Category: English
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Entering the artistic universe of a feminist avant-garde artist
A visit to Alison Jacques Gallery in London to explore the feminist avant-garde universe of Birgit Jürgenssen. This exhibition (28 June–3 August 2024) brings together photography, sculpture, drawings, and iconic works such as Mattress Shoes, offering a powerful critique of female identity, domesticity, and patriarchal structures.
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Paintings with a dreamlike quality
In Plain Sight at Halcyon Gallery in London presents dreamlike, semi-abstract paintings by Ernesto Cánovas that explore memory, perception, and disappearance. Drawing on cinema, history, and photography, Cánovas manipulates found imagery and materials such as wood and aluminium to create evocative works that oscillate between abstraction and representation.
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The creative potential of textiles in art
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Barbican Art Gallery in London brings together over 100 works by 50 international artists. Spanning the 1960s to today, the exhibition explores textiles as a powerful artistic medium—examining weaving, stitching, and fibre as tools for storytelling, resistance, and cultural memory.
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Organic sculpture that captures your imagination
When Forms Come Alive at the Hayward Gallery presents a compelling survey of contemporary sculpture from the last 60 years, featuring immersive works inspired by organic growth, movement, and transformation. Through large-scale installations and materially rich forms, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between art, nature, and science, inviting visitors into a continuously shifting sensory experience.
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The richness of Latin American art
The Richness of Latin American Art explores the exhibition TERRITORIES: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at CAAC Seville, highlighting works by over 50 artists that address identity, borders, memory, and social inequality across Latin America.
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Painting the banality of evil
Painting the Banality of Evil reflects on the Philip Guston retrospective at Tate Modern, marking the artist’s first major UK exhibition in nearly two decades. Tracing Guston’s journey from abstract expressionism to his provocative figurative works confronting racism, violence, and moral responsibility, the article examines the enduring relevance and controversy of his art in today’s…
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Ten timber sculptures
Set among the trees of Kensington Gardens, Georg Baselitz’s exhibition immerses visitors in monumental timber sculptures that explore memory, materiality, and the tension between figuration and abstraction.
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Art for emotional and spiritual transformation
Marina Abramović’s long-awaited retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts traces five decades of radical performance, exploring endurance, vulnerability, spirituality, and the transformative power of art.
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Capturing the sacred essence of books in painting
At the British Art Fair in London, Wen Wu’s paintings reveal a poetic neo-realism infused with literary symbolism, quiet nostalgia, and a reverence for books.
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One step further for post-structuralism
Maquinaciones at the Museo Reina Sofía examines post-structuralist thought through contemporary art, exploring how Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas on machines, power and resistance shape artistic practice today.