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Viewing Rob and Nick Carter: Chroma Viscosity II

The Wick Culture - Rob and Nick Carter: Chroma Viscosity II
Courtesy of Rob and Nick Carter

Above Rob and Nick Carter: Chroma Viscosity II Courtesy of Rob and Nick Carter

Rob and Nick Carter: Chroma Viscosity II

5A Bathurst Street
4 October – 18 November, 2024

Rob and Nick Carter’s Chroma-Viscosity II, defies the boundaries of materiality, time, and technology in five framed works – a continuation of the duo’s Painting Photographs series – where stridently coloured swirls of wet paint are captured at a single moment with close-up photography, then enlarged 60 times to emphasise the medium’s sensuous, momentary quality.

Walking the line between painting and photography, two mediums that are intertwined in the contemporary era, Rob and Nick Carter use the photographic technology to draw out the materiality of paint, creating compelling abstraction compositions that query what a painting and how traditional techniques might be transformed for the digital age – a recurrent interest of Rob and Nick Carter’s enquiring and experimental practice.

Also on show is the duo’s new AI-generated film, (also based on the Painting Photographs) reimagining and transforming their captured fluidity and movement of paint into a dynamic, evolving digital format.

Viewing Silk Roads at The British Museum

The Wick Culture - ‘The Franks Casket' ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Above ‘The Franks Casket’ ©The Trustees of the British Museum

The Wick Culture - Ceramic figure of a camel ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Above Ceramic figure of a camel ©The Trustees of the British Museum

The Wick Culture - Ceramic figure of a lute player © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Above Ceramic figure of a lute player © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

The Wick Culture - Gold Shoulder Clasp ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Above Gold Shoulder Clasp ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Above ‘The Franks Casket’ ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Above Ceramic figure of a camel ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Above Ceramic figure of a lute player © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Above Gold Shoulder Clasp ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Silk Roads

The British Museum
26 September 2024 – 23 February 2025

The Silk Roads hold a particular place in the collective imaginary – calling to mind the trading of luxurious fabrics and rare spaces. This exhibition at The British Museum tries to get past the stereotypical and exoticised view of the Silk Roads and get a bigger picture of the impact of these overlapping networks of global trade routes that linked communities all over Asia, African and Europe.

The Silk Roads’ history is vast and stretches over millennia, but this exhibition focuses on the period between AD 500 to 1000, a definitive moment during which the rise of universal religions made connections across continents more powerful. Highlights of the display – which includes objects on loan from 29 different national and international partners – include pieces from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan shown in the UK for the first time and giving a startling new perspective on the role of Central Asia in the Silk Road story.

Viewing Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE at Victoria Miro

The Wick Culture - Portrait of Yayoi Kusama
Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki
Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

Above Portrait of Yayoi Kusama Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

The Wick Culture - Yayoi Kusama, Every Day I Pray for Love, 2022
Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

Above Yayoi Kusama, Every Day I Pray for Love, 2022 Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

The Wick Culture - Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room - Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart, 2024
Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

Above Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room – Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart, 2024 Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

The Wick Culture - Yayoi Kusama_ EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE
All works courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

Above Yayoi Kusama_ EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE All works courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

Above Portrait of Yayoi Kusama Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner

Above Yayoi Kusama, Every Day I Pray for Love, 2022 Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

Above Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room – Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart, 2024 Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

Above Yayoi Kusama_ EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE All works courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro

Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE

Victoria Miro
25 September–2 November 2024

Head over to Victoria Miro’s Wharf Road gallery in London for Yayoi Kusama’s latest hallucinatory spectacle: including an unmissable, dazzling all new Infinity Mirrored Room, pulsating and filled with light. Infinity Mirrored Room – Beauty Described by a Spherical Heart features a ceiling of coloured flashing LED lights arranged in a concentric pattern whose reflections produce an infinite honeycomb.

The artist’s 14th exhibition at Victoria Miro, titled EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE, also includes three new surreal bronze sculptures of female figures, on show in the garden, and two colourful, tendril-like stuffed textile installations, Death of Nerves (2022), originally commissioned for Kusama’s retrospective at M+ Hong Kong in 2022, and a new work, The Moment of Regeneration, (2024) fill the inside space. There’s also a showcase of the latest additions to Kusama’s ongoing recent series, Every Day I Pray for Love, started in 2021, displayed in a dynamic configuration in the upper gallery, deeply expressive abstract explorations of the possibilities of line and colour.

Entry is free – but booking is essential. As tickets are currently fully booked, check the booking page on Mondays at 12 noon, when more tickets will be released.