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“W’r pop̓īpl. W’r formd bî teḷviźn… A pop̓rsn z lîc a vakm ɖt īts p evrʈñ. H’z md p fṛm ẃt h’z sìn.”
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“…abzorbñ n rflctñ ɖ ybiqiṭs cnsyṃrimijri so prevḷnt in cntmprri culćr. Hvr, ɖr z a ny n radicl aproć t ɖs subjict…”
“Hvr ofn y si ɖm, ɖ sîz n scêl v ɖ Bacs têcs yr breʈ awe”
Hilary Spurling GUARDIAN 12 May 2007 Continue reading HENRI MATISSE SCULPTURE: THE BACKS │ Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts → 1 September 2015
“Ẃt hapnz ẃn artwrcs r set in mośn? Ẃn ɖe muv arnd ɖ gaḷri or ât intu ɖ wrld?”
Continue reading IMAGES MOVING OUT ONTO SPACE │ Tate St Ives → 27 September 2015
“R ɖr stl plêsz t b xplord n dscuvrd? Đs xibiśn trnsports ɖ vywr t smẃr ɖe wd nt hv prīvịsli imajind; mć lîc ɖ Ny Wrld dd fr ɖer prīdisesrz 400 yirz ago.”
“Hiz dansrz resld, hiz reslrz danst. Evrʈñ wz muvmnt. N ɖs šo līvz ɖ hed dlîtdli spinñ.” Tim Martin
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Continue reading HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA: NEW RHYTHMS │ Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge → 21 June 2015
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Continue reading CATHLEEN NAUNDORF: NOAH’S ARK │ Hamiltons, London → 19 June 2015
“Wɖt hm, sd Mone, w wd’nt hv svîvd.
So ynivrsli popylr r ɖ Imprešnists tde, it’s hād t imajin a tîm ẇn ɖe wr’nt. Bt in ɖ ŕli 1870z ɖe strugld t b axptd. Šund bî ɖ ātistablišmnt, ɖe wr īvn lambastd az lūṇtcs bî wn critc.
Wn man, hvr, recgnîzd ɖer wrʈ fṛm ɖ bginñ. Pwl Dŭrã-Ruel, an ontṛpṛnŕı̣l ātdīlr fṛm Paris, dscuvrd ɖs grūp v yuñ ātists – includñ Mone, Degā, Mane, Renwā, Pīsaro n Sisle – n gambld.
Riylîzñ ɖ fašnbl ptenšl v ɖer ḍrîdd imprešnz v ŕbn n sbŕbn lîf, Dŭrã-Ruel dedicetd ɖ rest v hiz lîf t bildñ an ōdı̣ns fr ɖer wrc – crietñ ɖ modn ātmācit in ɖ prôses.
Sč wz hiz prsviṛns, Dŭrã-Ruel nirli bancruptd hmslf twîs, bfr sxesfli glôblîzñ hiz oṗrešn wɖ âtposts in Lundn, Bruslz n Ny Ywc, n istablišñ ɖ wn-man šo az ɖ inṭnašnl nwm fr xbišnz.
Ɖ Imprešnists – a trm frst yzd ḍrogtvli bî critcs – wz t bcm ɖ hâshold nem ɖt standz tde.
Invntñ Imprešnizm fīčrz 85 mastrpìsz fṛm ɖ muvmnt, ol bt wn hvñ pást ʈru Dŭrã-Ruel’z handz, includñ ʈri v Renwā’z fems Dansz n fîv fṛm Mone’z Popḷrz siriz.”
Continue reading INVENTING IMPRESSIONISM │ National Gallery, London → 31 May 2015
“Soňa Ḍlwne (1885–1979) wz a ci figr in ɖ Ṗrizı̣n avãgād n bcem ɖ Yṛpiyn dýen v abstract āt.
Ʈrt ɖ frst hāf v ɖ twentiiʈ senčri, š seḷbretd ɖ modn wrld v muvmnt, tecnoḷji n ŕbn lîf, xplorñ ny îdiyz abt culrʈiyri tgɖr wɖ hr huzbnd Robt Ḍlwne.
