copperfield, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

In everything now, orange satin in small doses,
the reedy winds of soar and spin
in exhausted concentration.  - Drenched Co.

Comment: "Ms Bustin is first a painter. In her compositional arrays, she holds this as a constant while varying her medium.  This she does  perhaps as an experiment to explore media-specific valence or even to leave nothing to chance in an effort to achieve resonance through emergent materiality. To me, Ms Bustin's paintings are a glass harp of sorts- an echo chamber for the text that resides in and around her work, trying to strike the perfect resonant tune to carry beyond text and materials. Fabulous indeed! " - FaSa



See http://www.copperfieldgallery.com/jane-bustin-rehearsal.html

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/04/exhibition-review-jane-bustinrehearsal.html



Caption: Image above: Faun(2015)   Jane Bustin©  Copperfield, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artist and Copperfield, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.





#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #JaneBustin  #Copperfield #Copperfieldgallery #rehearsal #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #drawings #paintings #artinstallation #installationart #ceramics #Nijinsky #ballet #modernist #orange #copper #polyurethane #artinportsmouth #portsmouthart  #pointe #glassharp


Exhibition Review - Anna Barriball:'New Works' Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, London till 7th May 2016.

Image of Frith Street Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

Barriball's tracings are like iron filings sprinkled onto surfaces to trap their magnetic clamour and noisy porosity.  - Drenched Co.

Comment: "I believe Barriball has found a way of touching that which is beyond the surface of a painting while being very much about the surface. Her impressions of matter reveals it in a heightened state, giving off a radiance of the unknown, the energies of things and life which have left their own unwitting impressions upon it, trapped along its converging valleys, its clingy ridges. But these approximations of  depth and  dimension come at a price - a necessary dullness in the very surface that reveals." - Raj



See http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/shows/view/anna_barriball_new_works

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/04/exhibition-review-anna-barriballnew.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view  Anna Barriball©  Frith Street Gallery, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #AnnaBarriball  #FrithStreetGallery #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #drawings #paintings #impression #tracing #magnetic #porous #depth #dimension #artinplymouth #plymouthart #windows #heartbeat

Exhibition Review - Jesse Darling:'The Great Near' Arcadia Missa, London till 7th May 2016.

Image of Arcadia Missa, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


With Darling, rote fare got straight broken.  - Drenched Co.

Comment: "Jesse Darling raids apocalyptic tips for a rubble of upset and rages anthropomorphic violence together in prosthesis and a serious business is done. There, in its hurt lies the put-out eye of indifference and the ruptured folly of abbreviation. I loved Darling's writing and poetry best.." - JayZee



See http://arcadiamissa.com/index.php/exhibitions/jesse-darling

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/04/exhibition-review-jesse-darlingthe.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Jesse Darling©  Arcadia Missa, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.





#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #JesseDarling   #Arcadia Missa #ArcadiaMissagallery #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #processart #saintbatman #cavalry #colonelshanks #TempsdeCerise #apocalypse #superhero #assemblage


Exhibition Review - Robert Cervera, Katarina Hruskova and Alix Marie:'Ichor' Danielle Arnaud, London till 10th Apr 2016.

Image of Danielle Arnaud, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Sluiced against the world, we offer it in perfect resolution.  - Drenched Co.

Comment: "To me Cervera, Hruskova and Marie go beyond boundaries that gives us divergence and difference and entangle themselves with the dark spaces, the void in things. And here lurk shadowy presences that give off a fetid discharge of ambiguity, appropriation and bastardisation as well as the godly gold of connectedness, equality and harmony. I loved loved Alix Marie's 'Hanged, hung, numb'." - FaSa




See http://www.daniellearnaud.com/exhibitions/exhibition-ichor.html

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/04/exhibition-review-robert-cervera.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  'Ichor'  Danielle Arnaud, London  2016  Photo: Oskar Proctor
Image courtesy of the artists and Danielle Arnaud, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.





#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #RobertCervera #KatarinaHruskova #AlixMarie  #DanielleArnaud #DanielleArnaudgallery #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #PostMinimalism #ArtePovera #vampirism #cannibalism #performanceart #videoart #artvideo #artphotography #RCA #materiality #frenchart #swedishart #VictoriaAlbertMuseum #spanishart

Exhibition Review - Philipp Timischl:'2' Vilma Gold, London till 16 Apr 2016.





With Timischl, two outspoken agents square off to the illusion of zero sum.  - Drenched Co.

Comment: "Philip Timischl's '2' wonderfully betrays his need for binaries and various dualities even if he is only interested in the stuff that goes on between certain opposites. To me, Timischl's anti-theft gate keepers build vibrating boundaries and trigger-happy force fields around them. These affect you with a certain static that brings a jitter to meaning and form. Only clarity resides in the poles. All else, including the walls and images are behaving like thieves, all jittery and unpredictable. How very clever!" - Raj



See http://vilmagold.com/exhibition/philipp-timischl/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-philipp-timischl2.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view   Philipp Timischl©   Vilma Gold, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artists and Vilma Gold, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #PhilippTimischl  #VilmaGold #vilmagoldgallery #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #artingermany #germanart #artgermany #antitheft #zerosumgame #forcefield #artphotography #photoart #videoart #artvideo


Exhibition Review - Ariana Reines & Oscar Tuazon:'PUBIC SPACE' Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London till 9th April 2016.

