Cathy's Art Diary

Colourful exhibition at White Cube, Bermondsey, of work by Dóra Maurer to coincide with her current year-long display at Tate Modern. I loved her bright works playing with colour theory, overlapping colours to give a 3D effect on strange shaped canvas. The pictures play with your eyes and I found myself trying to look across the surface of some on the works to check they were flat. Closed   3 November 2019

Interesting exhibition at Tate Modern of work by Dora Mauer, a Hungarian artist. Mauer’s work seems to be about method rather than product and there was some fascinating techniques and ideas used but I’m not sure I’d want to live with a lot of the product. She resisted the socialist regime in Hungary and mainly displayed her work in homes, cultural centres and student clubs. I loved the print pictured here which was made from a roughened aluminium plate folder in diagonals then used as a printing plate. Another used blocks of wood on a surface which she then ran acid through to form the printing plate. It was all about method and making. Some of the work was about altering the perception of the space and I liked a series of double sided mirrors hanging in the centre of the room with a pattern in their framing which was repeated in a painting behind and evidently reflected the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. The final room included works which mapped 2D images onto a...