Today is predicted to be a scorcher in London with soaring temperatures. If you’re looking for some shade, check out these three cool summer shows.
Don’t miss The Human Factor at the Hayward Gallery. It’s weird, entertaining, eye-grabbing, thought-provoking and at times disturbing. Twenty-five big deal artists use the human body to explore issues such as voyeurism, political violence, sexuality and mortality. Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Katherina Fritsch, and Maurizio Cattelan are just a handful of the talents involved. Below is the headless ‘Girl Ballerina’ by Yinka Shonibare. With her finger on the trigger, she a far cry from Degas’s demure ballerina.
The shimmering android clubber below is by artist Isa Genzken.
Cattalan shocks with ‘Him’. Is he a little boy?
Or a monster? What is he praying for? Forgiveness or more horror?
Next up scoot over to Tate Modern where several works by Russian painter Kazimir Malevich are bound to dazzle. As early as 1915 he broke with the expressionists and produced bold, colourful, geometric pictures that still look fresh and modern now.
Oh, I know exactly where this could go in my living room…
Brilliant red…
And for some light relief go to the Royal Academy and see the world through Dennis Hopper’s lens. My favourite piece of eye candy – artist Ed Ruscha looking very Sean Penn-esque.
July, 2014
