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Reflections and Reflexes – The Light Show

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

Light can transform space and alter perception. Experience is the ground for testing psychological reflexes to light and colour. Light has always been a central theme in art, but during the 60's artists started to manipulate light and use it as a material. Doug Wheeler, Dan Flavin and James Turrell...

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Mariko Mori – We are all Stardust

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

Mariko Mori takes you in a sensuous voyage to a cosmic aesthetics and brings you back into nature in a cycle of universal connection. The birth and rebirth of a star is the central theme of Rebirth and is also the path she lays for the visitor. The exhibition at...

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Soutine, a bohemian in Paris

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

Being in Paris is like being in a theme park or a time capsule that transports you to a glorious epoch of art and culture, one that not only was maybe the greatest but that will never come again, so we might as well go to this city to revisit...

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Put on a Frederik Lens

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

The first impression can deceive you. The proof is at the “Out of the Blues” exhibition at waterside contemporary in London until January 23rd. As you walk into the exhibition space, at a first glance you see random objects scattered on the floor and think: “what’s that?”. At a second...

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Anish Kapoor at Lisson Gallery (10 Oct – 10 Nov 2012)

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

As I walked to Bell Street in a London foggy day I was already expecting to entre an almost church-like ambient that most of his exhibitions assume. As I went in the gallery the first piece that caught my attention was a tiny hole on the wall, I looked and...

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FRIEZE London 2012

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

Wandering through the busy corridors of the greatest contemporary art fair in London, my eyes did not know where to look with so many works of art in display. The paintings caught my attention the most, like Fiona Rae’s Something is about to happen (2012) at Timothy Taylor Gallery, representing London’s...

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Rothko/Sugimoto at Pace Gallery London

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

Pace Gallery opens its first space in London with 8 acrylic on canvas paintings from the series of Grey Paintings of the Russian-American abstract expressionist Mark Rothko in parallel with 8 gelatin silver prints from the series Seascapes of the contemporary Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Until November 15^th the exhibition...

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My First Thursdays

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

I was planning on going to First Thursdays for quite a while now, a late night art event on the first Thursday of every month in east London. Since I first moved here in April I have been trying, until this month I finally got to go. There is a pretty...

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Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

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Thank God for art dealers and collectors, if it wasn’t for them many great works of art would have been lost. This is the case for the mythical Picasso prints from The Vollard Suite. Commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, the greatest avant-garde Paris dealer and print publisher of his day, Picasso...

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Tate Tanks

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Manoela Bowles in Articles

It is a very exciting journey to enter Tate Modern’s new exhibition space in what used to be underground oil tanks at the former power station turned into art museum. Rehabilitated by architects Herzog & de Meuron, responsible for the original refurbishing of the place, the spaces kept their raw...

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