• Art

    DAVID SALLE AT LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY AND PALAZZO CINI

    Immediately eye-catching and combining a vibrant palette with dense, dynamic composition: David Salle juxtaposes shapes and heterogeneous images that link the photographic to the painterly, while creating disruptions between black and white areas and bold colour tones. As a whole, the painting gives the impression of a visual collage and marks a step forward in the development of the American painter’s practice. Still, his statement of 2003 is and remains key to his whole carreer: “Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.” Following…

  • Blackqube

    Qi Lei – Echoes of Day and Night

    Echoes of Day and Night is a solo presentation by Chinese artist Qi Lei at Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hongkong. The exhibition centres on the artist’s recent reflections on music, painting and time with the title emerging from the…

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    TONY CRAGG AT LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

    In the late 1960s, Cragg, intrigued by the observation and study of the material world, left the field of science to pursue a career as an artist. Over half a century and more than 400 solo exhibitions later, Cragg has…

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    Michel Perez Pollo – Painting as Sculpture

    “Bolero” is the latest series of paintings by Cuban-born, Madrid-based painter Michel Pérez Pollo, comprising large- and small-scale paintings of abstracted glyph-like forms in rich, earthen hues. The title “Bolero” is drawn from the eponymous Cuban musical genre, which developed…

  • PHOTOGRAPHY

    HIROSHI SUGIMOTO – UNNATURAL HABITAT

    From the Seventies to the present day Hiroshi Sugimoto has produced a body of highly recognisable photographs – silent images with a predilection for the essential, snatched from the flow of time, that catch the eye as archetypes of a…

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    ANGEL OTERO – MAGICAL REALISM AND ABSTRACTION

    Over the last decade, New York-based artist Angel Otero has experimented with numerous genres and styles, from early still lifes, domestic interiors, and landscapes, to pure abstraction created using his innovative oil paint ...

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    MONIKA SOSNOWSKA – Weight of Matter

    Monika Sosnowska is known for her often site-specific architectural installations created by appropriating construction material to create impactful and elegant sculptures that comment on the post-war architecture of her native Poland. In a dynamic approach to materiality the artist manipulates…