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
Exhibition Review - Hannah Levy and Michael Simpson:'Shall we sit, stand or kneel?' Marlborough Chelsea, New York till 3rd Dec 2016.
“Denied of tiresome fixations,
it bends my body into incongruous places."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "The emptiness in Simpson's paintings and Levy's chromed metal and silicone (recently escaped from their “design purgatory”) made me think of my local surgery's consultation rooms. And aptly enough both artists disassemble contexts in search of powers in their wonted seats, laying them bare through slick bits of archaeology. Being apparently free from bondage and semantic connections, I felt a strange familiarity with these paintings and sculptures, due perhaps to their new potentials but also (funnily enough) to their inviolable relations to the body. Brilliant!" - JayZee
See http://marlboroughchelsea.com/chelsea/exhibitions/shall-we-sit-stand-or-kneel
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/11/exhibition-review-hannah-levy-and.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Hannah Levy© Michael Simpson© Marlborough Chelsea, New York 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Chelsea, New York. Photo credit: Daniel Peréz
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 #HannahLevy #MichaelSimpson #MarlboroughChelsea #Shallwesitstandorkneel #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artreview #design #purgatory #GiordanoBruno #lepersquint #ubiquityofbody #formandfunction #flatsurfacepaintings #benchpaintings #denial #ergonomic
Exhibition Review - Levi Van Veluw:'the foundation' Rosenfeld Porcini, London till 26th Nov 2016.
“I biro a profile clean,
mistaking shadows for symmetry,
lost in the scattering
coherence in curiosity."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "My first intro to Van Veluw was in 2008 through photographs of his face with ballpoint marks. To me these were a piece of theatre concerned more about self-erasure then self-expression. In his later work 'The Origin of the Beginning', I started wondering if Van Veluw's work was not more about finding a place for himself and mankind in general within the grand scheme of nature and the divine. And this became clear in 'The Relativity of Matter' where Van Veluw becomes the accomplished maker of the wunderkammer, fingering perhaps at the idea behind the museums today and their collections. And here again he attempts to erase out his profile from his darkened archive rooms, beautifully challenging ideas of the formation, preservation and interpretation of an impossible collection. Fabulous." - Raj
See http://rosenfeldporcini.com/exhibitions/31/overview/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/11/exhibition-review-levi-van-veluwthe.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Levi Van Veluw© Rosenfeld Porcini, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Rosenfeld Porcini, 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 #LeviVanVeluw #RosenfeldPorcini #RosenfeldPorcinigallery #thefoundation #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #dutchart #artinnetherlands #wunderkammer #therelativityofmatter #selfpotraiture
Exhibition Review - Toby Ziegler:'Post-Human Paradise' Simon Lee Gallery, London till 26th Nov 2016.
“With Ziegler, I wrestle the reins of my gaze,
from the humming wires of my canvas."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "Much of the content in Ziegler's work is located in his process, a parallel of which can be found in the lossy compression and decompression of images in today's digital communication technologies. Ziegler's compression and flattening, while abandoning illusion, is enriched by allusion. But what is more interesting is how Ziegler has become this embodiment of Villem Flusser's post human, who instead of being a mere function of his different 'apparatuses', reveals their rule of play and the programmatic worldview of absurd coincidence. Now to become the masters of these out-of-body entities and play with the programmes that play with us!" - FaSa
See http://www.simonleegallery.com/exhibitions/toby-ziegler-2016-10
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/11/exhibition-review-toby-zieglerpost.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Toby Ziegler© Simon Lee Gallery, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London/Hong Kong. Photo credit: 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 #TobyZiegler #SimonLeeGallery #PostHumanParadise #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #posthuman #theimpossiblegaze #villemflusser #codecs #digitaltechnologies #algorithm
Exhibition Review - Orla Barry:'Breaking Rainbows' Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin till 5th Nov 2016.
