Drenched Reviews (2024)

06/05/2024

We have followed with earnest the creative exploits of the Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira since 2009. We finally got to meet him here in London at his studio recently. Here is a short introduction to Henrique and his studios in Leyton Industrial Estate in East London.

We started Drenched Reviews ( https://www.soaked.space ) in 2013 for contemporary art exhibition reviews in London through the lens of poetry. We occasionally report from artist studios and biennales.

See Henrique's website at http://www.henriqueoliveira.com
See video on youtube here: https://youtu.be/u-0IT_DBToI
Also see https://www.soaked.space/.../studio-visit-henrique...

14/04/2024

Exhibition Review - Yuki Nakayama:'After the Rain' A.I. Gallery, London till 2nd June 2024.

“ludic shot full of lucid

slip of a thing thrown in the air
from this plane you never see her angle
outflanked with potential"
- Drenched Co.

Comment: "Nakayama's shapes of play pylons in eroding gradients strobed throws of material action planes, angles, arcs and maths in tosses, slides, elbows and faces gamed wildness in grounded play legs swinging at the edge of a swing into nothingness what is dark matter? gravity and visible matter in a dance tiny beach-damp boxes open to an open sky alternative spaces to a full brown daily humdrum thrown pendulums, trespassing fulcrums and red-heavy delinquents maths and protractors and ruled polygons with broken arches song of a good fight in its rifts and roar, its slips and traverses.

Nakayama's fascinating maps and models of a space where a special order reigns absolute, where an affinity between play and order makes it a 'consecrated space' of play 'rituals', makes me think that she is taking a snapshot of some material action of some kind of embodied practice - the shapes and patterns of an experiential order. I loved Sandbox #1 to #4 ( in picture)." - Raj

See https://a-i-gallery.com/exhibitions/56-after-the-rain-1a-tenter-ground-london-e1-7nh/overview/
See also https://www.soaked.space/2024/04/exhibition-review-yuki-nakayama-after.html

Caption: Image above: Installation view Yuki Nakayama, A.I. Gallery London 2024
Image courtesy of the artist and A.I. Gallery,London.
We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.

19/03/2024

Exhibition Review - Tuan Vu : 'Elysium' Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth, London till 13th April 2024.

“lob an abstract into backwash

glaze snarled up in a mesh

a dreamy wreckage of time"

- Drenched Co.

Comment: "In Elysium, Tuan reaches for what seems like a vanished moment in art history when a frankness in declarations for painted surfaces met the mystic realms of colours that bloomed and receded and collided with conflicting proportions and perspectives and wild designs. Any content apart from ideal dreamy happiness ( Elysium-like) seems to be an affront to the purity of these paintings but Tuan has charmingly managed complexity and seduction simultaneously while giving hints of himself without appearing presumptively autobiographical. Beauty in these paintings, apart from being a web of half hidden clues, suggestions and portents is about an emerging dream-like fullness, a memory of an unfolding life that, for me, touched on a certain stillness where one can receive time." - Raj

See https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/405/overview/

See also https://www.soaked.space/2024/03/exhibition-review-tuan-vu-elysium.html

Caption: Image above: Installation view Tuan Vu 'Elysium' Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth, London.

Image courtesy of the artist and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Wandsworth, London

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.

11/03/2024

Exhibition Review - Martin Cordiano:'In Side Out' Ab-Anbar, London till 6 April 2024.

“Cordiano raises scaffolds
..felt, manifold

and inside..."

- Drenched Co.

Comment: "In 'In Side Out', Cordiano alludes to political discourses that no longer carry utopian ideals. I see Cordiano's objects and spaces as models and scaffolds that are no longer bound by their contracts as metaphors. If the artist is making models, they have become independent of the world and from the particular theory of the world they are designed to demonstrate. If he is building spaces, then their scaffolds sit independent like buildings are independent of architects. They become new ways of thinking about the world. The particular way they are ruptured together reminds me of the failures, the pragmatism, the diversification, the realism and especially the cynicism of today's politics and its spaces. Intimacy in Coridano's objects and spaces is fractured - it panders to the actuation of new conceptions of the world through its autonomous models and scaffolds, continually manipulated and recontextualised." - Raj

See https://ab-anbar.com/exhibitions/53-in-side-out-martin-cordiano/press_release_text/

See also https://www.soaked.space/2024/03/exhibition-review-martin-cordianoin.html

Caption: Image above: Installation view Martin Cordiano 'In Side Out', Ab-Anbar London 2024

Image courtesy of the artist and Ab-Anbar, London.

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. And these views, they are ours only and not those of the gallery or artist.

We take great care not to harm the image in any way. It has not been cropped, altered, montaged or overlaid with text ( only in the separate sections below it) or manipulated in any way. Images are always used with supplied captions. And the views expressed here are solely those of the authors in their private capacity and do not in any way represent the views of the said artists or gallery. - Drenched Co.

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We have followed with earnest the creative exploits of the Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira since 2009. We finally got to meet him here in London at his studio recently. Here is a short introduction to Henrique and his studios in Leyton Industrial Estate in East London. We started Drenched Reviews ( https://www.soaked.space ) in 2013 for contemporary art exhibition reviews in London through the lens of poetry. We occasionally report from artist studios and biennales. See Henrique's website at http://www.henriqueoliveira.com See video on youtube here: https://youtu.be/u-0IT_DBToI Also see https://www.soaked.space/.../studio-visit-henrique... #henriqueoliveira

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