ARTS & CULTURE
Originally published on Friday, 27 February 2009
Lights, Camera, Abstraction
The freshest handpicked art picks, gossip, and private views, selected by UJ just for you.
This week, two heavyweight German painters return to our fair city, whilst artists old and new project, install and sculpt the light fantastic.
Forthcoming
White Light / White Heat
An impressive gaggle of twentieth century artists map the historical transition from expressionism to cool conceptualism. From Pollock’s gleeful abandon to Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s mutable mass of light bulbs, you can almost hear the jingle jangle of noisy improvisation bouncing between the walls.
February 27 –March 28, Hauser & Wirth , Old Bond Street, W1S 4AX
Catch ‘em whilst they’re hot:
Georg Baselitz: Mrs Lenin and the Nightingale
Make like Ronnie Wood (spotted at the opening night), and partake in an inverted face-off with one of Baselitz’s sixteen large-scale canvases based on a constructed photograph of Joseph Stalin and Lenin in a fictitious meeting. Quasi-pointillist daubs and fat swathes of polychromatic paint rule the surface.
Until 31 March, White Cube, Masons Yard, SW1Y 6BU
Catch ‘em whilst they’re hot:
Peter Coffin
In his largest installation in the UK, this New York artist nails illusion. His projection of a 360 degree aerial view of beauteous Japanese gardens along the gallery’s 90 metre curved wall, paired with eerily shaped sculptures and a whistling soundtrack, certainly whisk you off to somewhere a bit special.
Until 10 May, Barbican Curve Gallery, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Private Views:
Hot artists and a free drink or three
Pop along to tonight’s book launch and accompanying exhibition for Ian Sinclair’s latest Hacnkey-centric literary offering; then spend next Thursday sipping on some politely poured wine for Keren Cytter’s sharp exploration of familial everyday life.
Friday, February 27, 6-9pm. Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Danielle Arnaud , 123 Kennington Road, SE11 6SF
Thursday, March 5, 6-8pm. Keren Cytter: Domestics
Pilar Corrias, 54 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EF
