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Thousands of fabricated flowers by Allora & Calzadilla coat the floor of Galleri Nils Staerk as part of the group show ‘Are We There Yet?’ The scattered petals of the Caribbean Tabebuia tree speak to this vast existential question, which considers the quickly changing landscape and our efforts to keep up with the effects of climate change.🌿 Proud freelance moment! ✨ I’m delighted to share my first piece for Wallpaper magazine, focusing on the work of rising star Tora Schultz and her first major institutional show at O-Overgaden in Copenhagen. Ugh what a glorious show of paintings by the young British artist Somaya Critchlow at Maximillian William in London’s Fitzrovia. I wanted to take them all home with me… Powerfully erotic, Critchlow’s women resonate with those of Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin, with their own brand of heightened sexuality. But far from the kitsch of Currin and Yuskavage, Critchlow’s voluptuous women seem deadly serious, as if Manet’s Olympia has seized control and means business. What a show! And what incredible timing to be back in London the week that 'Friends and Relations' opens at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill! Under the guiding eye of Richard Calvocoressi, this historical exhibition features the works of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews, including Freud’s iconic 'Standing by the Rags' from the Tate collection no less. Bravo to the Gagosian team for an absolute dream of a show ✨ ‘Where I got the colour red - to be sure, I just don’t know. I find that all these things … only become what they are to me when I see them together with the colour red.’ Some midweek wisdom courtesy of the @designmuseum ✨ ‘In Alvin Lucier’s 1969 sound-art piece I Am Sitting in a Room, the American composer records, plays and re-records his voice until words dissolve into a throbbing wall of noise. The conceptual and formal elements that comprise Rachel Harrison’s exhibition, ‘Sitting in a Room’, at Astrup Fearnley Museum – with its titular nod to Lucier’s work – are similarly re-mixed and re-presented.’ Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, of course it’s a giant retainer! Laura Guiseppi’s glorious ‘Retainer bodies’ reimagine the colourful and frankly disgusting plastic contraptions we used to place in our mouths as children to create sculptures that exist somewhere between the beautiful and grotesque.
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