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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Özgür Kar
Özgür Kar
Heavy Ground
★★★☆☆
Kar’s insight a fly’s life – or, to have it his way, the whole universe – is fleeting.
Elisa Giardina Papa
Elisa Giardina Papa
She Flickered In and Out of History
★★☆☆☆
Giardina Papa renders transhumanist dreams sharply. Their promise, alas, is imaginable only in uninhabitable abstract.
When Forms Come Alive
★★☆☆☆
This exhibition cannot decide if it’s a tourist attraction or a serious examination of sculpture’s relationship with movement.
Estate of Yiannis Maniatakos
Estate of Yiannis Maniatakos
Four Paintings
★★★☆☆
Examining the paintings in the gallery’s bright lights doesn’t lift their mystery.
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
★★☆☆☆
Pity the artist looking for the abyss IRL.
Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien
All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
★★☆☆☆
An idle fancy is detached from here and now, which already shows signs of ageing.
