by Exhibition of the week
Mat Collishaw: Move37
How many artists are really “innovative”? Collishaw is. From now on he catches the essence in this scary experiment with AI.
• Seed 130, London, until May 31
Also show
Niki de Saint Phalle and Yayoi Kusama: Inner child
Two legendary, subversive artists together in an insane encounter.
• Opera Gallery, London, until May 5th
Maurizio Cattelan: Bone
The artist, whose gold cloak near Blenheim reveals his latest Ironien and Japes.
• Gagosian Davies Street, London, from April 8th to May 24th
Mark Wallinger: Gravity is the weakest force in the universe
The winner of the Turner Prize shows new works about gravity that reminds us “the weakest force in the universe”.
• Tension art, London, from April 5 to May 31
Anne Collier
Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath and Valerie Solanas are represented by relics in Collier’s photographs.
• The modern Glasgow Institute until May 21st
Image of the week
There can only be a few sewage systems that are designed with the finesse of the new wastewater treatment plant in Arklow EUR 139 million (£ 117 million), which stands like a few Minnygrüner pagodas on the edge of the Irish Sea and whose inspiration was the Sydney Opera House. Read the full article
What we learned
Pete Sedgley, an important employee of the OP artist Bridget Riley, died at the age of 94
The artists shared serious fears about Donald Trump’s attacks on “anti -American art”.
700 Post-IT notes Ed Atkins for his child are central in his new show
New York’s Frick collection will be reopened after a five-year renovation of $ 220 million
Berlin’s works for the Skin project sell works of art that are to be engraved by the human body
The brilliant strange work by Ken Kiff is re -evaluated
A huge new show shows how Paris became a refuge for black artists
Vanessa Bell’s work is created from the shadow of the Bloomsbury group
Tate Modern received a six-meter Joan Mitchell painting from the bedroom of a billionaire
Trees and people merge in Giuseppe Penone Ecstatic New Show
Masterpiece of the week
Saint Sebastian von Matteo di Giovanni, probably 1480-95
How do you survive when you have pierced your body through an arrow shower? After the medieval golden legend, the Roman soldier Sebastian, who was converted into Christianity, pulled through after he was shot many times after he was shot by pagan archers. This made him a popular symbol of endurance, resilience and, above all, recovery from the plague. This painting from the 15th century may not be massively distinguished, but is typical of pictures of Saint Sebastian, which were placed in churches and houses to protect people. It may have been commissioned as a personal prayer or spell.
We have to remember the differentness of the past and the religious atmosphere of previous centuries before we could jump in the obvious interpretation that Sebastian is a gay icon. Even this modest painting emphasizes its nudity, which is portrayed with an elegant combination of muscularity and grace as well as its dreamy face and an arrow directly above his lumbar spine: there is sensuality in his suffering. Homoeroticism and piety may not be mutually excluded: Later medieval religion were looking for emotional contact, and if the secret desire contributed to unlocking them – why not?
• National Gallery, London
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