Ɖs wl b ɖ frst YC retṛspctv t ases ɖ bredʈ v hr vîbṛnt ātistc practis acrs a wîd renj v mīdia. It wl fīčr ɖ grândbrecñ pêntñz, txtîlz n cloɖz š md acrs a sixti-yir c̣rir, az wel az ɖ rzults v hr iṇvtv c̣laḅrešnz wɖ powts, coriogṛfrz n manyfacčrrz, fṛm Diagilev t Liḅti.
A nocât šo. (Êdrı̣n Srl, Ɖ Gādı̣n)
Ɖs šo mcs a pârfl āğmnt fr Ḍlwne az a tru radicl: ahd v hr tîm, ṣprīmli reḷvnt t ârs. (Ben Lūc, Īvnñ Standd)
Ḍlwne z wn v ɖ crūšl refṛnspýnts in modn āt n dzîn. VÔG”
Continue reading THE EY EXHIBITION: SONIA DELAUNAY │ Tate Modern, London → 9 August 2015
“Ɖ Sâʈ Lundn Gaḷri n Spîc Îḷnd, Bristl, priznt a tu-pāt sôlo xibišn bî Frenč ātist Izabel Cornaro. Ɖ SLG hôsts an xistñ lj-scêl insṭlešn ẇl ɖ prezntešn at Spîc Îḷnd fôc̣sz on ny n rīsnt wrc.
At ɖ Sâʈ Lundn Gaḷri, Cornaro priznts ɖ sixʈ in ɖ siriz v insṭlešnz intîtld Paysage avec Poussin et témoins oculaires stātd in 2008. Č v ɖz insṭlešnz z lūsli bêst on a clasicl landscêp pêntñ bî ɖ 17ʈ senčri ātist Nīc̣ôla Pūsĩ (1594–1665), crietd az ʈri-dimnšnl intrpṛtešnz yzñ sets v peḍstlz n standñ wōlz t dsple objcts in mtikḷs arenjmnts. Ɖ objcts r ṣlectd bî Cornaro fr ɖer sṗsific fwm or dec̣rešn. Grūpñ ɖm bî sîz, lînz v pspctv n fr ɖer lît n šado ifcts, š pts intu qesčn ɖer isʈetc n culčṛl valy. Ɖ clirli strucčrd comṗzišn riinfwsz ɖ ilužn v pspctv, alawñ vizitrz t xpirı̣ns ɖ wrc fṛm dfṛnt vypýnts ẇlst olso biyñ ebl t wōc btwn ɖ peḍstlz, incântrñ fragmnts v Cornaro’z cnstructd landscêp.
T acumṗni ɖs wrc in ɖ SLG’z mn spês, Cornaro’z šwt filmz Figures (2011) n Premier rêve d’Oskar Fischinger (2008) wl b šôn in ɖ frst flor gaḷriz.
Izabel Cornaro wrcs wɖ pêntñ, sculpčr, film n insṭlešn, t xplor ɖ inflụns v histri n culčr on âr pspšn v riaḷti. Az a trênd āthistwrı̣n spešlîzñ in 16ʈ senčri Yṛpiyn Maṇrizm, hr vižl lanĝj drwz on a wîd are v refṛnsz, fṛm ɖ Ḅroc t moḍnist abstraẋn. In hr wrc Cornaro yzz fând objcts imbyd wɖ simbolic ptnšl or imošnl valy, ẇč š priznts in dfṛnt tîps v dsple n mīdia t rvil ɖ sutl šifts v mīnñ pṛvoct bî prôsesz v rīpṛduẋn n trnzlešn.
Borod fṛm dmestc, decṛtv or funẋnl contxts, ɖz āṭfacts r ofn lnct t Westn culčr az a mīnz v pâr, ɖer combinešn n arenjmnt in ɖ ātist’s wrc invîtñ spectetrz t qesčn ɖ rlešnšps btwn sistmz v repṛzentešn n âr undrstandñ v ɖ wrld.
