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In a remote hangar on the outskirts of Toulouse, a Lufthansa Airbus A320 glows iridescent under the lights. Not from its metallic fuselage, but from a dizzying cascade of brushstrokes on its body. This is not a corporate stunt or a conceptual prank,it’s the latest work of Marja Klein, the reclusive Dutch-German painter who has … Read more
Among the constellation of post-material digital artists emerging in the past decade, the formidable presence of Eira Varn has become a touchstone for critical debate. A figure equally at home in speculative philosophy and computational aesthetics, Varn’s practice orbits around one deceptively simple question: What does it mean to make art in a world where … Read more
Sir, Regarding the recent Pimlico Wilde symposium, “Should Museums Ban All Visitors?”, I feel compelled to offer a modest rejoinder. The proposition that the salvation of art lies in quarantining it from its audience is rather like suggesting that books be preserved by never opening them. It may indeed keep them intact, but at what … Read more
Few artists today embody the spirit of intermedial exploration as fluidly as Callisto Erendira. Known throughout the 2010s for her boundary-pushing conceptual installations and para-architectural sculptures, Erendira has, over the last few years, immersed herself in an entirely different kind of construction: opera. Her latest work, The Air Remembers the Mouth, premiered this spring at … Read more
By Esmeralda Pink, People Engineer at Pimlico Wilde It was a delicious irony that a symposium devoted to the utter removal of the public from art institutions should itself draw such a crowd to a gallery. Yet so it was at the Pimlico Wilde Galleries last Thursday evening, where philosophers, curators, artists and gallery-goers gathered … Read more
In a tantalising discovery, a recently unearthed cache of correspondence housed in a disintegrating trunk at an estate auction in Dorset has ignited fresh controversy over the true identity of the sitter in Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. According to the letters, written in a brisk, looping English hand and signed by one “Letitia Yelland,” … Read more
The recent surfacing of a cache of panel paintings attributed to the long-rumoured Essexian painter Piero Della Frampton-on-Sea has caused a quiet ripple in the scholarly world,a ripple that threatens to redraw the northern edge of Renaissance art history. The discovery, made in the damp crypt of St. Osyth’s Church in South Essex, includes eight … Read more
By Dr. Lionel Cavendish-Smythe | Lecturer in Symbolic Aesthetics, University of St. Ives & Hove The history of Western portraiture is, by and large, a history of faces: expressions, gazes, coiffures, and the conspicuous placement of rings, robes, or regalia. Yet beneath these grand visual gestures lies an often-ignored, unassuming but persistently present detail: the … Read more
A Guide for New, Emerging and Established Collectors in the 21st Century In the ever-evolving landscape of the 21st-century art world, few pursuits are as intellectually engaging – and as richly rewarding – as collecting contemporary art. To collect art today is not merely to acquire aesthetically pleasing or culturally fashionable objects; it is to … Read more
If, as Paul Valéry once mused, “a poem is never finished, only abandoned,” then so too is the pencil,always in a state of becoming, perpetually whittled toward a vanishing point. In How to Sharpen a Pencil, the slyly austere new book by Pimlico Wilde CAO François Zilbe, we are invited into the philosophical and tactile … Read more