Category: Reviews
Frieze and Quiet
Frieze Masters and Frieze London are a fifteen-minute walk and a world apart. While the former is a wonderland of art, constructed by the great master [...]
Courbet to GudRung
Inspired by the realism of the 19th century and the works of Da Vinci and Rodin, Hasan’s current body of work pays homage to western Old Masters such [...]
Book Review: Ruins (Documents of Contemporary Art)
Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) is a languorous ode to ruination. A couple of eternal lovers have outlived generations of men and their g [...]
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Canvas Gallery recently held an exhibition of four gifted painters whose works came together to signify a number of pertinent ideas. Titled ‘Till Huma [...]
Monochrome
Things don’t have to be extraordinary to be beautiful; ordinary can be just as striking. If you ask me, making familiar images exciting is the real ch [...]
Painfully Beautiful or Beautifully Painful
"Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of [...]
Paracosm ll
For many artists and writers whose own lives were insular, sequestered, lived out behind oak-panelled walls, the creation of paracosms must have been [...]
Imran Qureshi: Idea of Landscape
Stepping into Imran Qureshi’s 'Idea of Landscape' at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, is akin to stepping into a glowing mirage of colour. Large canvases glis [...]