exhibition review
Exhibition Review - Saad Qureshi:'time | memory | landscape', Gazelli Art House, London till 16th April 2017.
“With Qureshi, a stillness I can't keep,
leans into terrains darkened with allure. See
winds scatter dark blooms
into impatient cosmologies! Ones
you can't see but own."- Drenched Co.
Comment: "'School of Saatchi' artist Saad Qureshi helps the elusive truth of a memory grow out of another." - JayZee
See http://gazelliarthouse.com/exhibition/time-memory-landscape/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/04/exhibition-review-saad-qureshitime.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Saad Qureshi© Gazelli Art House, London 2017.
Credits: Image courtesy of the artist and Gazelli Art House. Photography: Peter Mallet
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 #SaadQureshi #GazelliArtHouse #timememorylandscape #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #mindascape #congregation #innerlandscapes #ruin #decay #brickpowder #time #memory #landscaape
Exhibition Review - Amelie von Wulffen:'The misjudged Bimpfi', Studio Voltaire, London till 2nd April 2017.
“The past stealing ballast of this light
that still shines through to places unknown,
ruins that a nation carries in its heart,
putting more shadow in the shadows,
shattering a mirror to stare at ghosts."- Drenched Co.
Comment: "There are shadows in Amelie's work, dark clouds that spread through her paintings, overcoming them, rising as though from some scene of an unatoned crime, filled with ghosts and spectres that do not die their own death. As a 'Nachgeborenen', perhaps Amelie is introducing us to the impossibility of mourning, leaving us with bottles of ether and somewhere in a place between consciousness and unconsciousness, filled with immovable obstacles to repentance and salvation. Or perhaps she is telling us about the traumatising loss of innocence and something that may inaugurate the work of mourning. Perhaps Amelie is suggesting this through the example of Mann's hero in Doktor Faustus, by dropping harmony and counterpoint and a legacy that is univocal and given, and assembling her dark montages of memories in the rhythm of various painterly traditions, always equally fluid and disjointed. Either that or Amelie is telling us that art is incurably sick and impotent against the monsters in us, foretelling perhaps a dark coming. I found her installation/sculpture especially interesting and revealing." - FaSa
See http://www.studiovoltaire.org/exhibitions/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/03/exhibition-review-amelie-von-wulffenthe.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Amelie von Wulffen© Studio Voltaire, London 2017.
Credits: Amelie von Wulffen, The misjudged Bimpfi, Installation view, Studio Voltaire 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Studio Voltaire. Credit 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 #AmelievonWulffen #StudioVoltaire #ThemisjudgedBimpfi #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #theodoradorno #jacquesderrida #theworkofmourning #theimpossibilityofmourning #collage #thomasMann #doktorfaustus #germanart #artingermany #artgerman #anselmkiefer
Exhibition Review - Florian Roithmayr: 'ir re par sur', Bloomberg SPACE, London till 18th March 2017.
“Florian's reaches down into the religious substance out of which we are moulded."- Drenched Co.
Comment: " I liken Florian's alchemical experiments to photography, as a kind of moulding, organising various forces to a state of equilibrium to a particular moment, when through the intermediary of all materials involved - human, chemical and mechanical, an imprint is taken, creating a world as it isn't. What is interesting here is the way Florian's gestures, his subjecthood, brings agency in the processes of subjectivation to the apparatus of flow and formlessness entering a dialogue with form, structure and systems. " - Raj
See https://www.bloombergspace.com/artists/upcoming/ir-re-par-sur/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/02/exhibition-review-florian-roithmayr-ir.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Florian Roithmayr© Bloomberg SPACE, London 2017.
Image courtesy of Bloomberg SPACE, London. Photo: David Morgan Photography, 2017
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 #FlorianRoithmayr #BloombergSPACE #irreparsur #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #formlessness #flow #photography #mould #imprint #gesture #Acheiropoieta #GeorgesDidiHuberman #HenryColeman #RupertNorfolk #physicalinformation #Barthes #artingermany #germanart #artgerman
Exhibition Review - Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: 'An Intimate Gaze', Danielle Arnaud, London till 11th Feb 2017.
“Elpida is reaching in, searching,
takes apart landscapes,
lifts open lush horizons,
upends a purse, a stomach, a body,
watching it flame into momentary blossoms,
a memory of breath and life burning flesh into a broken silence,
a silence of the body used confounded by its use,
washed in odors and secrets of
a river that swallows all things."- Drenched Co.
Comment:
" Elpida's silky gauzes of silence, in their quivering eruptions, peels back my gaze. Brilliant!" - JayZee
See http://daniellearnaud.com/exhibitions/exhibition-elpida-an-intimate-gaze.html
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/02/exhibition-review-elpida-hadzi-vasileva.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva© Danielle Arnaud, London 2017.
Image courtesy of Danielle Arnaud, London. Photo: Oskar Proctor
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 #ElpidaHadziVasileva #DanielleArnaud #DanielleArnaudgallery #AnIntimateGaze #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #makingbeauty #insideout #unity #sitespecific #fragility #decay #skin #scientific #macedonianart #artinmacedonia
Exhibition Review - Christina Mackie, Richard Gasper, Kira Freije, Penny Andrea: 'God's Finger', Kinman gallery, London till 20th Jan 2017.
“Act V - Putinescence"- Drenched Co.
