Visits
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The Agnes Martin show at Tate Modern was one of the best shows I have seen so far this year and was a real eye opener in terms of the simple, calm nature that speaks volumes throughout her work. The grid style that she employed throughout her whole career I found to be tellingly relevant
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Frank Bowling’s ‘Right Here. Right Now.’ was shown in conjunction with a show from his partner Rachel Scott’s show ‘Warp & Weft’ at Chelsea College of Art and Design in the Triangle and Cookhouse Spaces. Bowling’s large paintings are a violent series of coloured abstractions set out in shapes or patterns that band the canvas,
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I wrote a really long post about this but then it didn’t save, I have been putting it off since. In short it was a very interesting look at non-british marble sculpture of the 20th century, though not the most thrilling or radical work I have ever seen. I particularly enjoyed ‘untitled’ -1978 and the
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I went to the exhibition ‘Adventures of the Black Square’ at the Whitechapel gallery as it focusses on the impact of Russian Constructivist work over the course of the 100 years since the creation of ‘Black Square’ by Kazimir Malevich. This post is about the pieces that I found to be the most compelling in
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Tuttle’s work on display in the Whitechapel gallery appears to have the underlying theme of appearing functional and yet having no actual use e.g. in ‘Systems, VI’ the construction appears to be some form of table or other and yet is held together by wires rather than being able to do so on its own.
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The first room in the white cube plays out a basketball game from the point of view of a curious passing spectator; the pieces on the walls are created by the repeated bouncing of a basket ball onto the strips of paper. I stress the idea of the passing spectator due to the implied foreign
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