This show could have been solid five-star material. But I only got to see it through the gallery’s window because the staff didn’t let me come in a quarter of an hour before their official preview even though the door was wide open. That’s for the best because what I did see – paintings of foliage familiar in style from Ikea wallpapers that the press release claims are metaphors for “colonisation and migration of bodies across the Atlantic” – deserved even less attention.
Kevin Brisco Jr But I Hear There Are New Suns
Kevin Brisco Jr
But I Hear There Are New Suns
★★☆☆☆
On until 18 November 2023
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The last train after the last train
★★★☆☆
The failed magic tricks in Lyndon Barrois Jr.’s canvases would hang in the final scene of Chinese Roulette in which everyone turns against everyone.
Co Westerik
Co Westerik
Centenary
★★★★☆
Westerik catches his figures in deep contemplation in front of the mirror, in the gynaecologist’s chair, or even mid-orgy.
Diego Marcon
Diego Marcon
Dolle
★★★☆☆
Idle work became indistinguishable from leisure, vegetative time-passing from family life.
Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal
★★★☆☆
Only in flights of anger does this vision come close to becoming believable.
Hannah Black
Hannah Black
HUSH MR GIANT
★☆☆☆☆
What’s wrong with rights makes no right with painting.
Christine Ay Tjoe
Christine Ay Tjoe
Lesser Numerator
★★☆☆☆
Aj Tjoe’s paintings could make great scenic backdrops to a David Attenborough documentary on the life of wild rodents