Image of Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

Is that a poem I see built into an erection,
or an erection written into a poem? - Drenched Co.

Comment: "In 'Pubic Space', I believe Ms Reines is once again commenting on f**king and modern media. Her written word, it seems, is reunited with its erstwhile miraculous origins and magical powers, especially in this delinquent modern age of word processors and the internet. Ms Reines' entropic text,  creased and crumpled into its primitive medium, is here proffered as an offering of body and flesh that is to be eaten and drunk and consumed and ravaged by Tuazon's erect, fertile, entropic gods. The words can be best fully absorbed in just this manner. I loved them all again and again." - FaSa



See http://www.modernart.net/view.html?id=1,4,885

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-ariana-reines-oscar.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view   Ariana Reines© & Oscar Tuazon©   Stuart Shave, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artists and Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #PUBICSPACE #ArianaReines #OscarTuazon  #StuartShaveModernArt #StuartShave #ModernArt #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #entropic #poetry #poem #contemporaryart # CoeurdeLion #mercury #gurlesque #eroticsublime #LAart #artLA #artinLA #artinsalem


Exhibition Review - Jeff Zilm:'SOME SCREEN MODS' Simon Lee Gallery, London till 1st April 2016.

Image of Simon Lee Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

Zilm's paintings are spore-baths 
germinating new vectors 
in ghostly directions. - Drenched Co.


Comment: "Zilm's paintings remind me of banged up reflective panels. But instead of the viewer, they reflect the noisy drama of Zilm's art. This is the ever so compelling 'transformission' from text (movie script), to performance, to technology (celluloid), back to theater (Zilm's purported process), to image and finally a return to text. To me, Zilm's emulsion dust is the noise added to a performance that adds to and remakes text or is taken away and suppressed by text. Wonderful!" - FaSa



See http://www.simonleegallery.com/exhibitions/jeff-zilm-some-screen-mods-2016-03

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-jeff-zilmsome-screen.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view   Jeff Zilm©   Simon Lee Gallery, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #SOMESCREENMODS #JeffZilm  #SimonLeeGallery #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #dallasart #iowaart #artindallas #artintexas #texanart #randalMcLeod #celluloid #theater #moviescript #rolandbarthes


Exhibition Review - Maria Taniguchi Ibid. London till 9 April 2016.

Image of Ibid. London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

With Taniguchi, I discover a tally,
flashing darkly up a wall,
in a language of a transaction,
I do not mean to complete. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "In order to 'see' Taniguchi's wall paintings, I am infected with her obsessiveness. I am dangerously drawn to her brick sized microworlds, her microcosms within daunting macrocosms, brick on brick, line on line building to a vertiginous tally of hunkered down obsession. And then it all suddenly leaves me and I walk out of a gallery full of black paintings." - FaSa



See http://ibidgallery.com/2016/02/12/mariataniguchi/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-maria-taniguchi-ibid.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view   Maria Taniguchi©   Ibid. London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artist and Ibid. London
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.
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#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace  #MariaTaniguchi  #Ibidgallery #ibidlondon #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #microworld #macroworld #obsession #spiritual #hugobossart #luxartist #artinphilippines #brickpaintings #artinmanila #manilaart #artmanila

Exhibition Review - Mark Wallinger:'ID' Hauser & Wirth, London till 7th May 2016.

Image of Hauser & Wirth, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Wallinger places his hands to tend to the spectre of solipsism. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "At Wallinger's ID, the artist places himself in his works, evolving his 'I' to another level. Wallinger is in contemplation of self and wills us to participate. And perhaps in the midst of this contemplation, there is this idea of the human hand and its complicity in the evolution of our brains and culture and our contemporary digitally determined identities e.g.  'I touch, therefore I leave traces', leaving my mark wherever I go. (See Frank Wilson's The Hand). Fabulous." - FaSa




See http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/2717/mark-wallinger-id/view/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-mark-wallingerid.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view   Mark Wallinger©   Hauser & Wirth, London  2016  Photo: Ken Adlard
Image courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth, London, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #ID #MarkWallinger  #HauserWirth #Hauserandwirth #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #freud #ego #superego #fingerpainting #Rorschachtest #FrankWilson #thecreationofadam #artinessex #VitruvianMan #NewScotlandYard #Orrery


Exhibition Review - Harmony Korine:'Fazors' Gagosian Davies Street, London till 24th March 2016.

