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Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Artlyst: Modern Art Oxford Reopens After £2million Redesign

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford as they reopen after a £2 million redesign:

'The main exhibition choice for the reopening of Modern Art Oxford is also the first institutional exhibition in the UK of work by Cuban artist Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). Ayón, whose work can also be seen at Tate Modern, was a Cuban artist and printmaker considered a pioneer in the printmaking world through her use of collography. By layering textured repurposed materials onto cardboard matrices, a form of collage, she was able to produce a vast range of tones, textures, and forms in large multi-panelled works. The exhibition includes film of Ayón using this process to create work, examples of which have now been seen at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and 2022, plus a retrospective at UCLA in 2016.

Her work is transgressive in that she reinterprets the traditions, rituals and beliefs of the Abakuá, a predominantly male Afro-Cuban religious group originating in the tribes and ritual traditions of West Africa, by focusing on the mythical female figure of Sikán.'

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Friday, 14 April 2023

Art review: Rites of Passage at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London

My latest review for Church Times is on Rites of Passage at Gagosian, Britannia Street:

'The underlying idea explored through the exhibition is that of the three stages of liminal space — separation, transition, and return — while also examining tradition, spirituality and space ...

The rites of passage which these artists explore enable them individually to navigate the experience of migration, but, as such rituals transcend cultural boundaries, their individual experience also becomes a collective communal experience, particularly in the context of this exhibition.'

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here and those for Art+Christianity are here. 

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Friday, 7 June 2019

Pots and thrones: ritual bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties

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Last night at St Martin-in-the-Fields we heard Yi Chen speak on 'Pots and thrones: ritual bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.' This was the fourth in an occasional series of talks on different aspects of Chinese Art organised as joint events with our Chinese Congregations.

Yi Chen is Curator: Early Chinese Collections at the British Museum. Since it first opened in 1992, the China and South Asia gallery (Room 33) at the British Museum (of which the Early Chinese Collections are part) has helped millions of visitors experience its rich history through a plethora of objects, paintings, and sculptures. The gallery underwent a significant redesign and re-opened in November of 2017 with the content within the gallery being condensed and brought up to the present day. In addition to her work at the British Museum, Yi has spoken and written on aspects of Chinese Art from Late Neolithic to Bronze Age southern China through Buddhist Images on the theme of Pure Land to Fang Zhaoling, one of the foremost women artists of 20th-century China.

Tonight she focused on pots and thrones, ritual bronze vessels from the time of the earliest archaeologically recorded dynasty in Chinese history and opened up aspects of the growth and maturity of a civilization that would be sustained in its essential aspects for another 2,000 years. The rituals for which these vessels were used carried such an important social function, that it is possible to read into the forms and decorations of these objects some of the central concerns of the societies that produced them.

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