I first came across the work of Delhi born artist Dayanita Singh in an exhibition and book, Myself Mona Ahmed (2001), a photo-essay about an aging eunuch transsexual (hijra) living in a graveyard in Old Delhi. In this extraordinary body of work – the book contains various different kinds of text alongside the photographs) – one sensed not only compassion, but a collaboration between the person in front of the camera, and the one looking through the lens.
Ruth Rosengarten
Archive 2010 Ruth Rosengarten reviews an exhibition of Italian Renaissance Drawings at the British Museum, London, 22 April – 25 July, 2010.
Crushed, Crumpled, Transformed – Ruth Rosengarten reviews work by Angela De La Cruz at Camden Arts Centre, London – April-May 2010
Heaven and Earth, Richard Long’s serenely exhilarating retrospective exhibition at the Tate Britain art gallery (3 June – 6 September 2009) serves as testimony to a brilliant idea.
Matisse’s Startling Late Works: The Cut-Outs. Tate Modern, 17 April – 7 September 2014 No wonder Henri Matisse is well loved. His works are sensuous, jubilant, gorgeous: they envelop and immerse the viewer in voluptuousness, in light that finds itself materialised as coloured form, coloured space.
By Ruth Rosengarten • art, exhibitions, Year 2014 • Tags: cut-outs, exhibitions, Matisse, Ruth Rosengarten, Tate Modern