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Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
9 September 2007 to 11 November 2007
Southport open. The show at the recent Sefton open 2007 was lacking in creatively of new work by relied on work associated with the seaside town of Southport, the typical landscapes and nice pictures were on scene here. The selection of new work Read on…
Reviewed by: Chris Boyd
OFOTO Gallery
7 July 2007 to 8 August 2007
Several years ago, I was leafing through a large packet of curling black and white photographic prints. Taken by a relative as he roamed the streets of his home city, Shanghai, under siege in 1937, they captured both the smouldering tragedy in Read on…
Reviewed by: Catherine Wilson
Fieldgate Gallery
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
‘Intervention’; Well it certainly isn’t interventional. Moving on from the misleading title, this exhibition was overflowing with experimental and imaginative works. Sarah Pucill’s film ‘Taking My Skin’ being by Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Waterloo Gallery
9 September 2007
'Life Force' was an inspiring and interesting first Solo exhibition of work by artist Cos Ahmet, showing etchings, paintings and textile pieces. The work was pertinent and highly personal and mapped out a life journey. This touched many people who Read on…
Reviewed by: Barrie Gabbott
Victoria Miro Gallery
9 September 2007 to 9 September 2007
Comprising of plant cuttings, light bulbs, paper, ladders, fans, boxes, matchsticks and various other DIY and pound shop objects, Sarah Sze’s beautifully intricate sculptures at the Victoria Miro gallery creep down the walls and stretch out Read on…
Reviewed by: Henry Carroll
David Risley Gallery
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
Matt Calderwood has got known for making videos in which he does perilous stunts, like climbing up ladders and chopping away the rungs beneath him with an axe. Some have what he's called an "escape vibe" - testing the body's Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Redmond
Nettie Horn Gallery
8 August 2007 to 8 August 2007
Responsibility About a year ago Simon Pope put on an exhibition in Cardiff in which visitors were invited to go around an empty gallery whilst remembering experiences of previous gallery visits. Pope put instructions on the wall near the entrance Read on…
Reviewed by: Matthew Redmond
Four
8 August 2007 to 9 September 2007
The current exhibition at Four can be described as “situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in a way of feeling" as Charles Baudelaire characterized Romanticism. Griffin's practice is primarily site specific, Read on…
Reviewed by: Lee Welch
Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington
21 September - 10 November 2007
As humans we are predisposed to recognise and respond to faces; two dots and a dash become eyes and mouth, tonal contrast in a cloud becomes a face. Jonathan Marshall uses this predisposition as a base upon which to explore his medium. The subject Read on…
Reviewed by: Elizabeth Foster
Venice Biennale
6 June 2007 to 11 November 2007
Cropping out of a darker recess of the Academia district of Venice is Callum Morton's ‘Valhalla'; a three-quarter scale model of the artist's former home which rests uneasily in the courtyard of the Palazzo Zenobio. The building Read on…
Reviewed by: Daniel Pryde-Jarman
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
6 June 2005 to 9 September 2007
The drawing topologies exhibition is both an investigation into the different areas of drawing and a means to purchase work for the Stedelijk’s permanent collection. There are two reasons why I found this exhibition pertinent; the division of Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
26 July – 21 October
When comparing the great mountains of the Scottish landscape with modern Scottish architecture, the former could represent freedom, the latter utility and restraint. In this exhibition Hartley questions this divide between the urban and rural Read on…
Reviewed by: Rosie Lesso
Distributed by Art Books International
This artist’s book by Stella Whalley documents her time spent in Tokyo and Kyoto during a residency in Japan. It is a “highly personal” publication that details her experience and understanding of aspects of Japanese culture, some Read on…
Reviewed by: Catherine Sadler
Guildhall and other venues, York
3-10 August
For a week in August, artists from the twin towns of York and Münster worked side by side and amongst finished work by other artists in York’s beautiful Guildhall. Each afternoon the public were invited in to meet artists, to discuss works Read on…
Reviewed by: Bryan Eccleshall
Jerwood Space, London
3 August – 8 September
‘Repetition and Sequence’ treads lightly on familiar territory, and many of the artists utilise pre-established artistic language to translate replication and sequence into a poetic aesthetic. The remit of the exhibition is one of resolute Read on…
