Tag: the art berries
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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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Beguiling portraits of human culture
The Monkey by Michaël Borremans at David Zwirner London is a haunting exhibition that merges 18th-century painting techniques with contemporary existential themes. Drawing on Old Master traditions, singerie, and psychological staging, Borremans presents enigmatic figures that explore identity, alienation, and the rituals of human culture.
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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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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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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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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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Abstract art inspired by nature
A critical review of “Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life” at Tate Modern, examining nature, spirituality, and abstraction through two radically different artistic visions.