WRITTEN REVIEW
A collection of my writings on exhibitions, art, music and other creative fields that inspire me.
Most of the reviews are based on exhibitions I’ve personally visited and experienced. Writing them allows me to deepen my understanding through research, exploring the artists’ backgrounds, their works, and the evolving landscape of art.
BACK Kiefer / Vincent van Gogh
05–10–25 The Royal Academy of Arts presents Kiefer / Van Gogh, a striking exhibition that bridges two artists separated by more than a century - Anselm Kiefer, a German painter and artist, and Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch painter of light and emotion...
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Bathers at Asnières
06–10–25 Bathers at Asnières stands as one of Georges Seurat’s most remarkable and defining works. Completed in 1884, it represents an early stage in Seurat’s artistic journey, painted before he developed his pioneering Pointillist technique...
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Mark Rothko
06–10–25 Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk (then part of the Russian Empire, now Latvia), came from a Jewish family that immigrated to the United States to escape persecution. Growing up in Portland, Oregon, he was shaped by both the hardship of displacement and the intellectual curiosity that would later define his art...
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Lee Ufan
06–10–25 Lee Ufan (b. 1936, South Korea) is a leading figure in contemporary Korean art. His work explores the relationships between materials, space, and human perception by blending Eastern and Western philosophical ideas into a minimalist artistic language...
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The Arnolfini Portrait
@The National Gallery
06–10–25 Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait, a small but monumental oil painting on oak now in the National Gallery London, is one of the most iconic works of the Northern Renaissance. Painted in 1434, it shows a richly furnished interior with two full-length figures, identified as the merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, standing in a bedroom...
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Hugh Hayden, Hughmanity
07–10–25 Returning to London for the first time since his 2020 exhibition that was abruptly cut short by the pandemic, Hughmanity by Hugh Hayden (b. 1983) marks a continuation and a transformation in the artist’s practice...
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Deconstructivism
08–10–25 Deconstructivism comes from the idea of “taking apart” or “dismantling” a constructed structure - not to destroy but to uncover new possibilities hidden within their components...
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Theory/Architecture
Suh Do Ho
@Tate Modern
1 May – 26 October 2025
10–10–25 Do Ho Suh (b,. 1962) has spent his life moving between continents from South Korea to the United States, and now London, tracing the invisible lines that connect people to places...
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