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    22/6/12

    COSMOPOLIS

    David Cronenberg trades in body horror.  Those late night nasties that you used to watch on Channel 4 when you were a kid, only to find years later that these cult classics that made the name of one of the most unique Hollywood minds.  Videodrome, The Fly, Scanners, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash…There's been a period, of about seven years now, where he has turned his hand to more traditional narrative drama - and to great acclaim with films such as A History of Violence, Eastern Promises and last year's A Dangerous Method, the psychological love triangle between Michael Fassbender's Freud, Viggo Mortensen's Jung and their protégé Sabine, played by Keira Knightley.

     

    His new film is an uncomfortable - and uncompromising - amalgam of the two.  Less body horror and more brain horror, it proposes the question, 'What do you do when your fears are realised?'  Those intangible thoughts that trip through your mind before you have a chance to capture exactly what they are?  This is the currency that this film lives on.

     

    Robert Pattinson is Eric Packer, a 28 year old billionaire - a master of the money markets.  He wants a haircut and insists on travelling across the city, despite there being in his way the funeral for a slain rap star and a presidential visit.  Why would this stop him?  Packer is, what Tom Wolfe would describe as 'Master of the Universe'.  In the 1980s, we were given Tom Hanks, but this is the 21st century and the song might remain the same, it's Don DeLillo's source material we're playing with here.  Humanity is as rabid as Cronenberg's film of the same name.  Back to his surreal best (in this reviewer's humble opinion, there are many that would disagree), Cronenberg presents us with his version of downfall and excess; a thoroughly postmodern bonfire of vanity.

     

    Cosmopolis is on general release now.

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    21/6/12

    TWO WEEKS ONE SUMMER

    Time Out London's one-liner summation of this new show of work by Damien Hirst points out how there are none of the artist's figurative paintings in his blockbuster show, but that they can be found here, in his first exhibition at White Cube's new space in Bermondsey.  It's pretty astute.  It's also full of gargantuan ambition, to hold a show of thirty-five paintings in this massive gallery space.  In what promised to be a Damien Hirst year, the artist and his galleries have left no stone unturned.

     

    There are dots, butterflies, birds, dogs and even an installation thrown in for good measure.  Clearly inspired by the geometric perspective of Francis Bacon, there is no question, despite what you may think of the man and his work, that this is 'art' in the traditional sense.  And despite artists and critics telling you that there's little room for value judgements in 'art' inevitably visitors to exhibitions will come away thinking that they either enjoyed it or they didn't - they thought it was good or they thought it was bad.

     

    And here we have Hirst the Fine Artist.  With the exception of the size of the gallery there's little to tell a visitor of the hubris that surrounds the figure of this particular artist.  Which leaves us with the work.  Far beyond this writer to pass a value judgement, though I did enjoy the scale and the presentation of it all.  It's good ol' fashioned art, without the clamour or mess that goes on around it.  Is it any good?  Well, it's art.

     

    Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer is at White Cube Bermondsey until 08 July.

     

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    20/6/12

    ANDY WARHOL: THE PORTFOLIOS

    Despite still being a name on everybody's lips, and the man who practically defined fame in the postmodern world, exhibitions of work by Andy Warhol are surprisingly rare in this country.  It makes this new show, The Portfolios, at Dulwich Picture Gallery a little bit of a treat.

     

    Eighty works drawn from the Bank of America Collection are on display here, covering a span of almost twenty years, from 1965-1984.  Comprised of silkscreen prints, this show presents a detailed cross-section of some of the most significant works by one of the twentieth century's most significant artists.  It's a striking recommendation.

     

    Mingling among the lesser known works are some of the most iconic images created: Warhol on Mohammed Ali and Marilyn Monroe, for example.  Warhol created these icons, he created motifs that, produced cheaply, could be shipped cheaply in mass quantities.  It's what people wanted: colourful, bright and disposable.  These are gorgeous prints.  But that they are where they are and venerated accordingly, Warhol's is the joke that will never get old.

     

    Andy Warhol: The Portfolios opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery today, until 16 September.

     

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