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FIONA TAN: GHOST DWELLINGS │ Frith Street Gallery, Soho Square, London → 31 July 2015

Photo: Alex Delfanne
Photo: Alex Delfanne

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“Tan’z camra srćz amñ ɖ pîlz v rubl fr ɖ bildñ-blocs v smʈñ ny, fr sm cnd v afṭmaʈ”

“Wrcñ prîmeṛli wɖ film n vidio, ś z bst noun fr hr scilfli craftd n intnsli muvñ insṭleśnz, in ẃć xpḷreśnz v îdntti, memri n histri r ci”

Photo: Alex Delfanne
Photo: Alex Delfanne

David Price THIS IS TOMORROW 20 July 2015
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Betty Wood SPACES 23 May 2015
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Ghost Dwelling II: Detroit, 2014
Ghost Dwelling II: Detroit, 2014

 

London

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: IN-BETWEEN │ South London Gallery → 13 September 2015

Photo: Mark Blower
Photo: Mark Blower

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“Đ ćalinj v cnfruntñ ɖ wrld’z riaḷti standz btwn ‘crieśn’ n ‘dstruẋn’. ‘In Btwn’ z ɖ afmeśn v pricerịs dmenśn, ɖ dmenśn v ɖ non-gaṛntīd.”

Mike Urban BRIXTON BUZZ 6 July 2015
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London

CORNELIA PARKER: ONE MORE TIME │ St Pancras Station, London → November 2015

Photo: Tim Whitby
Photo: Tim Whitby

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ARTLYST 29 May 2015
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Nick Clark INDEPENDENT 28 May 2015
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Continue reading CORNELIA PARKER: ONE MORE TIME │ St Pancras Station, London → November 2015

RICHARD DIEBENKORN │ Royal Academy of Arts, London → 7 June 2015

A Day At The Race, 1953.
A Day At The Race, 1953.

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Paul Carey-Kent ART CRITICAL 4 May 2015
Victoria Sadler HUFFINGTON POST 23 March 2015
Martin Gayford SPECTATOR 21 March 2015
Adrian Searle GUARDIAN 20 March 2015
Tabish Khan LONDONIST 15 March 2015
Laura Cumming GUARDIAN 13 March 2015
Jackie Wullschlager FINANCIAL TIMES 13 March
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Ben Luke LONDON EVENING STANDARD 10 March 2015
Richard Dorment TELEGRAPH 9 March 2015
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Continue reading RICHARD DIEBENKORN │ Royal Academy of Arts, London → 7 June 2015

HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE: PERMANENT GREEN │ Marlborough Fine Art, London → 30 May 2015

Around the House oil on canvas 2015, 135 x 202 cm
Around the House oil on canvas 2015, 135 x 202 cm

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Continue reading HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE: PERMANENT GREEN │ Marlborough Fine Art, London → 30 May 2015

INVENTING IMPRESSIONISM │ National Gallery, London → 31 May 2015

Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery in Paris, c1910. Photograph: Dornac/ AACV

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.

Paul Durand-Ruel’s grand salon at Rue de Rome, with Renoir’s ‘Dance in the City’ on the left (Picture: Archives Durand-Ruel)

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.”

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Continue reading INVENTING IMPRESSIONISM │ National Gallery, London → 31 May 2015

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS: THE PRODUCTION LINE OF HAPPINESS │ Whitechapel Gallery, London → 21 June 2015

Kodak Three Point Reflection Guide

“A fngr pýzd on a camra – its ôpn bac rvilñ ɖ filmrol n mec̣nizm – sets ɖ sìn fr ɖs xibišn v fôtgrafs abt ftogṛfi. Smẇr btwn a filmdrctr, a picčreditr n an āthistwrı̣n, Americn ātist Crisṭfr Wiłmz (b.1956) invstigets ftogṛfi az ɖ dfînñ mīdı̣m v moḍnizm.

Wiłmz’ xqizit prints rvil ɖ unxpctd byti n culčṛl reznns v cmršl, industrı̣l n instruẋnl ftogṛfi. Ofn wrcñ wɖ setdzînrz, modlz n tecnišnz, Wiłmz’ tecnicli prisîs picčrz rcwl Cold Wor ira imijri n 1960z advtîzñ, az wel az invocñ histriz v āt, ftogṛfi n siṇma. Hiz fôtgrafs r eḷmnts at ple in a ljr sistm includñ ācitecčr, xibišndzîn, bcs, pôstrz, vidioz, vitrīnz n sînij ɖt invstigets ɖ stêjsets v ɖ ātwrld n ɖ publisti strucčrz on ẇč ɖe rlî.

Fṛm hiz rnând 1989 studiz v btanicl spesimnz, Angola t Vietnam, t ɖ hîpŗiyl, culr-sačretd studiz v cičnwér md in 2014, ɖs frst srve v Wiłmz’ wrc in ɖ YC imrsz s in vižli inʈrwlñ n ṗlitcli reznnt lînz v inqîri.”

