Recent Entries

• Japanese House

  by Natasha Hall 16 April 2017
      ´The representation of the house in art, literature, and cinema is mostly used as a stage for human drama, the composition of the space becoming a mere backdrop to the characters lives.´    (Ostende, F. (2016) Architecture and Life: Human Agency and Form...

• Colour: A Kind of Bliss

  by Natasha Hall 12 April 2017
    ´Colour is a kind of bliss... like a closing eyelid...a tiny fainting spell´ Roland Barthes   The title for the exhibition is Colour: A Kind of Bliss that has its origins in the above quote by Roland Barthes, directly referencing the irrisistible, intoxicating and se...

• Turn back now

  by Natasha Hall 10 April 2017
    ´Art and Science, the twin engines of creativity in any dynamic culture, are commonly thought of as being as different as day and night.     This is a critical error. The partitioning of curiosity, inquiry and knowledge into specialised compartments is a recipe for cultura...

• ArtTop10 has arrived in New York!

  by Natasha Hall 24 August 2015
  An hourglass iPhone created with ground up iPhones, referencing the ´Will it Blend´ series of internet videos (www.willitblend.com). The artist Evan Yee describes how its ´more than a message to the world about technology, I have questions to the viewers about what their experi...

• Review by Robin Mason

  by Natasha Hall 14 July 2014
  Qu’est que c’est     Listening to Alex Gene Morrison’s Recent Paintings       What is it these paintings, by Alex Gene Morrison under the umbrella title “Same As It Ever Was”, are saying to me?  Initially they have the echoes of Babe...
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• Whyred SS14 by Julia Linn

  by Natasha Hall 29 June 2014
  Sven "X-et" Leonard Erixson (November 23, 1899 - May 17, 1970), was a Swedish painter and sculptor.  Abstract paintings with a lot of expressions that can take your fantasy away with no limits, has always captured my attention. The painting above by the Swedish artist Sven X:et Erix...
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• The Paintings of Teresita Dennis by Jonathan Miles

  by Natasha Hall 18 June 2014
  The Paintings of Teresita Dennis: The Excess of the Future By Jonathan Miles   “In seeking God’s eye, I found only a socket, Vast, black, and bottomless, from which an inhabitant night Spreads over the world ever-thickening beams;”           &n...

• Pinta

  by Natasha Hall 17 June 2014
  Pinta London    12-15 June 2014     The installation entitled Colour Field by Sonia Falcone from Bolivia, attracted my attention before I saw it due to the vast amount of pungent and unmistakeable odours sucha as curry, chocolate, pepper, clover, cumin seed, anise, coffee,...

• AAF

  by Natasha Hall 13 June 2014
  101st Affordable Art Fair   June 12-15   All about information overload... So here are my ArtTop10 impressions of the show!: Chris Wood Light and glass, science and art http://www.byardart.co.uk/artists/chris-wood/art/ Susila Bailey-Bond Clear plastic tubes that abstract...

• iD

  by Natasha Hall 6 June 2014
  iD is a group exhibition curated by Antoni Ferrer featuring five international artists: Risk Hazemkamp, David Hancock, Sarah Baker, Caron Geary and Brigitte Stepputtis. The work is diverse and revolves around the concept of identity.    The work of Sarah Baker expresses an entertaini...

• Summer Exhibition

  by Natasha Hall 6 June 2014
  The buzz of expectation from the journalists waiting to enter the press preview, surrounded by the hectic preparations for the formal private view, and observed by a black helicopter circling overhead, created an electric atmosphere of anticipation. My photographer entered first, and I was left imag...

• ARCO2014: Conclusions and trace memories

  by Natasha Hall 25 February 2014
  Trace memories The experience of ARCO was generally agreed to be endless and exhausting. There were so many works of art that one had to be discerning and not even attempt to appreciate or understand everything, but allow oneself to be drawn instinctually to particular artworks. It was apparent whi...

• ArtTop10 has arrived at ARCO!

  by Natasha Hall 23 February 2014
      The opening of ARCO   The Prince and Princess of Asturias officially opened the 33rd edtition of ARCO, and to be honest they didn´t look too interested in the work exhibited, and when they did walk into a booth they didn´t seem very animated with what they saw. How...

• Madrid: Focus on Dr Fourquet

  by Natasha Hall 20 February 2014
  Nekane Aramburu, the director of the Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, recommended that I visit the galleries in the street entitled ´Doctor Fourquet´.    So here is a summary of what I encountered!:   Number 17: Galería Espacio Mínimo Doctor Fourquet,...

• ArtTop10 has arrived in Madrid!

  by Natasha Hall 19 February 2014
  Hitting the ground running prior to #ARCO2014!    1. I arrived in Madrid yesterday and dashed straight to the Instituto Cervantes just in time to hear a presentation by Nekane Aramburu, the director of the Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art in Palma, Mallorca. She eloquently explained...

• Countdown to ARCO!

  by Natasha Hall 22 January 2014
  ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid 19-23rd February    The countdown to ARCO has begun, and ArtTop10 are delighted to be attending this year!   Last night there was a conference about purchasing art at ARCO held in the Es Baluard museum in Palma, Mallorca. It was e...

• The Deepest Darkness: An inspiring exhibition by Robin Mason

  by Natasha Hall 9 May 2013
  There is so much to see in this exhibition, which can be described as an inspiring imaginary landscape of interrelated paintings, sculptures and installations. The complexity of the visual and conceptual interconnections, the bright colours in the works and the melodic sounds of pinball machines ...

• Anthony Frost: Painting the Joy of Colour

  by Natasha Hall 28 February 2013
  The Private View of Anthony Frost´s exhibition at Beaux Arts in Cork Street, was packed with people animated in vibrant discussions responding to the colourful paintings.The artist himself was surrounded by friendly faces and welcoming embraces. He was often fanning himself in an attempt to ...