Peake's painting

Seated figure, 1939, Oil on board, 107 x 55.8 cm

For many years this painting by the author, poet, illustrator and artist Mervyn Peake hung on my office wall. Now it is on the Your Paintings website created by the Public Catalogue Foundation in partnership with the BBC. The website is part of a project to catalogue and photograph every oil painting in public ownership.

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Hans-Peter Feldmann. Una exposición de arte from Museo Reina Sofía on Vimeo.

I first encountered Hans-Peter Feldmann at the Reina Sofia, Madrid. I found his work exciting, inspiration and absolutely in tune with my aim to create a practice that is

• based on observation of the everyday,
• and is fun, playful and humorous.

  

Gabriel Orozco at the Tate

Black Kites, 1997, Graphite on skull

Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco has returned for his first major show on the UK since 2004. His art is observant of the mundane and rooted in everyday life. Orozco does not work in a studio and works with materials and situations as he finds them. ‘For me what is important is not so much what people see in the show,’ says Orozco, ‘it’s what you see after…how your perception of reality is changed…’

His reflections on mortality, the fleeting and the absurd stay with you on leaving the exhibition; things that had become invisible through familiarity are brought into sharper focus. This is not autonomous self-enclosed idealized art; Orozco’s practice is part the real lived world. 

Read the full review.