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Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Artlyst: Venice To London May 2022 Diary

My May diary for Artlyst has information about exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, Hignell Gallery London, and Bridge Projects in Los Angeles:

"Several exhibitions/installations in Venice during the 59th Biennale re-situate key works or themes from Christianity’s historic engagement with the Arts, in some cases overlaying biblical narrative onto the present ...

Engaging an ontology of peace, the works in this exhibition and, perhaps, all those highlighted in this article dwell upon our shared yearning for all that is good. Some shroud this hope in the mists of a distant future, but these artists bring eternity into close, immediate proximity—as though we are living in it now. We may not see it, but what we see is not all there is."

For more of my writing about Helaine Blumenfeld's sculptures click here, here, here, here, and for an earlier article about exhibitions at Bridge Projects see here. 

My other pieces for Artlyst are:

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Moby - 'God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters ft. Víkingur Ólafsson (Reprise Version)'
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Friday, 24 April 2020

Looking Up: The vision of Helaine Blumenfeld

My latest review for Church Times is of Helaine Blumenfeld's 'Looking Up' exhibition at Canary Wharf:

'On the opening day of the exhibition, she says, “I saw people pausing and reflecting on the work and the world.” That is what she had hoped for, as she believes that if we are able to approach a work of art open to its effect, then we can have a revelation.

It is also, she believes, a very timely show. Over the past months, she has “felt increasingly concerned that society was moving towards a precipice caused by isolation, lack of empathy, the breakdown in trust, and absence of leadership”. She had originally planned to call the show “Towards the Precipice”. The exhibition is both warning and antidote, with works depicting broken edges reflecting the precipice but with other works showing connection and relationship. That is how we can come out of this, she believes: through community, spiritual values, and acknowledgement that we are all human. In doing so, we will have to learn look at the world in a different way; by looking up to see a spiritual dimension and also by acknowledging the crisis of our climate.'

Helaine Blumenfeld's exhibition can be viewed online at https://hignellgallery.com/exhibitions/29/works/. The exhibition featured in my recent Thought for the Week at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

My earlier pieces about her work can be found here and here. Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. 

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Pēteris Vasks - The Fruit Of Silence.
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