Gallery run 10th March

Regent’s Canal to Hackney.

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Peter McDonald of Kate MacGarry with figures revealing an inner life through brightly coloured Venn-diagram-like head spaces.

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Laure Prouvost at Serpentine Galleries with an atmospheric installation using sound and dimly lit objects.

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Simon Ling of Greengrassi with piled logs and characteristic orange under and occasional over-painting.

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Dee Ferris at Corvi Mora with natural forms in abstract compositions.

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Gerard Hemsworth at Raven Row in a group show recreating their 70’s show at Exhibition House. Excellent tutor at Goldsmiths and this early text work reminds me of many of his pearls of wisdom delivered in tutorials.

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John Latham at Serpentine Galleries in a retrospective.

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Matt Paweski at Herald Street with aluminium constructions incorporating swirly motifs.

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Maja Ruznic at Beers London.

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Susan Hiller at Raven Row. Group show celebrating the 70’s exhibition space Gallery House with the original participating artists.

Gallery run 3rd February

East to West via Parkland Walk.

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Joachim Koester at Camden Arts Centre with video installations and plank walls. The performers on film do dance-like moves which awaken memories of imitating films as children.

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Brick Lane

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Bouchra Khalili at Lisson Gallery creates new maps of Europe with marker pen as he relates stories of people’s migration. There was a loud bellowing horn-like sound which I presumed to be a sound affect representing the arrival at a port, a major theme in this work.
It actually turned out to be workmen next door using some kind of heavy machinery as part of renovations.

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Johanna Unzueta at Greengrassi with felt pipework. Part of the Condo gallery exchange project.

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Brad Grievson at Arcadia Missa in Condo an art exchange project featuring International gallery artists in London galleries.

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Tomoaki Suzuki of Corvi Mora with carved miniature figures.

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John Latham of Lisson Gallery.

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Laurence Weiner at Lisson Gallery with a text piece on a wall surrounding a rather elegantly pruned tree.

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Karin Ruggaber of Greengrassi.

Gallery run 14th October

This week Mayfair and Vauxhall.

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Helen Marten of Sadie Coles HQ showing at the Serpentine Gallery.

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Borna Sammak at Sadie Coles HQ with popular culture imagery.

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Silke Otto Knapp at Greengrassi.

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Raymond Pettibon and Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner.

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Toby Ziegler at Simon Lee Gallery with Google image trickery. Matisse’s iconic image (above) is matched by Google’s algorithms through resemblance to various objects -presumably keyboards resemble the chequered background of the painting.

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Neo Rauch of David Zwirner.

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Marc Camille Chaimoiwcz of Cabinet Gallery at Serpentine Gallery with this installation Enough Tyranny as part of a retrospective show.

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Laura Owens at Sadie Coles HQ with abstract and figurative work.

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New Cabinet Gallery building with windows designed by Marc Camille Chaimoiwcz. The window frame is on display at the Serpentine Gallery as part of this artist’s retrospective show there.

Gallery run 16th September

This week Thames and up to Hackney. Then Regent’s Canal to Limehouse.

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Samson Kambalu at Kate MacGarry with an exhibition of situationist documents rephotographed in the Yale College Library. The originals had been controversially sold to the institution in an episode that embroiled their former owner Gianfranco Sanguinetti in criticism and lawsuits along with the present artist.

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South Bank London skateboard and bike performance space.

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Thilo Heinzmann at Carl Freedman Gallery with bright pigmented gestures on aluminium sheets that are highly resistant to the cuts that have been made to them.

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Olivia Plender at Maureen Paley reinterpreting the causal sequences of our historical narratives. Tapestry called Brittania receiving her newest institution. These are where the artist sees much narrative thread-making happening.

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Lynette Yiadom Boakye at Corvi Mora with individuals in contemplative situations.

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Ik Joong Kang Floating Dreams on the River Thames. Having seen him the previous day in discussion at 5×15 Trinity Buoy Wharf, I knew he instigated and collected thousands of drawings from children. These are placed in large constructions on rivers usually which he sees as connectors not barriers.

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Paolo Gioli at Wilkinson Gallery. It’s a camera! This show archives the three basic cameras used by the artist. Who needs a lens when a hole will do? As for a film feed, why not just give it a tug? On show mainly are the resulting experimental films and screen prints.

358Gretchen Faust at Greengrassi with natural forms and cultural artefacts intermixed. This gold leaf piece in Autumn.

359Richard Serra in the City.

