Handkerchiefs from Tohoku children
Yasashii Hankachi: Gentle Heart Project / Handkerchiefs for Tohoku Children, at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House galleries, is a creative response by children and collaborative designers in Japan to the devastation left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku (northeast) area of Japan, in which more than 18,000 people lost their lives and many more faced the difficulties of being relocated, leaving a strong impact on local...
Emina Djukič: The Burden of Freedom
Emina Djukič presents The Burden of Freedom, “a story about the life, chaos and similar things” 19 February-7 March 2014 at the Photon Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana, Slovenia. In her most recent work Emina Djukić presents a photo story containing autobiographical reflections on seeking her own path in life and her own place under the sun, a curatorial statement from the gallery states. The...
Painted Realities at Hanmi Gallery
Artists Olarn Chiaravanont, Bernat Daviu, Super Future Kid and Mark Nader present their work in a new show, Painted Realities, in the London Hanmi Gallery’s ongoing programme of interim exhibitions. A curatorial comment accompanying the exhibition (31st in the series, 7-16 February 2014) notes that as appropriation becomes a widespread ready resource for painters different strategies are needed to keep their work relevant amidst...
New Order II: British Art Today
The second part of Saatchi Gallery’s New Order series opens 24 January 2014 with an impressive line-up of artists following the selections that featured in the first part which opened last year and ended 16 January this year. New Order II: British Art Today features work by Dominic Beattie, Sarah Dwyer, Nick Evans, Tom Gidley, Kate Hawkins, Virgile Ittah, George Little, Oliver Osborne, Hannah Perry, Martine Poppe, Mary Ramsden,...
Riot: Book celebrates Isaac Julien’s work
An extraordinary new book, Isaac Julien: Riot, by Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose et al, celebrates the work of the artist and filmmaker, widely regarded as having played a pivotal role in that significant moment in British black and African art and, on a wider plane, the black diaspora arts when gay sexuality, masculinity and race exploded into the same visual frame. It is the first overview of the British film artist’s career to...
Recalling the Future: Iranian art since the ’79 revolution
The work of 29 Iranian artists produced before or after the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah and installed the Islamic Republic is on view 16 January-22 March 2014 at the University of London Brunei Gallery. Many of the works on display are being shown in the UK for the first time. Recalling The Future challenges assumptions about ‘Iranian’art. As Iranian artists in the 1960s and 1970s increasingly combined signifiers...
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