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South Hill Park, Bracknell
30 November 2007 - 20 January 2008
South Hill Park's semi-regular screenings of video work in it's Atrium bar space continues with this curated submission show, taking the currently hot topic of surveillance as it's central theme. The show pulls no punches for Read on…
Reviewed by: Edward Sands
A response to the discussion event ‘Does Autonomy Matter?’
Gasworks, London
5 December
To mark the launch of Does Autonomy Matter?, the eighth edition of Printed Project published by Visual Artists Ireland and edited by Munira Mirza, Gasworks (in association with The Manifesto Club) hosted a discussion on the issue’s focus on Read on…
Reviewed by: Neva Elliott
Leeds Art Gallery
22 November– 10 February
The Northern Art Prize is a two headed beast: one head an exhibition, the second an initiative. A visitor experiences the prize primarily through exhibited artworks, but this presentation raises broader questions concerning the efficacy of art Read on…
Reviewed by: Amelia Crouch
La Sucrière, Lyon Biennial
19 September 2007 - 6 January 2008
Clamor reverberates uneasily in a large grubby room in a former sugar factory in Lyon. It has the appearance of a concrete military bunker that has been chiseled from an eroded cliff face. The sculpted rock formation is reminiscent of a Casper David Read on…
Reviewed by: Daniel Pryde-Jarman
Whitecross Gallery, London
24 November - 22 December 2007
As the countdown to Christmas begins, and the streets overflow with frenzied shoppers and revellers, an aptly themed exhibition, The Art of Consumption exists until the 22nd December at the Whitecross Gallery, near the Barbican in East London. Read on…
Reviewed by: Gerry Evans
Pit Theatre, Barbican, London
12-29 December 2007
Cheesy music? Check. Party nibbles? Check. Social awkwardness? Bucket loads. Christopher Green and Ursula Martinez’s Office Party Xmas 2007 at the Barbican Pit Theatre had all the necessary ingredients for Read on…
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson
Jaywick Martello Tower & Online (www.windscale.net), Jaywick
15 August 2007 - 1 September 2008
Rob Smith has chosen a perfectly peripheral and desolate place for the first of his Windscale sites. Jaywick is an intriguing place, a curious and dissonant mixture of the forbidding and the quirkily ordinary. There is the Brace of Pistols Read on…
Reviewed by: Sophie Buxton
The Vitreous Gallery, Truro
1 December 2007 - 5 January 2008
The broad dark pastel lines in Matt Mossop’s paintings recall the expressionist vigour of Rouault. Intense colours, supplemented by ink, watercolour and acrylic, have been used to render the landscapes of Carrick and West Penwith. Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care
The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
28 November 2007 - 3 February 2008
It’s reassuring that artists can still find ways of re-imagining the world in which they live. Patricia Townsend’s “The Circles They Desire” show at The Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness works in an unfashionable realm which Read on…
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall
Tramway, Glasgow
9 February 2007
For Flagrante Delicto the artist Claire refuses to use her surname and by this employs a deliberate strategy of anonymity. Claire’s anonymity is re-enforced in various texts accompanying the performance- in booklets, business cards and Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Exchange Gallery, Penzance
12-16 December 2007
In the Bleak Midwinter Following new government Education policy-issued just last week- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2224779,00.htmlstressing the importance of art and design in schools, what could be more apposite than Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care
Greenwich Market, London
1 November 2007 - 20 December 2008
Like many other privileged middle class types, I occasionally browse through the Greenwich markets. I nibble on tasty snacks, try out classic vintage garments, allow myself to wallow in the gluttony of delicately crafted tasteful goods. When my Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
New York - various venues, New York
7 November 2007
Apart from the turquoise-leotard wearing dancers who perform in them, each of the spaces chosen by Pablo Bronstein for his Plaza Minuet have one thing in common. These grand halls in New York’s wealthy financial district are all Read on…
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson
Performa 07 (Various Venues), New York
7-14 November 2007
Long March projects for Performa 2007 included; Nov 7-10: Long March- Xu Zhen, In Just a Blink of an Eye (2007), Nov 10 - Qiu Zhijie, The Thunderstorm Is Slowly Approaching (2007), Nov 11: Long March- Avant-Garde (2007), Nov 14: Long March- Zhao Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
20 October - 8 December 2007
This work is both a response to the structure of the round room in which it is ensconced as well as a reaction to the notion of architectural follies, an esoteric subject which has held the interest of the artist for at least the last year. Read on…
