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The idea of mechanics and sculpture coming together is far from new. It’s forerunner, kinetic sculpture, depends on movements for its effect and has Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel as its first official exemplar. The 50s-60s are considered its golden age and Jean Tinguely, Alexandr Calder, George Rickey and others are among the most prominent figures working in this field. Today […]
February 18, 2012
This week saw the world’s three biggest auction houses conduct their highly prestigious contemporary art evening sales in their London branches. In total, the sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury made a little bit less than £135* million, quite a figure taking into account the whole talk about the upcoming second wave of the […]
February 7, 2012
The set of highly important evening auctions is coming up – both Sotheby’s and Christie’s will be selling the best of the best they have to offer or managed to get their hands on. The good thing is, despite the auction itself being quite an exclusive event with tickets required to get in and bidders […]
February 4, 2012
*This article was written at the beginning of December 2011 on the occasion of Paul McCarthy’s work being on show at that time at Hauser & Wirth London. The show has now ended, although the Ship Adrift, Ship of Fools piece can still be seen in St. James Park till February 15th, 2012. The only […]
February 1, 2012
Those who live in London or who have been to this city know that it is an expensive place to be. Especially when it comes to the central part of it – everything from rent to shopping to going out can be a a bit tough if you’re on almost any kind of “budget”. But […]
January 20, 2012
On the eve of the opening of David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy of Art (Jan, 21, 2012), the Alan Cristea Gallery presents David Hockney: Moving Focus, a collection of David Hockney lithographs from the mid-80s. The new show, which opened on Wednesday, 18.01.12 presents works most of which are connected with a common […]
January 14, 2012
So the Gagosian Galleries have opened Damien Hirst’s Complete Spot Paintings: 1986-2011, a global show taking place in all Gagosian spaces around the world – in London (x2), Rome, Paris, Athens, Geneva, New York (x3), San Diego, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. That’s a lot of spot paintings. But the curious thing here is not just […]
January 13, 2012
Questions as to what can and is an artwork and what is art in general have for a while been bothering everyone from an art historian to a member of public very far removed from the art process and driven by pure curiosity. Especially today, with contemporary art encompassing every thinkable and unthinkable technique, material […]
October 29, 2011
A long silence is best broken by something big. Big either metaphorically or literally. Now Frank Stella and his art are both: a man who is one of the greatest living artists, a living legend, someone who has through his art helped transform the viewer’s as well as the artist’s perception of an art-work, the […]
March 12, 2012
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