Tag: art interaction
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Arte Povera at the Serpentine Gallery
Giuseppe Penone’s Thoughts in the Roots at the Serpentine Gallery transforms the exhibition space into an extension of Kensington Gardens. Through sculpture, scent, sound, and material, Penone invites us to slow down and rediscover our connection with trees, nature, and time itself.
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Paintings for a Blooming Consciousness
A review of The Greenhouse, Inka Essenhigh’s exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery in London. The article examines her lush, imaginative paintings—rich in botanical forms, mythology, and symbolism—as meditations on perception, consciousness, and the enduring power of painting to envision alternative worlds.
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Visceral Sculptures in the Turbine Hall
A powerful review of Open Wound, Mire Lee’s Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This article examines how Lee transforms the vast industrial space into a visceral, body-like environment where machinery, vulnerability, and human labour intersect, evoking themes of precarity, decay, and care.
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Fairy tales in the contemporary world
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves? marks Anna Weyant’s first London exhibition at Gagosian Gallery. Through technically refined figurative painting, Weyant draws on Flemish portraiture and Baroque chiaroscuro to explore femininity, identity, and the unsettling tension between beauty and melancholy.
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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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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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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.
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Fibrous structures
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Tate Modern exhibition reveals her groundbreaking transformation of woven fibre into monumental sculptural forms, immersing viewers in a primal landscape that redefines the boundaries between textile, sculpture and the human body.
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Shaping a better world
This exhibition highlights Theaster Gates’s innovative approach to contemporary ceramic art, community activism, and the cultural legacy of Black craftsmanship.
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The language of cities
White Cube Bermondsey presents Sarah Morris’s abstract paintings and first sculpture, exploring urban networks, architecture, and the rhythms of city life.