Comment: "Imagine a bunch of artists finding the lost fifth and final act of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'. The one that is rumored to hint at the various hues of human forgetfulness and the fury of a returning orange Venus. Imagine that the artists have decided to get in on the act. The end of God's finger, 20th Jan 2017, will return America to its human sacrifices, to the mood and atmosphere of its Salem witch hunts and McCartyism. Gasper fires the plot by bringing piles of dirt into the gallery, breaking into the landscapes that once expressed the qualities of moral grandeur and human destiny (the dirt is from Henry Moore Estates). Mackie's colors, used as a metaphor for knowledge, hint at the trouble many are having discerning facts, buried in layers of dirt. Freije’s sculpture is at once the unfolding comedy that is the youth left with a sinking ship, and an irreverent orange emperor, source of all sickness. Andrea finally provides the chatter and melancholia that accompanies this train wreck. It is, by all accounts, a dark foretelling." - FaSa
See http://kinmangallery.com/london/gods-finger
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/01/exhibition-review-christina-mackie.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view 'God's Finger' at Kinman gallery, London.
Image courtesy of Kinman 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 #ChristinaMackie #RichardGasper #KiraFreije #GodsFinger #PennyAndrea #Kinmangallery #thecrucible #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #arthurmiller #lostplay #putin #donaldtrump #america #inauguration #salemwitchhunt #mccarthyism #orangeemperor
Exhibition Review - Bonnie Camplin, Camden Arts Centre, London till 15th Jan 2017.
“Bonnie's esoterica of vibrating lines
caught in the curvature of receding minds."- Drenched Co.
Comment: "An outline for a story: Artist spends hundreds of hours over many years swimming in the vast and ancient eddies of existence, hoping to discover mystic correspondences from the other side. Nothing happens. The artist builds installations to open people's minds by showing them what she does everyday. She becomes successful perhaps because the Outside is no longer, usurped by modernity's dissolving boundaries. The Inside (the inner life) is the new frontier in art. Artist continues to use oracular devices in the form of diagrams to open her mind. One day, a leak appears in her mind, one that connects her to the 'other' side. The vast unknown has returned her call and in the same shapes and forms she had been transmitting to it for years. The artist frantically scribbles her thoughts down, relieved and breath-taken at the same time. She compiles her work and exhibits it. Each drawing, each diagram a message from the unknown and proof of its existence. Work of enormous importance to her and mankind in general. Unfortunately, no one can relate. People shun it. Art critics write it off. We are simply not ready." - FaSa
See https://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/camplin
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/01/exhibition-review-bonnie-camplin-camden.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view of Bonnie Camplin at Camden Arts Centre, 2016-17
Image courtesy of Camden Arts Centre, London. Photo: Mark Blower
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 #BonnieCamplin #CamdenArtsCentre #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #diagram #drawing #paranormal #mysticism #psychedelia #necronaut #transcendetal #pyschicspace #semiotictechnology #seance #netherword #psychic
Exhibition Review - Peter Peri:'Uncting' Almine Rech Gallery, Savile Row London till 14th Jan 2017.
“I found insane geometries and dissolving boundaries
in Peri's refractive index of modernity."- Drenched Co.
Comment: "In this deceptively sedate exhibition, Peter Peri creates a radical universe to explore the textures and structures characteristic of the experiences of the schizophrenic and the modernist artist. I marveled mostly at Peri's complex handling of illusionistic, irrational space through his hairy structures and his dense,organic mesh of lines. Layers of reality sit side by side in this show, the 'modern' and the schizophrenic acting as the mobile ready to assume any contours or texture to legitimise and valorise them. But there, in Peri's relatively static sculptures, we find something akin to an imbalance, something to find and ride into resistant universes, thwacking our heads against our animist projections. " - Raj
See http://www.alminerech.com/exhibitions/3739-peter-peri
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2017/01/exhibition-review-peter-periuncting.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Peter Peri© Almine Rech Gallery, Savile Row London 2017
Image courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery, Savile Row 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 #PeterPeri #AlmineRechGallery #AlmineRechGallerySavileRow #Uncting #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #PeterLaszloPeri #constructivism #modernity #geometry #modernism #drawing #painting #sculpture #TrompeLOeil #fetishazation #dissolution #martinherbert
Exhibition Review - Antonis Pittas:'Shadows for Construction' narrative projects, London till 7th Jan 2017
“Set the present against some history that isn't regret,
hang it on the awkward motions of protest,
angle it to the invisible forces of upheavel,
leave it unfinished, to become whole again."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "With a sleight of his hands, Pittas does away with specifics and places the revolutionary urges of the russian avant-gardes of the 20th century next to today's global politics. He has me seeing references to recent post-truth era politics everywhere - e.g. shadow hands redirecting the light of the past in which the present is reinterpreted ; a giant discarded hand of an eternal monument to bygone ambitions set against the words of a Calais refugee; acutely polarised politics adorned in cheap gold kitsch! Pittas' gestures of the political hand both reveals and conceals new and interesting aspects of the geometry of the complex political space that we negotiate both inside and outside the gallery today. How very clever!" - FaSa
See http://narrativeprojects.com/exhibitions/shadows-for-construction/
See also http://www.soaked.space/2016/12/exhibition-review-antonis-pittasshadows.html
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/12/exhibition-review-antonis-pittasshadows.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Antonis Pittas© narrative projects, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and narrative projects, 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 #AntonisPittas #narrativeprojects #narrativeprojectsgallery #ShadowsforConstruction #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #artamsterdam #amsterdamart #greekart #artingreece #revolution #protest #russianavartgarde #russianformalism #sovietconstructivism #minimalism #calaisrefugeecrisis #trumpera #postbrexit
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