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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin
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https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London. https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · Sep 1
Announcing: INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual
Out 12 November. Pre-order now: buff.ly/cYWH4jK

With Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, Marcas Lancaster.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 1d
Amir and I spoke to Jack Jewell about the ends of homosexuality - and the forthcoming publication of Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 2d
There a couple of spots left on our philosophy of history course.
Join us for chaos, stasis, progress, and providence.

Fortnightly meetings start on 28 October.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 8d
With J.F. Martel, Quentin S. Crisp, Jack Hunter, @petersjostedth.bsky.social, and Daniel Corrick.

📅 8 November, 2–6pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
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Back to Haunt Us » Verdurin
How do we accept the incompleteness of the universe itself — not merely our limited knowledge of it — without becoming lost in the arbitrary nature of meaning?
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 8d
Coming up at Verdurin: Back to Haunt Us - From the Supernatural to the Paranormal.

How do we accept the incompleteness of the universe itself — not merely our limited knowledge of it — without becoming lost in the arbitrary nature of meaning?
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 13d
not counting, that is, the machines in China which likely fabricated its substance.

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Sophie Huckfield: Lady Ludd at Outpost, Norwich ★★☆☆☆ - pierre d'alancaisez
Huckfield crowbars made-up heroes into past revolutions to pose as the saviour in the next one.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 13d
The whole thing’s a category error; art’s gender and class projections occlude matters more tightly than the cloud. Huckfield crowbars made-up heroes into past revolutions to pose as the saviour in the next one. Yet she still needed the help of eight ‘workers’ to mount her installation,
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 13d
hammers, offers zero insight. The verbiage in the handout – more laboured, sadly, than the artefacts – tries to intersectionalise the Industrial Revolution, proposing that Ned Ludd’s campaign against the Spinning Jenny might have been more successful had both of them come out as non-binary.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 13d
notes and notices: Sophie Huckfield: Lady Ludd at Outpost, Norwich ★★☆☆☆

How does contemporary art support the labour struggle against AI and automation? Huckfield’s question is rhetorical, surely. Her manual weaving loom, refashioned into an electronic musical instrument, adorned with Luddite
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
Last night at Verdurin with Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert, Noah Perez, Ester Freider, Daniel Neil, and Rose Lyddon.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
Last night at Verdurin with Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, Thomas Peermohamed Lambert, Noah Perez, Ester Freider, Daniel Neil, and Rose Lyddon.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
much to do in her frame. The result captivates before revealing itself to be dead boring.

--link-in-bio
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Tacita Dean: Black, Green, Green and White at Frith Street Gallery ★☆☆☆☆ - pierre d'alancaisez
Film studies lost to mobile video; Dean phones it in.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
Boris Mikhailov and his wife Vita. The subjects, whom Dean stages in the shadow of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, inspire interest inherently. This could have been a tender portrait of an ageing couple’s stillness, or any number of things, really. But Dean gives the Mikhailovs both too little and too
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
one wouldn’t know it. One wouldn’t need to because such imagery is perfectly serviceable student dorm decoration. In the gallery, however, it is so quotidian that it barely distinguishes itself from the degree show.

Worse, though, is the forty-minute-long film portrait of the Ukrainian photographer
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
nconsequential light paintings and film sprocket drawings in the gallery’s main space and a torturous 16mm film portrait of another film master in the basement – makes no effort on behalf of its subjects, let alone the medium.

Dean’s slate drawings and Polaroid doodles relate to Shakespeare, but
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
notes and notices: Tacita Dean: Black, Green, Green and White at Frith Street Gallery ★☆☆☆☆

Phoning it in makes little sense in the age of the WhatsApp message, and film studies lost to video a long time ago. Dean was once good at this transition. This two-segment exhibition – consisting of i
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
one. If ‘life’s death’ is what he captures, might the painter’s palette – only a small nudge of the colour wheel separates his work from Tretchikoff’s infamous portrait of the Chinese girl – be but a gimmick?

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Victor Man: The Absence That We Are at David Zwirner ★★★☆☆ - pierre d'alancaisez
Man's colours are only a small nudge of the wheel from Tretchikoff’s infamous portrait of the Chinese girl.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
night in a Gypsy girl’s hair, with a bunch of (moon?) flowers for good measure. Skulls abound, as do breasts bared for feeding, as though to complete some cycle.

But there is no end in sight, and that’s the rub; Man’s other dealer is down the road, this show’s key painting unsold since the last
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
many to life’s ends and its beginning; his portraits, rendered in rich emerald (or copper), capture men, women, and infants faced with their finitude. Not always, all be it, willingly.

This constellation has Man draw himself into art history’s top trumps: there’s a Vincentian self-portrait, starry
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 14d
notes and notices: Victor Man: The Absence That We Are at David Zwirner ★★★☆☆

To say that Man is preoccupied with death is to make a poor joke. What the artist and the gallery punter share, however, is a profound fear of an unknowable reality. Man, the painter, spent decades coming closer than
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 16d
Writer and co-editor of The Toe Rag magazine Noah Perez will read in Tomorrow's Recitations at Verdurin.

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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 16d
Writer and Mme Verdurin's protégé Daniel Neill will read from his forthcoming novel "As Trees Walking" in Thursday's Recitations.

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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17d
On the shelves at Verdurin: Shibboleth by Thomas Peermohamed Lambert.
A darkly comic tale that brings the satirical English campus novel into the divided, multicultural, hyperactive present day.

Thomas will read in Recitations this Thursday - only a couple of tickets left!
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17d
in a birdcage, turn sickly ‘cute’ like a Labubu. They speak over the wind’s rush with childlike ennui of an artist making work solely for himself.

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Maso Nakahara: Floating Through Time at Pippy Houldsworth ★★★★☆ - pierre d'alancaisez
Biblical floods, the comet’s fall, and the odd tsunami mercilessly toss Nakahara’s protagonists about.
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17d
in point. Biblical floods, the comet’s fall, and the odd tsunami mercilessly toss his protagonists about before the painter makes for them a life raft of cherry blossom. The canvases, small enough to protest innocence, are disarming enough. Their sculptural companions, like the pair of child lovers
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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 17d
notes and notices: Maso Nakahara: Floating Through Time at Pippy Houldsworth ★★★★☆

Houldsworth’s programme doesn’t get the recognition it may deserve, perhaps because so much of it looks ‘outsider’ as a matter of branding. Nakahara’s mix of studied naïveté and accidental surrealism is a case
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