Damien Borowik at the Parallax Art Fair
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Venue:
Chelsea Town Hall -
From:
July 26, 2014 -
To:
July 27, 2014 -
Location:
London
A fabulously nonsensical launch of The Owl and the Pussy-cat and the Turtles of Fun, a new book containing Matt Black’s Prequel and Sequel to Edward Lear’s famous poem, illustrated by Pip Hall, the evening accompanied by Jonny Fill’s Nonsense Orchestra.
Aside from a few decades in the middle of the twentieth century when abstraction and minimalism ruled and anything vaguely figurative was pointedly ignored by the art world, the human figure has been the most timelessly familiar and most frequently […]
The woods don’t look welcoming. Straying off the path, if you can find one, would probably lead you into trouble. The trees look dead, bare branches in the brownish murk. If we went in, what might we find? A scary […]
7th June – 7th September 2014.
12.00 midday – 5.00pm Thursday to Sunday
At the end of this show there is a small display of commercial items (and no, I’m not referring to the gift shop). Photographs of models wearing angular dresses are shown next to a box of tissues and other goods. […]
Upon entering the exhibition space the sculpture Pipe Smoker greets you. This is quickly followed by the obligatory vinyl text blurb on the white wall situated next to a line of exhibition posters which allow an insight into the breadth […]
A question that I find relevant to both my personal practice and my expanded practice is; do varying modes of sustainability and organisational structures effect the output/content of artist and curator led projects? Now two-thirds through our ‘go and see’ […]