Category Archives: review

Diarmuid Delargy, Monotypes, 15 June- 28 July, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

The cubist painter Andre Lhote (1885 -1962) jealously chastised Emil Filla (1882 – 1953) for being “plus Picassian que Picasso lui même” – a memory of which surfaced when I saw one particularly superb monotype at the current … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Andre Lhote, Emil Filla, Fenderesky gallery, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Bataille, monotype, Pablo Picasso. Diego Velazquez | Leave a comment

Sharon Kelly at ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast, May 4-27 2017

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

Sharon Kelly watercolours with graphite form a half of two persons exhibition titled Dissolving into ambiguity with Lenka Davidikova( b 1980, Dolny Kubin, Slovak Republic). Both graduated from the University of Ulster – 26 years apart. I have written about Kelly’s … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Albrecht Duerer, ArtisAnn gallery, August Rodin, Bertrand Russell, dance, drawing, Giordano Bruno, graphite, grief, Sharon Kelly, watercolour | Leave a comment

Stuart Calvin, Greater than I, May 4 – 18 2017, GTG Belfast

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

Stuart Calvin wrote to me: “The process for creating the plaster forms involves pouring the plaster directly onto a flat smooth surface. Before the plaster fully sets, I shape them until they are slightly domed. … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Brandenburg 1521, C Brancusi, Carl Andre, Claude Monet, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Jan Santini Aichel, Limburg Brothers, Pawel Althammer, Richard Long, Skulptur Projekte Munster 2007, William Morris | Leave a comment

Unafraid Red, April 6 – May 4, 2017, QSS Belfast

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

Unafraid Red (and the following U-Yellow, U-Blue and U-White) curated by Dr Colin Darke has been inspired by Barnett Newman’s Who is afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue ( four paintings made between 1966 -1970 as a pun on Albee’s play)) … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Amanda Coogan, Barnett Newman, Catherine Davison, Colin Darke, Dante Alighieri, Gail Ritchie, Jennifer Trouton, minimalism, paintings, performance, Queen Street Studios, sculpture, Sinead McKeever | Leave a comment

ADRIAN O’CONNELL: INTERSTICE, March 2017, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

The ribbon window of the gallery on second floor of this modernist building offered picturesque view over Belfast and light and calm to envelope O’Connell’s paintings. A gentle host to the unleashed passion for the modernist idiom. Yet, it made … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Abstract, Baroque, C Still, Modernism, painting, Piet Modnrian, Tintoretto | Leave a comment

Michael Hanna: Predictable Contact, Naughton Gallery Belfast, 16.02.17 – 26.03.17

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

The installation is made up of four TV monitors and a continuous projection on the wall. The colours and sounds of Predictable Contact, while allowing me the freedom to play

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, James Gibson, Richard Gregory, U.G.Neisser, visual perception | Leave a comment

David Turner: A Series of Small Explosions,QSS Gallery Belfast, 23-25

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

Mosaics? Tapestries? Embroidery? The look of Turner’s objects constructed from Lego Bricks or Hama Beads meanders from an association to toys, to rules of construction controlled by gravity or frames. The sizes vary from huge Megaton #1 and #2 to … Continue reading →

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BOSTON,02/02/17 – 11/0317 Belfast. Golden Thread Gallery

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

From the University of Massachussetts via a dialogue at Scope NY, 2015, to the Project Space at the GTG in Belfast is a journey less startling than the choice of making Belfast a Sister City for Boston. Yet, in 2014 … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged digital drawngs, Machine Knitted compositions, Mixed Media Collkage, video | Leave a comment

LISA GINGLES, 2 February – 3 March 2017, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

ARTIST’S STATEMENT My work is influenced by many things; mythology, folk tales and invented stories, leaving their dark side laid bare. It is about my life, the lives of others, and sometimes the life of no one at … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged deterioration of paper, Gary Hume, J P Sartre, Phenomenology | 1 Comment

Catherine Davison, A Kaleidoscope of Colour, QSS, Belfast, 19 -21 January 2017

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

Queen Street Studios started a new tradition: Flash Show offering their ground floor rooms at 31-33 Bedford Street for a brief exhibitions – like a visit to a studio. Davison’s Kaleidoscope of Colour is the first of a planned series, … Continue reading →

