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
notes and notices are short and curt exhibition reviews. Read more:
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.
Belarus Free Theatre
Belarus Free Theatre
Official. Unofficial.
★★☆☆☆
Art matters neither to the dictator nor his opponents.
Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew
Ubiquity II
★★☆☆☆
There are many ways to misunderstand entropy.
Mandy El-Sayegh
Mandy El-Sayegh
Interiors
★★☆☆☆
For the abundance of material, there simply aren’t enough ideas in the exhibition to go around these Mayfair interiors.
Max Boyla
Max Boyla
Crying like a fire in the sun
★★☆☆☆
Rothko’s abstractions are said to have induced tears in viewers overwhelmed by abstraction. Staring at the sun here, however, barely causes blindness.
Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices
★★★☆☆
This attempt at building pan-Arabic film aesthetics falls prey to the art technician’s trickery.
