If only they were smaller, Piñera Ballo’s paintings would be a great hit in the shopping centre gallery your ex-army uncle just opened in Surrey. He’s gambling with the family’s savings, you condescend, but so is Pace with their show. The market for “young” artists is crashing. Who in London, precisely, would buy 6-meter-wide Cuban beach souvenirs? Surrey, at least, knows its own taste.
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello Entre El Día Y La Noche
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
Entre El Día Y La Noche
★☆☆☆☆
On until 28 September 2024
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Patricia Ferguson
Patricia Ferguson
Each Little Scar
★★★★☆
No medium is better suited to anxiety and dread.
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman
Bad Luck Rock
★★☆☆☆
This is a poor man’s version of history or a philistine collector’s absolution.
Yorgos Prinos
Yorgos Prinos
Prologue to a Prayer
★★★★☆
Prinos’ frames are precise, tight, and formal, as though the street were his studio.
Jan Gatewood
Jan Gatewood
Group Relations
★☆☆☆☆
Such thin metaphors could only have come from LA.
Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, Delaine Le Bas
Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, Delaine Le Bas
Turner Prize 2024
★★☆☆☆
Even the artists approach this edition with ennui.
Tamsin Morse, Kris Lock, Casper Scarth, et al.
Tamsin Morse, Kris Lock, Casper Scarth, et al.
The Poplar Bestiary
★★★☆☆
This menagerie comes with no humanly comprehensible challenge.