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Lorraine Burrell at GTG, Belfast, May 2016

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Slavka Sverakova

THESE DAYS ARE PERSISTENT AND CHANGEABLE is a title of an exhibition of art by Lorraine Burrell and Martin Boyle, at the Golden Thread Gallery from 28.04 – 11.06 2016. What days are not that? Yours? Mine? Whatever answer is … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged abstraction, Arcimboldo, catharsis, Conceptual art, hyperrealism, mimesis | Leave a comment

SHE DEVIL

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Slavka Sverakova

SHE DEVIL in BELFAST, Golden Thread Gallery, 17/12/2015 – 6/2/2016 I have not heard of the Italian architect who created the SHE DEVIL project. On her website (www.studiostefaniamiscetti.com) she offers impressive list of artists who responded to her invitation. It … Continue reading →

Posted in article, essay, review | Tagged Belfast, Daphne Wright, Frances Hegarty, Golden Thread Gallery, Isobel Nolan, Jeanne Susplugas, Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Kate Gilmore, Kelly Dobson, Klara Liden, Luana Perilli, Malak Helmy, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Peter Richards, Rona Yefman, She Devil, Sinead O'Donnell, Stefania Miscetti, Tamara Moyzes, Tanja Schlander, video, Vivienne Dick | Leave a comment

HELEN G BLAKE at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 16 April – 16 May 2015

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Slavka Sverakova

At the time of writing, this exhibition of fourteen small paintings has not been documented on her website (www.helengblake.com). Their sizes around A 4 or a one fifth bigger forge a call for privacy, not unlike covers or title pages … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Domenico Ghirlandaio, Doric order, Ellen Altfest, Roman atrium house, Sacra Conversazione | Leave a comment

Gary Shaw: Ocular, at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, September 4 – 25, 2014

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Pristine, precise, poignant, poetic – they tell of human consciousness meticulously coding imaginative power of colour.Which one, where, how much, at what angle – those are

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Aboriginal Dreaming, Alhr Gallery Jeddah, C. Greenberg, Deirdre McKenna, Farah Atassi, geometry, Golden Thread Gallery, Harriet Korman, Hyperallergic, John Yau, painting, Pattern, Yinka Shonibare | Leave a comment

LISA STANSBIE, PLATFORM ARTS, BELFAST, 5 -26 SEPTEMBER 2014

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

A photograph of the artist who as a qualified swimmer obeys the rules overseen by official bodies, The Channel Swims and Piloting Federation or Channel Swimming Association. That hierarchy is somewhat undermined by her determined stare signalling her being … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Aristotle, Dan Shipsides, habitus, J. Beuys, Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Simone Weill, swimming, the Channel, U Rueckriem | Leave a comment

Colin Darke: Grotesque Mediocrity, Mac Belfast, 8 August – 19 October 2014

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

The spiral from the veritable belly of Monsieur UBU flew over 118 years and over the distance from Paris to Belfast courtesy of an artists’ artist Dr Colin Darke.

Posted in essay, review | Tagged A Jarry, apples, B Brecht, Carrara marble, coins, collanders, Doc Martin's boots, Dr Colin Darke, floor instalation, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, machetes, Mediocrity, Shklovskij, Ubu Roi, useful objects | Leave a comment

Peter Liversidge: Doppelganger at MAC Belfast, 8 August -19 October, 2014

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

First exhibited by Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh from 1st August till 21st September 2013 the facsimiles of ten Max Klinger’s etchings from 1881, and Liversidge’ s large scale prints of them were complemented by an imagined room, constructed in … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Carrara marble, etchings, Ingleby Gallery, MAC Belfast, Marcantonio Raimondi, Max Klinger, prints | Leave a comment

Graham Gingles at MAC, Belfast, 2014

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Graham Gingles at MAC, August, Belfast, 2014 As Fukuyama put it: in the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history. A phase of contemporary art has also been … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged assemblage, collage, contemporary art, Fukuyama. WWI, installation, sculpture, War Diaires by Robert McGookin. Grunewald | Leave a comment

