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Gerhard Richer’s exhibition at Tate Modern: Panorama, rather than the communist manifesto. However, after looking at the blurred images, dragged paint, glass and mirrors you are left with a definite sense of everything melting if not actually into air.
First thoughts on exiting: everything is hazy, unfocused and smudged. It is as if Richter is uncommitted [...]
Panorama is now open at Tate Modern. Spanning his life’s achievement (so far), photo realism, abstract and chance. Can’t wait to get to see this.
Descibed on Newsnight’s Late Review last week as a painter’s painter, my immediate reaction to this is ‘Yes’. I’ve always admired his technique and ability to use photo-realism to make documentary-like [...]
Just back from the opening of Nottingham castle annual open. First and foremost, congratulations to everyone who got their work selected. From the point of view of someone whose application was unsuccessful, your all winners!
If you don’t know, the annual open is exactly that. Artists based in the Midlands are invited to submit their art [...]
Egerton Open Studio 17th October 2003
Egerton Studio Group artists Mark Selby, Paul Matosic, Paul Watson, Zenon Gradkowski, Liza Aspell, David Questa and Mik Godley amongst others, were at this Autumn’s Open Studio. Pictured (Left-To-Right): Paul M. Zenon and Paul Watson.
If you came to the Open Studio then you’ll know what was [...]
Just watching the review of the new exhibition on postmodernism. The co-curator (Jane Pavitt) emphasises the style and energy it had. In fact, style seems to have become the defining factor.
This is a far cry from It’s incarnation when I was at college. By then it was all about references to anything obscure, bordering on [...]
Came across an old Angel Row gallery leaflet which I’d kept after seeing Estelle Thompson’s fantastic 1999 stripey paintings.
The scale of these paintings works well and there is a definite sense of movement and need to change focus (if memory serves…)
All her work at: http://www.estellethompson.com/
Nice to see some shopping trolleys by the artist Ting-Tong Chang. What better icon for the debt-ridden, shopping-mad West
Mark Selby currently lives and works in Nottingham
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