Cathy's Art Diary

Intriguing exhibition at White Cube Masons’ Yard of new work by Jeff Wall. These were large photographs displayed like paintings. The pictures have a documentary feel and yourself making up the stories behind them. I loved a pair pictures of two people in very similar interiors which I over analysed as to whether they were in fact the same space with different décor. I also liked the triptych shown here with titles for each work reflecting the Garden of Ede, Complaint, Denial and Expulsion and a wonderful picture of an hillside near Ragusa with wonderful stripes in the geology. Closes 7 September 2019

Small exhibition at Canada House of photographs by Jeff Wall, selected by the artist. . These pictures were shown in a big format which gave them the quality of history paintings. There were just five and they were of very different subjects. One showed a couple of tress on a street whereas another was of a child falling off the roof of a shed. I found myself making up stories about why the people were where they were and what happened next. My favourite was of a woman looking at art catalogues in a rather old fashioned looking room. It had a cropped intensity.