Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts
29.10.11
17.5.11
Isa Leshko's Elderly Animal Series
An unconventional look at what it means to be elderly. More images and other projects at http://isaleshko.com
16.12.10
22.9.10
Creative Review Photography
Thomas was selected to have his work in the Creative Review Photography annual this year. Featuring several images from his photo story on female world champion boxer Katie Taylor. Tonight I'm off to the launch party and apparently all the selected works will be on display. Will report back after the event...
....Upadate: Fabulous party at the Print Space on Kingsland Road, grabbed an armful of the annuals to give out to friends. Finished off the night sitting in what felt like a Parisian coffee parlor drinking wine and talking about photography and art but mainly about boxing!
....Upadate: Fabulous party at the Print Space on Kingsland Road, grabbed an armful of the annuals to give out to friends. Finished off the night sitting in what felt like a Parisian coffee parlor drinking wine and talking about photography and art but mainly about boxing!
29.7.10
2.3.10
Cristina Guitan
Going to a friend's exhibition on Thursday night in Dalston 'Portraits of My Life as a Bird.' Cristina is an Illustrator and often exhibits her work on a large scale. I'm especially looking forward to this exhibition as I rocked up to the last one at Shunt in London Bridge to find I was a week late!
On her website this is how her latest exhibition is described: ‘Portraits of My Life as a Bird’ explores the nature and aesthetics of the hybrid. Throughout history, mythical hybrids such as the chimera were used to describe fantastic yet vulnerable power. Courtesy of rapid advances in genetic manipulation, humanity is now on the verge of holding such power. Liberated from biology and ethical oversight, ‘Portraits of My Life as a Bird’ is a playful imagining of this genetically mutated future.
The above text and all photos are copyright of Cristina Guitan.
On her website this is how her latest exhibition is described: ‘Portraits of My Life as a Bird’ explores the nature and aesthetics of the hybrid. Throughout history, mythical hybrids such as the chimera were used to describe fantastic yet vulnerable power. Courtesy of rapid advances in genetic manipulation, humanity is now on the verge of holding such power. Liberated from biology and ethical oversight, ‘Portraits of My Life as a Bird’ is a playful imagining of this genetically mutated future.
The above text and all photos are copyright of Cristina Guitan.
www.cristinaguitian.com
24.8.09
Oooh la la
A forthcoming exhibition in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, looks at the life and career of Brigitte Bardo
22.6.09
Annette Messager Exhibition at The Hayward, London Southbank.
Got some of my girls together for a wander round this exhibition one Sunday at the end of May. I'd never heard of Annette Messager before this exhibition. She is described as '...one of Europe's most important contemporary artists...' so it shows how little I've been researching or reading sice I left Univeristy. I could see there were going to be drawings and installations and photos which really drew me to it as I love artists work that feels autobiographical even if it's conceptual. It started off fairly tame in terms of content but as we made our way around the installations and sculputres became bigger and more surreal almost like you were wandering deeper and deeper into Messager's pysche. The ground floor ended with a large space that almost looked like a pale and pastel soft-toy area but was infact a collection of human organs made from parachute-like material. They were inflating and deflating, the sound of the air pumping in and out eerily accompanying the visual display.
Up the stairs we entered a room with an opening on the back wall from which swathes of deep scarlet silk billowed out into the room, spreading out and across almost nipping at our toes.
The room was unlit apart from alternating glowing lamps underneath the fabric. I may have stayed in here a little too long and was feeling pretty disturbed by the time we entered the rooms with all the dismembered soft toys and teddy bears hanging from ropes and being pulled around on pulleys and levers.
The work was amazingingly powerful and really took you through several emotional states. I was greatful for the fresh air and the normality of the south bank when we left The Hayward.
Up the stairs we entered a room with an opening on the back wall from which swathes of deep scarlet silk billowed out into the room, spreading out and across almost nipping at our toes.
The room was unlit apart from alternating glowing lamps underneath the fabric. I may have stayed in here a little too long and was feeling pretty disturbed by the time we entered the rooms with all the dismembered soft toys and teddy bears hanging from ropes and being pulled around on pulleys and levers.
The work was amazingingly powerful and really took you through several emotional states. I was greatful for the fresh air and the normality of the south bank when we left The Hayward.
Here's a photo gallery of the Messager Retrospective on the Guardian website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/05/annette-messager-hayward-retrospective?picture=344185263
Gerhard Richter at the NPG
Just adding a few of the black and white Gehard Richter paintings. These give a better idea of the blurriness then the first ones I put up.
Gehard Richter at The NPG
It's a month ago since I went to this show but I've been lame about writing it up on my blog. It featured some of Richter's portrait paintings from the 60's 70's and 80's. I really liked the paintings which appear to be giant versions of photographs except the focus is skewed. The eye never quite settles and the distance you stand away from the paintings can totally change your viewing experience. I thought the exhibition was a little too small and was disappointed to come to the end after only three small rooms. My favourite pieces in the show were the three nudes of his second wife (top and second from top pic). This is what it says on his website related to the type of work you could see in this show:
'These blurred paintings of photographs are close to reality but also contain a nostalgic distance, because the eye can never precisely capture the image being viewed, rather like trying to remember the features of a person whom one hasn't seen for a while. Only the outline is remembered, and the rest blurred. With his photo-based paintings of regular images, Richter has tried to subvert the hierarchy of art and the everyday. "I believe in nothing", he has said.' The exhibition is on tour.
'These blurred paintings of photographs are close to reality but also contain a nostalgic distance, because the eye can never precisely capture the image being viewed, rather like trying to remember the features of a person whom one hasn't seen for a while. Only the outline is remembered, and the rest blurred. With his photo-based paintings of regular images, Richter has tried to subvert the hierarchy of art and the everyday. "I believe in nothing", he has said.' The exhibition is on tour.
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