Art13, London’s new art fair at Olympia hosts 129 galleries from 30 different countries showing thousands of artworks. Over 70% of the galleries at the fair are exhibiting in London for the first time. If you couldn’t make it, here’s what you missed. Continue reading “13 Highlights from Art13
Mutant Baby, Cat Cubed and Unicorn with Face Off”
Author: TAC blog
6th Mar – 11th Apr 2013
Part of his iconic Somali Pirates series, the New York-based artist’s paintings depict pirates, often in headgear and masks, brandishing AK-47s and performing a range of quotidian activities. A selection of gouache on paper works will also be on display, many featuring singular brand of All-American girl as cheerleader of the Apocalypse, bearing arms and baring ass. Continue reading “‘World Domination’ with Todd James at Lazarides, London”
Chloe Rosser is a final year student Falmouth University. Her latest project deals with the body as a strange sculptural form. Photographed in this contorted fashion, the body becomes inhuman. It is a mass of flesh, a growth. It intrigues us, with its strangeness and beauty, while its grotesqueness repels us. Here, the most familiar form becomes an unfamiliar sculpture. Continue reading “Art Circus Spotlight
‘Form’ by Chloe Rosser”
Master Hungarian pencil sculpture known as Cerkahegyzo sculpts incredibly detailed miniature pencil sculptures. Each one is created entirely out of its respective pencil. Continue reading “Hey, That’s My Pencil!”
Ai Weiwei’s ‘Ton of Tea’ is made from dried and compressed leaves of a Chinese blend known as Pur Er. The work is on display in ‘No Borders’ until the 2nd June 2013. More
Hyunjeong Lim, Journey to the British Museum, 2011, charcoal on canvas,157 x 330 cm
Oblivion is a group show by postgraduate students at Central Saint Martins and their response to the theme of Oblivion. Featuring work by Aga Tamiola, Alexander Williams, Alexandra Pace, Christine Donnier-Valentin, Fedor Toshchev, Ghazaleh Avarzamani, Hyunjeong Lim, Ines Tavares, Jean-Paul A. Moreira, Ksenia Burnasheva, Lara Morrell, Louise Beer, Marianne Morild, Matthew Humphreys, Nikolas Ventourakis, Noemi Niederhauser, Sam Taylor, Seungwon Hong, Serena Porrati, Shinji Toya. Curated by Lara Morrell, Nikolas Ventourakis and Sam Taylor
Private view on the 7th March, 6.30 til late. The show is on until 10th March, 2-6 pm at 17-20 Parr St, Shoreditch, London, N1 7ET
Ashley Yeo completed her MA at Chelsea College of Fine Art in 2012. She currently lives and works in Singapore.
In what way did art school help in the development of your practice?
It definitely built a strong foundation for me, that’s what I feel. Going through the processes of experimenting, and having critiques does help a lot to keep me going and continue making different things. it provided a base through the process of research, guidance from mentors and experience of actually having tried things out and knowing what kind of works and what don’t. Burning out does happen but when you are surrounded by people making art, and it’s a healthy competitive environment, as students, we just kept going. The real difficulties as an artist started when I graduated, but I feel that what I’ve learnt in art school keeps me grounded. Continue reading “Q&A with Ashley Yeo”
1st March 2013 to 20th April 2013
Wieland Payer’s first London solo exhibition brings together recent works on paper, sculpture and painting. Payer is best known for his intricate drawings in charcoal and pastel depicting mountains and woodland, from which protrude strange objects and buildings that seem to have been plucked from some future era — but which may equally be derelict altars to modernism, projected into post-apocalyptic landscapes. More
Bill, (h) 140 x (w) 140 x (d) 9 cm, Pencil + mixed media, 2013
British writer, Barry Miles, took the original photograph this drawing comes from of William Burroughs in his Duke Street, St James, home in 1972. Miles states that he and his good friend Bill were enjoying a “somewhat drunken” evening in together as the slight blurring of the image suggests. This photo hangs in the living room of Miles’ home.
Carla’s Mum, (h) 125 x (w) 91 x (d) 9 cm, Pencil + mixed media, 2012-13
This image is taken from a passport booth photo of Carla Borel’s mother Jen. She was a dancer in Las Vegas during the 60’s and later moved to Paris where she danced at the Moulin Rouge and was to meet Carla’s father. Carla is photographer and uses only black and white film; she keeps the original picture hanging on her living room wall. Continue reading “‘Intimate Strangers’ with Nina Mae Fowler at Art13, London”
Taken from the well-known photograph of children fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam War, ‘Cri’ depicts the young girl running naked with her arms outstretched and her mouth open in a scream. Made entirely in mammoth ivory, Her life-sized figure is accompanied by a series of drawings featuring soldiers in full gear.
Continue reading “Adel Abdessemed’s ‘Cri’ at David Zwirner, London”