Molly O’Dwyer, Becoming Imperceptible, Platform Arts, Belfast, 3-23 July 2014

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

This still from the video Repositioned, 2013, is becoming iconic, appearing on a poster, and on the gallery Facebook page. It summarises in its tacit visual mode the stable structure of unstable meaning, when objects insist both on having an identity … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Conceptual art, Dr Hilary Murray, Facebook, found objects, Immanuel Kant, light, metal, mirror, Molly O'Dwyer, Richard Gregory, RuaRed Arts Centre, sculpture, video, wood | Leave a comment

John Robinson, Installation, June 2014, University of Ulster, Belfast

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

The following short statement is John Robinson introduction to the two installations for the MFA final exhibition. Transfigure originates from the subtle changes of light that occur at Dawn and Dusk, in which visual awareness is heightened and a there … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged instalation, James Turrell, painting, role of detail, sculpture, Veit Stoss | 5 Comments

Jennifer Trouton, Ties that Bind, 2013

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

This oil on linen differs by its size 158 x 188 cm, from the rest of Trouton’s oeuvre I have seen. Most are small scale still lives, 14.5 x 14.5 cm, arranged in large grids. Its width is significant … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Ernst Cassirer, Henry of Ghent, Intelligent Life June 2014, Jean Simeon Baptiste Chardin.E.H. Gombrich, Karsten Rauss, Master of Flemalle, Merode Altarpiece, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Ortega y Gasset, Pico della Mirandola, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, Sanderson's Stag Hunting wallpaper, verisimilitude | Leave a comment

Susan Connolly, Something about Some Things to do With Paint

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Hugh Mulholland at MAC, Belfast, 9May – 22 June 2014 Great art and mediocrity can get confused, even by experts. But that’s why we need to see, and read, as much as we can. The more we’re exposed … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Analia Saban, Angela de la Cruz, Belfast, Dante Alighieri, Declan Long, Hugh Mulholland, Iris Murdoch, Itay Ohaly, John Lilley Gallery London, Marsyas, Simon Mills, The MAC, Tiziano Vecellio | Leave a comment

WILDSCAPES

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

The sound of Campbells work behind the back wall saturated the whole gallery, interfering with the viewing of works by Moffett (on the wall) and Hughes(between the columns) Curated by Phillip McCrilly and supported by Ben Crothers’s substantial informative essay … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged African masks, appropriation, Ben Crothers, Catalyst Arts Belfast, colonization, documentary, Duncan Campbell, Italo Calvino: exactitude, Joanna Karolini, Phillip McCrilly, photography, Ryan Moffett. dr Allan Hughes, video | 1 Comment

Alice Clark, Dispersal, Market Place Theatre and Art Centre, Armagh, 28/03 – 26/04 2014

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

White Cube! Calm and confidently pretty, it tolerates exhibits on the severe condition of no nails or screws on the walls, or anywhere. In the centre of the room the greenhouse housed a chair, writing desk and a box. Outside, … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Alice Clark, Altamira, Armagh, belief, bench, Codex Vindobonensis, drawings, exchange, greenhouse, grid, Jordan Hutchings, listening, Market Place Theatre and Art Centre Armagh, plants, seeds, stories, writing | 1 Comment

this is authenticity, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 3-24 April 2014

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Eoin Dara the exhibition takes its name from a marketing slogan for a gated residential development Santa Elena City in the Philippines: What is real, what is honest, what is true …this is authenticity. After that it … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Adrian Duncan, bungalow design, Eoin Dara, Herman Muthesius, J.Mukarovsky, Jun Yang, Martin Boyle, self-building | Leave a comment

Keith Connolly, Verbally Confirmed, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, January 10 -31, 2014

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Connolly is a classical modernist – and not just for the parallel an eye may discern between his images and those of Herbert Bayer and Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Bauhaus greats who inspired some of his decision.

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Giclee Archive Prints, Herbert Bayer, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, light | Leave a comment

TACTILE at Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 2014. Helen MacMahon, Polychromatic Shadow Configuration Device, 2013.

