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Exhibition of the week
Mat Collishaw: Move37
How many artists are “avant -garde” really? Collishaw is. Capture the essence of now in this disturbing experiment with the IA.
Seed 130, London, until May 31st
Also showing
Niki de Saint Phalle and Yayoi Kusama: inner child
Finally two legendary and subversive artists together in a delusion meeting.
Opera Gallery, London, until May 5th
Maurizio Cattelan: Bone
The artist of which Gold Loo was damaged in Blenheim He reveals his last irony and Japes.
Gagosian Davies Street, London, from April 8 to May 24th
Mark Wallinger: gravity is the weakest strength of the universe
The winner of the Turner award shows new work on gravity, which is, reminds us, “the weakest strength of the universe”.
End of art voltage, London, from April 5 to May 31st
Anne Collier
Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath and Valerie Solanas are represented by the relics in Collier’s photographs.
The modern institute, Glasgow, until May 21st
Image of the week
There may be few sewage structures designed with the finesse of the new wastewater treatment plant of 139 million euros (£ 117 million) in Arklow, which stands as a pair of green mint pages on the margins of the Irish sea and whose inspiration was Sydney Opera House. Read the complete article
What we learned
Pete Sedgley, a key collaborator with his colleague artist Op Bridget Riley, died at the age of 94
The artists shared serious fears for Donald Trump’s attacks on “anti-American art”
Post-IT 700-SDD and Atkins notes he did for his son are fundamental in his new show
Berlin’s Works on skin project is selling works of art to be engraved on the human body
The brilliantly strange work of Ken Kiff is re -evaluated
A new great show highlights how Paris has become a paradise for black artists
Vanessa Bell’s work is emerging from the shadow of the Bloomsbury group
Tate Modern received a painting by Joan Mitchell six meters from the billionaire bedroom
Trees and humans merge into Giuseppe Penone New Show
Masterpiece of the week
Saint Sebastian by Matteo Di Giovanni, probably 1480-95
How do you survive to pierce your body from a arrow shower? According to medieval golden legend, the Roman soldier Sebastian, who had converted to Christianity, passed after being hit many times by pagan archers. This made it a popular symbol of resistance, resilience and, above all, recovery from the plague. This painting in the fifteenth century Tuscany may not be enormously distinguished, but it is typical of the images of San Sebastian who have been placed in churches and houses to protect people. It may have been commissioned as a personal or spell prayer.
We must remember the otherness of the past and the religious atmosphere of the former centuries before jumping towards what may seem, for us, the obvious interpretation that Sebastian is a gay icon. Having said that, this humble painting also underlines his nakedness, depicted with an elegant combination of musculosity and grace, as well as his dream face and a arrow just above his thong: there is sensuality in his suffering. Homo -eroticism and pity may not have been mutually exclusive: the subsequent medieval religion has sought emotional contact and if the secret desire has helped to unlock it – why not?
National Gallery, London
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