Selected Press

The Guardian

Dale Berning Sawa

2 July 2024

Firelei Báez review – bring on the furry ciguapas: magnetic visions of diaspora

‘The Dominican Republic-born artist’s first UK solo show is a thrill, her works combining mythology, botany and female agency in beautifully realised imagery and installation.’

Sueño de la Madrugada, by Firelei Báez. Photograph: Seraphina Neville/Courtesy the artist/ Above Ground

The Brooklyn Rail

Ekin Erkan

1 July 2024

Rita Ackermann: Splits

‘...in the best works of this series, Ackermann uses gesture instrumentally, revealing and occluding details.’

Elephant Magazine

Sofia Hallstrom

28 June 2024

Sonia Boyce on the Political Sounds and Symbols of “Bella Ciao”

‘I’m interested in diverse voices, not just a unified choir. There’s an element of chaos, with three professional singers who couldn’t hear each other but somehow stayed in harmony....This diversity and acknowledgment of difference is crucial, especially now.’

Installation view, Sonia Boyce, Benevolence, 2024. GAMeC / Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, 2024. Photo by Lorenzo Palmieri. Courtesy GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo © Sonia Boyce by SIAE 2024.

The Guardian

Dale Berning Sawa

27 June 2024

‘My sculptures are alive. They dance around the gallery at night’: the viscerally spiritual art of Bharti Kher

‘My sculptures are alive – they run around the gallery at night when we’re all asleep.’

Bharti Kher, Six Women, 2012-14. Photograph: Courtesy Bharti Kher/Perrotin/Ben Symons

Artnet News

Devorah Lauter

26 June 2024

Nicole Eisenman on Building and Breaking Narratives

‘Sometimes I need a break from constructing stories and [to] just paint… There’s still a story, just way simpler, and less important. It’s where the paint leads you as you go along, you’re both making the painting and discovering it at the same time.’

Nicole Eisenman © Brigitte Lacombe. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Artnet News

William Van Meter

21 June 2024

The Radical Luminescence of Larry Bell

‘And so, I decided I wanted to find a medium that nobody was using...[Glass is] part of our environment. It’s just everywhere we look and every day we use it all the time.’

Installation view of Larry Bell: Improvisations, (2024). Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: Airi Katsuta

Forbes

Tom Teicholz

17 June 2024

Heavy Metal: Daniel Turner At Hauser & Wirth DTLA

‘In the Middle Ages, Alchemy was a philosophical and proto-scientific inquiry into the possibility of transforming base metals into gold. By investigating and excavating site specific locations, we can say that Turner has succeeded with his art where others failed, in taking copper and striking gold.’

Oxnard Burnish by Daniel Turner, 2024 Copper, lanolin, and gesso on canvas. PHOTO BY THOMAS BARRETT COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH

Financial Times

Maya Jaggi

17 June 2024

Ed Clark, Turner Contemporary review — high-energy action paintings from an abstract pioneer

‘His choice of paintbrush was later perceived as an ironic swipe at menial labour and discrimination. Yet, propelled by modern times,' Clark once said, “I just felt I needed that speed.'

Ed Clark’s ‘Locomotion’ (1963) © The Estate of Ed Clark/Hauser & Wirth

Financial Times

Jan Dalley

14 June 2024

Flora Yukhnovich is reimagining the Rococo at the Wallace Collection

‘I became much more interested in what the paint could say, how the paint itself could speak of flesh, of someone’s body or personality: capturing a likeness became much less interesting and I wanted to explore other things with the paint.’