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Jukhee Kwon: Being @ La Scatola
Treehuggers may well like this show in which paper from books is shredded line by line to form a copse of six or seven arboreal candidates for the sentient term Being. The pages now flow down from...
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Yoko Ono, HELMETS (2001/2012)
Visitors to the Yoko Ono show in London may well come away with a piece of debt to the redoubtable artist. To be precise that would be a jigsaw piece of debt. Early in her show at Serpentine hang some...
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If gardens are symbols of mankind’s dominion over the natural world, then fountains are the suggestion of a triumph over physics. That’s one in your face, gravity. Having said that, there is nothing...
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Tom Dale, Banquet of Sound (2012)
Democracy has, one assumes, been going downhill since the time of ancient Greece. And here are the ruins of the principle: twelve abandoned, jumbled and toppled lecterns. In the midst of their cluster...
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circa69, What was wood will be glass (2012)
This is not a simple work but it is easy to enjoy. It is easy to enjoy if your idea of fun is lying back in bed listening to breakbeats and watching a movie on the ceiling. The footage shows scrambled...
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Alex Bowen, This is How I Roll 24/7 (2012)
To give this work it’s full title: This is how I roll 24/7…Not Just On A Satrday Night in a Shit Basemnt (sic). And the shit basement in question was Brighton’s Grey Area. It was indeed Saturday night...
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Matthew Stone, Propaganda (2012)
This piece floats on a perilous sea of style mags; they buoy up a marble-effect plinth. Matthew Stone is not cool, he is stone cold. But these publications have more gravity than usual. Their covers...
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Richard Serra, The Matter of Time (1994-2005)
Photo: Elliot Levitt To some degree this is art for the feet. Serra’s eight sculptures invite you to walk them in sequence. In fact they demand it. How else will you get to see them? Thus it takes half...
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Joana Vasconcelos, Valkyrie Crown (2012)
Is it fair to say that a monarchist in Britain has an easier life? Certainly, they have a less paranoid one. They have got behind the head of church and state and can accept all that is bidden. It is,...
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Celebration? Realife, 1972-2000
Throwing a party, like making art, is one of those activities we can attend to when all of our most basic needs have been satisfied. Food, shelter, art – that is surely the order. But if we are to...
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Tom Dale, Department of the Interior (2012)
While there may be plenty of government departments in castles all around the world, we are lucky in Britain to broadly avoid that particular Kafkaesque motif. And yet the darkness of a homegrown...
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The finite charms of the Chapman brothers
Jake and Dinos Chapman,Installation view, Come and See, Serpentine Sackler Gallery,© 2013 Hugo Glendinning In a book you can be fairly sure the Chapmans have read, A Thirst for Annihilation,...
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Charlie Billingham, Port Tack (2013)
A market in ancient Greece is distinguishable from the art market, but by less than you might think. In both you find the free circulation of ideas along with goods and services. Like any auction...
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Photodiary: Whitstable Biennale 2014
Last Saturday I spent eight or so intense hours hot footing it around a coastal town in South East England in search of the many artworks which make up Whitstable Biennale. The coach dropped us at the...
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Photodiary: Franz West at The Hepworth Wakefield
This was my first visit to The Hepworth and I was blown away by a) the David Chipperfield building and b) the setting by the River Calder. Here’s a view from one to the other. We were here for the...
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Simon Lewandowski, 100 Things With Handles (2008)
When confronted with a work of contemporary art, it is common to look for a handle. But it is not always easy to get to grips with an abstract sculpture or an assemblage. You could go to the press...
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Alan Magee, Return to glory (2014)
Two disks grace the gallery. One sits on the floor. One hangs on the wall. Looking closer, their outer rims can be identified as hula hoops. But there will be no gyrating here today. Both hoops have...
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Wang Yuyang, Breathing Books (2014)
“I like the traditional Chinese philosophy,” says Wang Yuyang, “Because it talks about the relationship between 1 and 0, on and off, black and white, something and nothing…” You have to imagine that...
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Miquel Navarro, Wall City (1995-2000)
It is a quirk of perception that we read this as a city. On the face of it, most of Navarro’s work is comprised of regimented obelisks. So it’s not like any city you or I might live in. There’s no...
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Sophie Dickson, Shooting Range (pt 2) (2014)
At a point of maximal chaos, the objects in this sculpture hang together and you feel you could take your finger off the pause button and return this scene to order. The tableau is composed of ‘junk’,...
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