Image of Gagosian, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Korine's Fazors interfere with interfering disbelief. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "I quite like Korine's Fazor paintings especially since they come complete with Mr Korine's high-octane celebrity endorsed life story. With Fazors at Gagosian, as with his incredible movies, he continues to challenge our poetic faith. I am challenged." - JayZee



See http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/harmony-korine--february-08-2016

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-harmony-korinefazors.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view   Harmony Korine©   Gagosian, London  2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Gagosian, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #fazors #HarmonyKorine  #Gagosiangallery #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #musicvideo #bonnieprincebilly #springbreakers #kidsmovie #interference #suspenceofdisbelief #poeticfaith

Exhibition Review - Michael Joo:'Radiohalo' Blain Southern, London till 9th April 2016.

Image of Blain Southern, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Mr. Joo's intersections are measured and transformed in moon-bright wings. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "To me, everything Michael does starts with the alchemical magic of Lunar Caustic (silver is linked to the moon). For instance, silver nitrate stains and is used to measure salt, to make mirrors and to aid analysis, all of which are connected to Michael's practice - along with ideas around cycles, processes, energy, measurement and boundaries. As with silver ions and photography, science and art intersects with magic in Michael's work and he returns time and again to all manner of divides and boundaries, to investigate the nature of objects, places and people. Fabulous!" - JayZee



See http://www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/2016/radiohalo

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-michael-jooradiohalo.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view   Michael Joo©   Blain|Southern, London  2016 Photo: Peter Mallet
Image courtesy of the artist and Blain|Southern, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #Radiohalo #MichaelJoo  #BlainSouthern #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #installationart #painting #sculpture #silvernitrate #koreanart #artkorea #artinkorea #lunarcaustic #caloriepaintings #processart #scienceandart #TheSaltinessofGreatness #spacebaby


Exhibition Review - Aglaé Bassens and Eric Oglander:'What You Can’t See' Revue Gallery, London till 27th March 2016.

Image of Revue Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

Aglaé hangs an emptiness in a trespassing slack
as colour runs a stumbling presence. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "In the tradition of the best 'drab' poetry, Aglaé's paintings have little sensuous imagery and little need for histrionics. They dignify a quiet, intimate tone. And released from pretentiousness, noise and vulgarity, these paintings, as with Oglander's mirrors, have the potential of returning us to that odd cusp between thing and idea, wherefrom all poetry originates. I was bowled over by Aglaé's mural" - JayZee



See http://sohorevue.com/revue-gallery/current

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-aglae-bassens-and.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view   Aglaé Bassens© and Eric Oglander©   Revue Gallery, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and Revue Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.


#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #WhatYouCantSee #AglaeBassens #EricOglander #RevueGallery  #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #installationart  #artingermany #germanart #artgerman #mauriceblanchot #WHAuden #aquarium #mirrors #craigslist #craigslistmirrors



Exhibition Review - Jan Pleitner:'Water for the Tribe' Kerlin Gallery, Dublin till 12th March 2016.

Image of Kerlin Gallery, Dublin with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Charge your heart with paint 
and rush its imprint through a
dragnet of emotions. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "Mr Pletiner's young star is on the rise. I first saw his work in 2014, and now, as then, Pleitner's lines, his gesture, his pallete, reminds me of De Kooning's sinewy abstractions (see for instance Women 1 (1952)), highly energetic, all-action, all expression.  With Pleitner I see a barren landscape of muscle and sinew, coiled, taut and tense, rigid and strained beneath the skin, torn down and rebuilt in a singular expiration of energy. You get involved with this energy, his emotions, his honest instinctual out-pour. Yet you wonder how much of it is honest, how much is performed emotion. Or does it matter?" - FaSa



See http://www.kerlingallery.com/exhibitions/jan-pleitner

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/03/exhibition-review-jan-pleitnerwater-for.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view   Jan Pleitner©   Kerlin Gallery, Dublin  2016 
Image courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #WaterfortheTribe #JanPleitner #KerlinGallery  #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #installationart #artinireland #irishart #artireland #artingermany #germanart #artgerman #actionpainting #Dekooning #abstractexpressionism #sinew #muscle #performanceart #instinct #oldenburgart #LeeLozano #dusseldorfart



Exhibition Review - Marie Jeschke:'Can't Remember Always Always' l’étrangère, London till 5th March 2016.

Image of l’étrangère, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

With Jeschke, I tug at crumpled fossils,
plots drawn from a moving landscape
to tease out the betrayal of memory. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "In her fresh and well put together little show at l’étrangère, Jeschke alludes to the altering of memory through cultural and natural effects over time. To me, Jeschke's work also suggests how a changing reference system of a given culture changes what we see and how we see. As codes of memories change, we cease to notice or alter the way we see certain elements in our environment. As well as being unreliable, memory is selective. For me, Jeschke wants us to consider how time and culture teaches us what to remember and what to ignore. I loved her aluminium totem-like sculptures." - FaSa



See http://letrangere.net/exhibition/marie-jeschke-3/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/02/exhibition-review-marie-jeschkecant.html


Caption: Image above: Installation view   Marie Jeschke©   l’étrangère, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and l’étrangère, London. Photo: Andy Keate
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #CantRememberAlwaysAlways #MarieJeschke #letrangere  #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #installationart #nostalgia #memory #semiotic #mnemonic #HiddenseeIsland #artingermany #germanart




Exhibition Review - Bridget Smith:'The Eye Needs A Horizon' Frith Street Gallery, London till 3rd March 2016.




