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Tom Hackett
Reviews
RASHID RANA 'Everything happens at once' [14 January 2012]
The problem with so much digitally generated art is that its technological ‘cleverness’ can dominate and eclipse the poetic potential and artistry of the artist. By this I mean the means of production should always be a contributory Read on…
New Art Exchange, Nottingham
14 January - 31 March 2012
Jaume Plensa [4 November 2011]
Since the birth of abstraction, and with that the notion of autonomy in art, figuration in sculpture has always been a problematic area, particularly in relation to the human form. Even when it was liberated from that burden during the Read on…
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
9 April 2011 - 22 January 2012
Sculpture in the Close [26 July 2011]
As a child I tripped over tubular Caro’s, lumpy Moore’s, bendy Flanagan’s and various other bits modern sculpture which periodically sprouted on the manicured lawns of Cambridge. Some forty years on this combination of Read on…
Jesus College, Cambridge
27 June - 25 September 2011
RICHARD LONG / GIUSEPPE PENONE [14 July 2011]
There are artists you come across, all creatures big and small, that after you’ve seen them the once, you’ve pretty much digested all they have to bring to the table. You get the T shirt but don’t bother going back. The Read on…
Haunch of Venison, London
27 May - 20 August 2011
Huang Yong Ping & Wael Shawky [10 May 2011]
If one accepts that part of the primary function of a flagship regional contemporary art gallery is to present the provinces with international art as an elucidatory window on the writhing forces of global capitalism, shifting cultural power Read on…
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
15 April - 26 June 2011
James Turrell [29 October 2010]
Maybe I want the art I see to feel special. Maybe I want the art I see to be extraordinary in how it deals with the ordinary. Maybe I want the art I see to touch me in a visceral as well as cerebral manner. Maybe I want a bit of catharsis Read on…
Gagosian Gallery, London
13 October - 10 December 2010
The Long Dark [29 July 2010]
As a venue Kettle’s yard has always had a strong relationship with abstraction, this dates right back to the arrival of Jim Ede in 1957 and his seminal collection of early British abstraction. Having been fed on this diet as a child, I Read on…
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
17 July - 19 September 2010
Marek Tobolewski: Continuum in symmetry [14 May 2010]
There is always a jostle for position in any kind of art between broadly what you can refer to as its form, and then this other thing, its content. In essence what it is and what it might say, solicit or catalyse, in terms of some kind of a Read on…
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
8 May - 13 June 2010
RINA BANERJEE 'Forever foreign' [14 April 2010]
There are a multitude of dogmas that lurk like spectres over the process’s of looking at and doing art. Like a catalogue full of off the shelf strategies they function at times like an idiots guide to any given area of practice. These Read on…
Haunch of Venison, London
9 April - 15 May 2010
Alan Halsey - Memory Screen [29 March 2010]
Sometimes you see art and quite frankly it leaves you cold, and cold for all the wrong reasons. Other times it walks right up to you and gives you a big warm satiating hug. Sometimes, when you leave a show behind, you ‘leave it behind’. Read on…
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
10 February - 9 March 2010
The sound of fruit - JULIAN WOODCOCK [8 March 2010]
As an art form painting has been around pretty much since Lascaux and the biggest single handicap when looking at anyone’s paintings between now, then and the middle bit is the frequently unhelpful problem of comparison. It is very, Read on…
Deda, Derby
23 January 2007 - 27 March 2010
Robert Casselton Clark 'THAT FARAWAY LOOK' [9 November 2009]
It is now nine years since Robert Casselton Clark’s epic tour de force installation ‘plans for the real world’ at the Henry Moore studios at Dean Clough, Halifax. Since then he has focused his energy on exhibiting Read on…
Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry
30 October - 19 November 2009
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