It’s always difficult to show photography in modern ‘white cube’ art galleries, but Hawser & Wirth have shown how to do it with works from one of the masters of 20th century German photography (if not the actual master) by using over-size images from August Sander. Sander is a hero of his age, photographing everyday […]
By happy coincidence, running in parallel with exhibition of 20th century German art at the Ben Brown gallery in London, is an exhibition of work by the German artist Ernst Wilhelm May (1902-1968), who for some reason is not well-known in the UK, showing how his work changed and transformed over his 40-year career from […]
The front of Claridges Hotel is all decorated for Christmas. At the rear, in Brook’s Mews, construction hoardings, workers and lorries suggest building works are going on. Further down are two galleries, Maddox on the left and Ben Brown on the right. Enter Ben Brown and go down the steps and you enter almost a […]
The German artist Paul Schwer (b.1951) has his first solo show in London in the gallery at Pi Artworks, where even the floor is painted white to create a full three dimensional canvas for art installations. Schwer has created installations in a number of German cities, not without controversy. His artwork “Home” which hung over […]
Born in three different decades, Heinz Mack (born 1931) and Isa Genzken (born 1948) both developed their artistic careers in the period after the Second World War while Thomas Schütte (born 1954) is from a more contemporary generation. Work from the three artists has been on display in exhibitions in London and Manchester which illustrate […]
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