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Frieze 2012: A Tame Affair Despite Roast Vermin Feast
22nd October 2012 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The vermin-cooking chef grabbed the headlines before Frieze even started. Roast vermin - squirrel and Canada goose with a side of honey fungus - was cooked up by Moro chef Sam Clark and served to visitors at this year’s contemporary art fair in Regents Park in London.
The project marked the first time food featured as art at Frieze and was a collaboration between the Yangjiang Group collective from China and... -
Pipilotti Rist’s Eyeball Massage is pure delight
13th December 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
'Eyeball Massage' by Pipilotti Rist at the Hayward Gallery certainly lives up to its name and is pure delight. A feast for the senses.
The Swiss artist (who, as a teenager, changed her name from Elisabeth, inspired by Pippi Longstocking) is one of the pioneers of video art. Her videos are everywhere - placed inside open handbags and shells, on a chair projected into people's laps, in the leaves of a... -
Alois Nebel: Stunning Czech animation reflects on recent history
24th October 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Alois Nebel is a moody Czech rotoscope animation in black and white about a railway man haunted by his memories of the final stages of the Second World War. Adapted from the graphic novels of Jaroslav Rudiš and JaromĂr 99, Tomás Lunák's feature film debut is a sophisticated reflection on recent central European history. Visually, it is stunning, with some resemblance to German Expressionism.
Ever since Art Spiegelman's Maus tackled the... -
Credit-card shredding Frieze delights
14th October 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Fashion week is over - now it's art week. Frieze, one of the world's biggest contemporary art fairs, is in full swing after the celebrity-studded private view in London's Regent's Park on Wednesday night.
A number of other, smaller fairs and exhibitions have sprung up in Frieze week such as Sunday, in a basement warehouse off Baker Street, now in its second year.This year's Frieze art fair, the ninth so far,... -
Las Acacias: a delicate take on the road movie
6th October 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Las Acacias is a delicate take on the road movie with sparse dialogue where subtle glances and small gestures say it all.
The plot is simple: a middle-aged truck driver gives a young mother with her baby a lift from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. Ruben (played by German De Silva) drives a huge red truck loaded with timber, and agrees to take Jacinta (Hebe Duarte) along who hopes to find work... -
The Somnambulists tells haunting stories of soldiers in Iraq
6th October 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Richard Jobson's The Somnambulists, shot earlier this year, takes its inspiration from an eponymous 2008 exhibition of photographs by Joanna Kane in Edinburgh. At first glance the portraits seemed to depict a series of sleeping people, but turned out to be death masks. The film, which shows 15 British servicemen and women who served in Basra in Iraq telling their stories, creates a similar haunting impression.
Played by a cast of... -
Paul Graham’s Great British Road Trip
17th May 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The British photographer Paul Graham embarked on a long road trip in 1981. Twenty years after the publication of Robert Frank’s The Americans – which along with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road immortalised the Great American Road Trip – Graham started his journey in the City of London and followed the A1 for 400 miles through the industrial north and on to Edinburgh.
The route has been used since Roman times... -
You sexy beast: Sexual Nature show reveals all
4th May 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
You wouldn't necessarily expect to find out that ducks have a corkscrew penis or that snakes are endowed with a forked double-headed member while you're at the Natural History Museum. You're in for a surprise though: the venerable museum in South Kensington in London has put on a graphic show about animals' sexual habits, called Sexual Nature.
The exhibition is a celebration of sex in all its forms and doesn't shy... -
Nancy Spero’s Cri de Coeur at the Serpentine Gallery
14th March 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Nancy Spero’s retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery in London, the first since her death in 2009, is one giant protest or, to use her own words, cri de coeur – against violence, torture, war and male dominance. She defined a cri de coeur, the title of one series of drawings (absent from this show), as “almost like praying or pleading with heaven”.
The American artist was a well-known feminist, who once... -
Gabriel Orozco’s playful art at Tate Modern
24th February 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Entering the Gabriel Orozco show at Tate Modern, I smiled when I overheard people talking about "the box". The day before an article had appeared in the Guardian about the white empty shoebox that sits seemingly randomly in the middle of a gallery. The journalist had spent a whole day observing people's reactions to it. One visitor used it as a bin and someone else kicked it.
I couldn't help but...
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I've been a journalist for well over a decade. Three years ago I plunged into the unknown when I decided to quit my job at the Independent and do a fine arts degree (drawing at Camberwell). I never regretted it. I've just finished the course and now do lots of different things. Freelance journalism - I regularly write for the Guardian - web design, animation, art exhibitions...
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