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Published in livemint, December 2011
Photographer Dayanita Singh’s book House of Love is this vivid dreamscape; a book of film stills that have yet to leave the dark room. She plays visualizer to a Proustian narrative, to the slow-motion descriptions of an insomniac who is unable to sleep in an unfamiliar hotel room in a town he doesn’t know too well.
One of the most significant photographers of our generation, Singh’s work has let go of context and captions over time. She has charted a different route, one that is less about capturing the moment and more about reflection. While she has shown herself to be a visual poet with her previous photo-books such as Go Away Closer (2007) and Dream Villa (2010), with this she takes on prose.
http://www.livemint.com/2011/12/01201658/An-insomniac8217s-guide-to.html?h=B
Related Artists: Dayanita Singh
Published in The Church Times, 4th November 2011
Dumas’s work is both bold and fragile, brash and delicate; passages of cool minimalism — blank spaces and unpainted charcoal lines — combine with the textured gestural brushstrokes of vigorous expressionism: a stylistic both/and that complements her imagistic exploration of the reality of paradox.
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=120059
Related Artists: Marlene Dumas
Related Exhibitions: Marlene Dumas: Forsaken
Published in The Guardian, November, 2011
The most introspective, serious and moving of all these posters has to be Fiona Banner’s design for the Paralympics, a painted prose poem about the wonder of human, or superhuman, achievement.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/nov/04/london-2012-olympic-posters-britart
Related Artists: Fiona Banner
Published in Time Out, November, 2011
A powerful show of paintings, ‘Forsaken’ pits Jesus against Phil Spector, Amy Winehouse and Osama bin Laden. Ossian Ward enters an arena of doubt and talks to the artist Marlene Dumas
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/event/240057/marlene-dumas-forsaken
Related Artists: Marlene Dumas
Related Exhibitions: Marlene Dumas: Forsaken
Published in The New Yorker, October, 2011
The enormous projection screen, known as the Monolith, was placed directly in front of the east wall, and when the Turbine Hall grid appeared on screen, it was as if the wall itself with pulsing with life. Triangles, circles, a grasshopper, red berries, a pink flower, a toe, Mount Analogue, a flickering light bulb—images succeeded one another on the grid, in richly colored syncopation. “FILM” was spectacular but not imposing, its silent procession of images odd and intimate.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/31/111031fa_fact_eakin
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
Published in The Telegraph, October, 2011
If film is a medium that seemingly lacks a physical presence or substance, and is instead one which flickers and fades phantasmagorically before us and then persists largely in the memory, then this immateriality is echoed in Dean’s films, capturing that which is fugitive or fleeting – light changing, places or people before they vanish, time passing.
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
Published in The Guardian, October, 2011
Tacita Dean is a very English artist, I thought as I watched black and white waves, a sea of mist, and a fountain flicker in and out of her superb film in the Tate Turbine Hall. The atmosphere of film, as stuff, as celluloid, that it creates made me think of classic English films like Night Mail or Fires Were Started. Also, of the first work I ever saw by Dean.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/oct/19/tacita-dean-art-english
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
Published in The Arts Desk, October, 2011
Some images, such as a fountain, tree or sunlight filtering through leaves, fill the entire screen and, since the film is silent, such moments assume an almost religious intensity. Tate Modern has often been referred to as a cathedral of culture and, in this context, the east window assumes the significance of the east window of an actual cathedral; in some shots, a cathedral window even replaces parts of the industrial structure.
http://www.theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/tacita-dean-film-tate-modern
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
Published in BBC News, October, 2011
The artist is using the opportunity of being asked to fill this very public platform to raise awareness of what she says is the imminent demise of film; as a medium for making and presenting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15238480
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
Published in The Guardian, October, 2011
The Turbine Hall is both set and cinema, a real place and a place of illusions in Dean’s Unilever commission. The more I think about it, the richer and more complex it gets. We are projectors too, life clattering through our brains. Film looks totally new and oddly out of time, with its cutaway images, hand-painted mountains, rivers of lightning like pulsing nerves, beautiful rocking reflections of leaves in water, sunsets glancing through foliage. Dean’s eye, and that of her young son Rufus, peer out as though through keyholes cut in the layered image.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/10/tacita-dean-film-review
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
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