What k-punk is undeniably clear about is Fisher’s stand against today’s anti-intellectualism. It places him as a thinker and writer whose work – varied and prodigious – will continue to have relevance as long as there is any doubt that we should function in solidarity.
Excerpt: “We have moved from a philosophical exploration of space to, in the mid-twentieth century, an exploration of ‘outer’ space. Even in its titling, the space race apparently pushed our understanding of this particular ontology of space to its limits. Furthermore, we have managed to reconfigure what this word means in the digital, especially to […]Read Post ›
In April, New York gallery Postmasters announced it had joined online funding site Patreon. Online patrons can opt to donate anywhere from $3 – $500 a month to support Postermasters’s work. Gallery founder and director Magda Sawon explains this latest ‘balancing act’. The interview was featured int eh Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Sluice Magazine, which […]Read Post ›
Read the full review here: Art Monthly 412 page 26
Houses are really bodies: escape, defiance and friendship in the writing of Leonora Carrington Cubitt Gallery 28 April – 4 June 2017 Review by Jack Smurthwaite In the contemporary, the idea of ‘sanctuary’ is an interesting one. Helen Nisbet’s use of the word when describing ‘Houses are really bodies’, her debut installation as Cubitt’s […]Read Post ›
David Ferrando Giraut’s recent works weave a neon path through progressive economic theories and 17,000 years of image-making, arriving at the present day clad in Louboutin and dripping in gold. ‘The Accursed Stare’ exhibition is a display in two acts: 2013’s ‘CATOPTROPHILIA’ and a new 35-minute digital animation piece, the eponymous ‘The Accursed Stare’ (2017). […]Read Post ›
Paintings by Biggs and Collings are never quite as straightforward as they seem. Their body of work references such diverse topics as pre-modern color organization, chance footprints in sand, industrialized cityscapes, and religious iconography. Now, with “They Shall be Male and Female,” at Vigo Gallery in London, the husband and wife strike upon the prismatic properties […]Read Post ›
I made this GIF when I was bored, hoping there would be space and scope to include it in a presentation I gave, but alas, I do not think it would have been appreciated….so I have just left it here. If you can’t tell, it is a combination of a Francis Bacon painting and a […]Read Post ›
“I wanted these works to be detached from me,” Robel Temesgen said of his latest exhibition at London’s Tiwani Contemporary. Luckily for us, he has succeeded, and in doing so shows something much bigger than himself. Following a celebrated and distinguished video and participatory practice, the young Temesgen (born 1987) has returned to his formal […]Read Post ›
“Visual language” is often overused merely as a synonym for mark-making. London-based artist Milla Eastwood, however, has succeeded in sculpting a distinct voice for herself amongst a growing crowd of gestural, abstract painters. “Drunk on Colour” at The Dot Project not only tramples the well-worn path between sensation and painterly action, but communicates this […]Read Post ›
