Rachel Rose: Palisades, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
For her fist solo show in London, American artist and 2015 Frieze Artist Award-winner Rachel Rose has created a site-specific installation featuring two video works, A Minute Ago and Palisades in Palisades. By drawing on seemingly unrelated imagery and events such as a meteorological catastrophe, modernist architecture and a sublime landscape with a violent history, the works reflect on humanity’s current fears and anxieties around its changing relationship to the natural world and the advance of technology.
Until 8 November 2015, www.serpentinegalleries.org
Cy Twombly: Quattro Stagioni, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea
The Rome-based American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) took the seasons as inspiration for a monumental cycle of paintings created between 1993-95. Featuring his signature style of abstracted imagery scribbled over with partially legible text, the Quattro Stagioni paintings demonstrate how the artist fused an interest in European literature and history with the free-flowing styles of his abstract expressionist and pre-pop contemporaries.
Until 10 January 2016, www.dlwp.com
Then for Now, Delfina Foundation, London
This fundraising exhibition in support Delfina Foundation’s residency programme includes works by acclaimed alumni of its former incarnation, the Delfina Studio Trust, which provided subsidised or free studio spaces for artists in London during the 1990s. Curated by artist Chantal Joffe and critic Sacha Craddock, works by Turner Prize winners and nominees such as Mark Wallinger, Tacita Dean, Mark Titchner, Jane and Louise Wilson and Anya Gallaccio are included alongside Joffe and 11 other artists.
Until 14 November 2015, delfinafoundation.com
Lister at the Tate, Shed Gallery, Ilkley
Leeds-based Andrew Lister mixes art historical imagery with his own meticulous techniques to create tributes to his favourite artists and their works. For this show at artist-run space the Shed Gallery, he reflects on works by Holbein, Goya, Bacon and Mondrian using a diverse range of materials including a J-Cloth as a support and ivory salvaged from piano keys and then inlaid into an old wooden workbench.
Until 7 November 2015, www.terencehammill.com
Kathryn Elkin and Seamus Harahan, CCA, Derry-Londonderry
Collaboration and an interest in musical performance is the theme here. Kathryn Elkin’s practice typically involves performance, video and writing made with reference to a particular artwork, artist, writer or performer. In this instance she has cast the musician John McKeown as a young, nervous Dustin Hoffman in her film Why La Bamba? Seamus Harahan’s musical collaboration known as Trees Prosper worked with the Irish folk singer Len Graham to produce the performance Along The Faughan Side. A series of recordings of their rehearsals are presented here, reflecting the artist’s interest in social environments and their incidental and fugitive nature.
Until 28 November 2015, cca-derry-londonderry.org
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