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Continue reading CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS: THE PRODUCTION LINE OF HAPPINESS │ Whitechapel Gallery, London → 21 June 2015

MADE IN CHINA: A DOUG FISHBONE PROJECT │ Dulwich Picture Gallery, London → 26 July 2015

 

 

Cn y tel ɖ dfṛns btwn an Old Mastr pêntñ n a cntmprri replica?

Wrcñ wɖ cnspčl ātist Dug Fišbôn w r incurijñ y t têc a clôsr lc at âr Prmnnt C̣lẋn. Wn v âr wrcs hz bn rplest bî a replic̣pêntñ swst fṛm an ātists’ wrcšop in Čîna n huñ in ɖ frem ḅloññ t ɖ orijinl. Fr ʈri munʈs ɖ îdntti v ɖ wrc wl rmen cnsild. Test yr dsrnñ î n tel s ẇč pêntñ y ʈnc it z.

Mni Old Mastr pêntrz, fṛm Tišn t Rūbnz, incurijd ɖ copiyñ v ɖer wrc îɖr in ɖer wrcšops bî aprntisz or bî indipndnt copiists. Ɖr r svṛl xamplz in Dulij’z c̣lẋn, includñ wcšop pêntñz sč az Vīṇs n Adonis n copiz pêntd fṛm ɖ orijinl bî ātists vizitñ ɖ Gaḷri, sč az Cunstbl’z copi v Rîzdel’z Windmilz. Tde, fems pêntñz r biyñ rpṛdyst in ɖ miłnz, wɖ Čîna dominetñ ɖs xpwtmācit.

Fr ʈri munʈs (10 Febrri – 26 Êpṛl) y r invîtd t fînd ɖ replicetd pêntñ, ẇč hañz in plês v ɖ orijinl in ɖ prmnnt dsple v 270 wrcs. Winñ ansrz wl b entrd intu a drw t win wn v fîv print-on-dmand rīpṛduẋnz v čozn wrcs in ɖ Gaḷri’z c̣lẋn. Ɖ ansr wl b rvild on 28 Êpṛl, ẇn orijinl n replica wl hañ sîd bî sîd. Cm n cmper ɖ tu.

Côkretd bî cnsepčl ātist Dug Fišbôn n Dr Zêvı̣r Bre, Āturo n Holi Melosi, Čīf Kretr at ɖ Gaḷri.

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"The US conceptual artist Doug Fishbone at Dulwich Picture Gallery. ‘My hope is that people will come here and really drink in the paintings,’ he says. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty"
“The US conceptual artist Doug Fishbone at Dulwich Picture Gallery. ‘My hope is that people will come here and really drink in the paintings,’ he says. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty”

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Continue reading MADE IN CHINA: A DOUG FISHBONE PROJECT │ Dulwich Picture Gallery, London → 26 July 2015

DEFINING BEAUTY: THE BODY IN ANCIENT GREEK ART │ British Museum, London → 5 July 2015

Marble statue of a discus-thrower (discobolus) by Myron. Roman copy of a bronze Greek original of the 5th century BC.
Marble statue of a discus-thrower (discobolus) by Myron. Roman copy of a bronze Greek original of the 5th century BC.

(Posted 13 April 2015. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)

“Xpirı̣ns ɖ briłns n dvrṣti v ênčnt Grīc āt in ɖs mêjr xibišn foc̣sñ on ɖ hymn bodi.

Fr senčriz ɖ ênčnt Grīcs xperimentd wɖ wez v reprizntñ ɖ hymn bodi, bʈ az an objct v byti n a berr v mīnñ.

Ɖ rmāc̣bl wrcs v āt in ɖ xibišn renj fṛm abstract simpliṣti v prīhistoric fiğrīnz t breʈtêkñ riylizm in ɖ êj v Alixandr ɖ Grt. Ɖz wrcs cntinyd t inspîr ātists fr hundṛdz v yirz, gvñ fwm t ʈt n šêpñ âr ôn pspšnz v ârslvz.

Ɖ čīf fwmz v byti r ōdr, siṃtri n clir dliniešn. (Aristotl)

In pwtreyñ îdiyl tîps v byti… y brñ tgɖr fṛm mni modlz ɖ most bytifl fīčrz v č (Socṛtīz)”

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Continue reading DEFINING BEAUTY: THE BODY IN ANCIENT GREEK ART │ British Museum, London → 5 July 2015

RAVILIOUS │ Dulwich Picture Gallery, London → 31 August 2015

…a jý fṛm stāt t finiš (Ɖ Teḷgraf)

…ɖ Sŭrā v Susx” Lwra Cumñ (Ɖ Obzrvr)

Fṛm ɖ stāt w si an ātist fîndñ jý in ɖ unxpctd (Nansi Duṛnt, Ɖ Tîmz)

Ɖ frst mêjr xibišn t srve wōtrculrz bî seḷbretd Britiš ātist Eric Rviłs (1903–42). Wel nôn fr hiz îconic wrc fr Wejwŭd, Rviłs z wîdli cnsidrd wn v ɖ ci figrz in mid-20ʈ senčri Britiš dzîn, bt h wz olso wn v ɖ fînist wōtrcuḷrists v ɖ senčri.

