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Monday, 18 December 2023

Artlyst: Antony Gormley Explores Self Awareness White Cube Bermondsey

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is of Body Politic: Antony Gormley at White Cube Bermondsey:

"Antony Gormley has spent his career investigating the relationship of the human body to space. Through his fertile imagination, this has proved to be a seam that he can continuously mine, whether using his own body or those of others, in order to explore questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. His latest exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey uncovers new ways to probe these fundamental issues.

“The responsibility of the art of our time is to reflect on and provide instruments for examination and self-awareness” Antony Gormley

He is doing so at a time when human beings are predominantly urban dwellers in industrially manufactured habitats, and when, Teresa Kittler writes, there is a broad “cultural acceptance of the rights of money, goods, ideas and tourists to travel – a phenomenon accelerated by new technologies” at the same time as national governments are controlling or denying that same right to migrants. In this exhibition, Gormley uses the industrial processes that produce clay blocks, concrete, iron and steel to create works that examine the dynamic tension between our need for refuge and our need to roam."

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Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon.
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Friday, 29 November 2019

Artlyst - Kiki Smith: Embodied Art

My latest piece for Artlyst is a review of 'I am a Wanderer' by Kiki Smith at Modern Art Oxford:

'Looking in retrospect, she says she sees a path of subject matter in her work moving from microscopic organs to systems to bodies to the religious body to cosmologies. There is now a real breadth to her frames of reference, which encompass fantasy, realism, history, legends, magic, myth and religion. These moves in terms of content were also accompanied by changes in media, as the first works based on the facets of the body were sculptural and conceptual before she then became more overt about languages of craft and decorative arts.'

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Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance.
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Friday, 14 April 2017

Three Hours: This Is My Body

Revd Professor Ben Quash, Professor of Christianity and the Arts, Kings College London, was the preacher at today's service of reflections on the passion of Christ, The Three Hours at St Martin-in-the-Fields. 


I made the following notes via twitter:
  • Active ministry of Jesus then passive - fulcrum is The Transfiguration. Jesus's body a treasure of great price.
  • Jesus' feet carry good news - beautiful. Mary Magdalene adored the feet that brought her good news.
  • What makes you kneel in your daily life? Like children kneeling to play, we need to kneel more to pray.
  • Spencer - Consider the Lilies. Huge + humble Christ delights in flowers for what they are. Child-like use of knees.
  • Brought to our knees by life. Weight of world's rejection forces Jesus down. We are implicated.
  • Hands some of the most creative parts of our body. Hand of God from Sistine Chapel raises Lazarus in Sebastiano's painting.
  • Grunewald's hands of Christ violently immobilised. Baptist does what Christ can no longer do - signals life. 
  • Sides of Jesus exposed on the cross; place of protection + formation. By Jesus' side the shared position of Jesus' disciples. 
  • Thomas' finger touches Christ's pierced side - his preparation for new life, being born again.
  • Jesus' body was and is the message - God's language of preference in The Transfiguration + Crucifixion. Our bodies compatible with glory.
  • Jesus' body compatible with love - his body on the cross asks us to attend to it, to lean in to it, like the beloved disciple.
  • The at-homeness of God with himself invites us to take up our abode and rest. 
  • Crucifixion the most tragic event but within is salvation. Full meaning of active ministry only seen in passivity.
  • Mother-Child relationship deeply formative - intimate, reciprocal relationship. Our God contracted to a span.
  • God placed in our hands. Jesus' body born from Mary's. No one's heart closer to Jesus'. Her God made flesh through her.
  • Difficulty of being looked at by suffering Christ - exposed by Christ's gaze. Called to seek God's face - this is heaven.
  • Salvation begins with fall - creation groans. Liberation into light - Christ redeems thorns into gentleness.
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William Walton - Drop, Drop Slow Tears.
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