Masters on the roof of the Bauhaus building, c.1926, From left to right: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/Centre Pompidou, Paris Bauhaus: Art as Life, currently on display at the Barbican Centre,…
Stan Douglas, ‘Suspect, 1950’, 2010 ‘Have I seen these images before?’ one might wonder while looking at Stan Douglas’ new series of photographs currently on display at the Victoria Miro gallery. Presented under the title ‘Midcentury Studio’, the meticulously constructed black and white photographs appear to be taken in the 1940s and 50s by using…
Sandra Kantanen, Untitled (Lake), 2011 The Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen currently has her first UK solo exhibition at the Purdy Hicks Gallery. It is somewhat ironic that the exhibition has the matter-of-fact title ‘Photographs 2009 – 2011′, while the works on display are so much more than just photographs. In fact, Kantanen evidently experiments with…