Nothing is quite what it seems….illusionary, reflective and transparent shapes, mirrors, along with kinetic and geometric installations by over 20 artists from around the world including Anish Kapoor, Fred Sandback, Alicja Kwade and Felix Gonzalez Torres in ‘Shape Shifters’ with art from the last 50 years celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Brutalist architecture of […]
The Hayward Gallery opened 50 years ago in 1968. Its recent refurbishment by Feilden Clegg Bradley was so sensitive to the original building that visitors probably don’t even realise it happened, having kept the essential character of the brutalist concrete architecture intact, cleaned it up and restored blacked-out roof-lights to allow more (controlled) daylight into […]
The room is quiet, like a shrine. A small man ahead of you is praying. As you move forward into the room, you realise that the man is Adolf Hitler – is he praying for redemption for his sins, or for the courage to continue with his work?? In another room is a coffin; as […]
A Ford Focus on a rooftop suddenly starts up, the doors open, the the lights flash and the radio plays; a white piano suddenly starts playing; you fight your way to daylight through a room of white balloons and then fight back to the exit following the signs on the ceiling. Adrian Searle in the […]
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