Tag Archives: sculpture

After an Act. Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, 26th May – 14th July 2018

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

I just read that Boo Saville  sands back painted layers until the canvas gleams. (https://frieze.com/article/damien-hirst-spotlights-emerging-talent-his-newport-street-gallery-show)   Vanishing of  brushstrokes and tones  until the canvas shines   vanishes also a  painting canon like  the albertian window, gesture paintings etc.  Reminds me of Hans Magnus … Continue reading →

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‘Four Northern Women’, Engine Room, Belfst , February 1 -24, 2018

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

Art objects by Anya Waterworth, Sarah Falloon, Joanne Jamison and Leanne McClean benefited from the  daylight  in the smaller rooms  of the gallery.   The windows were never far away from the surface of the small formats luxuriating in an imagined … Continue reading →

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Shonky:The Aesthetics of Awkwardness, MAC, Belfast, 20 October 2017 – 14 January 2018

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

 The exhibition aims to explore the nature of visual awkwardness through the work of artists and architects Arakawa and Gins; Cosima von Bonin; Niki de Saint Phalle; Benedict Drew; Justin Favela; Duggie Fields; Louise Fishman; Friedensreich Hundertwasser; Kate Lepper; Andrew … Continue reading →

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Bill Saunders: Side Steps These Ferried Measures Rise, 30 June – 24 September 2017, MAC, Belfast

Posted on July 18, 2017 by Slavka Sverakova

  Bill Saunders named the sculptural assemblage on the floor  “…pool (floor and counting). From this angle it looks like a headless protective clothing of an explorer placed here by a tide that got muddled in arranging the other end. … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Part 1:CUMULATOR 7 -0n 7th July 2016 at The Point, Groomsport, NI, UK (Twisselmann and Clarke)

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Slavka Sverakova

On the of July 2016  seven performance artists  worked for 7 hours at The Point, Bangor, Co Down: James King, Brian Patterson, Christoff Gillen, Rainer Pagel, Colm Clarke, Siobhan Mullen Wolf and Keike Twisselmann. I watched for slightly over an … Continue reading →

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Leo Devlin at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 2nd June- 9th July 2016

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Slavka Sverakova

Devlin titled this exhibition  of drawings, sculpture and a video, TODAY I WROTE NOTHING. It works like an answer to a curator who requires “socially engaged art to literally articulate responses, messages of change”. For Devlin, writing is an altar … Continue reading →

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Angelo Garoglio -ways of seeing

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Slavka Sverakova

Allure of autonomy and self-respect in the presence of Michelangelo’s Pieta Rondanini (1555 – 1564, marble 195 cm H, in castello Storzesco, Milan) govern the light and angle 0f Garoglio’s   meditative looking at it through a lens.   Italy’s … Continue reading →

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BEN CRAIG, All or Nothing, Platform Arts, Belfast, 6 -26 November, 2014

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

There were three artists taking part in the exhibition curated by the Platform Arts: Ben Craig, Lucas Dillon and Paul Quast.  The following is not a review of the exhibition, rather a brief meditation on some of the ideas raised … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Sinead McKeever – visiting her studio March 2014

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

 Sinead McKeever (MFA, 2008, University of Ulster)  is based at Queen Street Studios, Belfast, in the new spaces at Bedford Street.  She described her art practice thus:   My practice is process lead; through experimentation and rigorous editing I explore … Continue reading →

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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 →

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On the other side of Les Fleurs du Mal, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 21 November – 21 December 2013

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

 Twenty One  artists, responded to the invitation  issued by the art dealer extraordinaire Jamshid Mirfenderesky  to submit work related to the title of the most famous collection of poems, written in the 19th C. Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleur du … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Mary Morgan and Gerard Carson

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Mary Morgan and Gerard Carson: A Passing Breeze, Golden Thread Gallery, 4 – 27 July 2013 In the gallery’s project space, an installation of objects by Gerard Carson and of lens-based images of objects by Mary Morgan has been curated … Continue reading →

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