DAVID YARROW, 2019 ‘JUDGE AND JURY’, ‘RAJASTHAN’; ARCHIVE GALERIE MAX HETZLER, BERLIN | PARIS © ALBERT OEHLEN OHNE TITEL, 1989; OHNE TITEL, 1993; © BEN TURNBULL MADE IN AMERICA, 2019; © JOHN RUSSO MCQUEEN; COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES ROSENQUIST YELLOW APPLAUSE, 1966t took wildlife photographer and
conservationist David Yarrow 11
trips to the mountains of Rwanda
to capture the perfect shot of a
silverback gorilla. Earlier this year he had
another close encounter in India, when
he met a massive male tiger cooling o at
the entrance to a cave in Rajasthan. To
see these and other spectacular images
by Yarrow, head to Pride Rock at the
Maddox Gallery in Mayfair and
Westbourne Grove until October 23. I
James Rosenquist started o as a painter of commercial
billboards before becoming one of the key gures of
Pop art. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Dover Street,
which represents the Rosenquist estate, is now
exhibiting the artist’s paintings from the 1960s, Pop
art’s heyday, as well as preparatory works for some of
his most celebrated canvases (until November 9).SWINGINGSIXTIESEye ofthe
TIGER
Love him or loathe him, Donald
Trump’s eect on artists is
undeniable, inspiring more protest
art in mainstream art spaces than
we’ve seen in decades. British artist
Ben Turnbull has created a portrait
of Trump (above) composed entirely
of cutouts of Alfred E. Neuman, the
ctitious cover boy of the U.S.
humour magazine MAD. It goes on
display at the Bermondsey Project
Space (October 15-November 2)
alongside collages of Native
American chiefs assembled from
comics and pulp novels which told
stories of cowboys vs “Indians” to
disguise the reality of widespread
slaughter of indigenous peoples.Ê
If you’re in
London at the
beginning of
November, art will be
all around you.
Photographs of classes of
schoolchildren, aged seven and
eight, by the artist and
Oscar-winning director of Twelve
Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
(above), will be plastered on
hundreds of billboards throughout
the city. The photos, more than
1,500 in total, will then go on display
at Tate Britain (November 12-May 3,
2020) as part of a project organised
with the non-proit arts production
agency Artangel and the educational
charity A New Direction.Back to School
ÊMan with the Mirror
The endlessly inventive German artist Albert
Oehlen has spent four decades shifting from style
to style in an ongoing investigation of painting and
its possibilities. Although he is little known in
Britain, the Serpentine Gallery is hosting a long
overdue survey of the artist’s work from the last
two decades (October 2-January 12, 2020) while
Galerie Max Hetzler on Dover Street is showing
Oehlen’s mirror paintings, dating from 1982 to
1990 (until November 16). TRUMP CARD
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