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Mac Mahon lists her engagement with space and light as a dominant concept of her art practice (see http://www.helenmacmahon.com “Subject matter is simply space and light”) Before I write about her installation in some detail, I would like to introduce … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Clodagh Lavelle, David Frederick Mahon, Designboom, DSNT, E H Gombrich, E Panofsky, Helen MacMahon, Janet Echelman+Google, Jordan Hutchings, M Ficino, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Vancouver | 2 Comments

Susan MacWilliam: Kathleen, 2014, video, 33 minutes

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

To view online: http://vimeo.com/susanmacwilliam/kathleen An approximation of a video by still images and citation from the archival sources has its disadvantages. For example: loss of the rhythm at which each image stays on screen, the uncertainty that words and images … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged coincidencies, Derry-Londonderry. UK City of Culture 2013, Kathleen Coyle | 1 Comment

Angela Halliday, Topographies: Smithfield, Belfast, 2013

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

This archival image from 2011 presents the new Smithfield Market replacing the one the perished in the fire during the so called Troubles. The disappeared one is still cherished in a charming web of stories, histories and tales, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged ACNI, Belfast, Colin Graham, digital art, Dr Aisling O'Beirn, Dr Allan Hughes, Dr Angela Halliday, Fiona Larkin, Julie McGowen Phil Hession, Michael Hanna, Queen Street Studios, site specific, Smithfield Market, Studios.video | Leave a comment

Cathy Henderson, Ebb and Flow. at the ADF Gallery, Belfast, 17 January – 7 March 2014

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Cathy Henderson exhibited twenty images aiming “…to capture the transience of the coastal view: a sense of shifting skies, and the persistently fluctuating mood of weather.” (News Release January 2014).

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Albrecht Altdorfer, Alesso Baldovinetti, F Nietzsche, Jacob van Ruisdael, painting, skyscape, watercolour | 1 Comment

MOMENTUM at Catalyst Arts Belfast, 24 – 31 January 2014

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Ten postgraduate students of the MFA at the University of Ulster presented interim exhibition in the both exhibition spaces of the CA gallery. The image on this poster is a screen grab of a video by Jonny McEwen (b 1966).Nothing moves … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Andrew Glenn, animals, Aoife Brady, blue hue, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Cathy Drooney, computer code, Elizabeth-Anne Curistan, Erin Hagan, forest, installation, Jonny McEwen, Katrina Sheena Smyth, landscape, light, Master of Fine Art. University of Ulster, myth, Pamela Byrne, Performance Art, Rosanna McKenna, sculpture, textile, video | 2 Comments

Equilibrium? Royden Rabinowitch at the GTG Project room, 09/01/2014 – 25/01/2014

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

The drawing above carries the instruction for the sculpture that appears in this exhibition. Organised in partnership with Politics Plus (www.politicsplus.com, launched on February 2oth, 2013) it aims at an elusive instrumental value of art while focusing on one work … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Cultural Trends, Donald Judd, Golden Thread Gallery, instrumental value, intrinsic value, Isamu Noguchi, J. Beuys, Karl Popper, Lee Ufan, Minimalismus, neuroscience, politicsplus, Royden Rabinowitch, Sara Selwood, Yo Yo Ma | 1 Comment

Michael Hanna, Behaviour Setting, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, 7 December – 25 January 2014

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Delightful generosity of spirit and academic erudition of Dr Declan Long, who wrote the catalogue essay, have not prepared me for the visual beauty of the animation of patterns in Gallery One, nor for the immersive environment in Gallery Two. … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Declan Long, F Nietzsche, Geraldine Boyle, Halsey Institut of Contemporary Art, Jasper Johns, Lucy Lippard, Millenium Court Art Centre, Portadown, R Magritte, Scylla and Charybdis, Shepard Fairey, terry Smith, V.Shklovsky | Leave a comment

An afternoon at MAC, Saturday, 11 January, 2014.

