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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Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien
All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
★★☆☆☆
An idle fancy is detached from here and now, which already shows signs of ageing.
Future Relics
Future Relics
★★★★☆
“Reskilling” has the same ring in art as “reindustrialisation” does in geopolitics.
Justin Caguiat
Justin Caguiat
Dreampop
★★★★☆
This is the sort of exhibition that makes a critic question the quality of their judgment.
Leah Clements
Leah Clements
Apophenia
★★☆☆☆
It takes a lot to pull off an essay film, and Clements is no essayist.
Joseph Awuah-Darko
Joseph Awuah-Darko
How is your day going?
★★☆☆☆
This project relies on layers of gimmicks and, sadly, they show through Awuah-Darko’s thick palette knife impasto.
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
★★☆☆☆
Burroughs should be sexy, right?
