Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

A picture of a carousel by Sean Keenan

Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

05/11/2013

'What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?' Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen....

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Burton Morris : Poptastic

04/11/2013

When I paint a coffee cup it is because it represents the coffee shop culture as a whole. Something that is very much a part of my daily life....

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Drifting through Frieze

31/10/2013

Checking out Dürer, Richard Serra and Richard Silver, Trebuchet's art correspondent finds much to interest her outside of Frieze....

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Sean Molloy [Interview]

28/10/2013

The area I live in, in a way, motivates me to work on ways to overcome its inherent ugliness. ...

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A picture by Albrecht Durer, Courtesy of the Courtauld Gallery

The Young Dürer : Courtauld Gallery

24/10/2013

It is through drawing the figure, that the Young Dürer became the highly celebrated Dürer. Review...

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Hanging Offence : Arebyte Gallery

21/10/2013

'We intend to make Arebyte a space dedicated to research and the practice of New Media and Performance arts.' Nimrod Vardi talks to Trebuchet...

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Liu Xiaodong at Lisson Gallery

14/10/2013

There is a modesty and complexity in the self-aware theatricality of his approach that eschews any defined categories or cultural heritage...

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Hanging Offence : Vitrine, Bermondsey Street

07/10/2013

There is nothing better than entering an artist’s studio and just knowing that by collaborating with this person something amazing can be created...

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Art of Peace : Artraker Award Winners

02/10/2013

In conflict, art and creativity can counter some of the media’s shortcomings in communicating the horrors of war and oppression, and remind us of the need to turn our attention, instead, to peace....

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Generation : GV Art

01/10/2013

'Motherhood in a sense is a performance, that the artists too are re-rehearsing'. Trebuchet reports on Generation at London's GV Art gallery....

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Pleading in the Blood : Ron Athey [Book Review]

30/09/2013

Seventeen extensive essays from underworld luminaries of art and music attempt to nail Ron Athey’s ethos and individual practice...

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Robert Mapplethorpe : Fashion Show

26/09/2013

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”R/dropcapobert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show Caution: Borderline NSFW image appears mid-way through text His delicate gaze saw with clarity...

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A picture of Lydia Lunch by Carl Batson

Lydia Lunch Part 2: Allies, Enemies and Joe Rogan.

23/09/2013

If you ever stick around after one of my shows the amount of hugging that goes on is insane. I’m Mother fucking India! ...

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Gromit Unleashed (RWA, Bristol)

18/09/2013

The Gromit trail acted as an excuse to explore the diverse areas of Bristol. It encouraged us to walk round the city, disguising exercise as fun entertainment. ...

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Con-artist. I have respect for that (Lydia Lunch)

16/09/2013

I do feel that it is a calling, to be a mouthpiece for some individuals that just feel they’re screaming and no sound is coming out....

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Hanging Offence : Rebecca Hossack Gallery

09/09/2013

I'm not a fan of the notion that art is some unholy nexus of the fashion/marketing/money/sex industries. Art is about Life....

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A photo by Humphrey Spender

Mass Observation : This is Your Photo

03/09/2013

Spender’s camera is wielded with a candid humour and instinctive eye for capturing what Cartier Bresson refers to as ‘the moment’ of a photographic image....

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Nature Reserves at GV Art

02/09/2013

For all the apparent omnipotence of our universal scientific systems for the analysis, classification and control of nature, she still eludes our grasp...

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A picture by Sarah Sense

Sarah Sense : Weaving Water

26/08/2013

Photography in Weaving Water acts as a political statement, and stands for the social and technological integration of different cultures. ...

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George Catlin and the Indians

22/08/2013

An affecting impression of a man and the affinity which he found with his subjects, though always remaining on the outside. ...

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Amazon ’s Newest Venture: Selling Art

19/08/2013

This grouping together of 100 odd fine art galleries selling expensive artwork through one of the world’s largest corporations creates a very different experience for the buyer....

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Simon Fowler : Interview

18/08/2013

Using a style reminiscent of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, Fowler's labour intensive work has complemented the avant garde work of Dub and Bass group The Bug, doom sonicists Sun O))), Jap-rock...

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Hanging Offence : Giulia Demichelis

12/08/2013

'I often see hesitation in trusting the professionalism of the art business.' Independent curator Giulia Demichelis answers Trebuchet's questions...

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Hanging Offence : Vitrine

05/08/2013

'maybe it is time to start thinking about new ways of talking about how art operates and how we define quality'...

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Word. Sound. Power. (Tate Britain)

29/07/2013

We are in collaboration with the artists. Where work is subtitled we begin to demand the presence of a voice and find ourselves clutching at headsets for dear life. We begin to translate our familiar...

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The Rebirth of Nature : Louise McNaught

25/07/2013

A magical world where animals are gods, magic exists, and things around us possess an ethereal, delicate yet simultaneously bold appearance. LouiseMcNaught at DegreeArt...

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An ABC of Aesthetics

15/07/2013

There is a distinction between art and entertainment, one of them being that art is meant to be hard work. ...

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Cob and Guts (and curation)

08/07/2013

Life in dreams is magnified, multiplied and recycled to form a new visual language that drifts in and out of cognitive understanding. Francesca Goodwin investigates new curatorial approaches at Cob...

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A picture by Gauguin

Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld

01/07/2013

Courtauld literally lived with his collections and so it was the physical composition of the work (such as Gauguin) itself wherein his main interests lay ...

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A picture by Carolina Nino

Caroline Niño [Interview]

26/06/2013

If we create a balance between all the elements in that space placing them strategically around all the space, on balance, in the space between the elements, there is harmony....

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