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

At three o’clock, in front of approximately fifty viewers, Hugh O’Donnell started his performance in front of the projected video. Its subject was the weeping face of a Dutch artist who disappeared, later, in 1975, attempting to cross the Atlantic … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Bas Jan Ader, dance, ephemeral, Hugh O'Donnell, MAC Belfast, Maeve McGreavy, Performance Art, Sandra Johnston, The Mystery of Tears | 2 Comments

Shiro Masuyama, Borderline Project, 2013/2014

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

This is not a museum vitrine – it is a kind a table top at the front window of a caravan which

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Britishness, caravan, collection, cultural memory, Esther Shalev Gertz, irishness, moral lesson, Shiro Masuyama | Leave a comment

FIONA LARKIN, BACKSTORY, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 6 December 2012 -17 January 2014

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

The idea that something commonplace can be transfigured into exceptional has been habitually compulsorily twinned with reason and consent. Both appear at the preparatory stages of this exhibition.

Posted in essay, review | Tagged book, Catalyst Arts Belfast, essays, installation, J Baudrillard, lake, photography, scarfs, Sophie Calle, translation, video, Vito Acconci | 1 Comment

Distributed through Space and Time, Golden Thread gallery, Belfast, December 5 2013 – January 19 2014

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Sarah McAvera the exhibition takes its title from one line in Canto 1 of Pale Fire(1962) by V Nabokov. The curator limited the number of artists to three, possibly in relation to the small size of the Project … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Belfast, Christopher Campbell, Deirdre McKenna, fiction, Golden Thread Gallery, Max Ernst, poioumenon, Sarah McAvera, V Nabokov, Zoe Murdoch | Leave a comment

SHARON KELLY and ROBIN PRICE, Process Lab, Rehearsal Room PS2, Belfast, Nov 18 -22nd, 2013

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

I visited this installment of Rehearsal Room series on its last day. On the wall opposite the window a continuous video of animated drawings easily competed for attention with three large charcoal drawings on the right and one exquisite work … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged charcoal, drawing, PS2 Belfast, running, software | 5 Comments

FORCES, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 8-29 November 2013

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Rob Hilken the exhibition offers a chaste view on relationship of art and science. Five artists zoom on nature’s forces e.g. radiation, gravity, electricity, and magnetism, traditionally subjects of scientific investigation, appropriating them for sculpture, video and installation, … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Aisling O'Beirn, art., balance, C P Snow, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Christian Cherene, electricity, Erasmus of Rotterdam, gravity, Italo Calvino, magnetism, pol Murphy, Pseudo-Dionysius, radioactivity, Richard Box, science, Thorsten Fleisch, Timaeus | 4 Comments

John Robinson, Rehearsal Room, Part 1, PS Squared, Belfast, 30 October – 2 November 2013

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

The artist kindly emailed me some images and his comments (here in a purple text colour) to compensate me for not seeing his installation. In recent work I’ve used dark spaces to create immersive atmospheres; at first I thought about … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Barnet Newman, installation, painting, W Kandinsky | 2 Comments

TONY HILL, New Works at Fenderesky, Belfast, October 17 – November 16, 2013

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

This Mondrian is in a private collection, thus it is very unlikely that Hill saw it while he formulated his idea of visual art. I have included it to provide evidence for an aesthetic order many artists in Europe, two … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Belfast, Dan Flavin, De Stijl, Donald Judd, Fenderesky, Frank Stella, ladder, minimalism, Orphism, sculpture, Tony Hill | Leave a comment

Moments of Inception, 17 Oct – 16 Nov, 2013, Queen Street Studios and Gallery, Belfast

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Images courtesy Tony Corey Expanding the curatorial field Eoin Dara has chosen the unexpected. Objects that may or may not be art, nonchalant debris of something else, birth of an idea made just about visible, or not. Dara describes his … Continue reading →

Posted in article, review | Tagged A C Danto, Alacoque Davey, Angela Hackett, Ashley Holmes, Belfast, Catherine Davison, Christoff Gillen, Clement McAleer, Colm Clarke, David Turner, Dorothy Hunter, Dougal McKenzie, Eoin Dara, Gail Ritchie, Gerry Devlin, Grace McMurray, Imperial War Museum London, Jennifer Trouton, Majella Clancy, QSS, Sally Young, Sinead McKeever, Susan McKeever, Terry McAllister, Zoe Murdoch | Leave a comment

A SUBTLE MATTER at Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 3 – 25 October 2013

