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Viewing Among the Machines

The Wick Culture - Installation views of Among the Machines at Zabludowicz Collection

Above Installation views of Among the Machines at Zabludowicz Collection

Among the Machines
24 March — 17 July 2022
Zabludowicz Collection, London
https://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/exhibitions/view/among-the-machines

Make time to see Among the Machines at London’s Zabludowicz Collection, a major new exhibition of works from the collection examining how humans interact with machines and non-human entities. Rather daringly, it also considers how we will respond to a stage of evolution beyond the human.

It features 13 international artists, including Anicka Yi, Rebecca Allen and Simon Denny, who are engaging with various technologies to critically reflect on our current moment of change. Together, they tackle everything from new types of consciousness and alternative evolutionary branches to the impact of technology on our sense of individual and collective identity, and our relationship to the planet.

Shown alongside video, sculpture and interactive computer installations are new augmented reality artworks created in direct response to the gallery space. This is a mindboggling show, but it’s well worth a whiz round.

Viewing Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter - An Exploded View

Above Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter – An Exploded View

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) 3

Above Cornelia Parker Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) 3

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker Left Right and Centre (video still)

Above Cornelia Parker Left Right and Centre (video still)

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker Avoid Object Photographs

Above Cornelia Parker Avoid Object Photographs

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker Thirty Pieces of Silver

Above Cornelia Parker Thirty Pieces of Silver

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker Red Hot Poker Drawing

Above Cornelia Parker Red Hot Poker Drawing

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker Election Abstract

Above Cornelia Parker Election Abstract

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker, studio, London, 2013

Above Cornelia Parker, studio, London, 2013

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker Perpetual Canon

Above Cornelia Parker Perpetual Canon

The Wick Culture - Cornelia Parker War Room

Above Cornelia Parker War Room

Above Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter – An Exploded View

Above Cornelia Parker Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exposed) 3

Above Cornelia Parker Left Right and Centre (video still)

Above Cornelia Parker Avoid Object Photographs

Above Cornelia Parker Thirty Pieces of Silver

Above Cornelia Parker Red Hot Poker Drawing

Above Cornelia Parker Election Abstract

Above Cornelia Parker, studio, London, 2013

Above Cornelia Parker Perpetual Canon

Above Cornelia Parker War Room

Cornelia Parker
18 May — 16 October 2022
Tate Britain, London
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/cornelia-parker

Cornelia Parker came to prominence in the late 1980s with such experimental works as Thirty Pieces of Silver (1988-89), a large-scale installation of suspended and flattened silver objects including teapots, candlesticks and dinnerware. Then came Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), a garden shed frozen at the moment of explosion, its fragments surrounding a single lightbulb.

This eye-catching artwork currently hangs at the heart of a magnificent and long-overdue retrospective at Tate Britain. Featuring over 90 artworks spanning immersive installations, sculptures, film, photography and drawing, as well as two new works created especially for the exhibition, it charts Parker’s exploration of contemporary issues such as violence, human rights, politics and environmental disaster.

Other notable highlights include War Room (2015), a vast gallery created from the reams of perforated red paper negatives left over from the production of British Legion remembrance poppies, and Magna Carta (An Embroidery), also from 2015, which comprises a thirteen-metre long collectively hand-sewn embroidery of a Wikipedia page. In the cinema room, you’ll see several films Parker made during the election campaign leading up to the 2017 General Election.

Uniting the ‘poetic and the spectacular’, this mesmerising show is not to be missed!

Doing Eye of the Collector

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Eye of the Collector
12 — 14 May (11 May by invitation only)
Two Temple Place, London
https://www.eyeofthecollector.com

Kicking off London’s summer art season is Eye of the Collector, a boutique art fair that eschews the big white tent in favour of a grand domestic setting. Which means, yes, no booths or aisles or boundaries! But there’s more. Unlike most traditional art fairs, Eye of the Collector juxtaposes works spanning the history of art and design from antiquity to the present day in a bid to spark new dialogues that will inspire and engage.

‘We conceived Eye of the Collector to provide a focused next generation experience for collectors,’ says Nazy Vassegh, its founder and CEO. ‘We always wanted it to feel like being invited into an imaginary collector’s home.’

Set against the architectural backdrop of Two Temple Place, a neo-Gothic mansion in the heart of central London, the second edition of the fair features 25 local and international galleries, with almost half of the works on show by female artists. ‘A spirit of discovery and rediscovery lies at our heart,’ adds Vassegh. ‘We look forward to shining a light on women artists both historic and contemporary.’

Among them are the Surrealist Cissie Kean and painter Pauline Boty, an oft overlooked founder of the British Pop Art movement. Offered by Whitford Fine Art, Golden Nude is a recently rediscovered Boty painting from 1959 inspired by Bonnard’s bathers.

Also offered for sale are ten new works commissioned especially for the fair. These include paintings by Eleanor Johnson and Megan baker, and mixed media works by Anna Preach.

An online edition of the fair will run alongside the physical event on eyeofthecollector.com and chrisites.com. Don’t miss the chance to explore one of London’s architectural hidden gems. Book your tickets now.