Minimalism, Van Dyke, Mondrian - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions
10 February, 2012
by: Tom Jeffreys
Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.
From Wednesday 15th February
Colin Glen @ TJ Boulting
Tangled complexity meets stark minimalism in the works of Colin Glen, who has a first solo show with TJ Boulting this February and March. Glen's work starts with found objects - here a jumbled ball of detritus and a simple wire circle - and results in elegant, photoreal pencil on paper drawings that raise interesting questions about the nature (and purpose) of representation.
From Wednesday 15th February
Van Dyck in Sicily @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
An exhibition of paintings by the great Anthony Van Dyck at Dulwich Picture Gallery this spring. The show focuses on the works produced in Palermo from 1624 onwards whilst the city was in the grip of a plague that wiped out most of the population. The famous Portrait of Emanuele Filiberto forms the show's centrepiece before it broadens to consider his work across the rest of that year.
From Friday 17th February
Mondrian / Nicholson @ Courtauld Gallery
An exhibition charting the relationship between one of the pillars of Modernism, Piet Mondrian, and Ben Nicholson - a major name in British twentieth century art. The show aims to explore not just stylistic parallels, but the closeness of the pair's personal relationship - in 1938, for example, Mondrian moved to London and the two worked in neighbouring studios up in Hampstead.
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