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Amy Brooks it has her aesthetic sensitivities all over, with the exception of a rather massive box housing Emmanuelle Negre’s fantasy in light. The above image indicates

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Amy Brooks, Belfast, Catalyst Arts, Dorothy Cross, Emanuelle Negre, Jacqueline Holt, Laura McMorrow, Marie Farrington | Leave a comment

John Brown at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, October 17 – November 16, 2013

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Gallery Two has an inbuilt corner, on each side of which was one image of an open book. In this photograph they are next to each other, the larger one on the back wall, the small one as if in … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Basho Matsuo, Belfast, books, Devetsil, Fenderesky gallery, Gottfried Semper, haiku, Helen Frankenthaler, John Brown, Poetism, Poetry, Time | 1 Comment

Charles Tyrrell at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 12 September – 12 October

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Since 1983 the Fenderesky Gallery developed a strong profile through single, groups, and themed exhibition. Led by a highly educated philosopher with discerning eye and unfailing determination to support all generations of artists, the gallery has presented painting, sculpture, prints … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged aluminium, Belfast, Brian McAvera, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Charles Harrison, Charles Tyrrell, cliffs, E H Gombrich, Fenderesky gallery, Francis Frascina, H Rebay, landscape, PT Murphy, Taylor Galleries, W Kandinsky | Leave a comment

Hugh O’Donnell, A Passing Thought, ADF, Belfast, October 11 – November 22 2013

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

The Arts Disability Forum keeps developing its exhibition program along the criteria prevalent in the contemporary art practices, while making use of social links, in this case, the 7th Outburst Queer Arts Festival. As if reading Lessing’s Laokoon, they avoid … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged blue paint, disability, drawing, found objects, found photography, installation, Jasper Johns, Performance Art, sculpture, table, W Kandinsky, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

Colin Davidson, Between The Words

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

The Naughton Gallery at Queens hosted Davidson’s ‘large heads’ from 4th September until 6th October 2013. All exhibits were reproduced in a catalogue with a lively forward by Simon Callow and Conversation with Shan McAnena. Davidson proposed to explore large … Continue reading →

Posted in article, essay, review | Tagged Belfast, drawing, Garry Lightbody, Heraclitos, James Ellis, James Nesbit, likeness, Naughton Gallery, painting, portrait, Queens University, Seamus Heaney, Shan McAnena, Simon Callow | Leave a comment

Ursula Burke

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

URSULA BURKE Hope for a better past, MAC Belfast, 30 August – 13 October 2013-09-03 The title of this exhibition reminds me of the last verse in a poem by Seamus Heaney:..”.hope and history rhyme” . In a gentle manner … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Clytie, Copeland statuary, grotesque, humour, Louvre, MAC Belfast, Mario Testino, Minton, parian porcelain, provocation, S.Heaney, Sassetta, Subken Gallery, Ursula Burke, Venus de Milo | 2 Comments

PSYCHIC DRIVING

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Psychic Driving at the GTG, Belfast, 22 August – 5 October, 2013 Curated in collaboration with Ben Crothers the exhibition presents art by Maurice Doherty, Ciara Finnegan, Kandy Fong, James Franco, Kristin Lucas, Nicolas Provost, Nancy Jo Sales, Peter Spiers … Continue reading →

Posted in article, review | Tagged American Psycho, Belfast, Ben Crothers, Ciara Finnegan, Cruel Intentions, Golden Thread Gallery, James Franco, Jeanne Susplugas, Kandy Fong, Kristin Lucas, Maurice Doherty, moral dilemma, Nancy Jo Sales, Nicolas Provost, Peter Richards, Peter Spiers, Queen's Film Theatre, Secretary, Spring Breakers, The Virgin Suicides | Leave a comment

MAC Belfast – July/August 2013: L. Gotz, M. Cotter, K. Burke

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Reminiscent of the geometric abstraction of Josef Albers (1888-1976) and El Lissitzky(1890-1947) the Double-Take painting hopes to evoke an immersive narrative that is both stable and changing depending on view point s of the moving viewer.

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Hugh Mulholland, K.Burke, L. Goetz, M. Cotter, MAC Belfast | Leave a comment

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