Selected Press
The Art Newspaper
Ben Luke
8 April
A Brush With...Lorna Simpson
‘While she is deeply engaged with societal issues and historical inequities, and with the camera’s time-honoured role as a documentary instrument, she blurs boundaries between reality and fiction, between witnessing and storytelling. The result is a practice that is precise and yet elusive, spare and yet capacious.’
Financial Times
Nadia Beard
4 April
‘I wanted to be good at something’ — Henry Taylor on painting, sincerity and being present
‘I’m always present. I’m always sort of spontaneous, and I’m not really planning. I don’t sit down and plan . . . It’s sincere and that’s the consistency. Being sincere and being present, and being inspired by the place.’
BBC Radio 4
John Wilson
2 April
Don McCullin - This Cultural Life
‘How are we going to get our information back if there is no one on the ground covering war?’
South China Morning Post
Aaina Bhargava
1 April
How Wong Kar-wai’s noir films inspire Nicole Eisenman’s Hong Kong view
‘Turning away from external sociopolitical events, the works on view in Hong Kong mark a drastic introspective shift, featuring paintings and sculptures of a more intimate nature. For Eisenman, the exhibition is a remedy to the fatigue that comes from constantly absorbing the news of increasing global upheaval.’
The New York Times
Travis Diehl
23 March
Why Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Go-Go Dancer Piece Remains Subversive
‘His work shifts the burden of keeping personal memory alive away from institutions and onto the populations they serve — onto us.’
Art in America
Emily Watlington
19 March
Camille Henrot Returns to Film After a Decade—with An Instant Classic
‘Society likes to sweep unresolved problems like these under the rug, and that’s where I like to go digging.’
Financial Times
Lucy Davies
14 March
Artist Lorna Simpson: ‘I take images and assign them a different meaning’
‘I’m taking a liberty with something that is already malleable; that gets assigned a meaning...I just assign it a different meaning.’
Artnet News
Vittoria Benzine
12 March
Thomas J Price’s Tallest Sculpture Rises Outside London’s V&A East
‘This commission is especially meaningful to me as I was taken to the V&A as a child with my mother and it has shaped much of my critique of museum collections.’
Observer
Elisa Carollo
11 March
At Hauser & Wirth, Qiu Xiaofei’s Transmutation of Grief
‘In 'The Theater of Wither and Thrive,' Qiu captures the drama inherent in the life cycle of all earthly and time-bound existence, of flesh and soul alike. His powerful canvases expand across the gallery’s vast fifth-floor space with an irruptive, hallucinatory intensity that feels almost fantastical, as if surfacing spontaneously from the subconscious.’
Whitewall
Ana Novi
3 March
Conny Maier in Los Angeles: Dust, Desire, and the Fragile Architecture of Existence
‘I am preoccupied with human existence and humanity's place within its environment...What are we truly searching for? What do we leave behind? And what do we ultimately find?’
Family Style
Paul Laster
2 March
Life Cycles
‘We’re framing it around this community of artists, and the early stages of an artist's life in the studio space...That's where community is developed. It's where a lot of your ideas are exchanged, and identities start to form.’
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