Making | Writing | Curating
Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Emotional Fields, an exhibition of large scale contemporary tapestries by Carolina Mazzolari. In her first UK solo exhibition (20 September - 25 October and opening tomorrow 19 of September), Mazzolari presents striking hand-embroidered textiles inspired by Kurt Lewin’s space diagrams and Carl Gustav Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious.These... Continue Reading →
Here I am today typing away on my blog, but mostly I am so happy to announce that I am launching a new periodical column/post with a selected collection of interviews with great potters and ceramicists, makers and dreamers ... And I am delighted to start with Steve Harrison, a potter that I have been... Continue Reading →
Art London is more than a guidebook. It will accompany you on a journey through London, telling stories, uncovering histories, sharing insights into those who have made, collected and influenced art past and present. Moving neighbourhood by neighbourhood, Art London travels the streets with you, revealing art in mseums, galleries and beyond, from palace to... Continue Reading →
Over four days in September Whitechapel Gallery is transformed by over 80 creative and cutting-edge publishers. The London Art Book Fair returns with a vibrant mix of art books, independent titles and magazines from around the world. Exhibitors range from publishing behemoths to independent presses and represent a diverse international cohort from 20 different countries,... Continue Reading →
Cooke Latham Gallery, a new space for contemporary art located in London’s Battersea will open its third exhibition PASQUINO by Catherine Story on the 6 September. Catherine Story’s practice explores the intersections between two and three dimensionality, and the space between sculpture and painting. Informed by one another, her sculptural and painted works are theatrically... Continue Reading →
Magdalene Odundo OBE is one of the world’s most esteemed artists working in the field of ceramics. This major exhibition - from 3 August to 15 December 2019 - at the Sainsbury Centre, will bring together more than 50 of Odundo’s works. They will be shown alongside a large selection of objects chosen by Odundo... Continue Reading →
Peasant woman. Costume design for Le Coq d'Or 1937 - Watercolour, bronze paint and graphite on paper - State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Presented by E. Kurnan 1983 - © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019 I was at the Tate Modern a few days ago, but with a young lively lovely son 'attached' I didn't manage... Continue Reading →
The Apple Tree, 2019 "Over the last two years I have become obsessed with The Apple", declare the artist Barnaby Barford". " It is Adam & Eve, the Judgement of Paris, Heracles, it is The Beatles, Steve Jobs and Newton, it is Cézanne, Magritte, Snow White and William Tell, it is even the American Frontier!... Continue Reading →
Jerwood Makers 2019 Yesterday I was fortunate to have time to walk around London without planning things. Yes is a luxury, I know. While walking and thinking I stopped with my family at the Jerwood Space for coffee and lunch. While there I enjoyed the art hosted in their space: Makers 2019 in full swing,... Continue Reading →
Miquel Barceló, Totem, 2016 / © Miquel Barceló - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: François Halard The Shape of Things in Time. This is the title of the exhibition of Miquel Barceló , painter, sculptor and ceramist, work that is opening on the 5th of September at the Almine Rech in Brussels.... Continue Reading →
A few days ago I received an email presenting this gorgeous collection of scarfs. I must say I don't know which one to choose, if I had to choose. But maybe I will get the Mercury one (see above here opening this post). Founded in 2016, Furious Goose is a Brighton-based British accessories brand created... Continue Reading →
This summer is all about Scandinavia at the Wilsons. We went back there, again. We love Scandinavia. There are several reasons, one is that we needed to go back to Denmark to to strengthen a bit our hearts and partly because we love to go to Denmark and also to Sweden and meeting our friends.... Continue Reading →
An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection 10 June – 1 September 2019 Free entry Wallace Collection and Manolo Blahnik present An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik. The exhibition features a personally selected edit of shoe designs from Blahnik’s private archives set amongst the masterpieces of the Wallace Collection. This exciting venture juxtaposes an... Continue Reading →
Giorgio Morandi - Flowers (Fiori ), 1950 -© Giorgio Morandi, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2019 Giorgio Morandi is memories of my childhood and my hours of art history studying in the afternoon but also maybe something that you are less interested when you are a teenager. Only recently I seem more keen in his work and not... Continue Reading →
Today I discovered this gorgeous magazine and I am happy to share with you that The Plant is pleased to release a new issue with three surprising, upbeat covers. Bringing together photographers, illustrators, designers, musicians, writers and visual artists. The magazine publishes personal stories and artistic renderings of the plant world. The 14th issue ofThe Plant... Continue Reading →
Contemporary Asian artist, Ilhwa Kim, will have a 2-week Solo Show titled ‘Seed System’ at HOFA London from September 25th – October 6th this year. It will be her third solo exhibition in London after ‘Sensory Portraits’ in 2018. Ilhwa Kim is known for creating avantgarde, intricate paper art by masterfully combining sculpting and painting techniques.... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I went to my local Museum to visit Cleo Mussi new exhibition.Museum in the Park is hosting until the 26 of August 2019 a new collection of inventive mosaics by Stroud-based artist Cleo Mussi. An ornament of comely grace featuring garlands of the head, nosegaies and poesies for the recreation of... Continue Reading →
Andy Warhol, Brillo Soap Pads Box,, 1968 © 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York Bildupphovsrätt 2019 During our Scandinavian trip we had the fortune to stop in Malmö visiting dear friends from my London life. In Malmo there is this cute Museum of Modern Art (paired with an other one... Continue Reading →
Johan Röing, Nefertiti, 2008-2012 © Johan Röing Bildupphovsrätt 2019 This summer our curiosity lead us again to the North. We spent some of our summer in Scandinavia, with longer stops over in CPH and Malmö, where we discovered this small and inviting museum in a former power station from 1901 with an orange extension that is... Continue Reading →
On June 12, 2019, Danish Architecture Center (DAC) opened its next exhibition, “FORMGIVING”, on the work of BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group. Through a historical timeline, visitors will experience a world designed and shaped by humans – from the birth of formgiving with the Big Bang to life as we know it today and the... Continue Reading →
Mari Balsamà Wilson 