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Study from the Human Body at Stephen Friedman Gallery
This new exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery aims, in its own terms, to pay homage both to Henry Moore and Francis Bacon and their own ‘Study of the Human Body’. This could appear as an aim that is both ambitious and likely to create a very scattered effect – between sculptural and painterly, the transformed body…
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Dale Chihuly: Beyond the Object at Halcyon Gallery
Glasswork possesses a fine reputation as a decorative art. Only last year, Musee Maillol in Paris was dedicating an exhibition to the famous venetian glassworks of Venice, particularly those of Murano. The appeal of these delicate glass ornaments blown into different shapes, marbled and coloured brighly could almost appear to us as candied rock –…
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Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen at GRAD
Movie posters are everywhere: on the sides of buses, as you wait at the bus stop, on huge billboards that loom over the street, a fleeting image in the Underground as you rush past to catch your train on time without resisting the urge to take a look. Even in the era of pervasive preview trailers…
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The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee – Making Visible at the Tate Modern
Klee encompasses all that we expect of the modern artist. Starting his career at the turn of the century, caught between one war and the foreshadowing of another, the exploration of form mingled with ideology and political tension, the research for the transcendance of colour beyond personal struggles. All too often however, despite Klee’s formal…