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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Women in Revolt!
★★★☆☆
There’s a room for female labour, a corner for childbirth, one for black women, and a section for lesbians. This is as close to nuance as Tate gets today.
Li Yi-Fan
Li Yi-Fan
Screen Melancholy
★★★☆☆
Characters lose themselves in screens-within-screens.
Veronica Ryan
Veronica Ryan
Multiple Conversations
★★☆☆☆
The impulse at play is that repetition makes up for an idea by sheer volume. It doesn’t.
Avery Singer
Avery Singer
Free Fall
★★☆☆☆
This show would be better without the baggage of the artist’s personal story and even better without the Twin Towers altogether.
Roland Knowlden
Roland Knowlden
Negations
★★★☆☆
An exhausted porcupine and an architectural war plan.
Stuart Middleton
Stuart Middleton
The Human Model
★★☆☆☆
An interest in material is core to this practice but Middleton mistrusts his instincts.
