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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Francesca DiMattio
Francesca DiMattio
Wedgwood
★★★☆☆
In DiMattio’s giant ceramics kiln, everyday motifs like sneakers and knickers clash into the ornate Rococo stove and the Victorian China snuff box.
Nikita Gale
Nikita Gale
Blur Ballad
★★☆☆☆
Even though the show brings together a few unusual tricks, they are disjointed and leave little for the eye to linger on.
Armando D. Cosmos
Armando D. Cosmos
Nothing New Under the Sun
★★★☆☆
Cosmos wants to redefine STEM as the alliance of science, theosophy, engineering, and myth.
Rheim Alkadhi
Rheim Alkadhi
Templates for Liberation
★★☆☆☆
When truth and artifice are so bluntly opposed, what use is aesthetics?
Anna Barriball
Anna Barriball
New Drawings
★★☆☆☆
The eyes may be the windows of the soul. To make an aphorism of the reverse needs more than shadow-play.
Bhenji Ra
Bhenji Ra
Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon
★☆☆☆☆
Such work was once a mere grift. Now, it is an outright stitch-up.
