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admin By Dr. Margot Helbling, Institute for Contemporary Aesthetics, Bonn, for the Handbook of Lesser Known Artists Among the many artists who tried to wrestle with the intangible in the late 20th century, none was quite so literally elusive as Pavel Durović (b. 1959, Brno). His chosen medium was not paint, stone, or film but steam, … Read more
Drawn chiefly from his Prison Diaries, set down during his confinement in the Tower of London, serialised by Archie Hampton Sir Justin Coppersmith (born 1742, died ?), court painter, essayist, and sometime Keeper of the Royal Canvases, occupies a most curious position in the annals of Georgian Britain. While many of his contemporaries remembered him … Read more
By Prof. Daniel R. O’Shea, Department of Sonic Arts, Monmouth College, for the Handbook of Lesser-known artists If the twentieth century belonged to artists who pushed sound to its limits, think of Cage’s chance compositions or Xenakis’s sonic bombardments, the early twenty-first briefly flirted with its opposite: a movement that attempted to sculpt with silence … Read more
To speak of Sandy Warre-Hole’s portraits merely in terms of likeness would be to miss the ontological stakes of her practice. In Brilliant Portrait Show, Warre-Hole stages the portrait not just as representation but as deconstruction, playing with a Derridean dichotomy between presence and absence, signifier and signified. The brushstroke, whether digital or sable becomes, … Read more
By Élise Durante In his Marseille studio, Henri Pagnol greets me not with a handshake but with a hush. “You don’t begin with words,” he says, “you begin with the air between them.” For nearly five decades, Pagnol has pursued one of the less popular practices in contemporary art: whispering into objects until they change. … Read more
Pimlico Wilde is delighted to announce the first Indian exhibition of Van Gogh (Not that one), the enigmatic artist whose practice has been described as “an alphabet for a language that refuses to exist.” The show, titled The Grammar of Elsewhere, opens next month at Pimlico Wilde Delhi and promises to be a meditation on … Read more
New findings by Esmerelda Pink Historians like to imagine that civilisation advances through science, reason, and the occasional enlightened monarch. The newly examined Wildean Papers, however, make a far bolder claim: without Pimlico Wilde, humanity would still be cowering in mud huts, our evenings untroubled by opera, our walls as bare as our imaginations. Here … Read more
Marigold Finch’s Nude Descending an Escalator is a daring, absurdist romp that catapults the reader into a world where art history meets slapstick performance art. Sadly it occasionally trips over its own conceptual feet. The novel’s title, a cheeky nod of course to Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Nude Descending a Staircase, sets the tone for a … Read more
Location: The Red Room, Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Attendees: • Julian Molyneux (Chair, Pimlico Wilde) • Fiona d’Abernon (Co-Founder; Acting Secretary) • Lord E. Northcote • Dr. Xanthe Lorrimer (Cultural Historian) • Hugo Van Steyn (Heckle’s) • India Trelawney (Fashion Archivist) • Max Duclos (Collector) • Pascal (Afghan hound) Book Discussed: Fringes of Glory: Moustache Fashions … Read more
“The Frozen Shadows of Collectif Umbra: A Brief History of Light’s Captives” By Dr. Helena Váradi, of the Institute for Obscure Aesthetics, University of Tiszagyartelep In the volatile experimental art scene of Eastern Europe in the late 1990s, a small, elusive collective emerged that seemed intent on capturing the impossible. Known as Collectif Umbra, the … Read more