…would just love to host this show! it’s also why major art collections dread those unwanted vanity bequests – generous though they may be. MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
‘Listening’ | Baltic 39
‘A Million cm2 of Quiet Space II‘ Haroon Mirza 2003/14. Delighted to be associated with this and delighted it will be coming to Norwich. Sam Belinfante is a thoughtful curator and proof positive that the Hayward Curatorial Open is a very valuable opportunity for both venues and potential curators.
On Kawara | David Zwirner
Timelessness in art is a much vaunted quality, but On Kawara’s very fixing of this has made them simultaneously nostalgic and yet not ‘dated’. Unforgettable. Iconic.
Work of the week | #1 ‘Cire Perdu’
A work created around a decade ago; medicine cabinet containing cast bronze heart with magnetic compass embedded – hence ‘lost’ in the emotional, directional and process sense. Work in private collection. (c) Neil Powell 2004
Cheim & Read – Louise Bourgeois Gallery
This work still has the potency to provoke and perturb – what a rare gift. I remember seeing her work in Venice and it made me completely re-think materiality and the status of craft. As MacLuhen said, ‘Art is anything you can get away with’, but not in a cynical way, she normally did just enough.
Gerhard Richter – October 14 – December 20, 2014 – Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Gerhard Richter – October 14 – December 20, 2014 – Marian Goodman Gallery.
Exquisitely executed and jaw-droppingly impressive in an equally sensational refurbished space. A must see.
Photo: the author.
Objection!!! / Ilona Gaynor
Queen’s Coat of Arms, in Neon (2014)
Glass, Neon Gas, Steel
1000 x 1000mm
‘Casserole et moules fermées’, Marcel Broodthaers | Tate
Ah MB where are your Eagles now…your imagination, audacity and nerve are uniquely missing. Nostalgia is exactly what it used to be.
via ‘Casserole and Closed Mussels’, Marcel Broodthaers | Tate.
Claudio Parmiggiani | Bortolami Gallery
Claudio Parmiggiani Untitled, 1970 Plaster, fabric, terracotta, butterfly and pigment 9.84 x 11.81 x 7.87 in / 25 x 30 x 20cms
Stunning and under-rated as always; il maestro e tornato. First show in NYC since 1986.
Work / United Visual Artists
Some great work emerging from these guys – spectacular museum scale experience
