Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art
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admin On the 422nd floor of a glass tower in Hong Kong’s Central district, the elevator doors open not into an office, but into a gallery of faces,glossy, pixelated, larger than life. Neon portraits shift on LED panels, looping between celebrity, anonymity, and pure digital distortion. This is the private collection of Jordan Ellery, financier by … Read more
The notion that Shakespeare, the playwright of Stratford, might owe a debt to Caravaggio, the painter of Lombardy, may at first appear unlikely. After all, they worked in different media, in different nations, and with no documented encounter between them. Yet when one looks not to biography but to the imaginative grammar they forged,an art … Read more
Art history has long been governed by what it chooses to see. From Vasari onward, scholarship has privileged the central figure, the illuminated surface, the human form bathed in clarity. Yet an attentive eye reveals that the real innovation of the Renaissance was not the heroic body, but the space that surrounded it,the shadowed margins, … Read more
★★☆☆☆ (2/5) There is no question that Mara Luyten’s Ashes of Meridian aspires to the heights of Antonioni and Tarkovsky. Its stately long takes, sepulchral silences, and ostentatious framing are clearly intended to place it within the canon of austere European modernism. The problem is not ambition, but execution: for all its grandeur, the film … Read more
I love art of almost all kinds, but there is one type that continually leaves me horrified rather than inspired. That is hand-painted cars. While hand-rendered visual art is celebrated in galleries, murals, and domestic decoration, its application to automobiles often provokes, for me at least, discomfort, even disgust. Why is this? Arthur Danto (1981) … Read more
Few English cities wear their cultural identity quite so conspicuously as Brighton. To step from the station down the hill towards the sea is to enter a theatre of self-performance: a place where architecture, subculture and commerce intermingle with a kind of knowing theatricality. Brighton does not merely host culture; it stages itself as culture. … Read more
I have stood before Rothkos in many cities,New York, London, Tokyo, Basel. I have wept at the Seagram Murals at Tate, felt the heat of the Chapel in Houston, and endured more than one insufferable dinner party where someone declared Rothko “just wallpaper for rich people.” But I have never, never, seen a Rothko breathe … Read more
by James Calder, Pimlico Wilde I have read with admiration, and no small amount of sympathy, the Pre-Abstractionist Manifesto. One cannot deny its force, nor its passion. The authors write with the urgency of those who feel their medium has lost its way, and in this, they join a long and noble tradition. Every century, … Read more
by ex St David’s Second Eleven Opening Bat Charnel Kookaburra “Cricket is the finest training for disappointment ever devised” One enters the ground (never a stadium) as one might enter a cathedral. The light falls obliquely, as it always has on village greens wherever Englishmen congregate; the smell is linseed oil, old leather, and rain. … Read more
By Dr. Serena Chalmers I have been involved in Pimlico Wilde’s experimental theatre productions for over a decade, from the infamous Hamlet on Rollerblades (which was, for the record, not a “car crash on polyurethane”) to our haunting Othello: The Mime, which was misunderstood both in its time and today. But nothing could have prepared … Read more