Could it be that abstraction has finally fallen in step with the zeitgeist? No longer a martyr laid to rest in the boneyard of rarefied aesthetic ideals, it has risen again as both observer and critic of the rise of the ‘mega city’ and...
Franz West was a child of post-war Vienna. Like so many Austrian artists of his generation, his thought and his art were shaped by the sense of living in the aftermath of unspeakable atrocities, and by the suspicion that the society...
Tate Liverpool’s major show of Fernand Léger- his first in Britain for 30 years- hosts the great Cubist innovator’s murals alongside 30-plus canvasses, not to mention publications, photographs, and experimental films. It’s clear from...
Tate Modern is really pulling in the crowds with its new show, ‘Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory’: it’s looking as if they may well have another monster Hockney-sized hit on their hands. Instantloveland braved the...
Riding in on the slipstream of its current show, ‘Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism’, RWA Bristol’s ‘Abstract Painting Now’, co-hosted by the University of Gloucestershire, is a one-day symposium focusing on ‘the current status...
Palimpsest, eh? Hard to spell; even harder to say, after the fourth visit to the punch bowl on New Year’s Eve; but very easy to love, as the countless Instagram snaps of peeling plaster and paint will testify: we’re all in...
Unimpressed by the local talent, many a young, ambitious British artist of the 1950s and 1960s had their head turned by the rugged good looks and outlaw charm of American Abstract Expressionism. However, Instantloveland has been around...
In the astonishing, beautiful gallery spaces of the Fundació in Barcelona that bears his name, ‘Antoni Tàpies: Political Autobiography’ gathers together a large selection of the artist’s paintings, assemblages and prints, alongside...
William Tillyer turned 80 this year. To mark the occasion, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is serving up a hefty helping of his recent work, which fuses the luscious paint handling of the British landscape tradition with this...
