Barrie Cook Paintings and Drawings 1966-86

Timothy Hilton

Ikon Gallery

Nancy Spero at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1998. Texy by Elizabeth A Macgregor and Catherine de Zegher

Nancy Spero

Macgregor, Elizabeth A.

Santiago Sierra: Works 2002-1990

Arts & Photography

Shiny Dirty

David Batchelor

<p>A young boy and a dwarf give this book its title, but at first glance, it's hard to make out anything like them in Arturo Herrera's collages. Only a closer look will reveal the telling details in the work's rich texture: the bellows of an accordion, a dwarf's cap. Are these pictures representational or abstract? According to Herrera, "The challenge is, how can an image so recognizable, like a dwarf, have another meaning that I impose on it? Is it possible? Can I make something so clear ambiguous? Can I uproot it?" He can: The ambiguity of his collages slows down the gaze so that the figurative and the abstract cease to be simple opposites. And the repeated motif gives the eye free rein to study the method and virtuosity of Herrera's take on abstraction. This recent series of 74 large-format collage works on paper is based on two comic figures: an old dwarf and a young boy who plays accordion. The "front views" come from a children's coloring book, and Herrera commissioned an illustrator to draw "back views" of the figures. These are blown up, colored in and then layered with complex collage structures until the images almost disappear beneath the vivid surface abstraction.</p>

Arturo Herrera

HERRERA, Arturo, Elizabeth Fisher, Dave Hickey, and Juan Ledezma

Individual Artists

Ryan Gander: Heralded as the New Black

Ryan Gander

Jurgen Partenheimer, Discontinuity, Paradox and Precision

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<p>This fully illustrated catalogue was published on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, in 2010 (which traveled to the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, in 2011). The exhibition features Judd’s furniture and related drawings, including chairs, beds, shelves, desks, and tables made from solid wood, metal, and ply. Amongst the works on view are a number of prototypes, including early examples the artist constructed himself, such as Bookshelves (1968) and Children’s Desk (1977), which are rarely shown outside of Judd’s adopted home of Marfa, Texas. This bilingual catalogue (English and German) also includes texts by the artist and design critic Alex Coles.</p>

Donald Judd: A Good Chair Is a Good Chair

Donald Judd

John Salt

John Myers: Middle England

Lewis Paul John Myers

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