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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Geumhyung Jeong
Geumhyung Jeong
Under Construction
★☆☆☆☆
This tech-optimism might have entertained gallery-goers twenty years ago.
Anna Bunting-Branch, Choy Ka Fai, Damara Inglês, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Lawrence Lek, Kira Xonorika
Anna Bunting-Branch, Choy Ka Fai, Damara Inglês, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Lawrence Lek, Kira Xonorika
What Is It Like?
★★☆☆☆
What does it feel like for an intelligence to be artificial?
Grant Falardeau, Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė, Benjamin Sasserson, Bu Shi, Dylan Williams
Grant Falardeau, Rimantė Mikulovičiūtė, Benjamin Sasserson, Bu Shi, Dylan Williams
A light here required a shadow
★★★☆☆
Catch the wrong end of the spectrum and forever remain obscured.
Trackie McLeod
Trackie McLeod
FRUIT II
★★☆☆☆
“Working-class” and “queer” appear in the collateral as obligatory. What doesn’t is “white”.
Megan Rooney
Megan Rooney
Echoes & Hours
★★☆☆☆
For all this bravado, Rooney’s compositions offer only a very surface experience of abstraction.
Freudian Typo
Freudian Typo
Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh
★★☆☆☆
The problem of artists who confuse graphic design with art is that they also mistake sloganeering for critique.
