Tag Archives: Paul Black
The Axiomatic Figure and the Subjective Self
Adrian Ghenie’s exhibition “Golems,” at the Pace Gallery, London, is a collection of the Romanian painter’s new figurative works. These are paintings in oil on traditional linen; in fact there are many elements to the artist’s works that reference the history of European painting, yet with the contemporary addition of juxtaposing Ghenie’s paintings with installation. […]
Richard Hamilton: Grandfather of Brit Art
Richard Hamilton is a truly influential figure in the history of British art and is considered to be the founder of the Pop Art movement. This retrospective is a collaboration between Tate Modern and the ICA, and covers the eclectic career of a very important British artist who wanted to get “all of living” into […]
Hannah Höch at Whitechapel Gallery
Hannah Höch was a pioneer Dadaist of 1920’s Berlin. Somewhat forgotten, or at least pigeon-holed by art history; she was a social provocateur who clashed with the Nazis and was found guilty of Entartete Kunst (degenerate art). The exhibition is a survey of the artist’s works on paper and is the first major exhibition of Höch’s […]
Jake and Dinos Chapman At Serpentine Sackler Gallery
“We are sore-eyed scopophiliac oxymorons … disenfranchised aristocrats, under siege from our feudal heritage … our bread is buttered on both sides …” this was stenciled on the gallery wall as the artists introduction to the world over twenty years ago—fledglings from the nest of Gilbert & George, having once been their art technicians—yet arriving […]
ICA London: The Bloomberg New Contemporaries
The Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the ICA, London, is the oldest of the graduate survey exhibitions having been originally founded in 1949, and is considered an authoritative view of emerging talent, with a wealth of established artists having participated; from Hockney to Kapoor. The ICA is showcasing 46 artists in the exhibition for the fourth […]
Rebuilding Subliminal Models: the work of Malcolm Morley
Malcolm Morley’s paintings share a connection with Pop Art—but he isn’t a Pop Artist. He created his work using methods similar to the Photorealists—but he isn’t one of those either. The artist just does not fit into any one particular genealogy; this connection to Photorealism, or Superrealism—as he named it—was discarded by the artist in […]
Flesh And Bone: Francis Bacon And Henry Moore
Flesh and Bone pits a happily married establishment figure and Royal College of Art tutor, against a self-taught sadomasochistic gambler with a fondness for alcohol and the sleek underbelly of Soho. It is difficult not to see this exhibition as a competition of interests and the interesting; the very personalities of both artists are quite evident—one only needs […]
Paul Black talks Voyeurism and Mortality with Justin Mortimer
Justin Mortimer’s paintings reverberate with a fore-knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post-God mortality. For both twentieth century artists, a delicious glut of adjectives are to be found, as there are when […]
