The swans happily paddle around it and the herons are keeping a watchful eye, but the boaters are having more difficulty with the 7,506 oil drums that have been coloured and piled up to create The London Mastaba, Christo’s first major sculptural installation in the UK which appears almost surreal as it floats in the […]
In 2013, the Serpentine Pavilion was designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto like a cloud floating above the grass. Now he is back, not far away, with the inaugural exhibition in Japan House, ‘Sou Fujimoto: Futures of the Future’, which shows models for some of his designs such as the Serpentine Pavilion, the Beton […]
As high streets up and down the country seek to reinvent themselves to respond to the new dynamics which threaten the old ways of doing things, Japan House is a welcome new addition to Kensington High Street. Built in the 1930’s as Derry & Tom’s Department store at the same time as its neighbour Barkers, […]
I have attended special services and concerts in St Mary Abbot’s Church in Kensington – indeed I once unknowingly sat in a pew behind Madonna and Guy Ritchie - but I have never have had the opportunity for a quiet exploration of the church, so I made the best of a little spare time while […]
American artist Sarah Sze, though in a different way to Carlos Garaicoa, whose exhibition has been next door at Parasol Unit, also considers the links between decay in the physical world to change in society in her exhibition ‘Paints a Picture’. While outside in the garden all is calm, with a hammock in which to […]
What is left when a building decays and crumbles into a ruin as the roof falls in and then the floors? The strong stone walls may remain for a while, with the windows smashed, providing glimpses from the street into the roofless ruin and to the blue skies beyond. When the walls go, what remains? […]
This is an exhibition which should have been held in Tate Modern, so well done to Phillips for holding such a major exhibition of the work of the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez in London. While it is a selling exhibition, it provides an excellent overview of his coloured geometrical work, sometimes 2-dimensional, often 3-dimensional and […]
It is good to see Cuban art gaining the reputation it deserves with an increasing number of exhibitions in London. Most notable was the retrospective at Tate Modern on Wilfredo Lam in 2017 while this summer there have been exhibitions of the work of Carlos Garaicoa at the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art and […]
What do you do if you have an art gallery in London during the relatively quiet summer period, where the serious collectors are off on their yachts to the Mediterranean? Some galleries just shut up shop and give their staff a well-earned break, Sotheby’s auction house in Old Bond Street has the decorators in, […]
Having been popping up in different locations in Soho and Covent Garden, Unit London has at last settled down in its new home at 3 Hanover Square. Their new space sets the aesthetics of a contemporary gallery space, especially the highly polished concrete floor finish on the ground floor, against quirky features of the existing […]
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