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Viewing A surreal and sexy show explores the meaning of breasts in art

Boobies – some of us have them, most of us love them – and they remain a perennial subject in art. This exhibition proves our long and ongoing fascination, through artworks from 1500 to today. Breasts of all shapes and sizes, and with a myriad meanings are seen in works by thirty artists, are sculpted, painted, photographed and drawn, including by the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman, Laure Provost and Irving Penn, to name but a few. Curated by Carolina Pasti to coincide with the opening of the 60th Venice Biennale this week, Pasti has partnered with Fondazione IEO-MONZINO, to donate 30% of the catalogue funds to support the foundation’s cause and essential research, and the exhibition hopes to promote awareness of breast cancer to a broader public through the channel of art. Lingerie and clothing Italian brand, Intimissimi, are the exhibition’s main sponsor, too. “Breasts” is sure to be playful and punchy, irreverent and intelligent, surreal and sexy.

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Dates
18 April 2024 — 24 November 2024

Viewing Sarah Sze’s suite of new paintings at Victoria Miro

American artist Sarah Sze’s new works are taking over Victoria Miro’s Venice gallery until the summer – a video installation and a suite of new paintings that contemplate ways of looking and constructing images. As well as presenting works at the gallery, Sze has also taken over a Venetian apartment opposite – a group of new paintings presented within a simulation of the space in which they were painted. It’s a heady presentation that challenges the idea of a single way of seeing. It may leave you just a little disoriented as you head back out to navigate the Biennale and its offerings. ‘The paintings, the video, the sculptures – all of the work” Sze says “is about being captured in a continual state of transition.” Venice, with its history of movement and as a site of cultural convergence, seems the perfect environment to explore this state.

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Dates
16 April 2024 — 16 June 2024

Viewing Sir John Akomfrah’s ambitious commission for the 60th Venice Biennale is finally unveiled

Sir John Akomfrah RA represents Great Britain at this year’s 60th International Art Exhibition. Curated by this week’s Monday Muse, Tarini Malik (who tells us more about the pavilion in our interview) Listening All Night To The Rain is an eclectic exploration, conceived as a single installation with a staggering eight interconnected multi-screen sound and time-based works. Akomfrah expands on themes he has explored for decades – memory, migration, injustice and climate change – but here also communes with the ‘ghosts’ of the pavilion. Akomfrah invites audiences to be immersed, and to listen – and perhaps, come out feeling a little different about the world.



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Dates
20 April 2024 — 24 November 2024
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