Ashitha Nagesh
Falke Pisano
The Showroom
May 2013
Falke Pisano’s solo debut in the United Kingdom takes up the mercurial nature of the mental condition, providing an unsettling representation of the mind. Consider 5 Black Boards, 2011-2013, an ongoing project that consists of six chalkboards… READ ON
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“Sous Influences”
La Maison Rouge
April 2013
“Sous Influences” (Under Influences) could be the most comprehensive exhibition of hallucinogenic drug-induced and drug-inspired artworks to have ever been conceived. Walking through the labyrinthine show is enough to make visitors feel… READ ON
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Eileen Gray
Centre Pompidou
April 2013
The first work encountered in this exhibition is not, as might be expected, one of Eileen Gray’s designs or objects, but rather a Percy Wyndham Lewis drawing, Lady with a French Poodle, 1902. The “Lady” in question is indeed Gray herself,… READ ON
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Yinka Shonibare MBE
Yinka Shonibare MBE on his latest sculptures
April 2013
Yinka Shonibare MBE is one of the foremost figures of postcolonial contemporary art. He was born in London but moved to Nigeria at the age of three, returning later to the UK to study fine art. His most iconic sculptures of headless men, … READ ON
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Matt Saunders
Tate Liverpool
January 2013
Matt Saunders’s innovative commission for Tate Liverpool, “Century Rolls,” aims to deconstruct boundaries between photography and painting. The majority of the pieces, silver gelatin prints on paper, are made by projecting light through… READ ON
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Kimathi Donkor
Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva)
November 2012
In “Queens of the Undead,” a two-part exhibition of large-scale oil paintings on linen, artist Kimathi Donkor pays homage to historical figures that represent both authority and victimhood in equal measure. In the first part, the works… READ ON
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William E. Jones
White Cube | Bermondsey
October 2012
For the latest iteration of “Inside the White Cube,” a recently launched exhibition program that profiles artists who have never exhibited at the gallery before (and is named after Brian O’Doherty’s seminal articles published in … READ ON
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Karthik Pandian
Vilma Gold
October 2012
Karthik Pandian’s first UK solo show explores the performative nature of his practice and plumbs the mechanisms behind the avant-garde. “Jubilee” is in two parts: The first consists of a two-channel 16-mm film and the second is a series… READ ON
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Babu Eshwar Prasad, Murali Cheeroth, and Ravikumar Kashi
Right Lines Art Gallery
September 2012
In the midst of what is often called “the Bangalore effect”—the term coined to describe how India’s verdant “garden city” rapidly became one of the technological capitals of the world—this exhibition explores the metropolis’s… READ ON
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“One One One”
ANNEX EAST
August 2012
In the midst of all the Olympics glamour that has swept London this summer, the pop-up gallery Annex East has been set up a stone’s throw from the Olympic Stadium. But despite practically being in the shadow of Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal… READ ON