Hiz astonišñli pṛlific c̣rir spand pīs n wor. Wɖ ɖ âtbrec v Wrldwor II, Rviłs wz asînd t ɖ Royl Nêvi az wn v ɖ frst Ofišl Worātists, fîndñ ny wez t capčr n prizrv ɖ flītñ recwd v pasñ tîm.

Ovr 80 wōtrculrz wl b on dsple – includñ fems wrcs lîc Trênlandscep n Westbri Hws, az wel az rerli sīn wrcs fṛm prîvt c̣lẋnz pṛvîdñ an inspîrñ lc at hiz wrc btwn ɖ mid-1920z n hiz deʈ in 1942. Sd t b inspîrd bî ɖ filmz v Alfrid Hičcoc, Rviłs’z imijz rerli cnten figrz n yt hiz šadôi intirı̣rz n strenj pspctvz ofn criet a sens v hymn prezns.

Olɖo h dîd at ɖ êj v onli 39, Rviłs wz ljli rsponsbl fr ɖ rvîvl v Ñgliš wōtrculrpêntñ. H stātd ât undr ɖ tyṭlij v Pwl Naš at ɖ Royl Colij v Āt n, olɖo h wz hyjli vrṣtîl, it wz pêntñ ɖt Rviłs sw az hiz tru vcešn; it wz ɖs wrc ɖt h xibitd, n h cerd dīpli abt its rspšn bî felo ātists lîc Mur n Jon Pîpr.

Ɖ xibišn z kretd bî Jêmz Rusl, a līdñ spešlist on Eric Rviłs, huz bcs on ɖ ātist includ ɖ popylr siriz Rviłs in Picčrs (2009-12).”

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Continue reading RAVILIOUS │ Dulwich Picture Gallery, London → 31 August 2015

SCULPTURE VICTORIOUS │ Tate Britain, London → 25 May 2015

Sir Francis Chantrey: Queen Victoria, 1838 – 1841. Royal Collection Trust
Sir Francis Chantrey: Queen Victoria, 1838 – 1841. Royal Collection Trust

“Pârfl, bytifl n invntv, ɖ Victorı̣n ira wz a goldn êj fr sculpčr. Têt Britn’z xibišn Sculpčr Victorı̣s seḷbrets sm v ɖ most astonišñ n laviš wrcs pṛdyst in ɖs grândbrêcñ pirı̣d.

Xplorñ ɖ orijinl tecnīcs n mtirı̣lz dveḷpt jrñ ɖs tîm, ɖ xibišn brñz t lît ɖ injňwti n crı̣tiṿti v ɖ Victorı̣n êj. In a pirı̣d v unpaṛleld iṇvešn acrs inḍstriz, Victorı̣n sculpčr profitd fṛm grândbrêcñ ny mtirı̣lz n meʈdz ɖt crietd a ʈrilñ n cutñ-ej invîrnmnt fr Victorı̣n sculptrz.

Alfred Gilbert’s marble bust of Queen Victoria, 1887-89. Photograph: John Hammond/© Army and Navy Club London
Alfred Gilbert’s marble bust of Queen Victoria, 1887-89. Photograph: John Hammond/© Army and Navy Club London

Ɖ xibišn includz mni xtrōdnri objcts, fṛm magnifisnt mābl, lîmwŭd n ṣramic sculpčr šôn at ɖ Grt Xibišnz, t xqizit jlri n silvrwrc, n ōnet cāvñ v byti n wundr sč az Monti’z Veild Vestl. Wrcs fṛm ɖ xibišn tuč on ol aspcts v Victorı̣n lîf, xplorñ dmestc poḷtcs, ɖ rīč v ɖ empîr, n ɖ impact v ɖ sạntific n industrı̣l êj.

Rvird wrcs sč az Fredric Lêtn’z An Aʈlīt Reslñ wɖ a Pîʈn n Hîṛm Pârz’z Ɖ Grīc Slev r t b injýd alñsd lsr-nôn ātists sč az Mẹri Wots n Wiłm Renldz-Stīvnz. Az wel az ofrñ an oṗtyṇti t xplor sm v ɖ Victorı̣n ira’z most čerišt n grândbrêcñ wrcs, Sculpčr Victorı̣s pṛvîdz an in-depʈ xpḷrešn v ɖ ātistc n historicl dveḷpmnts v wn v Britn’z most pṛlific iṛz n z a fīst fr ɖ îz.”

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Continue reading SCULPTURE VICTORIOUS │ Tate Britain, London → 25 May 2015