Thursday 19th October: Frieze Sculpture Park 2017

This year's Frieze Sculpture Park served as a perfect place for more of our "arts run" half marathon training!  Here are highlights including (top to bottom):  Takuro Kuwata, Kaws, Bernar Venet, Tony Cragg, Rasheed Araeen and Thomas J. Price.  All 25 contemporary artworks selected by Clare Lilley (Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park) are on display in Regents Park free for public viewing.

Friday 3rd February: Do Ho Suh: "Passage/s" at Victoria Miro

When you see press images of this show, its instantly very pleasing.  BUT wait till you go.  You have to go and see it in person and get up close.  
I might have now ruined it for you but I had to get detailed shots to explain what I mean.  I initially presumed that it was perspex but infact, it's intricate wire structures upholstered in pastel polyester mesh.  The finish is unbelievably fine with every twist and turn of cornercing and keyholes.  
Do Ho Suh has constructed accurate representations of all the spaces that have surrounded his life story to date.  This spans his birthplace of South Korea to his studies in New York in the States, then Berlin and latterly London.  Whilst you can walk around these multi-colour corridors upstairs, there are other sewn walls pressed and framed as 2D artworks in the main gallery.  Both are beautiful, exquisite and endearing.  Technically I loved it as I'm familiar with the process of trying to cut a pattern for a prop of real-life objects and its HARD.  
Irrespective of the impressive application of media, its just really calming and satisfying to visit.  There's something cosmic about a spectrum and this rainbow of rooms is really magic. 

"Passage/s" at Victoria Miro I & II till 18 March 2017

Tuesday 31st January: Ken Price A Survey of Sculptures and Drawings at Hauser & Wirth

Ken Price A Survey of Sculptures and Drawings at Hauser & Wirth

Wednesday 5th October: Niki de Saint Phalle in Stockholm

Just before the deluge of art from the Frieze Art Fair opening today, here are a couple of posts of recent shows that I have loved about Niki de Saint Phalle.  Here are shots from the sculpture garden of the Modern Art Museum from my trip to Stockholm.

Tuesday 20th October: Ugo Rondinone at Sadie Coles

Final day to catch "Clouds + Mountains + Waterfalls" by Ugo Rondinone at Sadie Coles til 21st October

62 Kingly Street, London W1

Saturday 19th Sept: Jenkin Van Zyl's "Working Title"

Watermelon and cabbage cocktails were the refreshments at Jenkin's private view of his show "Working Title" which used watermelons as a theme with the fruit's flesh pulped like blood.  The gallery was black lit like a sci-fi set with a post-apocalyptic fallout of fragmented props embedded in crumbling disarray.  But the disorder was actually highly divisive with his trademark prosthetic horns scaled up and included in the sculptures.  Synced films on screens were planted around the room showing a film of a hyperreal underworld, like a love child of a Paul McCarthy and Matthew Barney .  But that's only a loose reference to set the scene, you have to experience it for yourself to see the new unique "Sissy Sound Studio" by Jenkin Van Zyl.