With Bridget, I tease a pause in slow time, from an 'I am all in and overdrawn'. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "Bridget Smith focuses on details that go into the spaces set aside for our leisure. Many of her photographs in this show (first versions seen in 1995 at Entwistle London) attempt to isolate some essence of these spaces, their minimal necessary features, to explore her interests in their aura and drama and what happens when she succinctly organises them into a picture. Bridget, for me, shows us a terrain where 'traumatic' and leisure dimensions merge, in the moments before the curtains open and the seats fill, a moment that forces us quiet from our 'stupefied and perpetual' activity, through its sheer press of darkness, sleep and limbo. Fab!" - JayZee



See http://frithstreetgallery.com/shows/view/bridget_smith_the_eye_needs_a_horizon







Caption: Image above: Installation view   Bridget Smith©   Frith Street Gallery, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and Frith Street Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #TheEyeNeedsAHorizon #BridgetSmith #FrithStreetGallery #FrithStreet #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #installationart #entwistlecontemporary #artphotography #photoart #cyanotype #cinema #curtains #time #videoart



Exhibition Review - Marita Fraser and Nancy Milner:'Ittenology' Rook & Raven, London till 5th March 2016.

Image of Rook & Raven, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

“To construct through color is to make an image; to destroy through color is to undo representation.” - Drenched Co.
(From 'Matisse' (1984) by Pierre Schneider)


Comment: " At Rook and Raven, I encountered a fascinating albeit somewhat lacklustre show, revisiting the modernist project through some colourful questions about figuration and abstraction. I believe Fraser and Milner work by eroding the support of the image through some modernist device or by imbuing abstraction with the insurgent materiality of flesh and language to examine and to re-energise the mix between representation and  abstraction ( as one leads back to the other and vice versa). Does the mix become unstable? No! Does it become more than the sum of its parts? Yes! I loved loved Fraser's Untitled (net)."- Raj



See http://www.rookandraven.co.uk/exhibitions/ittenology/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/02/exhibition-review-marita-fraser-and.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view   Marita Fraser© and Nancy Milner©  Rook & Raven, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and Rook & Raven, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #Ittenology #MaritaFraser #NancyMilner #RookandRavengallery #RookandRaven #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #artinstallation #installationart #painting #Sculpture #modernism #JohannesItten #diagrams #markrothko #TheElementsofColour #collage



Exhibition Review - Ryan Mosley:'Anatomy and the Wall' Alison Jacques Gallery, London till 3rd Mar 2016.




Ryan's big hair is as vital to our entry into his mythology as it is to our return. - Drenched Co.

Comment: " I first saw Ryan's work in Berlin in 2012, and to me, then, as now, Ryan's visual ballads play  "a tune beyond us, yet ourselves" ( see the poem "The Man with the Blue Guitar" by Wallace Stevens). Ryan's tie-dye aesthetics and hirsute cast decreates reality and argues for another perspective made possible through his paint, while suggesting that when the crust of shape has been destroyed, you are yourself again. Through his process poetic, however abstruse his flights, and given the extraordinary prominence of the body (and hair) in his work, we always return home to the body and its anatomy whilst we try in vain to wall out the swelling, trippy abstract." - Raj



See http://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/exhibitions/132/overview/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-ryan-mosleyanatomy.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view    Ryan Mosley©   Alison Jacques Gallery  London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artist and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #AnatomyandtheWall #RyanMosley #AlisonJacquesGallery  #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #WallaceStevens #hair #shapeshifting #portraits #oldmasters #fantasyart #antoinewatteau

Exhibition Review - Gary Simmons:'Post No Bills' Simon Lee Gallery, London till 20th Feb 2016.


Image of Simon Lee Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


With Gary, I rub the hardness in history books into the tatter of all yesterdays.- Drenched Co.

Comment: "What connects  the present to the past?  For Gary, the answer lies in a ghosting of sorts -  a presence that marks the now, one that is there but not always visible, fraying at the edges but tenaciously present, leaving a fragmented  trail of deep set  prejudices. In this show Gary wants you to experience  this ephemeral ghosting of place, people and objects in and around the exhibits that seems to have traveled from various performance venues. He wants you to live these erstwhile performances and spaces through the clues he leaves for you. And here, the frayed edges of his posters and sculptures might even converse with you in tones of politics and race. I loved his chalkboard paintings best..."- FaSa







Caption: Image above: Installation view    Gary Simmons   Simon Lee Gallery, London  2016 Photo: Peter Mallet
Image courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #PostNoBills #GarySimmons #SimonLeeGallery  #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #sculpture #installationart #artinstallation #posterart #soundart #speakerart #blackark #leeperry #ghosting #artpolitics #classart





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Exhibition Review - Ryan Foerster, Yulan Grant, E. Jane, Gregory Kalliche, Devin Kenny and Denzel Russell:'people sometimes, die' Edel Assanti, London till 20th Feb 2016.

