Visibility Is a Compromise: A Conversation with R. Sallow; Proponent of Invisibilism at its Most Cutting Edge

By Miley Merrot I meet R. Sallow in a café that he insists is not the café we are sitting in. This, he explains gently, is already part of the work. Sallow is among the younger generation of Invisibilism artists, though ‘younger’ here refers less to age than to degree of withdrawal. His recent exhibition, … Read more

The Discerning Eye of Absence: On the Collectors of Invisibilism

By Martin Elswyth, Curator Emeritus at Berkeley Centre for the Arts, Ravenscroft In the long arc of art history, cutting-edge artists have needed collectors to join them in the avant-garde. The Medici did not simply acquire pigment and panel; they purchased the future. Peggy Guggenheim did not merely accumulate canvases; she staged modernism’s coming-out party. … Read more

Power at the Periphery: Turbulence at Pimlico Wilde?

In the well-lit corridors of Pimlico Wilde, that sharp dealer-gallery that has been taking over the world, something quietly baroque has been unfolding. Known for its precision curation and its increasingly opaque roster of conceptual heavyweights, the gallery now finds itself in the midst of an internal realignment. Not quite a mutiny, not quite a … Read more