Reviewed by: Will McCrory
Various venues, Peckham
6-12 August
A critic complained recently that too many contemporary sculptures “are not much more than theatre props”. But some of the best contemporary sculpture has more than a touch of the theatre prop about it. Some artists make actual props for Read on…
Reviewed by: David Lillington
Meantime, Cheltenham
25-26 August
“Thrift is the really romantic thing. Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.” G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World, 1910. Gavin McClafferty was the second resident artist at Meantime. Read on…
Reviewed by: James Fisher
White Cube
7 July 2005 to 9 September 2007
On entering Damien Ortega’s darkened exhibition space I found nine elf projectors. The 16 mm films were of bricks lined up like dominos and pushed over causing the next brick stood up on end to fall over and knock over the next until they had Read on…
Reviewed by: Lucinda Holmes
Arsenale, Venice Biennale
6 June 2007 to 11 November 2007
Outside the main Arsenale exhibition building in Venice stands a truck. Its colour is primarily a warm vivid red, approaching orange, but with yellow, also a warm version, bordering on ochre, used on the lower parts, on the bumper, around the Read on…
Reviewed by: Micheal O'Connell
doggerfisher
7 July 2007 to 9 September 2007
Conversations - Nathan Coley Coinciding with his current solo exhibition at Doggerfisher in Edinburgh Conversations with Nathan Coley on August 11th delivered a rare opportunity to hear the artist speak about his latest work. For the uninitiated Read on…
Reviewed by: Georgina Coburn
Serpentine Gallery
7 July 2007 to 9 September 2007
A friend came with me to the Serpentine in the rain today. He’s a gardener and he had an unexpected day off either because of the rain or despite it, I’m not sure which. They asked him to take off his wellingtons at the door and walk Read on…
Reviewed by: Tamarin Norwood
Palazzo Van Axel, Venice Biennale, Venice
5 June - 21 November 2007
Surveillance equipment comprises the main component of almost all of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's art work. The oldest piece on display at Mexico's debut show at the Venice Biennale is Surface Tension which was developed for an event in Read on…
Reviewed by: Micheal O'Connell
Arsenale, Venice Biennale
6 June 2007 to 11 November 2007
You'll notice Nedko Solakov's contribution to the current Venice Biennale. Like so much on display at this show the subject matter concerns political conflict. The difference with this piece, Discussion (Property), is that Read on…
Reviewed by: Micheal O'Connell
Bagism
8 August 2007 to 8 August 2007
Bold Street and Bagism.Written by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney.Photographs by Tony Knox.18 August 2007. On the close of the unveiling of the Transvoyeur Legacy 2007 art collection in the Emergency Department of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Read on…
Reviewed by: Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney
Arndt & Partner
7 July 2007 to 8 August 2007
Hedi Slimane is a different creature to most artists. He is one with a past we are already aware of, who has already lived a life as a well-known name. Slimane was head menswear designer at Dior, it is he we have to thank for skinny men in skinny Read on…
Reviewed by: Dan Green
Cornerhouse, Manchester
8 August 2007 to 8 August 2007
The Implicasphere project aims to explode and tangle the apparent simplicity of meaning of ordinary, concrete words like 'mice' and 'string' by exploring the associations that attach to them. Implicasphere's co-editors Cathy Read on…
Reviewed by: Jack Hutchinson
Edinburgh Printmakers
7 July 2007 to 9 September 2007
William Kentridge works with black and white: he draws in charcoal and makes etchings and lithographs. Through these media he explores the black and the white and all the shades of grey which compose our lives. William Kentridge has studied Read on…
Reviewed by: Andrea Kim Valdez
The Church of St Bartholomew the Great
7 July 2007 to 8 August 2007
Drawing lightning from the clouds: Mark Maxwell's Positive Negative + - at the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London The church of St. Bartholomew the Great is a formidable structure tucked away behind pubs and the Smithfields market, Read on…
Reviewed by: Rebecca Hawes
Flowers East
8 August 2007 to 8 August 2007
Considering this latest show at Flowers East is all about junk, consumer waste and rubbish, they’ve managed to keep the gallery space looking remarkably spick-n-span. Featuring work from both established and emerging artists, 'Says the Read on…
Reviewed by: Henry Carroll
ICA
7 July 2007 to 9 September 2007
I’ve been struggling with the Insider Art exhibition at the ICA because it’s hard to know how to frame it. The two hundred works in the show were selected from around 3,000 entries sent by open submission to the Koestler Trust this year Read on…
Reviewed by: Tamarin Norwood
