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Visual Arts Reviews Brought To You By The Arts Desk – Exhibitions At The London Galleries
A variety of things were on offer at the many London galleries this week. The Arts Desk found that photography featured heavily, as well as a range of art installations and a bit of manga thrown in for good measure.
In the visual arts world this week, Rich Hardcastle, the photographer credited for first photographing comedians like rock stars was interviewed by The Arts Desk. He discussed what drew him to comedians in the first place and talks us through the individual portraits of comics such as Stephen Fry, Tim Minchin and Ricky Gervais.
Photographs by the late fashion photographer Corinne Day, who died in 2010 from a brain tumour, were also put together in a picture gallery this week. Currently on display at the Gimpel Fils Gallery, the photographs in the ‘Corinne Day: The Face’ exhibition show the super-cool attitude that characterised Day’s work, as well as the surprisingly innocent and ordinary quality of playful holiday snaps.
An unimpressive visual arts installation and Artangel project ‘Locked Room Scenario’ was by Ryan Gandy. The Londonewcastle Depot in Hoxton was home to the exhibition, away from the main London galleries, and it was up to the viewer to pick up on the clues and discern some kind of meaning from the enigmatic things they find scattered throughout the building. The project lacked any real sense of foreboding or unease and was not a success.
The more successful installation show this week was Phyllida Barlow’s, entitled ‘RIG’, at Hauser & Wirth. Barlow’s style of scultpure is that of amusingly slapdash DIY with ordinary building materials being her material of choice. From tree-like stilts stuck in cement blobs to cardboard boxes crushed under concrete, her work explores notions of ugliness and artistic failure.
The two men behind the new dance show ‘TeZuKa’ at Sadler’s Wells Theatre met up with The Arts Desk to discuss the inspiration behind the show. Cherkaoui comments on the images that provided the visual starting points for the show, while Sawhney talks about his boyhood love for Marvel comics.
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