There’s joy in geometry. To make his tableaux, Relph poked circular and rectangular holes in packaging cardboard he found in the alley behind a Manhattan Comme de Garçons store. He added to this some stickers and stencils and thus made the perfect wall decoration for a graphic designer’s dining room. But there’s little for the eye to hang on and none of the punk culture of Relph’s earlier practice emerges from the works. Is the clothing brand iconic or ironic? Why is the cardboard so clean? It would be more fun to play with a child’s wooden shapes toy – a close relative of these plates – than to figure this out.
Nick Relph Fils, ta vision!
Nick Relph
Fils, ta vision!
★☆☆☆☆
On until 28 October 2023
notes and notices are short and curt exhibition reviews. Read more:
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
★★☆☆☆
Burroughs should be sexy, right?
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
Entre El Día Y La Noche
★☆☆☆☆
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.…
Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer
QR CODES REVISITED—LONDON
★★☆☆☆
This invites a game of proofreading, in hope that Amer maliciously inserted a greengrocer’s apostrophe into de Beauvoir’s mind.
Gray Wielebinski
Gray Wielebinski
The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low
★☆☆☆☆
I knew that it was possible to understand art and life less after seeing an exhibition. I didn’t, however, imagine that experiencing Wielebinski’s work twice would only compound such damage.
Poppy Jones
Poppy Jones
Solid Objects
★★★★☆
The lightness of the painter’s gesture cries out for a sledgehammer that would relieve the viewer of his doubt.
Meeson Jessica Pae
Meeson Jessica Pae
Secretions & Formations
★★★★☆
Oil paint can cause cancer.
