What art have I seen? Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC)
Multiple installations across former religious and ceramic production spaces.
Amie Siegal film work Asterisms exploring UAE culture in particular horses, more here
Louise Bourgeois installation
Kader Attia – Algerian French artist with works ranging from the beautiful and ironic through the deeply affecting to the angry and including some classic collages.
More in Attia here
Regina de Miguel – Spanish artist – striking film on Rio Tinto and the origins of the Anglo/global mining business in extracting copper resulting in pollution and oppression. Interestingly it appears the Romans were here doing the same things. If you look at Rio Tinto on Google maps it’s about 40km from Seville and a destination sold on landscape remediation.
de Miguel’s work Rising Anxiety composes with maps, keywords, place-names, and quotes from JG Ballard’s novel
More on de Miguel here
What art have I seen? Louise Bourgeois
“Hands feature in many works by Bourgeois, symbolising dependency and support. Here, she has traced around her own and those of her studio assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, to create a portrait of their working relationship and their friendship.’
The fact that there are not more that three hands in any image is a practical reality of the process, but also metaphorically resonant of art itself.
What art have I seen? Fife Arms
Louise Bourgeois, Spider
Had lunch and a bit of a look around
What art have I seen? Dia Beacon
‘Best of minimalism’. The good tracks were Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Robert Irwin, On Kawara, Fred Sandback. Having come from Mass MOCA it is apparent that Dia need to have a space for one artist to be focused on in depth.
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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