I was taken back to the roots of my love for the visual art on a visit to galleries around Cork Street just before Christmas. Among the Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary works in the Gallery Showcase at Alon Zakaim Fine Art were works by Marc Chagall, reminding...
Albrecht Dürer's grandfather hailed from the Hungarian village of Ajtos. Dürer's father migrated from Hungary to Germany, eventually settling in Nuremberg. Dürer, himself, lived in Nuremberg throughout his life but made several significant European journeys; along the...
Mix and match, mashup, sample, collage, combine, hybridisation, syncretisation. Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists. Creolisation refers to the mixing of cultural influences and is a...
Isamu Noguchi thought art should improve the way people live and believed sculpture could 'be a vital force in our everyday life. He saw art 'as something which teaches human beings how to become more human' because everything is sculpture; 'any material, any idea...
The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the contemporary art world no longer teaches, values or rewards the traditional skills of drawing. Bronstein’s Hell is a city...
Visitors make a subterranean descent to the basement spaces of the Konig Gallery. This is an appropriate space for the display of Bosco Sodi's work which is taken from the ground and made on the ground. My deepest intention is that my work produces a feeling of...
There is an explosion of paint at Hauser & Wirth in the latest exhibition by George Condo. The energies of emergence and encounter surge within his paintings, creating events overflowing in chaotic emotional turmoil. Condo clearly revels in the complexity of these...
In the beginning, there was clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates' 'A Clay Sermon', a film combining music, images, and words to paint a picture of the limitless potential of clay and working with Clay. No wonder the Judeo-Christian scriptures view...
Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience through which basic human emotions could be communicated. He famously commented to a critic that ‘the people who weep before my pictures are having the...