the oral and the written."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "For me, Barry explores the ideas behind true orality - when sequences of words and symbols are coloured by the presence of bodies and powered by breath and pulse. Her installation uses the oral event and the nonlinearity of oral thought processes to forefront relationships, movement and presence through her lived experiences as a sheep farmer and artist. Fabulous!" -
FaSa
See http://www.templebargallery.com/gallery/exhibition/breaking-rainbows
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/10/exhibition-review-orla-barrybreaking.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Orla Barry© Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. Photo credit: Luca Truffarelli
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 #Orlabarry #TempleBarGallery #Breakingrainbows #irishart #artireland #artinireland #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #orality #textart #belgianart #artbelgium #artinbelgium #performanceart #soundart #artsound #installationart #videoart #storytelling
Exhibition Review - Yinka Shonibare MBE: '...and the wall fell away' Stephen Friedman Gallery, London till 11th Nov 2016.
“the mockery was born
from misplaced embroidery
stitches
of traded thread"
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "In this exhibition, Shonibare's art is once again about 'purloined seduction or pretend authenticity'. To me, Shonibare's magic lies in his contextual use of wax batik textiles. The voluptuousness of his fabric and its garish patterns always seduced and was slow to the gaze. Each fold and weave of the material often played with you before abandoning you to confused signifiers. To me, meanings are woven into the fabric itself and do not simply translate into flat, vernacular patterns of African ethnicity. But sadly, the fold, pleat and stitch is no longer." - Jayzee
See http://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe/
See also http://www.soaked.space/2016/10/exhibition-review-yinka-shonibare-mbe.html
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/10/exhibition-review-yinka-shonibare-mbe.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Yinka Shonibare© Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photography 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 #YinkaShonibare #StephenFriedmanGallery #StephenFriedman #andthewallfellaway #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #batik # artnigeria #nigeriaart #artinnigeria #artafrica #textileart #ethicart #postcolonialart #postmodernart #africanart
Exhibition Review - Marc Behrens: '«Phantoms»' The MART Gallery, Dublin till 22nd Oct 2016.
“To listen is to edit,
the raphsody of the wind,
to hear is to see,
its conditions of possibility."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "To me, Behrens is our guide to the auditory unconscious, to sound that we won't hear or can't hear, to the confused swarm of elemental noise. Behrens, through his expertise in montage and editing, introduces us to the contaminated pause, to the backdrop that reveals sound. In near silence, he sensitises us to ghosts, to notions of intent and to the sounds of our imagination. The exhibition is esoteric and sparse. It requires commitment to discern the artist in his compositions. He nudges us towards the infinite but it is lost upon us. It begs another look." - Raj
See http://www.mart.ie/calendar/marc-behrens/
See also http://www.soaked.space/2016/10/exhibition-review-marc-behrens-phantoms.html
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/10/exhibition-review-marc-behrens-phantoms.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Marc Behrens© The MART Gallery, Dublin 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and The MART 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 #MarcBehrens #TheMARTGallery #themart #Phantoms #irishart #artireland #artinireland #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #photoart #artphotography #portoart #germanart #artgerman #artingermany #goetheinstitute #soundart #artsound #pause #lebruitdefond #leibniz
Exhibition Review - Willie Doherty: 'Loose Ends' Kerlin Gallery, Dublin till 19th Oct 2016.
“Leach out the vapors,
thaw time in forsaken places.
Wherever we remember,
it's far from history."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "Doherty's videos are to me a re-telling of stories and events from a hundred years ago, a new perspective on history that is a type of witnessing that is not testimony. The videos have a certain posthumous quality to them as they explore the past in a ghost like hallucination, not concerned about making any sense of it. Also Doherty films powerful subjects with violent histories, their intense disquiet having been absorbed and filtered into every frame of his videos, giving his signature restraint a certain penumbra of unexpected danger. I have watched these videos again and again!" - Raj
See http://www.kerlingallery.com/exhibitions/willie-doherty_4
See also http://www.soaked.space/2016/10/exhibition-review-willie-doherty-loose.html
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/10/exhibition-review-willie-doherty-loose.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Willie Doherty© Kerlin Gallery, Dublin 2016
Image courtesy of the artists 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 #WillieDoherty #KerlinGallery #LooseEnds #irishart #artireland #artinireland #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #videoart #artvideo #artfilm #artphotography #derry #1916EasterRising #GolaIsland #donegal #moorestreet
Exhibition Review - Jeremy Everett and Fabio Lattanzi Antinori: 'No Not Never None' Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London till 1st Oct 2016.
