There is nothing better than visiting a museum on a rainy winter day. It's a bumper year for art this year, meanwhile. the best exhibitions in London this month feature multidimensional paintings and a forest of woven sculptures.
The Royal Academy, Spain and the Hispanic world exhibition tells of the history of Spain and its colonialism told through Celtic, Jewish, Islamic, Christian and Indigenous artworks.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s wonderful exhibition of interwoven words and paintings is an intensely intimate affair, a contemplative meditation on our relationship with others.
What does an artwork featuring conjoined triplets by Jake and Dinos Chapman, a Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher and a screenplay of A Clockwork Orange have in common? They are all part of Somerset House’s Horror Show exhibition, a broad-ranging exhibition that takes the horror genre as its starting point before exploring how it has influenced creative rebellion over the last 50 years.
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At times riveting, at times revolting, Hayward Gallery’s Strange Clay exhibition showcases the craziest ceramics creations and offers a foray into our lockdown months.
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Kamala Ibrahim Ishag has influenced and mentored artists from all over the world. It is a privilege to see a retrospective of her work at the Serpentine Gallery, featuring a selection of paintings from the 60s to today.
Born in Sudan in the 30s, and one of the first women to graduate from the College of Fine Art in Khartoum, Ishag has been a pioneer in shifting a traditional male perception of art towards a feminine approach.
Her work centres on the intangible aspects of women's lives in Sudan as well as mythology and earthy spiritualism, as told by her mother and grandmothers.
She almost always paints women – seated at tables, attending women-only ceremonies — Women with their faces distorted in crystal cube (1984) painting is perhaps one of her most arresting works.
In the background of Frieze London and in a shifting contemporary art landscape that is gradually opening its doors to black female artists previously under-represented in a predominantly white male western market, the precursory work of Kamala Ibrahim Ishag is a revelation.
Female artists working in Germany in the early 20th century were at the forefront of modernism, exploring the tension and contractions of their changing world through themes such as motherhood, intimacy, the vibrant life of the city and the rural peace of the countryside.
This eagerly anticipated exhibition at the Royal Academy brings together a collection of paintings from Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin, amongst others, and reflects on how their work is still so significant today.
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How does it feel to get inside one of your favourite paintings? Frameless is a new multidimensional art experience that opened in London in October. It consists of projecting animated paintings -- often very well-known ones -- from floor to ceiling in four gigantic rooms.
The experience is highly Instagrammable and can be utterly absorbing. Imagine being surrounded by giant versions of Salvador Dali's melting clocks, or walking the leafy path up to Cézanne's Chateau Noir. It will certainly seduce a young digital-savvy audience and might even convince hard-core art lovers, too. A pity that, at £25+, entrance is so pricey.
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Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz’s magnificent sculptures, known as Abakans, capture the vitality and precarity of life. Made of organic materials such as horsehair, sisal and hemp rope, these complex three-dimensional forms broke new ground for art in the 1960s and 70s. Having grown up in the Polish countryside, Abakanowicz took inspiration from the myths, folklore and spirits of the forest. Step inside a forest of woven sculptures at her latest exhibition, showing at Tate Modern.
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This 'once-in-a-generation' exhibition will feature twenty-two paintings never seen before in the UK by one of the most influential post-impressionist painters of all time.
Amongst them, Cézanne's Bathers and the acclaimed Still Life With Fruit Dish, on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Universal Everything’s largest UK solo show, Lifeforms is a showcase for futuristic moving image artworks using cutting-edge technology.
Ever-changing multicoloured worms, hairy monsters walking in the concrete subterranean spaces of 180 the Strand, Universal Everything’s digital exploration of the body in motion is likely to delight many Gen Z visitors, and potentially their parents.
This exploration of a wide range of human behaviours proves to be as entertaining — it occasionally involves audience interaction — as it is soulful.
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With a career spanning over seven decades, Barbara Chase-Riboud's sculptures combine materials with different qualities, such as hard versus soft, light against heavy, and tactile versus rigid. For her first institutional show in the UK, the American artist will present over 30 works.
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Curated by American Writer and star critic Antwaun Sargent, The New Black Vanguard exhibition will feature15 international Black photographers, including Dana Scruggs (featured) and Tyler Mitchell, who are contributing to a new vision of the Black figure in art and fashion. It will also present works from Black stylists, models, make-up artists and creative directors.
“This exhibition is an exploration of this generation’s Black image makers who are bringing fresh perspective to photography. Image by image, they have created a loose global network around their art that powerfully centres identity, community and desire. The artists in this show profoundly reanimate the possibilities of contemporary photography.”said Sargent.
Big, bold and political are the three words that can be used to sum up the art of William Kentridge – it’s definitely the case for his Royal Academy exhibition that’s gone all in on an ambitious installation that finds the main galleries looking completely different compared to the
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K-pop, politics and Parasite are all part of a sensational blockbuster exhibition of Korean culture at V&A
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If you were to list out the great British painters of the 20th century then there’s no doubt Lucian Freud would be there, along with the likes of Francis Bacon and David Hockney. Freud’s ability to paint figures with so much texture to them is unmatched, and there’s nobody who quite captures skin the way he does.
The National Gallery has a major exhibition, staged 100 years after his birth, that succeeds in cementing his reputation as one of the great British artists of recent times. With dozens of paintings on display, it charts the evolution of Freud’s style as it matured into the textured style that he’s best known for.
Slovakian born sculptor Maria Bartuszová (1936-1996) may not be a household name, but her works are in some of Europe's most notable public collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Slovak National Gallery. Tate Modern is launching an exhibition exploring her experimental techniques and her fascination with the tactile nature of plaster.
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‘Cloth is to African what monuments are to Westerners’, Ghanean sculptor El Anatsui once said.
In the past 50 years, the African cultural renaissance has led to the emergence of vibrant creators, drawing inspiration from their history and culture and bringing their own perspective to the fashion world.
Masterfully curated by senior V&A curator Christine Checinska, this exhibition brings a much-needed fresh and diverse perspective on African fashion which spans centuries.
A feast for the eyes and a long-overdue hymn to African fashion.
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