Mongoos Magazine

Mongoos Magazine is the art Magazine of Tempus Gallery. The magazine was created as a platform for exploring and showcasing all genre of arts - covering news, reviews, artists features, opinions and much more.

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ART REVIEW: Francis Upritchard Mandrake Gallery 1, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/francis-upritchard/

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Art Review: Samuel Cooper portrays Oliver Cromwell’s Warts and All

Philip Mould & Co. Gallery The intriguing exhibition at 29 Dover Street, Warts & All takes its title from Oliver Cromwell’s controversial request to be painted realistically as opposed to idealistically... http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/warts-all/

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Art Review: Daumier: Visions of Paris Not so Honoré Daumier (1808–79), whose career deftly combined the two, as demonstrated by ‘Visions of Paris’ at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (until 26 January 2014). Although his satirical cartoons, which made him famous, are undoubtedly humorous, their stealthy seriousness rescues his oeuvre from the oblivion of the pun... http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/daumier-visions-of-paris/

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Art Review: Working Towards a Twenty-First Century Renaissance: the Craft Scotland Conference 2013 http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/working-towards-a-twenty-first-century-renaissance-the-craft-scotland-conference-2013/ The keynote presentation at this year’s Craft Scotland Conference in Dundee was given by Professor Hans Stofer, who heads the Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery Programme at the Royal College of Art, and was entitled ‘Making Practice and Passion’. It was a frank and heartfelt talk that examined his career and the curiosities and motivations that inspire him, and confronted the shifting identity of craft with a simple, yet lengthy, list of what “making is…”.

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Larger than Life: Michael Landy’s Saint’s Alive If the title of Michael Landy’s current solo exhibition, Saints Alive, stirs up gentle images of heavenly hosts appearing as a blurry-lensed vision, think again...http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/larger-than-life-michael-landys-saints-alive/

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Art Review - Reflections from Damaged Life: An Exhibition on Psychedelia http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/reflections-from-damaged-life-an-exhibition-on-psychedelia/ Visually expounding the experience of psychedelia is nothing new. We have all seen and recognize the lurid, technicolour stylisation of altered consciousness; we’ve all gone gross-eyed whilst trying to trace its kaleidoscopic intricacies...

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#ArtReview - Reflections from Damaged Life: An Exhibition on Psychedelia http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/reflections-from-damaged-life-an-exhibition-on-psychedelia/ Visually expounding the experience of psychedelia is nothing new. We have all seen and recognize the lurid, technicolour stylisation of altered consciousness; we’ve all gone gross-eyed whilst trying to trace its kaleidoscopic intricacies...

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Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/the-tired-whisper-of-decadence/ All of this is nothing new, especially since these works have been around since the sixteenth century all the way through to the nineteenth, produced mostly by ukiyo-e, or ‘floating world’ artists, whose medium was commonly woodblock printing... #shunga #japaneseart #tiredwhisperofdecadence #sexandpleasureinart

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ARTIST INTERVIEW - MONGOOS MAGAZINEFROM ASIA TO THE WORLD: AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR GLENN SCOTT WRIGHT FROM VICTORIA MIRO GALLERYhttp://mongoosmagazine.com/catartists/from-asia-to-the-world-an-interview-with-director-glenn-scott-wright-from-victoria-miro-gallery/

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http://mongoosmagazine.com/features/the-baptism-of-christ-written-by-huw-james-phillips/

http://mongoosmagazine.com/features/the-baptism-of-christ-written-by-huw-james-phillips/Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ initially presents a fascinating paradox to the modern viewer.

Despite its apparent simplicity, it is a highly complex work in composition and interpretation. It is rooted in both the time and place of its creation and yet, is timelessly transcendental, with elements that are both realistic, rational and mystical...

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#Art Reviews - Mongoos Magazine SEBASTIÁN GORDÍN’S FIRST UK SHOW DEPICTS MACABRE, IRONIC AND DISQUIETING SCENES http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/collected-tales-sebastian-gordin-at-cecilia-brunson-projects/

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#Mongoos - FRANCIS BACON’S #PAINTING JUMPER http://mongoosmagazine.com/tempus-gallery-news/frances-bacons-painting-jumper/

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http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/nostalgic-for-the-future/

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Mongoos Magazine - LUCINDA LYONS; MODERN DAY APHRODITE

http://mongoosmagazine.com/tempus-gallery-news/lucinda-lyons/

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Manet: Portraying Life - http://mongoosmagazine.com/reviews/manet-portraying-life/

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Artists / Writer - Alizé Meurisse

http://mongoosmagazine.com/catartists/alize-meurisse/

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#Artist - Colour and Texture in Antonio #Carreño - http://mongoosmagazine.com/catartists/interviews/colour-and-texture-in-antonio-carreno/