“Show me, the shape and size,
the order and beauty,
the rhythm and waft,
of uncertainty."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "There, lying just below the surface of the apparent, resides the world of Jeremy Everett and Fabio Lattanzi where the 2nd law of thermodynamics leans into the infinite weave and spirals of the processes of life." - FaSa
See http://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/51/overview/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/09/exhibition-review-jeremy-everett-and.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view 'No Not Never None' Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artists and Kristin Hjellegjerde 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 #JeremyEverett #FabioLattanziAntinori #KristinHjellegjerdeGallery #KristinHjellegjerde #NoNotNeverNone #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #order #disorder #perfume #antidepressants #smokepigment #buried
Exhibition Review - Thilo Heinzmann: 'To Be And To Be' Carl Freedman Gallery, London till 22nd Oct 2016.
“Something happened beyond the frame.
Something left behind.
Something reframed."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "Heinsmann's clever use of disjunctive, anachronistic elements made me think of a forensic enquiry into the Modernist project. His paintings are like 'petri dishes' used to culture the isolated craft and technique of modernism. Heinsmann substitutes the subjective and subtle process of discovery for the 'science'." - FaSa
See http://carlfreedman.com/exhibitions/2016/to-be-and-to-be/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/09/exhibition-review-thilo-heinzmann-to-be.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Thilo Heinzmann© Carl Freedman Gallery, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Carl Freedman 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 #ThiloHeinzmann #CarlFreedmanGallery #CarlFreedman #ToBeAndToBe #artingermany #germanart #artgermany #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #modernism #anachronism #petridish #timeandspace #forensic #craft #technique
Exhibition Review - David Korty at Sadie Coles HQ, London till 1st Oct 2016.
“Korty's unmoving mutating frenzy,
inserts imaginary mathematics
between the viewer it's already leaving behind."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "It seems to me that Mr Korty's new paintings have been 'datamoshed' through some sort of lossy compression algorithm. Indeed, over the years Mr Korty's evolving compositions have given in to compression and flatness and looking at them now I am reminded how compression reorganises the context, time and space of information and introduces certain artifacts that materialise the inherent character of the medium. Pushing the digital analogy further, I see pixelating, checkerboarding and macroblocking and perhaps, just perhaps, Mr Korty's paintings are a sort of a critique of today's perfect world of digital communication, a world of instant gratification." - Raj
See http://www.sadiecoles.com/artists/korty#dk-david-korty-2016-img
See also http://www.soaked.space/2016/09/exhibition-review-david-korty-at-sadie.html
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/09/exhibition-review-david-korty-at-sadie.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view David Korty© Sadie Coles HQ, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, 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 #DavidKorty #SadieColes #SadieColesHQ ##SadieColesgallery #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #compressionart #pixelation #checkerboarding #macroblocking #algorithm #LAart #artLA #artinLA
Exhibition Review - Cathy Haynes, Nancy Holt, Hannah Lees, Zoe Paul, Claire Potter: 'Overlay' White Rainbow, London till 20th September 2016.
