Digby Warde-Aldam

1 week ago | artreview.com | Digby Warde-Aldam

We watched Exergue, Dimitris Athiridis’s 14-hour documentary about the one that went wrong, so you don’t have toI recently revisited my notes on Documenta 14 and recalled a rough calculation I’d made.

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Digby Warde-Aldam

Not many artists engage in the maintenance of a private militia, and it seems fair to assume that those who do may be bound to polarise. The Scottish poet, sculptor, ‘avant-gardener’ and would-be revolutionary Ian Hamilton Finlay was just such a figure: and boy, did he polarise. To his fans, he is a cult figure in the true sense, a limitlessly inventive visionary whose Lanarkshire home and garden remain a site of pilgrimage.

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Digby Warde-Aldam

Not many artists engage in the maintenance of a private militia, and it seems fair to assume that those who do may be bound to polarise. The Scottish poet, sculptor, ‘avant-gardener’ and would-be revolutionary Ian Hamilton Finlay was just such a figure: and boy, did he polarise. To his fans, he is a cult figure in the true sense, a limitlessly inventive visionary whose Lanarkshire home and garden remain a site of pilgrimage.

1 month ago | artreview.com | Digby Warde-Aldam

Festim da alma at Mendes Wood DM, Paris interrogates the marginalisation of Black culture in BrazilAntonio Obá has an axe to grind, and quite understandably so. His chief concern is the marginalisation of Black culture in his native Brazil – and the fact that the country has all but buried its considerable debt to Africa in the creation of a national identity. His work is heavy on symbolism, mysticism and allusions to cultural syntheses between Catholicism and Candomblé spiritual traditions.

2 months ago | spectator.co.uk | Digby Warde-Aldam

Tate Modern’s latest exhibition is a bizarre proposition on so many levels. Its subject, the Australian designer, performer, provocateur and club scenester Leigh Bowery, was by all accounts inescapable in London for much of the 1980s and early 1990s. Standing at well over 6ft and weighing 17st, he would have been a conspicuous presence on the capital’s streets even had he not adopted the berserk sci-fi drag attire that became his signature aesthetic.