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Viewing Anicka Yi: In Love With the World

Currently floating around Tate Modern’s cavernous Turbine Hall are Anicka Yi’s family of AI pod creatures, called aerobes. Based on ocean like forms and mushrooms, the translucent helium-filled organisms are programmed to respond to the space and the people around them. Yi hopes her new kind of ecosystem will encourage visitors to think about new ways machines might inhabit the world and to evaluate our connection to our environment.

The New York-based artist, who is best known for her experimental work exploring the merging of technology and biology, has also created unique ‘scentscapes’ which change weekly, with odours linked to a specific time in the history of the area surrounding Tate Modern. Expect the aroma of spices (thought to counteract the Black Death in the 14th century), marine scents from the Precambrian period as well as the smell of ozone and coal smoke from the Industrial Revolution.

In Love With the World is heavy on the concept but provides, as expected, an instant experiential hit. Yi had big shoes to fill but she has more than made her mark.

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Dates
12 October 2021 — 16 January 2022
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Viewing Damien Hirst: Sunshine, presented by HENI

On everyone’s lips this week is the new Damien Hirst show at Claridge’s ArtSpace, the freshly opened permanent art gallery located in the hotel’s Victorian basement. Designed by John Pawson, ArtSpace is now one of the largest art galleries in Mayfair. Landing in the gallery next year are a shop and an on-site café, serving delicious Claridge’s treats.

Works on display include examples of Hirst’s colour chart series and his brilliant pipe cleaner animals. ‘They are about the fact that everyone’s an artist,’ he said. ‘They are a group of works which have never been seen together before — they are big and fun and playful and hopefully they will bring the child out in even the most grown of grown ups!’

Both cryptocurrency and Tenders from The Currency, Hirst’s first NFT collection, will be accepted as payment for the artworks on show. Get yourself down there asap.

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Dates
13 October 2021
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Viewing: Pop Goes The Arts Club: The World of Peter Blake

British legend, Sir Peter Blake is subject of a solo show at The Arts Club on Dover Street where he sits as president. The exhibition embraces Blake’s joyful, multi layered pop cultural works, meticulously rendered watercolour portraits alongside intricate collages assembled from found objects that cast many a sharp allusion on the history of art. Blake, who is now in his 80s, has a long and illustrious career that is intertwined with the evolution of the British art world and the impact of pop culture. The Royal College of Art graduate first came into the limelight with the ground-breaking Young Contemporaries show at the ICA in 1961 where he exhibited alongside Hockney and R.B. Kitaj.

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