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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Eva Rothschild
Eva Rothschild
★★☆☆☆
These sculptures are too clean, too ordered, and too clever for no good reason.
Joshua Leon
Joshua Leon
The Missing O and E
★☆☆☆☆
This embarrassing display indicts today’s second-fiddlers with narcissism and egomania.
Stuart Middleton
Stuart Middleton
The Human Model
★★☆☆☆
An interest in material is core to this practice but Middleton mistrusts his instincts.
Alexis Kyle Mitchell
Alexis Kyle Mitchell
The Goal of Our Health
★★☆☆☆
When Adam Curtis stopped narrating his ‘documentaries’, some stories are wasted breath.
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
It Will End In Tears
★★☆☆☆
With the right lighting, this story could be a mid-century colonial classic.
Yorgos Prinos
Yorgos Prinos
Prologue to a Prayer
★★★★☆
Prinos’ frames are precise, tight, and formal, as though the street were his studio.
