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| | | | Titanic talents, fabulous florals and a river of black stone – the week in art | | | Emii Alrai homes in on Vesuvius, Cézanne and Manet go on display and Yayoi Kusama shows us her green fingers – all in your weekly dispatch | | | | River of Black Stone by Emii Alrai. Photograph: © Compton Verney | | | | | Exhibition of the week Emii Alrai: River of Black Stone
Sculptures and installations that respond to Compton Verney’s collection of paintings of Vesuvius, the volcano that buried Pompeii.
• Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 15 February to 15 June Also showing Goya to Impressionism
Fine paintings by titanic talents such as Cézanne and Manet but this show has no energy or purpose. Read the review here.
• Courtauld Gallery, London, until 26 May Flowers – Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture
A huge bouquet of floral imagery in contemporary art, from Elizabeth Blackadder to Yayoi Kusama.
• Saatchi Gallery, London, until 5 May Artists’ Bookmarket
Weekend festival of the artist’s book, featuring Lydia Davies, David Faithfull and more.
• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 15-16 February Salt Cosmologies
Installation and exhibition by artist duo Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser) about the political economy of salt.
• Somerset House, London, 20 February to 27 April Image of the week | | | | | Untitled, Linder, 1976. Photograph: Tate | | | In 1977, the punk band Buzzcocks released a single called Orgasm Addict, with a record sleeve as jolting as the song’s title. Linder Sterling, Manchester’s punk and dada genius, created the collage which depicted a lean and muscular, oiled-up naked woman with an iron for a head and smiling, lipsticked mouths for nipples. It was scary, sexy and shocking. Read more here. What we learned Surrealism’s ignored female artists are having a late boom in recognition JMW Turner believed in the redemptive power of landscape art Henri Matisse’s favourite model was his illegitimate daughter, Marguerite Thousands of artists have called for an AI art auction to be cancelled A beautiful retrospective of LA painter Noah Davis is a revelation Henri Michaux produced addictive wonders of abstract art Mervyn Street’s show Stolen Wages chronicles the lives of artists like his father, who were paid in rocks Overlooked artist Linder thinks flowers are “nature’s pornography” Masterpiece of the week Dr Forlenze by Jacques-Antoine Vallin, 1807 | | | | | | | A Paris-based surgeon shows off his Neapolitan roots in this flamboyant portrait from the age of Napoleon. Dr Forlenze was a living embodiment of Napoleon’s belief in the “career open to the talents”: his pioneering work in eye surgery, including on French soldiers with illnesses they got during Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, won him recognition by the Emperor. Here he wears his recently awarded Légion d’honneur. But the aloof figure before us is even prouder of his origins in southern Italy, as he expresses by standing in the harbour of Naples with the terrific, smoking, sublime volcano Vesuvius behind him.
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