Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope at Tate Modern, London, is a brief but powerful overview of the Polish artist’s category-defying woven sculptures known as Abakans, which she created in the 1960s and 70s. Made of thread and rope, their large-scale appearance envelops the viewer in a powerful forest of entities in theContinue reading “REVIEW | Magdalena Abakanowicz – Tate Modern, London”
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REVIEW | The EY Exhibition: Cezanne – Tate Modern, London
The EY Exhibition: Cezanne at Tate Modern, London, is practically a flawless presentation of the artist’s best landscapes, nudes, portraits, and still lifes. It’s impossible to overstate the outstanding quality of work exhibited and the excellent groupings of related pieces. Impressively, the show manages to highlight the materiality of Cezanne’s oil paintings and watercolours. DueContinue reading “REVIEW | The EY Exhibition: Cezanne – Tate Modern, London”
Top 5 London Art Exhibitions 2017: A Personal Selection
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! As festive cheer spreads throughout the country, let’s look at some of the best exhibitions this year. Below are my top 5 exhibitions of 2017 in London, in addition to some special honourable mentions:
“Colour and I are one. I am a painter” – Paul Klee retrospective at Tate
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. The above is the opening sentence to Paul Klee’s Creative Confessions, a critical text written in 1920 that reflects on the artist’s thinking and creative processes. He sees the visual piece as a record of movement, a journey through unploughed fields, rivers, fog, a “flashContinue reading ““Colour and I are one. I am a painter” – Paul Klee retrospective at Tate”
Nigel Ip | Visual Arts Writer & Art Historian 