Interview: Artist Rob Ryan
SohoCreate arrives in London this June for the first time. The event brings together the country’s top creative minds, ensuring various disciplines and talents are celebrated in today’s competitive, revenue driven economy.
SohoCreate arrives in London this June for the first time. The event brings together the country’s top creative minds, ensuring various disciplines and talents are celebrated in today’s competitive, revenue driven economy.
Elizabeth Neel focuses on the concepts of shifting familiarity and the nature of abstraction. At Pilar Corrias, she presents new visual studies in controlled chaos that perpetuate this interest.
Today there is one month left to visit the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition at York St Mary’s. The show represents the breadth and quality of work being produced today in the UK and internationally.
New York-based artist Stephen Hall is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Born in Scotland, the painter has spent many years refining his talent and now produces spectacularly bold and provocative pieces.
Krakow Film Festival in Poland opens this May for its 54th edition. Running for eight days from 25 May until 1 June, the event is one of the oldest film festivals dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe.
Gunther von Hagens is best known for his controversial Body Worlds exhibitions, which he has showcased across the globe. In Body Worlds, von Hagens presents a series of human bodies.
Gazelli Art House’s focuses on the idea that the only thing constant in life is change. Feeding into this concept are the works by John Wynne and Yoonjin Jung that explore one’s inner “movement” in relation to their surrounding.
Curated by Sarah Williams, TTTT responds to recent developments amongst artists around language, technology, image dissemination, sentimentality and anxiety.
The gold plated peanuts found in Ecosystem were rumoured to have been inspected by customs for fears that they contained illegal contraband – a fitting anecdote for Michel François’ first major survey in a British gallery.
Richard Long is one of Britain’s leading conceptual artists. His work explores interventions in the landscape, tracking and documenting alterations to the terrain made by his footsteps alone or gathered from the materials of the place.
A retrospective of the work of Walerian Borowczyk is due to go on display at the ICA this week. The Listening Eye highlights the artist’s extensive work in filmmaking, painting and sculpture.
The third in the series of free lunchtime talks taking place as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize is led by University of York Lecturer and Art Historian, James Boaden. Join Boaden at York St Mary’s as he talks about the evolution of film.
In May and August of 1968 two very different uprisings took place on the streets of two European cities, photographed by two very different photographers. This exhibition showcases the work of Ian Berry and Bruno Barbey.
The photography of Marco Sanges creates dramatic works peopled by uncanny, larger than life characters. His untidy troupe of old money and sugar daddies wear their powdered wigs and brylcremed toupees at jaunty angles.
Saskia Olde Wolbers is known for her short, narrative videos. For Yes, These Eyes are the Windows, she treats 87 Hackford Road as a ready-made set and works with theatre director Lu Kemp and sound designer Elena Peña.
A new exhibition of Andreas Gursky’s photography is now open at the White Cube. His first solo show in London in seven years, it encompasses both past projects and new works.
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo showcases the work of contemporary artists in response to work by the iconic artist. In 1978, MCA Chicago presented Kahlo’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S.
Alec Von Bargen is one of 100 contemporary artists longlisted in this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize, an annual celebration of outstanding contemporary art from around the world.
Limited edition prints by James Welling, John Chervinsky, Lucas Foglia, Irina Rozovsky and signed copies of Peter Mitchell’s Strangely Familiar are available via Light Work’s Subscription Programme.