“There, all snarled up in a mesh,
smothering and sowing,
- an invoking."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "To me this exhibition is about matrices i.e. the environments or materials within which something develops, is cast or shaped. Here, there is everywhere evidence, of the Great Goddess, a medium between nature and humanity, guiding not the shaping of matter, but its resurrection. And these matrices, these 'situations', are especially embedded in Nancy Holt's multiplicity of images, in Cathy Haynes' forest of words and months, in Hannah Lees' tablets and altarpiece, in Zoe Paul's staging and Claire Potter's script. Subtle and fabulous. " - JayZee
See http://white-rainbow.co.uk/exhibition/current/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/09/exhibition-review-cathy-haynes-nancy.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view 'Overlay' White Rainbow, London 2016
Image courtesy of the artists and White Rainbow, London. Photo by Noah Da Costa. Curated by Jeremy Millar.
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 #CathyHaynes #NancyHolt #HannahLees #ZoePaul #ClairePotter #WhiteRainbowgallery #WhiteRainbow #Overlay #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #10thtokyobiennale #greatgoddess #lucylippard #JeremyMillar #matrix #trailmarkers #feminism
Exhibition Review - Rajinder Singh: 'Cage of Deliverance' Wei Ling gallery, Kuala Lumpur till 30th September 2016.
“Rajinder blends the limit of the traumatised body against the sweep of erasure."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "Rajinder builds spacious cages in his paintings, free to roam about in, their quiet tranquility oblivious to the trauma transcribed onto their very walls. This terrorising calligraphy, unseen yet obvious, forms a salient component in Rajinder's 'simulation cages', strapped onto life's limbs, lancing together an algorithmic representation of the self. And to me, cage and limb, lulled by incense and candlelight, seem to fade quietly away into their dark, cavernous surroundings. " - FaSa
See http://weiling-gallery.com/portfolio-item/rajinder-singh-cage-of-deliverance-works/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/09/exhibition-review-rajinder-singh-cage.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view Rajinder Singh© Wei Ling gallery, Kuala Lumpur 2016
Image courtesy of the artists and Wei Ling gallery, Kuala Lumpur.
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 #RajinderSingh #WeiLinggallery #CageofDeliverance #artmalaysia #malaysiaart #artsingapore #singaporeart #artinsingapore #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #painting #shrineart #videoart #sculpture #deity #god #thaipusam #kavadi #vel #mortificationofflesh #postmodensublime
Exhibition Review - Golnaz Fathi, Jenny Holzer, Sayaka Ishizuka, Qian Jiahua, Ezzam Rahman, Melati Suryodarmo, Tao Hui, and Zen Teh: 'In Silence' Pearl Lam gallery, Singapore till 4th September 2016.
“Shipwrecked on silence,
seas tugging between us,
we hurl voices into distance,
waiting to hear our names."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "Nyepi, Bali's "Day of Silence", catches on worldwide as 8 artists from across the globe come together to contemplate life beyond and within silence. Alone and separate, we leave our silences for the raging torrents of life, interacting with the world around us, willing a presence as we bruise and are bruised, before we turn once again to silence, desperately heavy and human. The cryptic inflected voices of Holzer, Fathi's motions of prayer, Rahman's intensely personal pleats and folds and Ishizuka's rice melodies especially stir in me memories of that unfamiliar sensation of silence, when the roar of life cedes and you can hear yourself think again. Fabulous." - FaSa
See http://www.pearllam.com/exhibition/in-silence-group-exhibition/
See also http://www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/08/exhibition-review-golnaz-fathi-jenny.html
Caption: Image above: Installation view 'In Silence' Pearl Lam gallery, Singapore 2016
Image courtesy of the artists and Pearl Lam gallery, Singapore.
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 #GolnazFathi #JennyHolzer #SayakaIshizuka #QianJiahua #EzzamRahman #MelatiSuryodarmo #TaoHui #ZenTeh #PearlLamgallery #InSilence #artsingapore #singaporeart #artinsingapore #londonart #artlondon #artinlondon #artberlin #berlinart #artinberlin #artnewyork #newyorkart #artinnewyork #artreview #videoart #artphotography #photoart #sculpture #riceart #Nyepi #EinsundEins
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