Reviewed by: karen breneman
C-Type Digital Print, 1 x 2 metres
11 September 2007 - 11 September 2008
'There is a Failing Man' is a digital print on aluminium made specifically by artist Micheál O'Connell to sell to an anonymous collector. The image itself is taken from a computer simulated animation of an upside-down Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Lois Clapham
Glasshouse gallery, Penzance
1 December 2007 - 6 January 2008
The Glasshouse Gallery 81-82 Market Jew Street, Penzance The bottom part of Market Jew Street is a bohemian area with computer cafes, secondhand shops and French restaurants. It is in the middle of this intriguing collection of Read on…
Reviewed by: George Care
Karsten Schubert, London
8 October - 21 December 2007
Photographic portraits of the cinematic stars gaze at the viewer from the soft focus of a celluloid golden age. But something is afoot in past: John Stezaker has taken a blade to the portraits, clinically halving the figures to reform and repair the Read on…
Reviewed by: David Foster
TATE MODERN, LONDON
15-17 November 2007
The continuous recurrence of the theme of air reveals a perpetual interest with concepts of the immaterial and the invisible. The Take a Deep Breath symposium was held at Tate Modern during 15-17 November in order to explore air, the nothing and Read on…
Reviewed by: Eva Pryce
Dalry Primary School, Dalry, North Ayrshire
19-23 November 2007
As part of the programme of artworks integral with the innovative new Dalry Primary School building, artists’ group Fiveplustwo was commissioned to develop a series of visits and events at the school that encouraged the children and teachers Read on…
Reviewed by: Linda Mallett
Tate Modern, London
10 October 2007 - 20 January 2008
Two Artists with very different concerns and approaches to art are currently presented at Tate Modern. The art of Louise Bourgeois is highly subjective and emerges from a life–long struggle originating from her childhood Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrea Kim Valdez
Chisenhale Gallery, London
5 September - 14 October 2007
Once inside the Chisenhale gallery, hidden away from the real world outside, you enter a dark, dark space and are confronted by six large video screens. Hiraki Sawa transforms this gallery space into a world of his own whereby reality and fantasy Read on…
Reviewed by: Rachel Murray
Saatchi & Saatchi, New York
12-17 November 2007
The black and white film in La Maison is a grainy journey through the rooms of a baroque country house. Shot on 16mm film in a single take, the camera’s gaze feels as continuous and fallible as that of a human being. As it moves through the Read on…
Reviewed by: Mary Paterson
The Barbican, London
12 October 2007 - 27 January 2008
Boldly going where few curators have gone before Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp and Joanne Bernstein ambitiously take on ‘art and sex from antiquity to now.’ They have brought to the Barbican nearly 250 objects spanning 2,000 years of Read on…
Reviewed by: Juliana C. Leite
20 Hoxton Square, London
16 November - 16 December 2007
The atmosphere in the main soace is very different to that of the previous show at 20 Hoxton Square, devoted to the work of Jaap de Vries. Where de Vries’ work made of the space a menacing landscape of dull metal and dark forests, that of Read on…
Reviewed by: Hemet Nesingwary
Jerwood Space, London
9 November - 9 December 2007
The 2007 Jerwood Photography Awards brings together the work of five distinctive young photographers, imaginatively addressing a variety of pertinent current issues. Sophie Read on…
Reviewed by: James Finch
Surface Gallery , Nottingham
15 October - 9 November 2007
Stories and dreams from Ethiopian origins form the basis of these intriguing ceramics, which Elshaday Berhane insists be judged on an emotional level rather than equate it with the exhibition title ‘Golly’[1], shown at the Surface Read on…
Reviewed by: Beverley Sterling
Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
3-24 November
“I find myself looking blankly at a polished teapot: the elongated reflection of my face suggests a horse. In the polished teapot the universe is contained, and all the thoughts and pictures that ever were can be poured out of it” (First Read on…
Reviewed by: Richard Brammer
London Gallery West, Harrow
26 October – 6 January
With all my passion for modern art, I can’t help but have a niggling feeling that whenever the relatively contemporary medium of video art gets involved, things can go wrong. Previously interesting ideas can be perverted into theological, Read on…
Reviewed by: Hannah Wise
London Gallery West, Harrow
26 October – 6 January
With all my passion for modern art, I can’t help but have a niggling feeling that whenever the relatively contemporary medium of video art gets involved, things can go wrong. Previously interesting ideas can be perverted into theological, Read on…
Reviewed by: Hannah Wise
