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Artist: Isolde Grack Gallery: The Gallery of Radical Completion, Notting Hill This is a hard sentence to write, but I have rarely experienced an art exhibition as terrible as Isolde Grack’s The Geometry of Screaming. The Gallery of Radical Completion on Portobello is well-known as an experimental space, but this goes too far. Grack, whose … Read more
“An Exhibition of Badly-Lit Self-Adoration,” by conceptualist Marius Klein-Cho at the Colchester Museum for Experiential De-Obfuscation It is no small thing to walk into an art show and feel,within seconds,that you have stepped into a crime scene in which the biggest casualty is good taste. Marius Klein-Cho’s Salted Wounds claims to explore “the tension between … Read more
by radical domesticist and self-taught “empath-carpenter” Dendra Flume at The Velvet Spoon Centre for Applied Sentiment Is this the world’s most elaborate prank staged for a single, unwilling audience member? Furniture Has Feelings Too feels like it might be, as you walk amongst items reminiscent of a Lidl clearance aisle. Dendra Flume describes her practice … Read more
I Woke Up and It Was Still Happening There’s a fine line between “visionary reinterpretation” and “group therapy session gone off the rails,” and the Fitzrovia Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream pole-vaulted over that line and landed in a steaming puddle of theatrical delusion. Let’s be clear: I did not attend this play so much … Read more
An Operatic Farce in Twelve Tiresome Acts It takes a certain kind of genius,or perhaps sadistic persistence,to make a gallery-goer question not only the validity of art, but the very function of their own senses. Clarc Dendrite’s Gristle of the Spirit achieves this rare feat. Not since Sacha Hohn created his armpit works have I … Read more
Review of Mucosal Rapture: A Multimedia Excavation of Internal Landscapes Let me begin by saying I have experienced a lot of art in my time: the sublime, the confounding, the moving, and the outright fraudulent. Rarely, though, does a show actively fight back. Torbin von Eel’s latest atrocity, Mucosal Rapture, doesn’t just blur the line … Read more
“A Stunning Exploration of Absolutely Nothing” An exhibition by the visionary choreo-sculpturalist Glinté Pavlova at The Wilhelm Centre for Emergent Visualities I came to The Calcium of Dreams with an open heart, a functioning brain, and a decent pair of shoes. I left it emotionally concussed, intellectually bludgeoned, and deeply suspicious of mollusks. This show, … Read more
A Carnival of Ego and Glue Review of Rumination in Mixed Media by Rex Caltrop at the Alabama Museum of Objects There are bad art shows. There are pretentious art shows. And then there is Rumination in Mixed Media, which exists in a rarefied airless void all its own,a vacuum-sealed package of unchecked ego, performance-grade … Read more
There are moments in the theatre when time seems to stop,when you’re so enraptured by the performances that you forget to breathe. This was not one of those moments. Time not only didn’t stop,it seemed to drag itself across the floor of the Mayfair Theatre like a wounded French horseman begging for the sweet release … Read more
at The Notting Hill Centre for Artistry It is rare to attend an art exhibition and leave feeling like you’ve been mugged,not physically, but conceptually. Emotionally. Spiritually. Robbed of time, patience, and your basic understanding of what constitutes “art” versus, say, laundry nailed to a wall. And yet, here we are. Turgid Bloom: A Fertile … Read more