The Manchester Contemporary

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: The Gates of the Festival

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
The Gates of the Festival
Lisson Gallery

Life is made of curves, not of straight lines. When in the curves we hear life's sound and we see nature's colours.

Marina Abramović: White Space

Marina Abramović
White Space
Lisson Gallery

Getting into Marina's works...

Pierre Huyghe: In Border Deep

Pierre Huyghe
In Border Deep
Hauser & Wirth

Why is that I feel more entrapped inside a glass cube than, instead, those fish?

Hannah Perry: Horoscopes (Déjà Vu)

An emotional performance at Serpentine Galleries' Park Nights 2014, generated, manipulated and developed by Hannah Perry.

2042

A common computing representation of date and time on IBM mainframe systems will overflow with potential results similar to the year 2000 problem, i.e. "problems" that aren't problems.

Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Past/Present

Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Past/Present
Pace Gallery

Nathaniel Mary Quinn's (1977, Chicago, US) "vivid, large-scale paper works are an assemblage of facial features which can be read as abstract-figurative works. The pieces deal with the complex construction of identity, inevitably influenced by past memories and present experiences, but executed in the moment." [...Press Release...]

"Although reminiscent of Synthetic Cubism, Quinn’s works function outside of these historical references and reveal themselves as autobiographical, narrative and representational. The ‘hybrid creatures’ that appear in these distinctive compositions are formed from a mixture of family portraits, popular articles, and advertisements."
"The work sits in tension on the boundary of what can be seen as purposely grotesque or aesthetically pleasing, presenting both beauty and melancholy." [...Press Release...]

Francesca Woodman: Zigzag

Francesca Woodman
Zigzag
Victoria Miro Mayfair

A delightful exhibition of few selected photos, on zigzag, from the short but prolific life of Francesca Woodman.

Michele Abeles: Find Out What Happens When People Start Getting Real

Michele Abeles
Find Out What Happens When People Start Getting Real
Sadie Cole HQ

It really reminds me of the tiles in the toilets of a pub

A London

Friday night drinks at the place that don't serve pints (Soho)!

Kendell Geers: Crossing the Line

Kendell Geers
Crossing the Line
Stephen Friedman Gallery

Do I really need to take my shoes off to see Kendell Geers' Monument to the F Word X (2010) or can I just lay down under?

"'Crossing the Line' recalls both the journey of the artist's cultural heritage crossing the equator and his recent move into painting." [...Press Release...]

Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore

Ain't Gona Rain Anymore by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Once there came a storm in the form of a girl
It blew to pieces my snug little world
Sometimes I swear I can still hear her howl
Down through the wreckage and the ruins

And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone

Now the storm has passed over me
I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea
And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams
Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams

And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone

Now I got no one to hold
Now I am all alone again
It ain't too hot but it ain't too cold
And there is no sign of rain

And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone
And I'm
Here I'm on my own

She ain't coming back no more
She ain't coming back no more
She ain't coming back no more
Say what you will, I don't care

And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby's gone, yeah
And it ain't gonna rain anymore
Now my baby has gone

Lynda Benglis: Planar Device

Lynda Benglis
Planar Device
Thomas Dane Gallery

... "Benglis manipulates extruded tubes and slabs of clay directly with her hands by pinching, pulling, squeezing, punching, crushing, and stacking them into complex sculptural compositions."

The "direct relationship with materials and process connects Benglis to artists of the post minimal generation - Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Bruce Nauman."

Attractive, sensual, sexully arousing pieces, by Lynda Benglis, worthy to became an integral part of a small cottage affecting the fields of Gloucestershire.