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Viewing LuYang: LuYang NetiNeti

The Wick Culture - Luyang show at the Zabludowicz collection, London

Picture copyright David Bebber

Above Luyang show at the Zabludowicz collection, London Picture copyright David Bebber

LuYang: LuYang NetiNeti
Zabludowicz Collection, London

22 September 2022 — 12 March 2023
www.zabludowiczcollection.com

Immerse yourself in the multi-sensory world of Chinese artist LuYang at London’s Zabludowicz Collection. Their critically acclaimed solo show, which has been extended until 12 March due to popular demand, features a new video commissioned by the Zabludowicz Collection as well as a film centring on the artist’s avatar Doku and an interactive retro-futuristic arcade space in which visitors can explore LuYang’s investigations into the human body and mind through reimagined games such as Space Invaders.

Inspired by the cultures of anime, video games and sci-fi, LuYang combines Buddhist philosophy with aspects of neuroscience and digital technology to explore complex themes such as life, death, religion and the physical. His works are at once arresting and perplexing, raising questions around human existence, identity and purpose.

LuYang’s practice doesn’t shy away from meaty topics — or from destabilising established binaries like good and bad, life and death. It’s no surprise then that this is a visually challenging show that will keep the cogs turning long after you’ve left the building.

Viewing The Lost Rhino: An Art Installation with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

The Wick Culture - Installation view of The Substitute in 'Apocalypse -End Without End' at Natural History Museum, Bern, 2022. Photograph: Nelly Rodriguez.Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Video still from The Substitute, 2019, paired video installation (projections), 6 min 18 secs. © Alexandra Daisy

Above Installation view of The Substitute in ‘Apocalypse -End Without End’ at Natural History Museum, Bern, 2022. Photograph: Nelly Rodriguez.Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Video still from The Substitute, 2019, paired video installation (projections), 6 min 18 secs. © Alexandra Daisy

The Wick Culture - Taxidermy southern white rhino © The Trustees of The Natural History Museum, London,2022. All Rights Reserved.

The Wick Culture - The Rhinoceros', Albrecht Durer, Germany, c.1515 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Above The Rhinoceros’, Albrecht Durer, Germany, c.1515 © The Trustees of the British Museum

The Wick Culture - Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Above Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

The Wick Culture - Exhibition The Lost Rhino 3 © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London

Above Exhibition The Lost Rhino 3 © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London

Above The Rhinoceros’, Albrecht Durer, Germany, c.1515 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Above Cardiac cells made in the lab from preserved cells of Angalifu, the last male northern white rhino in the United States who died in 2015 © San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Above Exhibition The Lost Rhino 3 © Trustees of the Natural History Museum London

The Lost Rhino: An Art Installation with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Natural History Museum, London

Until 19 March 2023
www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/the-lost-rhino

When Sudan, the last surviving northern white male rhino, died in 2018, the extinction of the subspecies seemed certain. While two of his female relatives, Najin and Fatun, still survive, neither can carry a pregnancy to term.

But there is hope for the northern whites yet. Scientists who collected semen and eggs from the last living members of the subspecies hope to implant embryos into a female southern white rhino as part of a repopulation programme. If the project is successful, it will change the fate of endangered species around the world. But the plan has raised challenging questions around the ethics of de-extinction.

All of this and more is explored in The Lost Rhino, a free art installation conceived by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg that explores extinction, conservation and advanced new reproductive and genetic technologies at the Natural History Museum. You’ll come face to face with a digitally recreated, life-size northern white rhino, prompting you to question the paradox of our preoccupation with creating new life forms, while neglecting existing ones. This is art at its most urgent. Go before it’s too late!

Viewing Liminal

The Wick Culture - Liminal, Venetia Berry at Alex Eagle, courtesy of Alex Eagle and Venetia Berry

Above Liminal, Venetia Berry at Alex Eagle, courtesy of Alex Eagle and Venetia Berry

Liminal
Alex Eagle, London

1 December 2022 — 31 January 2023
alexeagle.com/products/venetia-berry-liminal

Venetia Berry has developed a name for herself as an exciting young painting talent. A graduate of Leith School of Art and the Royal Drawing School, she is perhaps best known for her abstract nudes rendered with gestural brushstrokes in her distinctive watery palette. In these figurative works she looks to ‘reverse the male gaze, challenging the archetypal sexualised female nude.’

But she’s also a celebrated ceramicist and printmaker, and has collaborated with luxury art and lifestyle brands, including Paradise Row, Matches Fashion and Partnership Editions. She’s exhibited in group and solo shows around London and completed artist residency programmes in Italy in both 2021 and 2022.

Now she’s enjoying a solo show at Alex Eagle’s gorgeous concept store on Lexington Street. Liminal features a new body of abstract paintings that invite a feeling of calm and meditation. Painted in soothing pastel tones, they reference the female form yet are open to interpretation. It’s not to be missed.