The 5 best art exhibitions that can be seen in early August

Tabish Khan, the @LondonArtCritic, chooses his best exhibits to see right now. Each includes a concise review to help you decide if it’s for you. Those looking for more exhibitions should check out their best sculpture exhibitions, they are all still open to visit.

Rosie Gibbens @ Zabludowicz Collection
A tongue covering the artist, a glove on a drill that the work and tassels of rotating nipples. There’s a lot of humor in Rosie Gibbens ’work, but there’s also a darker underground current that analyzes how women are treated and targeted in today’s society, leading to a deliberately awkward view. Visitors should also head upstairs to enjoy a magical virtual reality experience surrounded by sea creatures by Mélodie Mousset and Edo Fouilloux. Until August 15.

Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty @ Barbican Art Gallery
Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat and almost every artist creating the naive figurative art very popular right now. What unites them all? Everyone can draw a line to be inspired by Jean Dubuffet, the man who brought ugliness to art and changed the face of art for a disproportionate one. In this show there is great versatility that includes street art, portraits and butterfly wings. Until August 22.

Arghavan Khosravi: In Search of Possibilities of Hope @ Carl Kostyal
The women in these paintings are literally bound by the red cord that surrounds the surface of these works, which refers to the childhood of the artist who grew up in Iran after the revolution and the religious conservatism that prevailed. . Sometimes his hands are tied and other times his face opens to show that his inner thoughts are also tied. These striking works fuse Eastern and Western concepts in a contemporary view of the golden cage motif that often appears throughout the history of Western art, especially among the Pre-Raphaelites. Until August 20.

Anusheh Zia and Laila Tara H: Sky Circles @ Indigo + Madder
Religion is experiences and memories, not just observance; this is my key to taking me from a prayer mat made of lavender by Anusheh Zia. Come closer and you will be able to breathe in the smell and the memories that accompany it, but like many memories, the mat appears foggy. This work is at the center of a two-person exhibition featuring sculptures and works on paper around the theme of memory. Until August 14.

Jack Warne: Rtapte @ Beaver
These abstract paintings come to life when you scan them with your phone and it will take you to a nightmare image and one more noise at home in a horror movie. Everything is very intense and disturbing in this creative vision of painting, which is based on the artist’s own experience of growing up with an inherited disease that causes blindness. Until August 7.

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Art criticism for both the FAD and the Londoner. See as many exhibits as possible and write reviews, opinion articles, and a weekly top 5 for the FAD.