exhibition review
Exhibition Review - Lisha Bai, Ryan Lauderdale, Hannah Levy, Michael Jones McKean, Wyatt Niehaus, Kate Steciw and Chris Wiley: 'Dense Mesh' Carroll / Fletcher, London till 25th May 2016.
What more a conduit but a promise of a connection,
for a harvest of life in glitched consonants;
what else is a thing suspended in action,
but an ordered world in still dissonance.
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "'Dense Mesh' is a brilliantly conceived show with some extraordinary young American artists bringing into question philosophies which privilege the human being over things. For such a project, Flusser is an apt choice. He does not speak of a yearning for a return back to a humanist past but suggests we accept our modern apparatuses and learn from and through them to a new measure of freedom. The artists in this show attempt in their own way to break into and subvert their programming to expand the agency of things and to give primacy to creative movements through processes, flows and transformations. And, by so doing, they bring back life to a world of things and free them from servitude. I loved loved Ryan Lauderdale's constructions!" - FaSa
See http://www.carrollfletcher.com/exhibitions/53/overview/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/05/exhibition-review-lisha-bai-ryan.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view 'Dense Mesh' Carroll / Fletcher, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artists and Carroll / Fletcher, London. Curated by Joshua Citarella.
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 #Lisha Bai #RyanLauderdale #HannahLevy #MichaelJonesMcKean #WyattNiehaus #KateSteciw #ChrisWiley #CarrollFletcher #CarrollFletchergallery #JoshuaCitarella #DenseMesh #vilemflusser #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #mediatheory #rhizome #materialculture #technicalimage #speculativerealism #anthropocentrism
Exhibition Review - John Divola, Cyprien Gaillard, Beatrice Gibson, Michail Pirgelis, Daniel Turner: 'Under a falling sky' Laura Bartlett Gallery, London till 5th June 2016.
Under a falling sky,
crack history into a wreckage of words.
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "For me, this show builds on the conversations around the brilliant 'Drawn by its own memory' exhibition at the same gallery earlier this year. See our review here. How do we make objects talk to us and tell us things that might surprise us? In this exhibition, Divola leads a star-studded cast into the Benjaminian and Heideggerian project that wants you to consider the thingness of things by tearing them out of their context. When unanchored, objects pose new questions and bring about interesting new reinterpretations as they direct our attention to slippages in the text inscribed on the 'countenance' of 'nature-history'. Divola's diptychs and Pirgelis' plane parts are especially intriguing. Fabulous!" - FaSa
See http://www.laurabartlettgallery.com/exhibitions/under-the-falling-sky/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/05/exhibition-review-john-divola-cyprien.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view 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.
#cutsoverart #drenchedco #soakedspace #JohnDivola #CyprienGaillard #BeatriceGibson #MichailPirgelis #DanielTurner #LauraBartlettGallery #Underafallingsky #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #walterbenjamin #history #historicalmaterialism #heidegger #thingness # DogsChasingMyCarintheDesert
Exhibition Review - Jules de Balincourt: 'Stumbling Pioneers' Victoria Miro, London till 14th May 2016.
What purchase iridescence on a parting glance?
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "In de Balincourt's paintings I hear the familiar Nietzschean cry, "God is dead". And I marvel at how this artist uses humour to deal with the space that is left deserted, empty in His absence. de Balincourt's humour is ambivalent, casually delicate and fundamentally pessimistic and it invents 'festivals of atonement' and 'sacred games' to find new meaning in a godless America. And this without obscuring any of its ills. I love the way the artist makes me feel his stumbling presence in his paintings as he completes his 'chapters' in a flurry of mad inspired activity." - FaSa
See http://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/490/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/05/exhibition-review-jules-de-balincourt.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Jules de Balincourt© Victoria Miro, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro, 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 #JulesdeBalincourt #VictoriaMiro #VictoriaMirogallery #StumblingPioneers #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #painting #Nietzsche #Bergson #humour #godisdead #iridescence #iridescent #artinLA #LAart #artLA #Losangeles #artinFrance #artfrance #frenchart
Exhibition Review - Tyra Tingleff: 'Grinding your teeth to keep out the wind' The Sunday Painter, London till 14th May 2016.
Behind Tyra's tendrils of pauses, silent ellipses.- Drenched Co.
Comment: "I first came across Tyra's paintings at the 2013 RCA graduation show and now as before, Tyra paints rare, truly abstract paintings that surprise you with her grounding and dissolving play with paint. She pushes her language beyond itself, constantly giving out possibilities into a void and stroke over stroke, layer over layer a world is disclosed to our consciousness...such is her play with language..and to our amazement, she keeps doing it, again and again. I love all of Tyra's paintings but I am especially fond of 'When I wear a swimsuit I just don’t swim'" - Raj
See http://www.thesundaypainter.co.uk/exhibition/grinding-your-teeth-to-keep-out-the-wind
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/05/exhibition-review-tyra-tingleff.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Tyra Tingleff© The Sunday Painter, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and The Sunday Painter, 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 #TyraTingleff #TheSundayPainter #TheSundayPaintergallery #Grindingyourteethtokeepoutthewind #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #painting #Gadamer #verbuminterius #RCA2013 #abstractpainting #languageofpainting
Exhibition Review - Lisa Oppenheim: 'Analytic Engine' The Approach, London till 15th May 2016.
Light accumulates until it finally is. - Drenched Co.
Comment: "Ms Oppenheim's alchemical wanderings take me on a journey through and beyond Barthes' grand project in Camera Lucida. In her photographs, light filtering through thin slivers of a dead tree seem to cleave an image from the wood itself. And to me these photographs are like the "made-up face beneath which we see the dead", as they beautify and momentarily neutralise the forest spirits that press upon our contemporary angst so. I liked her weave best." - JayZee
See http://theapproach.co.uk/exhibitions/analytic-engine/images/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/04/exhibition-review-lisa-oppenheim.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Lisa Oppenheim© The Approach, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and The Approach, 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 #LisaOppenheim #TheApproach #TheApproachgallery #AnalyticEngine #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #artinstallation #installationart #barthes #thathasbeen #deathinperson #forestspirit #cameralucida #photography #artphotography #photoart #calotype #WilliamHenryFoxTalbot #talbotype
Exhibition Review - Finbar Ward: 'In Absence' FOLD, London till 7th May 2016.
It moved, I swear,
with serious mouths,
endorsing codes,
plotting betrayal. - Drenched Co.
Comment: "Finbar's work reminds me of the French artist Brig Laugier's reconstructions of the book as object. I see parallels with Ms Laugier's examination of the media specific term 'book' in the context of Roland Barthes essay "From Work to Text". In a time when few subscribe to a primacy of the medium, Finbar's art questions the limits of painting and the movement away from it towards the ubiquitous 'works of art' while sticking obstinately to his chosen language. I loved how he gave the gallery polygonal reptilian scales.." - Raj
See http://www.foldgallery.com/exhibition/in-absence/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/04/exhibition-review-finbar-ward-in.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Finbar Ward© FOLD London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and FOLD 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 #FinbarWard #foldgallery #InAbsence #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #somersetart #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #sculpture #artinstallation #installationart #painting #cobalt #BrigLaugier #booksculpture #barthes #scales #medium #reptile
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.
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
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