exhibition review Archives - Islington Citizen

The Art of Campari @ The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: ‘you may leave a little thirsty…’

By Ed Sheridan | Wednesday 4 July 2018 |

Fortunato Depero's Distrattamente mise il Bitter Campari in testa (1928). Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Look beyond the famous ‘Luton Airport’ ad – the Milanese apéritif has a history of advertising with stunning Italian art, as exhibited here

Rationalism on Set: Glamour and Modernity in 1930s Italian Cinema, Estorick Collection, exhibition review: a sleek exploration of style on celluloid

By Islington Citizen | Wednesday 2 May 2018 |

Gastone Medin's set design for L’ultima avventura (The Last Adventure; Dir. Mario Camerini, 1932) Photograph: attributed to Aurelio Pesce, courtesy Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale

This photographic voyage through 1930s Italian cinema brilliantly illustrates the twin development of newfangled ‘talkie’ films and mid-century modern design

Gérard Touren, Ordinary People in Tokyo Streets, Sway Gallery, exhibition review: ‘solitary fragments’

By Islington Citizen | Monday 26 March 2018 |

The Old Street gallery is showing work from the French photographer’s time in Tokyo from 2015 – 2017, where he hunted for subjects who put a ‘kink’ in the urban chaos