Serpentine Gallery – Guiseppe Penone and Arpinta Singh exhibitions
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/giuseppe-penone-thoughts-in-the-roots https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/arpita-singh-remembering Our tour featured a captivating visit to the Serpentine Gallery, exploring the works of Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone and Indian painter Arpita Singh. We admired Penone’s beautiful sculptures, wall drawings, and installations, reflecting on the increasing relevance of his focus on observing and preserving nature. Singh’s paintings offered a rich dialogue between Hindu […]
Discussion around Hiroshige’s exhibition at the British Museum
British Museumbritishmuseum.org exhibitions/hiroshige-artist-open-road In connection with the exhibition at the British Museum, we explored the significance of Hiroshige, the 19th-century Japanese master of prints. Our discussion covered the cultural and historical context of the Edo period in which he worked, how he revolutionised printmaking, and his profound influence on Post-Impressionist artists such as Van Gogh […]
Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/rachel-jones-gated-canyons We discussed Rachel Jones’s exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gated Canyons. Jones creates bold, visually striking paintings using oil stick and pastel on unstretched linen, employing vibrant colours and gestural mark-making that provoke instinctive emotional responses. Her starting point for the new works was a 17th-century Flemish painting, Pieter Boel’s Head of a Hound. A central […]
A discussion about Corps et Âmes & Celeste Boursier Mougenot at the Bourse de Commerce
https://www.pinaultcollection.com/fr/boursedecommerce/celeste-boursier-mougenot https://www.pinaultcollection.com/fr/boursedecommerce/corps-et-ames Corps et Âmes brings together around one hundred works by approximately forty artists from the Pinault Collection to explore the body in contemporary art across a range of media—painting, sculpture, photography, video, and drawing. This exhibition does not simply depict the body—it examines it as a living metaphor, a site where soul, memory, identity, […]
Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection at the Courtauld Institute
What’s it worth? European Art at the Persian Courtcourtauld.ac.uk/whats- on/exh-goya-to-impressionism-masterpieces-from-the-oskar-reinhart-collection/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22574605115&gbraid=0AAAAABR1LxA1Tw5ae7m2AvjpNZk2nYEF_&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5JXFBhCrARIsAL1ckPt-0KfRk7gYxiN-yFMJ3MXmPHrgcC6cohDJtVlPzJFqJiyIzpAD3wEaAvOiEALw_wcB We discussed the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition, Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection—a rare and beautifully intimate display of 25 nineteenth-century European artworks brought from Winterthur’s Am Römerholz, many of which were shown in the UK for the first time. The show began with […]
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/astonishing-things We discussed Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, an exhibition at the Royal Academy, which revealed a lesser-known facet of the celebrated writer—his visionary work as a visual artist. The exhibition brought together around 70 drawings, showcasing Hugo’s remarkable ability to move seamlessly between literature and visual art with extraordinary imagination and emotional intensity. […]
Gallery tour in Paris
Exclusive meeting with German photographer Elger Esser on the occasion of his exhibition at Flowers Gallery, London
https://www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/605-elger-esser-sky-and-sand We discussed on Esser’s ambition to create “timeless photographs—ones that can age well, far from being datable” and how he shapes images that feel suspended in time, hovering between past and present. Through his use of silver‑plated copper plates and Diasec mounting techniques, Esser blends historical photographic processes with modern innovation, resulting in works […]
Discussion around Grayson Perry’s exhibition at the Wallace Collection
https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/grayson-perry-delusions-of-grandeur Our discussion delved into Grayson Perry’s Delusions of Grandeur at the Wallace Collection, where the British artist engaged in a playful dialogue with the museum’s masterpieces.Perry introduced a fictional persona, Shirley Smith—an outsider artist from East London who claimed to be the rightful heiress to the Wallace Collection. Through this imagined genealogical lens, we […]
Gallery tour in London
We visited a few galleries among others David Zwirner which was exhibiting the celebrated German painter Gerhard Richter. Our discussion circled around how Richter’s exhibition at David Zwirner (January–March 2024) unfolds as a masterclass in artistic reinvention: it showcases three of his last grand abstract oil paintings (circa 2015), alongside an expansive suite of newly […]