Gallery run 29th March

Greenwich Foot Tunnel is the gateway to the Isle of Dogs. Here the perimeter of the City Farm allows a sort of detachment from the nearby main roads, before a short excursion along the River Thames leads to The Regent’s Canal and another 20 minutes of peace and harmony. At Stuart Shave’s gallery, Eva Rothschild has made enormous sculptural pieces to harmonise with the internal space.

A watery theme continues with Jessica Warboys at Frith Street Gallery. She has created some great canvases using the sea as a fluid medium to move pigments around and to deposit additional silt-like particles of matter onto their surfaces. They have a delicate appearance with rhythmic patterns that make them look as though they were actually being viewed through water.

Finally the day is capped off with the much awaited arrival of this year’s fourth plinth sculpture. Michael Rakowitz has a majestic sculpture on view made up of old date box labels. Their localised bursts of colour, and exotic providence, have been used to recreate a Syrian sculpture that was recently destroyed.

1071
Eva Rothschild of Stuart Shave with various sculptural objects carefully presented in the space.

1072
Ricky Swallow of Stuart Shave with cast bronze objects based on incidental interior features.

1073
Jessica Warboys at Frith Street Gallery with images made by immersing pigmented canvases in the sea.

1074
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd of Sadie Coles HQ with gothic imagery based on bats and theatre props presented against flat photo backdrops.

1075
Thomas Struth of Marian Goodman with a photo of physics objects that would make one’s hair stand on end.

1076
Cristina Iglesias of Marian Goodman with a hard looking cage-like structure which on closer inspection is delicate and made of a granular substance that actually smells quite nice.

1077
Giuseppe Penone of Marian Goodman with a characteristic adaptation of a natural object.

1078
John Riddy of Frith Street Gallery with photo images of stained brickworks made during a stroll through South London.

1079
The fourth plinth has arrived. Michael Rakowitz has built a replacement for the original stone treasure recently destroyed, out of tin cans.

Gallery run 8th December

Battersea Park, Hyde Park.

451
Magnus Plessen at White Cube with painted portraits of him and pregnant wife.

452
Zaha Hadid at the Winton Gallery of the Science Museum.

453
Richard Oelze at Michael Werner with slightly surreal landscapes.

454
Zaha Hadid early paintings at Serpentine Gallery. This is London with a skewed viewpoint in the artist’s customary (as we discover) style.

455
Gavin Turk with his famous blue plaque given pride of place in Newport Street Gallery. There is plenty more and a great show.

456
Huma Bhabha at Stephen Friedman with carved polystyrene figures.

457
Lee Friedlander at Pace Gallery with an ironic take on the subject object relationship in photography. It’s his shadow not mine!

458
Peter Peri at Almine Rech with circular heads on the bronzes made of cast tape rolls and loo rolls.

459
David Shrigley of Stephen Friedman Gallery exhibiting on the 4th plinth.