With curator Hlebo, incoherence becomes the site of ruptured wounds, stuck in an overwhelmingly white space. - Drenched Co.

Comment: " In this show, exploring mainly the various facets and symptoms of oppression in America, I encountered a bunch of dizzyingly busy young artists, (guns blazing on all media fronts), involved in the art and politics of ‘the post’. It was all a little unavailable  but the questions it attempts to ask are compelling - what is your complicity in the oppression of the marginalised? how much has your humanity diminished as you oppress and are oppressed? Great premise for a great show. If only  it wasn't trying so hard to be all 'post'. " - JayZee

See http://www.edelassanti.com/exhibitions/57/overview/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/02/exhibition-review-ryan-foerster-yulan.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view   'people sometimes, die'   Edel Assanti, London  2016
Image courtesy of the artists and Edel Assanti, London. Curated by Jesse Hlebo.


We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.





#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #peoplesometimesdie #JesseHlebo #EdelAssanti #RyanFoerster #YulanGrant #EJane #GregoryKalliche #DevinKenny #DenzelRussell #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #artinstallation #installationart #videoart #artvideo #artphotography #photoart #soundart #oppression #postart #postmodern #conspiracytheory


Exhibition Review - Chris Agnew':'Dither' Kristin Hjellegjerde, London till 6th Feb 2016.

Image of Kristin Hjellegjerde gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

Chris precisely defaces his defaced subject-matter. - Drenched Co.


Comment: "At his show, it struck me that Chris is an iconographer whose subject is iconology -as in he makes art that uses the material, techniques and methods employed by iconographers but he paints (or doesn't) about the problems inherent in identification, description and interpretation. Chris, who is interested in the bigger questions of truth and belief, subverts 'image-writing' by subverting his subjects, his methods and even tries to do that which is rationally impossible - finish a painting that is meant to be unfinished. Chris' struggles with contradictions and his amazing technical prowess makes his work fascinating. I, though, loved 'The mighty grip of fate' best." - FaSa



See http://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/19/overview/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/02/exhibition-review-chris-agnewdither.html





Caption: Image above: Installation view    Chris Agnew©   Kristin Hjellegjerde, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artist and Kristin Hjellegjerde, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #Dither #KristinHjellegjerde #KristinHjellegjerdegallery #ChrisAgnew #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #etchings #graffiti #vandalism #iconography #iconology #etch #icon



Exhibition Review - Helene Appel,Stuart Cumberland, Jack Lavender, Hannah Lees, Charles Mayton, Puppies Puppies, Oliver Sutherland, Hayley Tompkins and Holly White:'Is this living?' The Approach, London till 7th Feb 2016.

Image of The Approach, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


At The Approach, I encountered each work "as an unexpected object, a Pandora's box...produced and consumed with a peculiar curiosity, a kind of sacred relish." - Drenched Co.
( Excerpt from Roland Barthes' 'Writing Degree Zero)

Comment: "I entered this exhibition to a site of an explosion, emanating from Lavender's spent campfire, from which scattered the poetic potentialities of the word 'consumption'. And how fresh and messy a take! Is life worth living when colonised by ideas of production and consumption? Perhaps the exhibition also explores an oblique view on how food comes to rescue us from the demands of efficiency and profit. The activities of producing and consuming food shape us, our relationships and places care before commerce. See, for instance, champagne celebrations, communal campsites, social texture of kitchens etc.  Or am I reaching?" - FaSa





See http://theapproach.co.uk/exhibitions/is-this-living/press-release/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-helene-appelstuart.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view    Is this living?   The Approach, London  2016  Photo: FXP Photography
Image courtesy of the artists and The Approach, London. Curated by Jack Lavender and Hannah Lees
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.





#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #Isthisliving #TheApproach #TheApproachgallery #HeleneAppel #StuartCumberland #JackLavender #HannahLees #CharlesMayton #PuppiesPuppies #OliverSutherland #HayleyTompkins #HollyWhite #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart  #sculpture #installationart #artinstallation #foodart #sacredrelish



Exhibition Review - Cornelia Baltes:'Drunk Octopus wants to fight' Limoncello, London till 20th Feb 2016.

Image of Limoncello, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


I can't tell if I am intrigued more by Cornelia's comical forms or the way everything plummets into ambiguity, giggling! - Drenched Co.

Comment: " Cornelia is the bravest artist I know. She opens apertures onto places mainstream artist avoid, into the quirky undertow of our lives. And she confidently wields humour, gobs of paint and routed MDF into wacky cacophonous imagery. And through her wonderful circuitous routes of observations, through her use of rhythms and colors and particularly through her humorous pared down depictions, these quirks of daily life bring  microscopic rifts to the logic and relation of parts to the elusive whole. All the while looking so wonderfully ballsy and cool." - FaSa



See http://www.limoncellogallery.co.uk/exhibitions/drunk-octopus-wants-to-fight/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-cornelia-baltesdrunk.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view   Cornelia Baltes©   Limoncello, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and Limoncello, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #DrunkOctopuswantstofight #CorneliaBaltes #Limoncello #limoncellogallery #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #graphicart #chic #quirkyart #germanart #artgermany #artingermany #comicart #coolart



Exhibition Review - Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Eva Hesse, Roni Horn, Gordon Matta-Clark, Fausto Melotti and Richard Serra :'Maisons Fragiles' Hauser & Wirth, London till 6th Feb 2016.

