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Seductive stitches, Warhol in Nottingham and an Italian giant’s igloo sculpture – the week in art
Jessica Rankin sews up painting, arte povera’s Mario Merz comes in from the cold and Andy Warhol brings pop to the Midlands – all in your weekly dispatch
Jessica Rankin
This New York artist’s abstract works hover between embroidery and painting and have a seductive, lyrical beauty.
• White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, 28 January to 28 February
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“Art in sixteenth-century Florence was not a “soft” activity compared with the real world where “hard” reality prevailed. Images were powerful. Paintings and statues in churches could possess miraculous powers or manifest protective saints.”
― The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo And The Artistic Duel That Sparked The Renaissance
― The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo And The Artistic Duel That Sparked The Renaissance
“Today, in sixteenth-century Italy, says Machiavelli, the pieties of the Church honour weakness and celebrate “humility.” Christianity’s tranquillizing effect pacifies citizens and makes them easy to tyrannise.”
― The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo And The Artistic Duel That Sparked The Renaissance
― The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo And The Artistic Duel That Sparked The Renaissance
“Perhaps that is part of Magritte’s point. We exist, and then we don’t. The world will be there when we are gone. The dull factuality of physical things does not need human perception to make it persist. Thinking about this through Magritte’s eyes becomes terrifying: that when you leave your home and lock the door all the objects in it still exist, unconscious as they are, without any need to be known, to be seen, by a conscious human.
That’s one eerie way of looking at it, but there is no easy way to “decode” a Magritte painting. His art placidly and calmly asks terrifying questions about the solid things we take for granted.
You know nothing, smiles the bowler-hatted magician, as he pulls away the rug from under your feet to reveal there’s no floor, either. And that’s not even a pipe you’re holding in your hand.
"This is not an article: why René Magritte is a timeless genius”
―
That’s one eerie way of looking at it, but there is no easy way to “decode” a Magritte painting. His art placidly and calmly asks terrifying questions about the solid things we take for granted.
You know nothing, smiles the bowler-hatted magician, as he pulls away the rug from under your feet to reveal there’s no floor, either. And that’s not even a pipe you’re holding in your hand.
"This is not an article: why René Magritte is a timeless genius”
―
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