Leo Arnold with Jo Baer

SACCADES

★★★★☆

On until 5 April 2025

Arnold’s landscapes want you to pay more attention to their interruptions than the subject itself. If you imagine the painter mounting a ladder in some field so he can reach the treetops on his large, thickly covered canvases, you would also need to notice the meteorite brutally cutting the sky in half. How the artist survived its impact, before witnessing it again the next day, is the very question of art and nature. 

This trick is disarmingly simple, of course, as is the exhibition’s pairing of Arnold’s paintings with Baer’s off-hand architectural follies. One dare not ask for more.


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

Auudi Dorsey at PM/AM ★★★★☆

Auudi Dorsey

★★★★☆

Dorsey records the human experience with the true universalism of paint.

Xie Nanxing, Hello, Portrait! at Thomas Dane ★★★★☆

Xie Nanxing

Hello, Portrait!

★★★★☆

Looking at Xie’s portraits is a little like wearing a virtual reality headset over only one eye.

Anastasia Pavlou, Reader at Hot Wheels ★★☆☆☆

Anastasia Pavlou

Reader, Part 2; The Reader Reads Words in Sentences

★★☆☆☆

In this game of aesthetic cognition, the idea which survives is of the artist thinking.

Hany Armanious, Circle Square at Phillipa Reid ★★☆☆☆

Hany Armanious

Circle Square

★★☆☆☆

The lightness of being can turn unbearable.

Justin Caguiat, Dreampop at Modern Art ★★★★☆

Justin Caguiat

Dreampop

★★★★☆

This is the sort of exhibition that makes a critic question the quality of their judgment.

Anna Barriball at Frith Street Gallery ★★☆☆☆

Anna Barriball

New Drawings

★★☆☆☆

The eyes may be the windows of the soul. To make an aphorism of the reverse needs more than shadow-play.

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