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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Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal
★★★☆☆
Only in flights of anger does this vision come close to becoming believable.
Leo Arnold with Jo Baer
Leo Arnold with Jo Baer
SACCADES
★★★★☆
One dare not ask for more.
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?
Nick Relph
Nick Relph
Fils, ta vision!
★☆☆☆☆
There’s little for the eye to hang on and none of the punk culture of Relph’s earlier practice emerges from the works.
Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez
A Midnight's Dream
★☆☆☆☆
Such kitsch might have been fine in a spinster auntie’s bedroom. In the gallery, it is a cruel trick.
Michael Andrew Page
Michael Andrew Page
Claustrum
★★★★☆
Page’s tent, brain, and the cathedral take the same form for a pretty good reason.
