Spring 2022 exhibitions of note

Some compelling things I saw and their impact on me from late March to late May 2022. *My spelling can be off in the captions as these are ‘notes to self’, there are reference links at the end which won’t include my errors.

Rosemarie Trockel at Spruth Madgers, loved these objects and their combo of specificty/ambiguity — surface and palette.

Max Lamb at Fumi rug — tactile and palette — and Robin Mersh, made of shells, love the form & repetition

Magdalene Odundo at Two Temple Place, ATHENS — relief, natural light passage, those columns that come in sections, erosion but still that geometry

Athens Museum of Archaeology, mythical creatures with orderly geometry, THOSE PLINTS THO’!, Athena

Fragments and so well observed and tender, from the bottom on the sea and his tender finger tips, her smashe but still beauoitful face — a remnder of artifice

face, this body — this material, this bounty, geometry/poetry, lines in motion

tender lines caught in motion, Acropolis, caryatids

the missing caryatid (which is in the British Museum) unfolding that whole story and our relationship with past through artifacts, relief not unlike the columns on an architectural scale, the Contemporary Art Museum in Athens and the work about borders (the UK doesn’t get land borders)

Ilya Kabakov’s boat- stunning, amazing gallery, Breeder Gallery with UK’s Larry Amponsah ~ absolutely loved his paintings their energy, process and defiant saturated colour

Hot Wheels gallery, the sink at the restaurant — USA, sarasota — the floor at the Ringling house and coloured glass

ceramic archityecture at the ringling, always love a james turell, rhythm in a cloister-y courtyard

contempoary accelerated ruins, the pamphlet from the bottom of the bag of the guide about repatriation of objects specifically Elgin Marbles, Thomas Schutte at Frith St — heads! love the glaze, learned a lot from those peices (need to go back to see glass)

Thomas Schutte, textiles at the V&A — palette, very sexy bowl

i like the fattened and fastened object, Nic just made some!, those pots in relief and of course, acanthus leaves at the giant plaster cast rooms in the V&A — which interestingly are named by two American foundations….

At PhotoLondon, the amazing piece by Michaela Stark, Dodo Wang and Jade O’Belle — amazing use of women’s bodies as material, some subversion (a bit fashion-y but still edgy), the composition of that photo and it’s tones were heavenly by George Hoyningen-Huene and presentation of axe heads at Museum of LOndon, I drew the cabinets — the suspension of the objects, the lighting and materials

more of the axe heads, repetition of mark making, new materials and ooh that colour

the flawless green, black and white of Cecconi’s, At John Soane Museum (which I actually found really annoying) but those cameos on the green in white releif ooh la la and the shafts of light were a high point

Lubaina Himid at Tate Modern — just so fucking good, jelly mould s for monuments, her paintings are perfect and all the side eye, imagined spaces, plans, ways of being when you must be cunning and the endless sea

probably one of my favourite paintings I have seen this year

Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern, nice to be reminded of the bodily in her work, the sex — grief as a revolving chandelier and mirrors — remind me of Albright Knox piece I visited often as a kid and playing with the mirrors in my mothers dressing room

Links:

Rosemarie Trockel - Sprüth Magers

Artist: Max Lamb

Artist: Rowan Mersh

Body Vessel Clay - Two Temple Place

Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens - Wikipedia

Αρχική | National Archaeological Museum

Acropolis of Athens - Wikipedia

Home | Acropolis Museum | Official website

Homepage English | EMST

Larry Amponsah_GENESIS: The Plan & The Promise | THE BREEDER

Don't Build Picturesquely - Hot Wheels Athens

You should still eat at Athens' Worst-Kept Secret Underground Restaurant

Ca' d'Zan

https://www.dezeen.com/2016/04/28/machado-silvetti-ringling-museum-asian-art-centre-extension-green-terracotta-tiles-florida/

Joseph's Coat (2011)

Greece and UK Agree to Discuss Repatriation of Parthenon Marbles

Parthenon Sculptures - the Trustees' statement

Thomas Schütte

Cushion Cover | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections

V&A · Ceramics

V&A · Cast collection

https://www.showstudio.com/news/nick-knight-photo-london

https://www.georgehoyningenhuene.org/

Prehistoric London archaeology gallery | Museum of London

Cecconi's Mayfair | Home

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Lubaina Himid | Tate

Lubaina Himid | Tate