Alexandre Canonico

Still

★★★☆☆

On until 16 December 2023

Conanico’s assemblages of shapes cut out of card and MDF board are so simple and playful that it would be easy to overlook them. Spray-painted rectangles connect to other rectangles like in a Blue Peter project. Curved shapes bear loads of miniature skyscrapers. Screws and washers hold a school science project together. These illustrations are each diagrams for something but to ask what is to miss the joke.

Such work could claim a place in the tradition of geometric abstraction but because Conanico doesn’t confine his paper cuttings to a canvas, or any plain for that matter, he overcomes it. His slight structures look like they could take flight at any moment and, in so doing, alter the fundamental laws of the universe. The sinister afterimage of such action, only barely implied by the work, would complete the show.


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★☆☆☆☆

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★★★☆☆

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Rose Finn-Kelcey, Suit of Lights at Kate MacGarry ★★★★☆

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★★★★☆

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Dream Stream, the Chinese pavilion in Venice ★★☆☆☆

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★★☆☆☆

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Christine Ay Tjoe, Lesser Numerator at White Cube ★★☆☆☆

Christine Ay Tjoe

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★★☆☆☆

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I’m so gay for you at Miłość ★★☆☆☆

I'm so gay for you

★★☆☆☆

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