Image of Hauser & Wirth, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

At 'Maisons Fragiles', I saw our flawed inner theatres entangled inextricably with the psychic economies of things - Drenched Co.

Comment: " I walked into this show and saw the works of nine renown alchemists and their erstwhile struggles with matter. I saw the intertwining of the trajectories of their lives with their chosen materials and the combining of flows in anticipation of what might emerge. And I believe if there is vulnerability in these works, it lies in their inflated husbandry, in a desire to balance some kind of budget, human or otherwise. But in this vulnerability, in this defencelessness, lies the strive that gives them their strength and makes them great. I loved loved Roni Horn's 'Two Pink Tons (2008)'." - Raj





See http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/2690/maisons-fragiles/view/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-louise-bourgeois.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view   Maisons Fragiles   Hauser & Wirth London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and Hauser & Wirth, London
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #HauserWirth #MaisonsFragiles #LouiseBourgeois #AlexanderCalder #IsaGenzken #RobertGober #RoniHorn #GordonMattaClark #FaustoMelotti #EvaHesse #RichardSerra #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #vulnerable #strength #alchemist #matter



Exhibition Review - Heman Chong:'An Arm, A Leg and Other Stories' South London Gallery, London till 28th Feb 2016.

Image of South London Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

With Heman I lost my absurd,
in brief receipts of disconnect,
it came up floating Meursault. - Drenched Co.


Comment: " As always, I believe Heman is commenting about Singapore. And for me his work smacks of the demeanor of this tiny island nation - it is cautiously clear, cynically pragmatic, as subtle as a business card transaction and as rule obsessed as a mathematician. It has a sterile high-concept lucidity, work-the-system sprezzatura and is alarmingly  unencumbered by history or meaning. I found Heman's accomplished appropriation of works and stripping of meaning most interesting and telling. I liked his 'Inclusion(s)' best." - JayZee




See http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/hemanchong

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-heman-chongan-arm-leg.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Heman Chong©   South London Gallery, London  2016 Photo: Andy Keate 
Image courtesy of the artist,  Wilkinson Gallery, London and South London Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #SouthLondonGallery #HemanChong  #AnArmALegandOtherStories #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #artinsingapore #singaporeart #artsingapore #wilkinsongallery #albertcamus #Meursault #conceptualart #businesscard #bookart #sciencefiction #scifi


Exhibition Review - Jānis Avotiņš:'Since the Foundation' Ibid. London till 6th Feb 2016.

Image of Ibid. London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Jānis textures new spaces to think about a shared past. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "Janis paints with the softest of touches, almost as if he is painting primarily to tease out the bumps and irregularities in his canvases, to individually mark them out, one highlighted bump at a time. And with every circled flaw, Janis textures the collective moments that are remembered as the soviet era. One of the  remarkable things about collective memory is that is has texture and that it relies on the materiality of trace. For me, Janis' paintings show memories of a bygone era that have been encoded in postures, clothes and bodily practice brought to primacy by their texture. Loved it! " - JayZee



See http://ibidgallery.com/2015/12/11/janis-avotins-since-the-foundation/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-janis-avotinssince.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Jānis Avotiņš©   Ibid. London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artist and Ibid. London. 
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #Ibid #ibidprojects #ibidgallery #JanisAvotins  #SincetheFoundation #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #painting #paintings #propagandaart #sovietart #artinlatvia #collectivememory #materiality #texture #trace

Exhibition Review - Christine Sun Kim:'Rustle Tustle' Carroll / Fletcher, London till 30th Jan 2016.

Image of Carroll / Fletcher, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Christine is speaking in unsound,
unfixed to unreality,
putting more sound in sound,
shrugged silent poetry. - Drenched Co.

Comment: "I believe we are fascinated by Christine because she can show us how to make sense of our reality despite what we assume to be its many unavailable dimensions - ones that leave infinitesimally thin, flat impressions of their visitations. Christine has never known sound but she knows it is all around her and she is finding novel ways of understanding it. We do not have the words to describe the strangeness of our reality but mathematics and perhaps art may not have this limitation. Christine's art might be our key! " - JayZee



See http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/45/overview/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-christine-sun.html





Caption: Image above: Installation view  Christine Sun Kim©   Carroll / Fletcher, London  2016  Image courtesy of the artist and Carroll / Fletcher, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #CarrollFletcher #ChristineSunKim #RustleTustle #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #artdiagrams #musicart #signlanguage #ASL #BSL #soundart #artsound #videoart #artvideo #subtitles #performanceart #artperformance



Exhibition Review - Carl Andre, Leonor Antunes, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Walead Beshty, Geraldo de Barros, Lygia Clark, VALIE EXPORT, Luigi Ghirri, Robert Grosvenor, Imi Knoebel. Martin Kippenberger, Sol Lewitt, Nasreen Mohamedi, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ron Nagle, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, Gabriel Sierra, Ricky Swallow, VKhUTEMAS Workshops , James Welling, Rachel Whiteread:'Blind Architecture' Thomas Dane Gallery, London till 23rd Jan 2016.

