Artist-led London gallery unveils strategy for eclectic displays, diversity of disciplines
Yinjie Sun aka Sunny, artist, art instructor and gallerist, has been on a trajectory that is best noted for encapsulation of time, packing decades into years, months into days, or so it seems. Arriving in London in the later part of the last decade as a foundation student at Camberwell College of Arts, on the lower rungs of the University of the Arts London system, Yinjie Sun promptly set to work on raising his painterly profile with...
Yaw Obuobi: Narrator of yarns
Yaw Obuobi tells stories as he spins a yarn or two, but mostly more than two, more likely hundreds, or thousands. A selection of fruit of his painstaking work on ‘paintings’ made entirely of yarn, at the Gallery of African Art 14 July-13 August 2016, reminds us that Africa’s love of textiles is borne over a very long thread indeed. Archaeological forays into prehistory—what we do not know well enough—has yielded...
Homage to Abbas Kiarostami, mystic moviemaker
Abbas Kiarostami, artist, poet, philosopher and moviemaker, has died after a battle with gastrointestinal cancer. In 2005 he featured in a special Eastern Art Report tribute, Abbas Kiarostami in Eastern Art Report. One of Kiarostami’s most celebrated works, the 1997 film Taste of Cherry, was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. “Abbas Kiarostami, who had travelled to France for treatment, has died,” the...
Art generation: Bahrain showcases ‘art across borders’
The minuscule state of Bahrain, morphed from an emirate into a kingdom 14 years ago, is striking out to win international recognition for its own home-grown contemporary art scene on the heels of last year’s commercial fair initiative, ArtBahrain. In what evidently is the next instalment of that effort, 17 artists will show their work in a London exhibition, Bahrain Art Across Borders, which abbreviates neatly as BAAB or baab,...
Coming ‘home’—Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern
A little late in coming to London, a major Mona Hatoum retrospective opens at Tate Modern 4 May 2016, in a well-deserved British showing of the artist’s work through the years in the home of her choice, writes Sajid Rizvi. The survey show is the largest featuring Mona Hatoum’s work, though other shows abroad have also brought together her oeuvre from collections near and far. Palestinian Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut and...
Ramu Ramdev, an underrated master
Modern art teachers may snigger and seek to suppress it, but contemporary miniature painting is alive and well in a vast expanse of South Asia and beyond, and India’s Ramu Ramdev is one of its influential practitioners and proponents. The artist has just concluded his third cycle of five-day workshops for enthusiasts at the Bhavan Centre of art in West Kensington. But it’s almost certain that he will return to wider...
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