Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland
What to look forward to in February, from a new body of work by Harare-based painter Misheck Masamvu to a retrospective by Hong Kongese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai
Our February round-up of must-see shows and online projects tackles everything from the realities of living with a disability to what happens we invite our ancestors for dinner. Here are the exhibition highlights from across the UK and Ireland this month.
Misheck Masamvu,
Thoughts before the Rain, 2020, oil on canvas, 174 × 235 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Goodman Gallery, London/ Cape Town
What happens when we invite our ancestors for dinner, asks Misheck Masamvu in his first UK solo show, ‘Talk to Me while I’m Eating’. In a 2018 feature for
Stephen Friedman Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Luis Zerbini
Luiz Zerbini: Fire 2021, exhibition installation. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Mark Blower.
LONDON
.- Juxtaposing organic and geometric forms, Zerbinis paintings explore the relationship between colour, light and movement. Inspired by the Amazon and Mata Atlântica rainforests, the exhibition reflects the artists ongoing interest in the relationship between nature and humanity in and around Rio de Janeiro. The presentation is available to view online from Monday 25 January and will open to the public as soon as government guidance allows.
Across his career, which spans over three decades, Zerbini has developed a complex visual vocabulary at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. He first emerged within the generational (and global) return to painting of the 1980s, centred in Rio de Janeiro around the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts and subsequen