Image of Thomas Dane Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

"The hardest thing is to surround it, to fix its limit where it fades into the penumbra along its edge. To choose it from among the others, to separate it from the light that all shadows secretly, dangerously, breathe." - Drenched Co
-From  Julio Cortázar, ‘To Dress a Shadow’, in Around the Day in Eighty Worlds.



Comment: "For this exhibition I had to revisit the definition of architecture. Where lies its shores and what lays claim to its sovereign territories? Consider suggestions of architecture from sculpture and vice versa. I started looking for pieces within the show that did not fit, that for which it "will repulse the gesture that seeks to crown it with a long blonde wig.." How for instance does Sol LeWitt’s biographical cut-outs allude to architecture? And even more fascinating was for me the complicity of light and shadows in architecture, in photography and in this exhibition. Awesome! " - JayZee



See http://www.thomasdanegallery.com/exhibitions/122/works/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-carl-andre-leonor.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Blind architecture curated by Douglas Fogle   Thomas Dane Gallery, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artists and studios and  Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Curated by Douglas Fogle
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #ThomasDaneGallery #BlindArchitecture # #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #sculpture #architecture #photography #marquette #CarlAndre #WaleadBeshty #LygiaClark #RobertGrosvenor #ImiKnoebel #MartinKippenberger #SolLewitt #NasreenMohamedi #RonNagle #CatherineOpie #GabrielOrozco #ManRay #Rachel Whiteread


Exhibition Review - Claire Barclay:'Longing Lasting' Stephen Friedman Gallery, London till 30th Jan 2016.

Image of Stephen Friedman Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Claire's plots are set on a grid 
with an evasive outline,
avoids dead matter and clear-cut snags,
between an unconscious guide 
and a resonant pulse -
a tethered openness. - Drenched Co


Comment: "I entered this exhibition and I immediately saw an abattoir -the sterile space, the hanging carcasses in gushes of blood, bits and organs, the cuts, the slices, the stainless steel. I even smelt the hot, punctured flesh. And funnily enough I felt movement -the artworks somehow on a pause into becoming something else - every object, curve, cut and hue driving some relationship however abstract. Claire's intriguing, hybrid, perfectly sculptured and plotted works transported me to a place I have never been to before. I loved it." - FaSa



See http://www.stephenfriedman.com/exhibitions/current/claire-barclay-longing-lasting

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-claire-barclaylonging.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Claire Barclay©   Stephen Friedman Gallery, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artist and  Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.





#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #StephenFriedmanGallery #StephenFriedman #ClaireBarclay #LongingLasting #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #artexhibition #artinstallation #installationart #sculpture #painting #print #abatoir #glasgowart #artglasgow #artinglasgow

Exhibition Review - Ellen Hyllemose:'LANDSCAPE RECONFIGURED' FOLD Gallery, London till 16th Jan 2016.

Image of FOLD Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

With Hyllemose, I enter a land
measured out in coloured spandex
- hex code #do115. - Drenched Co


Comment: "In this show, I walked into a landscape (its title made me look for one) and I saw a clever artist taking the children's game of playing dress-up and extending it into a metaphor or a reflection of her environment and as a commentary on the making and showing of art today. The lycra covers are an integral part of Hyllemose's art and I secretly wondered if she was also commenting on how our landscapes need the kind of tender nursing and care showered upon dolls around the world." - FaSa



See http://www.foldgallery.com/exhibition/landscape-reconfigured/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-ellen.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Ellen Hyllemose©   FOLD Gallery, London  2016  
Image courtesy of the artist and  FOLD Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.





#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #FOLDGallery #EllenHyllemose #LANDSCAPERECONFIGURED #artinlondon #londonart #artlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #contemporaryart #artexhibition #artinstallation #installationart #sculpture #painting #landscape #lycra #spandex #artdenmark #danishart #artindenmark #hexcode #environmentart #colourrevolution



Exhibition Review - Rob Pruitt:' Therapy Paintings' Massimo De Carlo, London till 30th Jan 2016.

