Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor
Lisson Gallery

Kapoor's paintings are both beautiful and ugly - like our body! Visceral and vaginal as if a phenomenological body is carving a wall from the inside. A pretentious voluptuous copy on Adriana Varejão' exploration on themes of colonialism, miscegenation and anthropology, but without Varejão sensual forms.

Lee Ufan

Lee Ufan
Lisson Gallery

Lee Ufan, Relatum - Rest (gravel, glass, steel, stone), 2013
Quite, simple, neat, loose strokes with some traces of wilderness; Browns, Oranges, Greens, Grays, and Blues at the same time with great levels of concentration and energy.
Lee Ufan, Dialogue (watercolour, paper), 2014
Lee Ufan, Dialogue - Silence (virgin canvas, stone), 2013
Lee Ufan, Dialogue (oil on canvas), 2014
Lee Ufan, Dialogue (oil on canvas), 2014 [Detail]

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Rubens and His Legacy

Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne
Royal Academy of Arts

"The triumph of Rubens's nudes is his magnificent evocation of the texture of human skin, represented in such a way it feels almost palpable. We see blood coursing through the veins of the voluptuous flesh. The delicate mother-of-pearl complexions of the female bodies radiate with light. Their soft skin suggests vulnerability and invites you to touch it. ... Rubens's nudes were, as per tradition, drawn from mythological, literary and sometimes biblical sources." [... in Gallery Guide...]
Let's be honest! Every art work is about sex! Pure and simple sex (homo- and hetero-) veiled under some other subject matter, like politics, religion, science, race, the exercise of power, etc. or the human body sensuality and sexuality while posing and interacting with those dynamics and conditions ruling contemporary life.

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Pascale Marthine Tayou: Boomerang

Pascale Marthine Tayou
Boomerang
Serpentine Gallery

Time Out

Time Out the magazine done by, for and aiming those people using the underground at peak-time; who work at Primark, John Lewis, Selfridges, etc, or any house agencies, as Sales Consultant/Assistant/Associate, and who spend more time interacting on social media than physically with people. Time Out the magazine made by those people that might had been voguish and leaders on their own fields of action, but who no longer are, to those same other people. Time Out is so last decade... an abeyance on the joys of playing.

Sunday, 1 March 2015

ARCOmadrid 2015

Fernando Bryce, To The Civilized World, 2014 [Detail], at Galerie Barbara Thumm.
ARCOmadrid 2015: conservative, sober, quiet, a muted middle-age target
ARCOmadrid 2015
ARCOmadrid 2015 SOLO PROJECTS
Sophie Ristelhueber, WB, 2005, at Galerie Jérôme Poggi
Diogo Pimentão at Schleicher & Lange
João Onofre, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
an Image of Beauty Converted into Binary Code (N version)
, 2014, at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
João Onofre, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
an Image of Beauty Converted into Binary Code (N version)
, 2014 [Detail], at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2015, at Bärbel Grässlin
Cristina Lucas at Galeria Juana de Aizpuru
Cristina Lucas [Detail] at Galería Juana de Aizpuru
Eugenio Ampudia at Galería Max Estrella
Galería Max Estrella
ARCOmadrid 2015
Nicolás Robbio at Galeria Vermelho
Nicolás Robbio at Galeria Vermelho
Galeria Pedro Cera
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Teresa Margolles at Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Diogo Pimentão
Yigal Ozeri