Gallery run 6th July

West through Burgess Park, Lambeth Bridge, Battersea Park to Wandsworth recycling depot. Bacon sandwich, then back east to Chelsea bridge, through Victoria arriving at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill. Then run to Ibid Gallery, Rodeo Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ and back South over Lambeth Bridge. To Greengrassi, Corvi Mora and South London Gallery. Picked up a postcard artwork there and returned it to the artist’s gallery.

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Mark Grotjahn at Gagosian with work that departs radically from his close studies of nature.

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Raymond Pettibon at Sadie Coles HQ.

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John Adamo at Ibid Gallery. Small ceramic models of biscuits (and crumbs).

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Damian Ortega of White Cube showing at South London Gallery in Under the Same Sun. Sculpted tortillas.

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Ian Law at Rodeo Gallery. Wrapped hospital screens placed in the very bright sunny corner of the gallery.

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Gallery Runner was encouraged to take a postcard from Rivane Neuenschwander’s artwork by one of the gallery assistants at South London Gallery. Only catch is it must be sent on somewhere. Why not to her gallery #stephenfriedman?

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Karinruggaber at Greengrassi with a wall assemblage.

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Erika Verzutti of Alison Jacques showing at South London Gallery in Under the Same Sun.

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Gallery Runner has seen plenty of these along the canals! Simon Ling at Greengrassi with paintings of piled debris on junk barges.

Gallery run 12th May

Recontextualised artefacts and modified objects from contemporary artists and spiritualism from Hilma af Klint.

191Hilma af Klint at Serpentine Galleries.

192Paulo Nimer Pjota

193Jimmy Desana at Wilkinson Gallery with a photo of the famous pop art icon at work photographing a nude shown here cropped.

194Tomma Abts at Greengrassi

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196Cyprien Gaillard at Laura Bartlett with teeth from drilling equipment shown as artefacts.

197Lisa Oppenheim at The Approach on a very sunny day today.

198Michail Pirgelis of Spruth and Magers is showing at Laura Bartlett with more aeroplane inspired artwork.

199Rob Chavasse who makes gallery holes and interconnections between rooms, from The Sunday Painter, is showing at a group show at Herald Street. The socket extends across the gallery and into the office and powers both computers and artworks.

Gallery run 11th March

James Coleman, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Lari Pittman offer their established styles in new works. Joanne Greenbaum and Polly Apfelbaum bring colour whilst Imran Qureshi, Jeff Zilm and Maria Taniguchi show great delicacy.121Lari Pittman at Thomas Dane Gallery with layered paintings.

122In Wardour Street, Chinatown, where the lanterns are up.

123Jeff Zilm at Simon Lee Gallery produced these filmic spray-painted images. He does a chemical reaction on 35mm film stock and transposes the results onto canvas.

124Polly Apfelbaum at Frith Street Gallery.

125James Coleman with a mini retrospective at Marian Goodman. This new piece is on a giant, bright, led screen that actually seems to radiate warmth.

126Maria Taniguchi at Ibid with a series of brick paintings.

127Rirkrit Tiravanija at Pilar Corrias was in discussion with Andrea Zittel shown above. She saw the rock as a symbolic place for a future commune shelter project.

128Imran Qureshi at Corvi Mora with Mughal inspired miniature watercolour paintings.

129Joanne Greenbaum at Greengrassi. Great drips, spaces and interconnections.

Gallery run 26th February

Cinema is a theme in two shows. LSD features at a third show and at both Corvi Mora and Greengrassi galleries there is domesticity with a twist.

10aIt’s opposite St Pancras station and is clearly a work of art, but by whom?

10bBridget Smith at Frith Street Gallery brings us cinema as spectacle. Light becomes object and chairs become sea!

10cJennifer Pastor presents Hand Made Knives 2015, with a fabulous cast-knife-block. We see traces of polystyrene holes and gaffer tape wrinkles.

10dChristies on Duke St St James has a fetching side door during refurbishment.

10eHeman Chong, represented by Wilkinson Gallery showing at South London Gallery. 1,000,000 blacked out business cards which you can walk on.

10fAdam Buick presents Rare Earth at Corvi Mora. He rubs grit and compounds he acquires from landscapes into his pots. Here the pot has become palpably warped due to the introduction of a mobile phone during the firing process!

10gLaura Owens’ style of symbols with drop shadows works well on this piece. The paper has perforations and a group of artists worked on this standard template shown at Rob Tufnell. Their remit was to emulate LSD packaging whilst adding artistic and additional ironic commentary of their own.

10hAlexandre De Cunha offers more bright-mundane and gives the objects spiritual worth in this excellent show at Thomas Dane entitled Freefall. Yes it is a parachute!

10iStan Douglas at Victoria Miro tells the story of the 1974 revolution in Portugal in The Secret Agent. He uses 6 screens and for good measure features a cinema.