Jake & Dinos Chapman’s ‘The Sum Of All Evil’
On show at the White Cube, Hong Kong

‘The Sum Of All Evil’ is the first exhibition of the Chapman’s work in China and will feature a major new ‘Hell’ installation, a group of single dioramas and a new series of ‘reworked’ paintings.

Monumental in scope and minute in detail, ‘The Sum of all Evil’ (2012-13) occupies the entire ground floor of the gallery and is the most densely imagined diorama installation that the artists have produced to date. The fourth in a series of ‘Hell’ landscapes – the first and most well known of which, ‘Hell'(1999), was destroyed in a warehouse fire – the work features a multitude of intricately modelled Nazi soldiers, along with various characters from the fast food chain McDonald’s, committing violent, abhorrent acts set amid an apocalyptic landscape within four glass vitrines. Darkly humorous, ‘The Sum of all Evil’, as its title suggests, is imaginative rather than descriptive: a summation of all the worst possible ‘evils’, violence runs amok in a trans-historical and a-temporal arena.
Continue reading “Jake & Dinos Chapman’s ‘The Sum Of All Evil’
On show at the White Cube, Hong Kong” →

Nina Fowler in ‘In Dreams’
On show at The Cob Gallery, London

7th June – 27th July

Nina Fowler is displaying her drawing titled ‘Bill’ (featured top) in group show ‘In Dreams’ at The Cob Gallery The show will feature works of the most exciting emergent artists, including Kate Mccgwire (left) Rebecca Stevenson (right) alongside an archive of established works; magnifying dreams through an expansive variety of medias. Piecing together lesser-known perspectives on the nature of dreams and the visual language they offer.

The gallery will be transformed into an immersive installation, a labyrinth within which the viewer will be guided through different sleep states and the act of dreaming. Alongside the gallery installation, a pop-up shop on Camden high street will explore the effect of lucid dreaming, heightened by hallucinogenics on the Beat generation, and new approaches to visual media. Visitors will also have the option to be involved in sleep experiments.

6,500 Silkworms Build Giant Floating Silky Dome

The Silk Pavilion by MIT media lab ‘explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales’. To create this, The Mediated Matter research group first build a primary structure consisting of 26 polygonal panels, using a CNC machine. Then the 6,500 silkworms are placed at the bottom and spin non-woven silk patches to reinforce the gaps across the structure. The geometry of the base structure was created using an algorithm, which was influenced by the silkworm’s ability to generate a 3-dimensional cocoon. (Via)

Art Circus Spotlight
‘The Terracotta series’ by Sally Kindberg

The idea of morphing, mimicking or mirroring beings together is nothing new in the history of art, thinking of Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, to 19th century monsters of Notre Dame, to Maurizio Cattelan’s taxidermy. On the Internet images of art mingle with ordinary images such as a boy, dog, flower and even terracotta. This meaty mixture between really innocent, untouchable boys and yapping designer dogs e.g. creates a rather, hopefully sandy taste in the viewers’ eyes. Together with terracotta, which brings me in a snap shot back to the sponged walls of the 90s and tiles in toilets on the continent, I’m hoping to evoke that taste in the viewers’ mouths, when they say –mmm nice (with a pause).

See more paintings by Sally Kindberg

Wim Delvoye at the Sperone Westwater, New York

Belgian artist and swine tattooer, Wim Delvoye is displaying his Intricate and decorative Gothic architectural sculptures. Created with the help of computer-aided design tools. Delvoye manipulates the metal in fascinating and witty ways. On show until June 28th, 2013 (Via)

Art Circus Spotlight.
‘The Big Five’ by Isabel Hutchison

I began the series of ‘The Big Five’ after visiting Kruger National Park in South Africa. Whilst driving down a lonely track away from the main part of the park I nearly crashed head on with a large bull elephant, walking along the road in the opposite direction. Only after safely making it past this bull did I pause and look back. This first plate of the African Elephant inspired the series, second came the White Rhino, also from Kruger. Subsequent visits to Kenya and the Mara resulted in the Cape Buffalo, the Lion and finally the Leopard.

These works are all individually created using a steel plate, a sturdy resilient metal that like these animals can endure a beating. The plates are etched and re-etched using acid with some drypoint at the final stage. After creating the original image by drawing on a soft ground, the more detailed aspects of the skin and hairs are gradually built up with proofs being taken along the way to check progress. Aquatint is applied for the shaded areas. Eventually the metal starts to take on that worn and weather beaten look that is desired for the final result, and print is complete.

See more work by Isabel Hutchison

Fipsi Seilern’s Classical Portraits
On Show at Muxima in Bow, London

6th Jun – 27th Jun 2013

FIpsi will be exhibiting a group of classically inspired portraits and sketches. Using a centuries-old method, she combines her technique and the relationship with her sitters to revive an old art form within a modern society. Rough sketches drafted from her imagination often derive from these classical foundations.

See more portraits from Fipsi Seilern

Art Circus Spotlight
‘Ladies at Sea’ by Katrine Storebø

Ladies at Sea (oil on wood 2012) is part of a series of ten paintings done on commission by a Norwegian shipping company to be displayed on a supply ship. The painting is based on a photograph from the west coast of Norway and shows an everyday scene from a coast community in the 1940’s. I am fascinated by snap shots where people are depicted in natural settings that reveals a story of the time and place the photo was taken. This particular photo was taken in black and white. I used a pinky, red colour to create the feel of a Norwegıan summer sunset. The lıght on the sky becomes pretty spectacular.

See more paintings by Katrine Storebø

Brian McCarty’s ‘War Toys’
On show at the V&A Museum of Childhood, London

Californian artist and toy industry veteran Brian McCarty is displaying his most recent project ‘War Toys’ at V&A Museum of Childhood. McCarty,with the help of art therapists, worked with children living in areas affected by war and conflict, including the Gaza Strip, Israel and the West Bank.

The children were encouraged to draw images of their experiences of war in order to begin a healing process as a starting point to therapy. McCarty sources inexpensive toys from local markets and shops and recreates the children’s often disturbing drawn images in situ, interpreting them into photographic works, often with direction from the children on setting up the shots. (Via)

For more info, Please visit V&A Museum of Childhood

Michael Landy’s ‘Saints Alive’
On show at The National Gallery, London

23rd May – 24th Nov 2013

Saints are more often associated with traditional sacred art than with contemporary work, but Michael Landy, current Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist in residence at the National Gallery, has been inspired to revisit the subject for this exhibition.

Landy’s large-scale sculptures consist of fragments of National Gallery paintings cast in three dimensions and assembled with one of his artistic hallmarks – refuse. He has scoured car boot sales and flea markets accumulating old machinery, cogs and wheels to construct the works. Visitors can crank the works into life with a foot pedal mechanism.

Towering over you, the seven sculptures swivel and turn, in movements that evoke the drama of each saint’s life. Saints Apollonia, Catherine, Francis, Jerome, Thomas – and an additional sculpture that takes a number of saints as its inspiration – fill the Sunley Room alongside paper collages.

For more info, please visit The National Gallery.

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this: