Art to Another Level

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The 'Parasol unit' gallery presents us the artist Rayyane Tabet, born 1983 in Lebanon. This exhibition at Parasol brings together a number of works from the past 13 years of his practice.

He's offering us alternative perceptions or paradoxical views of political and personal events within the parameters of sculpture and found objects. Rayyane explores the relationship between past and present, memory and reality, subjective and objective histories giving a reach meaning to his sculptural installations.

In 1946, the company 'Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company' was created to build and run a 1,213 km long, 77 cm wide steel tube that would carry oil from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean Sea.

It remains the only physical object that crosses the borders of Saudi Arabia , Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

The gallery 'Victoria Miro' presents 'Return to the Real' an exhibition of new works by Doug Aitken. Conceived as a composition of sound, light, form and movement, the exhibition explores the changing relationship to another world dominated by technology.

The American artist and filmmaker is looking to introduce the notions of connectivity and freedom, reminding us how defining is our generation. The exhibition creates a fragmented narrative of today's digital landscape, inviting the viewer to pause , stop and evaluate their surroundings.

In the ground floor gallery, a figure, crystallized in translucent acrylic, appears resting at a wooden table with shopping bags discarded on the floor and a phone just out of reach. It looks like someone being frozen stopped by time.

The sculpture emanates and pulses different colorful lights, choreographed together with an original sound composition of layered vocals. This is a portrait of a modern landscape in transition, suspended between the physical and the screen world.

All doors open, 2019

Acrylic, LED, wood

94.6 x 304.8 x 213.4 cm

In the first - floor gallery, an installation of a young woman paused in an introspective moment, her form carved from Zebrino marble. The figure is split in half revealing a chamber of faceted mirror that causes reflected light to flow through and beyond the body. The luminous kaleidoscopic effect behind the sculpture offers us a dynamic light wall. The figure fluctuates between motion and stillness. In my opinion, the sculpture represents us as a broken and incomplete person.

Inside Out 2019

Zebrino marble

stainless steel

178.1 x 117.2 x 122.2 cm

The third gallery 'Whitechapel Gallery' is presenting the Anna Maria Maiolino's exhibition - Making Love Revolutionary.

She constructs a fascinating world rooted in human conditions such as fragility and resistance using only simple materials like clay, paper and ink. The exhibition explores themes of migration, language, everyday life, the body, matter and materiality, which are at the heart of Maiolino's art.

The title 'Making Love Revolutionary' - created under the radar of Brazil's military regime - refers to the Argentinean mothers who protested the disappearance of their children during this military dictatorship in the 1980's.

Contemporary art at Whitechapel Gallery

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The last gallery 'Rivington place' is presenting the artist Lina Iris Viktor's exhibition - SOME ARE BORN TO ENDLESS NIGHT - DARK MATTER. She's merging photography, painting and sculpture with 24-karat gold exploring at the same time historical, cultural and material implications of 'blackness' - as color, value and socio-political consciousness.

Gallery 1& Gallery 2 present some mixed-media installation dominated by polyvalent black opacities, luminescent gold and opulent ultramarine blue. She once remarked:

''I only see the absolute beauty and the depth of black... Black to me is the proverbial 'materia prima': the first matter, blackness as source, the dark matter that birthed everything.''