Rozemin Keshvani

The room is filled with a marginalised violence, the floor littered with the memories of physical violations. Large sheets of brown parcel paper mostly crumpled, some packed into lugubrious misshapen balls, limbless anthropomorphic forms.  (continued)

The readymade, monochromatic colours and minimalist ideas are all embedded in works which John Nixon  characterises as ‘non-objective constructed paintings’. Nixon, whose shows are self-curated (read more)

Gustav Metzger died yesterday at the age of 90. His immovable resolve to resist the art market and his deep and unyielding belief that art is and must be politically and socially engaged are commitments from which he never wavered. Here was an artist with an unrelenting resolve to 'rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light.' (continued)

Painted in black, graffiti-like on a wall outside the Longside Gallery  are the letters 'Wp Wp Wp' onomatopoeia for the sound made by helicopter blades as they whoop-whoop through the air. It is playful, mischievous, yet ominously suggestive of a sound we equate with danger, apprehension, even fear.   (continued)

Pip Benveniste involvements and collaborations with contemporaries place her among the most avant-garde of British artists who were searching for new ways of responding the experience of life during and after World War II...(continued)

Silent Explosion is an ambitious exhibition of the work and life of Ivor Davies set against the backdrop of the artist’s meticulously assembled archive, the jewel of which is unquestionably Davies’ exceptional collection of materials from the 1966 Destruction in Art Symposium. 

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