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:
Rheim Alkadhi
Rheim Alkadhi
Templates for Liberation
★★☆☆☆
When truth and artifice are so bluntly opposed, what use is aesthetics?
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
★★☆☆☆
Pity the artist looking for the abyss IRL.
Celia Hempton
Celia Hempton
Transplant
★★★☆☆
Sense finally returns only outside the gallery.
Sin Wei Kin
Sin Wei Kin
Portraits
★★☆☆☆
This exhibition combines the most vulgar of all art school tropes: juvenile narcissism, NFT kitsch, and mindless referentialism.
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh
★★☆☆☆
Singh’s pictures cold have been made by at least three other Frith Street artists.
Linder
Linder
Danger Came Smiling
★★★★☆
Linder’s second-wave feminist propositions were ruthlessly superseded.
