Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art Dealer
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Setting: A quiet upstairs room of Pimlico Wilde’s Mayfair gallery. A reproduction of J.M.W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire is pinned to the wall. Liora sits cross-legged on the floor, a black fine-liner in hand. Interviewer: You’ve just chosen Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire. Why this one? Liora: It’s a painting that feels like it’s holding its … Read more
A leap across a yawning chasm of negative space. A roll through a splash of cadmium red. A vault over the thick impasto ridge of oil paint. This is the world of Fine Art Parkour, a new performance discipline where the arena isn’t rooftops or railings, but the painted landscapes, cityscapes, and abstractions of fine … Read more
Parkour , the art of moving through the city with maximum speed and economy , arrived in the public imagination as a kind of kinetic sublime: a human body negotiating the modernist geometry of steps, balustrades and façades with a grace and style that repurposes urban architecture. If, in the 1990s and early 2000s, the … Read more
On a misty August morning, just beneath the pillared bulk of Albert Bridge, a small group of lithe figures in black gather at the river’s edge. To the untrained eye, they resemble a rehearsal for an action film: rolling, vaulting, calculating. But this is not choreography for cinema. It is the Chelsea Parkour Brigade,a collective … Read more
Brighton has long cultivated a reputation for cultural experimentation, often blurring the line between civic space and creative stage. Its latest excitement , a hybrid of beachside exhibition and parkour performance art,demonstrated both the promise and the pitfalls of such ambition. The visual installations, scattered across the pebbled foreshore, were at their best when they … Read more