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John Quin

John Quin is a writer based in Brighton, UK, and Berlin, Germany. 

EU Reviews , Reviews
Is it a Sound Piece, or a Painting? The Subtle Transfigurations of Female Gutai Artist Atsuko Tanaka

Tanaka’s retrospective at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, reveals humour and radicality in everyday things

 

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Reviews
How Cecily Brown’s Ambiguous Canvases Mirror the Political Instabilities of Our Times

A retrospective at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art reveals the painter’s universe: life as a vortex of activity, sound and fury which may ultimately symbolize nothing

BY John Quin |
Critic's Guides
‘Political Art Sharper Than a Razor Blade’: Postcard From Montevideo

From shows exploring transgender issues to work featuring politicians prancing with toilet bowls, much has changed in the Uruguayan capital 

BY John Quin |
Reviews
David Lamelas's Works Have a Life of Their Own

The Argentinian artist's playful, wise and, at times, prophetic work on show at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

BY John Quin |
EU Reviews , Exhibition Reviews
Axel Kasseböhmer's Rebellious Landscapes

All three galleries of Sprüth Magers’s Berlin space are given over to the late artist’s painterly evolution, much of which is long unseen

BY John Quin |
Reviews
Pieter Schoolwerth

Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

BY John Quin |
Reviews
Jonathan Gardner

Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK

BY John Quin |