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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Aria Dean
Aria Dean
Abattoir
★★★☆☆
Visuals of her own making overpower the artist.
Michael Andrew Page
Michael Andrew Page
Claustrum
★★★★☆
Page’s tent, brain, and the cathedral take the same form for a pretty good reason.
Shu Lea Cheang
Shu Lea Cheang
Scifi New Queer Cinema, 1994-2023
★★☆☆☆
With material this gratuitously explicit and a curator this absent, it’s a miracle that this project wasn’t shut down by the licencing, or indeed art-historical authorities.
Pope.L
Pope.L
Hospital
★★★☆☆
This project lands in the joke section of Animal Farm and not as a prophecy of the Jan 6th insurrection.
HelenA Pritchard
HelenA Pritchard
The Homeless Mind
★★★☆☆
Death by debris falling from building façades is an artist’s occupational hazard.
Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman
Line
★★★☆☆
The artist’s signature becomes a distress call.
