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September 3, 2008

Artist Hew Locke's familiar preoccupations - the iconography and trappings of rule, and the relationship between those in power (for example the British monarchy) and their subjects - have gone intergalactic in his new show, The Kingdom Of The Blind. The ground-floor gallery at Rivington Place is filled with towering fetish objects, hulking great forms standing totemic against the wall, the private collection of some demagogic ruler. Get up close to these figures -......

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July 24, 2008

The excellent mini-season of films at Rivington Place, which has accompanied the gallery's Oscar Muñoz retrospective (pictured), concludes tonight with the dreamlike Japanese fable Woman In The Dunes. The kind of flick you might have expected had Beckett or Sartre ever picked up a Bolex, the bonkers plot is about a man who becomes ensnared in a strange woman's house at the bottom of a sandpit and embarks on a Sisyphean struggle to escape. The......

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July 9, 2008

Can't decide on whether to take an umbrella or a sombrero out in this ever-changeable climate? The answer's both, unfortunately, so we recommend that instead of facing the elements you bed down in a hushed auditorium, where this week's selection includes a season of films from an island where the sunshine is just that little bit more reliable. Thursday As part of their retrospective of Oscar Munoz, which we reviewed last month, Rivington Place......

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June 17, 2008

London has been awash with modern Colombian art over the past year. Doris Salcedo's Tate crack (and accompanying White Cube retrospective) were followed by Once More With Feeling at the Photographer's Gallery, which wrapped up last week. One of the contributors to that exhibition, Oscar Muñoz, has his first solo European show that opened last week at Rivington Place in Shoreditch. Mirror Image cherry picks a number of pieces from across the span of......

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