Amongst the infinite treasures of the Louvre, there is something very satisfying about seeing a small exhibition contained within two rooms. Imaginaire d’Arioste – Arioste imaginé, or in its English translation The Imaginative World of Ariosto, presents a selection of graphic works from the oft-overlooked Prints and Drawings department, with some additions from the Gustave [...]
It’s worth going to the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson just to loll about in the upstairs deck of this clean-lined building. When they put on a great exhibition, you really have no excuse.
The photographs in Jo’burg (2004) and Avenue Patrice Lumumba (2008), two projects by contemporary South African photographer, Guy Tillim, are simultaneously inhabited and decaying. [...]
Ulla von Brandenburg’s solo exhibition at the Plateau is steeped in theatricality and mystery. Entering through coloured curtains, which almost seem to divide the outside world from the performance space of the exhibition, you find yourself face to face with Around (Film, 16mm, 2005). This film shows a small group of people, seen from behind, [...]
Uhambo, “journey” in Xhosa, one of the languags of Hlobo’s native South Africa is the latest exhibition in Tate Modern’s Level 2 Gallery. Situated on the second floor by the river entrance, this relatively small space is separate from the other galleries giving it a feeling of self-containment. In this exhibition the space is dominated [...]
The idea behind Gakona promises more than exhibition delivers. The show presents the work Micol Assaël, Ceal Floyer, Laurent Grasso and Roman Signer in four “solo exhibitions”. There are impressive moments, notably Roman Signer’s Parapluie, an industrial-looking piece of machinery that creates a fulgent and piercing bolt of lightening between the tips of two umbrellas.
Roman [...]