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Square Moon

★★☆☆☆

On until 15 February 2025

The tragedy of a one-hit-wonder visual artist is that good painting or sculpture is harder to hum than a once-catchy tune. Lidén could be typecast by her 2010 billboard poster assemblies. Indeed, her practice has stayed close conceptually to their concerns since. This new show tries to repeat those works’ success quite literally, barely bothering to swap one backing track for another. Doing so, it misses that the world and Lidén have evolved in over a decade.

The billboard meditations on the city and the image are back, and this time they’re electric. But that’s not because they take from Rothko or Albers as they’d have you believe: each literally needs a plug socket. Museum benches propped up on stacks of card waste suggest that one should look at them with intent, without explaining why. A pair of mostly black videos cryptically set on a beach are the one source of true intrigue.

But this isn’t Times Square in a blackout. Lidén made so, so very many copies of these works that they overwhelmed her better judgment. Even the gallery deemed some redundant and it dismantled part of the exhibition halfway through to accommodate another artist’s show.


notes and notices are short and curt exhibition reviews. Read more:

Mohammed Z. Rahman, A Flame is a Petal at Phillida Reid ★★★☆☆

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A Flame is a Petal

★★★☆☆

Rahman’s zine hand makes this make-believe explicit but not plausible.

Robert Rauschenberg, ROCI at Thaddeus Ropac ★★★☆☆

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ROCI

★★★☆☆

This project outs Rauschenberg as a propagandist if not an outright Fed.

Official. Unofficial. Belarus in Venice ★★☆☆☆

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Official. Unofficial.

★★☆☆☆

Art matters neither to the dictator nor his opponents.

Erick Meyenberg, Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre, the Mexican pavilion in Venice ★☆☆☆☆

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Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre

★☆☆☆☆

Whatever the purpose of this confusion, it’s not to be found in the gallery.

Hannah Tilson, Soft Cut at Cedric Bardawil ★★☆☆☆

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Soft Cut

★★☆☆☆

Tilson’s styled self-portraits are an affectation that will take many years of practice to pay off.

Oriol Vilanova: Los restos at the Spanish pavilion in Venice ★★★★☆

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Los restos

★★★★☆

The dance of constellations that make up the Western civilisation inspires awe.

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