Tag: contemporary art
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A journey through Kiki Smith’s artistic universe
Visiting Kiki Smith’s exhibition at Timothy Taylor Gallery felt like stepping into a magical, self-contained universe shaped by nature, mythology, and spirituality. Through sculpture, drawing, and print, Smith explores the relationship between the human body and the natural world, transforming the gallery into an enchanted space that invites reflection on vulnerability, interconnection, and ancient narratives…
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Seeing Van Gogh Through Kiefer’s Eyes
A fascinating exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London explores the works of Van Gogh and Kiefer side by side. Despite their different styles, the show reveals surprising parallels in thought, process, and subject matter, offering a fresh perspective on both artists’ approaches to art, literature, and poetry.
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Art beyond ecological rupture
Una reseña de Terrafilia: Más allá de lo humano en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza de Madrid, que explora el arte, la ecología, el mito y las relaciones interespecies desde obras históricas y contemporáneas.
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Exploring the head as a landscape of the soul in painting
Marwan: A Soul in Exile at Christie’s London explores the head as a psychological and spiritual landscape. Through layered portraiture shaped by exile, memory, and place, Marwan transforms faces into inner terrains that reflect identity, loss, and the human condition.
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Exploring home through fabric architecture at Tate Modern
Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at Tate Modern explores ideas of home, memory, and belonging through large-scale fabric architecture, drawings, and immersive installations. Shaped by the artist’s experiences in Seoul, New York, and London, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on what it truly means to carry home with us.
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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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Turning adversity into creativity
Jason and the Adventure of 254 by Jason Wilsher-Mills at the Wellcome Collection is a joyful and moving exhibition that transforms childhood disability and adversity into vibrant creativity. Blending memory, humour, and imagination, the artist invites viewers to reflect on resilience, identity, and the origins of artistic expression.
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Contained horizons
Discover Ugo Rondinone’s captivating interplay of nature, time, and color in his 2021 exhibition at Sadie Coles, London.