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Bruce Nauman: Paradoxical By Nature – Pirelli HangarBicocca
At Bruce Nauman’s first MoMA retrospective in 1995, the art critic Robert Hughes said “no show was ever noisier…” but concluded that Nauman was “beyond much dispute, the most influential artist of his generation.” Numerous retrospectives followed...
Juan Muñoz: Drawings Centro Botín, Santander
Just as the places we inhabit influence the way we think, the structures we imagine can transform our relationship with the world. Arriving in darkness, my first glimpse of Santander was by morning light. Built on an incline, my walk through the city centre, from the Coliseum Hotel to the Cantabrian Sea, was defined by an irresistible feeling of movement towards an opening – a vista, a story, a mouth – like a river flowing out to sea.
Channeling Andrew Wyeth: Jeffery Becton And Andrea Hamilton Between Two Worlds
In the low, tawny grass at the bottom of a hill is the figure of a woman leaning, her whole body twisted towards a small summer house on the crest. Her bare, frail arms seem tense with the effort of pulling herself along, but her dusty pink summer dress is elegantly cinched at the waist and softly follows the contours of her hips. Frozen in this position, we don’t know if she will ever reach the little home in the distance or remain where she is, just looking..
Surrealism’s Alternative History The 59th Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale sparks surreal conversations between past and present in ‘Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani and Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity, curated by Grazine Subelyte, Associate Curator of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection...
Camille Pissarro Catalyst of Impressionism
Upstairs, on the third floor of the Ashmolean, is a show that will quietly break your heart. Entitled Pissarro: Father of Impressionism (12 June 2022), this major exhibition of works drawn from the Ashmolean’s collections as well as international loans, spans Pissarro’s entire career. Incorporating works from all the major figures of his generation – Corot, Monet, van Gogh, Degas, Cassat, Seurat, Signac – it casts...
Ai-Da A Robot's Divine And Comedic Vision
Ai-Da Robot Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Dante Alighieri was 56 when he gave up the ghost in 1321, just one year after completing his epic, soul searching poem The Divine Comedy; yet in these words, his presence remains “as a mighty flame follows a tiny spark“. A landmark of Italian literature, drawn from his experience in exile from Florence, the poet journeys from darkness and error towards the revelation of divine light. Through Inferno and Purgatorio, Dante is guided by the Roman poet Virgil
In Around Oxford Art Galleries – March 2022
On that Friday afternoon, the sun was a giant spotlight shining down North Parade; up-lighting the silhouette of pedestrians queuing for fresh sourdough, bags of figs and purple sprouting broccoli outside 2 North Parade Produce. Through the window of Meakin + Parsons Gallery opposite, sunbeams illuminated a quad of brightly coloured works on paper...
LIGHT WORKS
AH Studio presents Light Works, a meditation on light, the theatre of colour and the sacred geometries found in wild places, by artists Andrea Hamilton and Aigana Gali with Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery and supported by Dina Kemal Marchant, founder of Stories of Art. Curated by Nico Kos.
Poems for Paintings
Inspired by the poetry of form and the sounds in colour, this account is a love letter to the artists who have shaped my mind, words © @nicokos
The Inside of a Bee's mouth
Limited edition artist book by Emma Witter and Nico Kos Earle. A document of musings on safe spaces, memory, small rituals and the healing power of nature...
Time and Water, A photographic series by Andrea Hamilton
In 1988, Jacques Benveniste published a controversial study in the journal Nature, suggesting that water has memory...
We are the Weather, A photographic series by Andrea Hamilton
This series of works is inspired by Roni Horn’s literary work Saying Water (1999), a sublime, poetic response to the River Thames, infused with epistemological queries...
Artist Statement; Andrea Hamilton
Working with Andrea Hamilton to create a biography that encompases new projects...
#ONESTOWATCH The Melissa Curry Art Series
When I first saw Wole Lagunju’s work, I immediately understood why he was being celebrated internationally as 'one to watch.' Smashing auction records, his paintings...
Chroma : A nomenclature of sea colours
Early one morning, the artist Andrea Hamilton walked along a familiar shoreline, and stopped by the water’s edge just before sunrise. There was a peculiar stillness in the air; the wind silent...
Artists for BLUE
35 international artists focus on the wonder of the high seas to raise money for the Blue Marine Foundation
'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.' - Margaret Mead
The Colour Project
Andrea Hamilton & Nico Kos, An appreciation of history, art, design and exceptional talent by journeying through colour..
Speaking with Lucas Avram Cavazos on RKB Radio Kanal Barcelona 106.9 fm
This gorgeous human @theclubwithlucas gives us a platform to share our stories, talk about Andrea Hamilton Studio, Nancy Cadogan, the projects we work on, Blue Marine Foundation, and most of all dance to Prince...
Breaking Glass – A Material Comeback at La Biennale di Venezia
The island of Murano is synonymous with the history of glass. First perfected in the Middle East – Syria, Egypt and Palestine – the art of glassmaking came to Venice...
If you want to know who’s who in the sexy little niche of time based media, then step into LOOP Barcelona
This is the best fair I have ever been to. Staged across three floors of the Almanac Hotel, LOOP Barcelona Fair (20-22 November) sits within the context of LOOP Festival which takes place...
Martin Maloney shows his series “Field Workers” for the first time at JGM, London
Last night, the London based artist Martin Maloney feted for his large scale “social observation paintings” exhibited his landmark series ‘Field Workers,’ at JGM Gallery, London...
Skimming the Surface, Katherine Beaugie
Katharine Beaugié is a light artist, in the sense that she captures or manipulates light sources to create her images. Working mostly in monochrome...
Two Tones-Art Exhibitions
Two very different shows in London, CASCADE by Dominic Beattie and ASHES by Guy Haddon-Grant, explore form through the binary restriction of palette...
Primary Viewing outside Frieze
There it is, Alexander Calder’s spiral. Radiant as the sun, alternating primary colours, mostly red, some pops of yellow, and a bold stripe of blue, burn a shape onto your retina. Unforgettable. It replaces...
The uplifting paintings of Deborah Tarr
Almost Essential: ‘Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.’ Pablo Picasso. The artist Deborah Tarr, lives and works in quiet anonymity in the village of Primrose Hill, London...