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Matt Connor’s paintings are much more than abstractions, they possess a found object quality. Paintings such as Backgammon, combines a stretcher, a roll of found material and a hand-brushed application of Gesso, resulting in an enigmatic monochrome that oscillates between painting and sculpture.[...]

Art (consciously written with a capital ‘A’) has been the concern of philosophers from the beginning, from which art (with a small ‘a’) has historically come out rather badly. In The Republic, Plato determined art as mere imitation, a shadow. For Hegel too, art was essentially locked into notions of history; in 1828 he wrote that art “…in its highest vocation, is and remains for us a thing of the past.” The historical point [1] that witness the equalling-up of this equation [2] may therefore be read as a major philosophical u-turn, which in turn, ushered in the age of post-historicist thought.[...]

Jota Castro is one of the most interesting and active artists today to propagate a political activism within his practice. In the late 1990s, Jota Castro brought his career at the United Nations and the European Union to a close and decided to devote himself totally to the field of art.[...]

For his second exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery, Liam Gillick presents ‘Seven Structures and a large vodka soda…’ The exhibition is a development of one component of his 2008 ‘retrospective’ exhibition ‘Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario’.[...]

Angela de la Cruz’s brutally forces us to consider the relationship between painting and scultpure, inserting a performative element with the destruction and/or transformation of the canvas.[...]

“The Atrocity Exhibition” is a group show dedicated to the sensibilities of the late J.G. Ballard. The eponymous book of stories from 1969 is a chimerical collage of writings that laid the conceptual groundwork for a number of his subsequent novels. The fractal structure of the text, what Ballard referred to as “condensed novels”, acts as a template for this exhibition in an attempt to translate the author’s acute understanding of the human condition.[...]