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Viewing Yan Wang Preston rewrites art history and contests power in dazzling, giant photographs
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
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Above After ‘To Add a Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995’, 2023. Still Photographs.
Above Pullharder 013
Above Yuan Making the Red Circle 2011
Above After ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818’, 2022.
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
Above After ‘To Add a Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995’, 2023. Still Photographs.
Above Pullharder 013
Above Yuan Making the Red Circle 2011
Above After ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818’, 2022.
Three Easier Pieces
Messums
24 April-25 May 2024
The Chinese-British photographer Yan Wang Preston presents a new body of work that has been three years in the making for her second solo exhibition at Messums on Cork Street. Titled Three Easier Pieces, the exhibition sees the artist restage three iconic historical artworks in large-scale photographs: Manet’s Olympia; Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich and To Add a Metre to an Anonymous Mountain, a collaborative work organised by artist Zhang Huan. Wang Preston reimagines these works in thoughtful and provocative ways, reversing roles to ask questions about where we are in British society today when it comes to migrant and marginalised bodies.
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Dates
24 April 2024 — 25 May 2024
Viewing A fascinating insight into the dynamic end of Michelangelo’s illustrious career
By the time High Renaissance Italian sculptor and painter Michelangelo arrived in Rome, in 1534, he was already 59 – he would remain in the city until his death, aged 88, in 1564. Those final three decades of his work are the focus of this electrifying new exhibition at the British Museum, a period when he produced prolifically, and that arguably might have been his most artistically successful too – it was during this time he painted his world-famous fresco, The Last Judgement, commissioned by Pope Clement VII. This exhibition also suggests that artists may only get better with age and experience – and that a true artist never stops working.
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Dates
02 May 2024 — 28 July 2024
Viewing Compassion and care are explored in Joseph Jones’s oil paintings of cats and flowers
Above Courtesy The Artist Room
Above Courtesy The Artist Room
Above Courtesy The Artist Room
Above Courtesy The Artist Room
Above Courtesy The Artist Room
Above Courtesy The Artist Room
Joseph Jones
The Artist Room
29 April – 10 May, 2024
They might look twee at first, but Joseph Jones’s meticulous, small-scale oil paintings of cats and flowers have a wistfulness and softness to them. Based on Joseph Jones’s personal archive of found images, drawings and photographs, the artist hopes this new body of paintings might subtly evoke feelings of domestic care and nurture. Enigmatic and charming, the cat motif in Jones’s paintings might also reveal something of the owner. As Jean Cocteau once said “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”