Two things to quickly mention, two stimulating art things, two rather different things that we must mention before the Spring Bounce really does distract everything…
Peter Kennard – Silent Coup at a/political – Opening on Friday 19th May and running until 1st July 2023, with a preview opening night private view or whatever you want to call it on Thursday 18th May, 6pm until 9pm (I think you might need ot get on a list – info at a-political dot org should sort it out). Based on a new book of the same name by investigative journalists Claire Provos and Matt Kennard, we can expect new work from the ever rewarding, ever challenging, never compromising Peter Kennard .
“The project marks the father and son duo’s first creative collaboration and sees Peter respond to complex issues including the unstoppable rise of global corporate power and the political interference of super-corporations in functioning democracies, who dictate how resources are allocated, territories are governed, and justice is defined”.
“This new work is concerned with finding ways to show the rise of corporate power, how it encroaches into every pore of our being as well as the Earth itself. The work tries to rip through the veil of share price listings and corporate logos by showing the results of profit at all costs – poverty, war, state violence, climate catastrophe.” Peter Kennard
a/political is at 6 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AA. The gallery is open 10am until 6pm, Tuesday through to Saturday.
Meanwhile Richard Kenton Webb invites you to “Please join myself, Benjamin Rhodes and Dr Richard Davey in conversation next Wednesday 24th May at 6.30pm at Benjamin Rhodes Arts, Shoreditch, London surrounded by my recent drawings and paintings and asking some important questions that we wrestle with as human beings in 2023. See you soon, best wishes Richard”.
Richard’s rather rewarding exhibition is currently on at Benjamin Rhodes Arts, I expect the talk will be rather stimulating, the show certainly is, there’s a thought or two about it here – ORGAN THING: Richard Kenton Webb at Benjamin Rhodes Arts. Painting as subversion? The great other? Paintings clever enough to not need to…
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Previously on these pages….
THE ORGAN 