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Gallery run 10th March

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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

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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 April

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Pink and lilac colour coordination in this week’s randomly chosen shows.

15aEver wondered what colour a Martian sunrise is? Spencer Finch at Lisson Gallery has produced this simulacrum of it. Rosy pink!

15bAllen Jones at Michael Werner exploring the dominatrix motif.

15cBlair Thurman at Almine Rech Gallery

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15eSarah Lucas at Sadie Coles HQ with more stuffed tights and fab metaphors.

15fJohn Korner at Victoria Miro with falling apples, copious honey and vivid skies as motifs.

15gJohn Latham Spray Paintings at Lisson Gallery.

15hGabriel de la Mora at Timothy Taylor using materials that have a past life in a grid format. The CMYK ink is still visible on these metal printing plate fragments.

15iR. Crumb at David Zwirner with more heroic figures.