Hugh Mendes (Art:21, 2012)
Hugh Mendes’ paintings are images not of people, but of people in the act of being remembered.
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Contemporary Artists
Rachel Kneebone (Ars Magazine, 2011)
The apparent serenity of Rachel Kneebone’s white porcelain sculptures is belied by the physicality of their making. “It’s war”, said the artist, when asked to describe her process.
Aliki Braine (Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, 2011)
Aliki Braine’s images look like landscapes. Their two-thirds sky, one-third land proportions nod to this.
Fred Sandback (Art:21, 2011)
The small installation of Sandback’s work currently on view at the Whitechapel Gallery is the best example of the late artist’s spatial alchemy you’re likely to see in the UK.
Twombly and Poussin (Art:21, 2011)
The pairing of Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin reveals an embarrassment of shared interests. It's surprising they haven’t been paired before.
Tony Tasset’s ‘Judy’ (Art:21, 2011)
Tony Tasset’s 'Judy', currently on show at the Leo Koenig Projekte Space in Chelsea, New York, is a six-second 35mm film of the artist’s artist wife, Judy Ledgerwood.
Vera Lutter (Art:21, 2011)
Vera Lutter made a camera obscura out of an old leather suitcase and took it with her to Egypt, surreptitiously making images of ancient monuments.
Tom Burr (Art Review, 2011)
Tom Burr is a sensual thinker. In his latest show at Modern Art, intellectual seduction comes in the form of draped and dangling textiles.
Marcus Coates (Art:21, 2011)
'The Trip' is a 35-minute film by the artist Marcus Coates that consists of two long, still shots of the same thing: the interior of a room in a hospice in north west London.
Peter Hildebrand (Saatchi Online, 2011)
Hildebrand creates imaginary architectural structures, whose forms’ intricacies and details suggest vast, human-dwarfing scale.
