Everyday Gallery, Antwerp - two exhibitions
Artist Mamali Shafahi drew my attention last year to the Everyday Gallery in Antwerp, and at the same time in particular to the work of one of the gallery's artists, Jacopo Pagin. Owing to COVID-19 restrictions, I haven't yet been able to visit Everyday in person, but I like very much what I've seen online - artists and curating. At the moment, Everyday have two exhibitions running concurrently, joined together through a curtained archway (above). One, ' Crystal Whisper' is a solo show devoted to Jacopo Pagin, with an installation by Richard Venlet; the other, called ‘ History of Fantasy ’, is a group show including one work by Pagin again, and one by Mamali Shafahi, about whose nerd_funk project, with Ali Eslami, I posted here a couple of weeks back . Only this morning, in an email to another artist in England, I wrote: 'What charms me in Jacopo Pagin's work is that it's so distinctly Italian, in a way I haven't yet found words to explain. There a...