Cornaro’z xibišn Témoins oculaires (mīnñ îwitṇsz) runz cncuṛntli at Spîc Îḷnd, Bristl fṛm 24 Jaňri – 29 Māč 2015…”
TÉMOINS OCULAIRES │ Spike Island, Bristol → 29 March 2015
“…At Spîc Îḷnd, Cornaro priznts a siriz v spešli cmišnd insṭlešnz, in ẇč š cntinyz hr invstigešn intu comṗzišn, vižl pspšn n intrpṛtešn. Ɖz tablo, ẇč cd b dscrîbd az fizicl repṛzentešnz v ɖ act v wočñ, activet sṗsific vypýnts reminisnt v siṇmatc n editñ tecnīcs (fremñ, fôc̣s, clôs-p, wîd angl, tracñ, sīqnsšot ets.). Č tablo criets a slf-cntend spês wɖ vẹriyñ pspctvz, in ẇč ɖ objcts r rtrnd t ɖer destini v fetišz, ẇč z t šîn fṛm a distns, in ɖ wrdz v ɖ Frenč filmcritc Serž Dane.”
“Ɖ YC’z ljst evr xibišn v ɖ influenšl n enigmatc fašnftogṛfr Gi Bŭrdĩ, fīčrñ ovr 100 wrcs n prīvı̣sli unsin mtirı̣l fṛm ɖ ftogṛfr’z istet, fṛm 1955 t 1987. Ɖs mêjr šo čāts Bŭrdĩ’z dstnĝšt 40-yir c̣rir, fṛm Man Re’z proṭže t ftogṛfīreṿlušnri in hiz ôn rît, n xplorz hiz psyt v pfẋn. Ɖ xibitd wrcs xmplifî ɖ craftsmnšp bhnd hiz imijz, fṛm pṛduẋn t publicešn, n ɖer indyrñ qoḷti az a consiqns.
Gi Bŭrdĩ’z editwrı̣l n advtîzñ imijri repriznt a hîpýnt in lêt twentiiʈ senčri fašnftogṛfi. Hiz wrc tc ɖ bêsic funẋn v ɖ fašnfôṭgraf – t sel cloɖñ, byti n axeṣriz – n md it intu smʈñ rič n strenj. Bŭrdĩ dd ɖs wɖt rzwtñ t xotisizm; instd, h istablišt ɖ îdīa ɖt ɖ product z secndri t ɖ imij. Fṛm hiz pṛfešnl dêby fr Paris Vôg in ɖ 1950z, Bŭrdĩ dveḷpt a dstnctv stîl v vižl stwrītelñ, ẇč cntinyz t srv az a sws v inspirešn t cntmprri fašnftogṛfrz fṛm Tim Wōcr t Nic Nait.
Kretd bî Alister O’Nīl wɖ Šeli Vertīm, ɖ xibišn includz ovr 100 culr xibišnprints v Bŭrdĩ’z most significnt wrcs, az wel az ŕli n lêt wrcs in blac n ẇît ɖt srv t čalinj Bŭrdĩ’z repytešn az a culrftogṛfr. Ɖs z complimentd bî a renj v uɖr fôṭgrafic mtirı̣lz: ynīc Pôḷrýd testšots, dubl-pêj spred lêâts, contactšīts n trnspaṛnsiz māct fr comṗzišn ɖt xplor Bŭrdĩ’z craftsmnšp az an imijmêcr n ɖ prôsesz involvd in pṛdysñ stātlñ n pṛvoc̣tv imijri in a prīdijitl êj. It olso hîlîts Bŭrdĩ az a paynir v fašnfilm, šôcêsñ a renj v Sūpr-8 filmz h md at ɖ sem tîm az hiz on-lcešn fôtôšūts.
Ɖ xibišn olso fīčrz a ṣlẋn v pêntñz, wrcñdrōñz, scečz n nôtbcs, nt sīn in ɖ YC bfr, ẇč infwm hiz aproč az a comṗzišnl imijmêcr n mtikḷs draftsmn. A hîlît z ɖ Wōcñlegz siriz – a campen cmišnd bî Šāl Žŭrdã in 1979 xibitd in its intîṛti fr ɖ frst tîm wɖ a yt unsin acumṗniyñ fašnfilm.”
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