Image of Massimo De Carlo, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

Pruitt's ink scores,
dipped in feline panic, 
rub ancient bruises into bloom 
that bleed together
into a strip-tease.- Drenched Co


Comment: "Through his doodles, Mr Pruitt keeps a mental block in his head occupied, which lets him talk freely about himself during therapy. And this block, from the nature of Pruitt's drawings, must be guided by some incarnation of a maligned cat or panda, trying to scratch its way in or out of Pruitt's head. Here, I believe, Pruitt is once again ridiculing and celebrating through his pretty exhibitions with his hatchet buried squarely where his art lives. I loved the cats best! " - FaSa



See http://www.massimodecarlo.com/exhibitions/view/11993

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-rob-pruitt-therapy.html






Caption: Image above: Installation view  Rob Pruitt©   Massimo De Carlo, London  2016  Photo: Todd-White Art Photography
Image courtesy of the artist and  Massimo De Carlo, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.






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Exhibition Review - Diane Simpson and Lesley Vance at Herald St, London till 31st Jan 2016.

Image of Herald St, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.

Your architectural pressure points
insert you between a mathematical equation
and the pleated silk shadows you cast
upon my seductive forms and dissonant spaces.- Drenched Co



Comment: "How does one speak of the sex of a painting or a sculpture? For this is what I see in this exhibition. I see envy in the strained curves of Vance's twisting forms - the stiffened hips to prevent them from swaying, the lifted posture from hips to shoulders, the florid over compensation and the insecure under definition. All in the face of the androgynous, strapping, broad shouldered, baritone-voiced sculptures of Simpson, cold, foreign and separate. But oh, what a beautiful couple they make!" - JayZee




See http://www.heraldst.com/ds-lv

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-diane-simpson-and.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Diane Simpson© Lesley Vance©  Herald St, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and  Herald St, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.



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Exhibition Review - Nina Canell, N. Dash, Simon Fujiwara, Lydia Gifford, Hayley Tompkins, Phillip Zach:'Drawn by its own memory' Laura Bartlett Gallery, London till 31st Jan 2016.

Image of Laura Bartlett Gallery, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


Melt down the shape of notions
and pour over the odd orbits of things,
weave in the agility of verbs,
where things slip into things.- Drenched Co


Comment: "The artists in this show, acutely aware that the thinging of things is elusive and  not passively subservient to human will, are collaborating with their things to make art. How do they do this? First they don't think of things as inert- they celebrate the flow of things which are always already leaking, circulating and becoming. Second, they join in with the thinging of things, careful not to impose form upon it, merging and directing its flow while staying vigilant about its inherent leakiness. In short, these artists are joining forces with their material to reveal its thinging and to bring art into being. I loved N.Dash's new works." - Raj




See http://www.laurabartlettgallery.com/exhibitions/group-show-2/

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-nina-canell-n-dash.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Drawn by its own memory  Laura Bartlett Gallery, London  2016 
Image courtesy of the artists and  Laura Bartlett Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




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Exhibition Review - Agathe de Bailliencourt:'Couleurs du temps' Blain|Southern, London till 23rd Jan 2016.

Image of Blain|Southern, London with art exhibition review by Drenched Co.


I have never been to Marfa, Texas,
but with Agathe, it's a nexus
between a brief run of diffusing stains,
and the words she hid in her canvas.- Drenched Co

Comment: "If it is a landscape that Agathe is painting, she is leaving her erstwhile expressive paintings of color planes and psychological interiors for a deceptively complex subject. But Agathe avoids the scourge of the mediocre, dissatisfying landscape painting by treating the surface of her canvas just enough to bring the texture of the canvas to leap out to her cause. Just as Marfa, Texas left a stain on her sight, Agathe has successfully transferred this irrational disorientation of her senses onto canvas by staining it, microscopically revealing, willing, each ridge, each bump, each knot to manifest their physical solidity to achieve the impossible. Best work she has done since Fumio Nanjo's 1st Singapore Biennale exhibition in 2006." - FaSa



See http://www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/2015/agathe-de-bailliencourt

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/01/exhibition-review-agathe-de.html



Caption: Image above: Installation view  Agathe de Bailliencourt©  Blain|Southern, London 2015
Image courtesy of the artists and  Blain|Southern, London.
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Exhibition Review - Susan Hiller at Lisson Gallery, London till 9th Jan 2016.





"What is the explanation of it all?
What does it look like to a learned man?
Nothings in nothings whirled, or when he will.
From nowhere unto nowhere nothings run."- Drenched Co
(1938 unpublished poem by W.B. Yeats)

Comment: "I have been reading my favourite Irish poet WB Yeats of late. I was reminded of him when I last saw Susan Hiller at Tate in 2011. To me, what connects them is their deep interest in the supernatural, the breadth and variety of their work and their far reaching influences with achievements through into old age ( Hiller at Lisson now surpassing Yeats). I compare them again side by side -Yeats with his unbridled passion for the occult and his abstracted notions with Hiller paying closer attention to the minutiae without any hankering obsessions. This is perhaps where the difference lies. As Lou Reed once said,"I wanna read a quote from Yates- "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" - now you figure out where I'm at!"" - JayZee



See http://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/susan-hiller

See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2015/12/exhibition-review-susan-hiller-at.html




Caption: Image above: Installation view  Susan Hiller©  Lisson Gallery, London  2015  Photo: Jack Hems
Image courtesy of the artist and  Lisson Gallery, London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below and above it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.




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