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Exhibitions

Cool, beguiling, Duchampian set of still lives from Michael Craig-Martin at the Serpentine Gallery

But the equally cutting-edge show at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery from New Zealander Simon Denny seems hamstrung by its medium

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

16 January 2016

9:00 AM

Michael Craig-Martin: Transience

Serpentine Gallery, until 14 February

Simon Denny: Products for Organising

Serpentine Sackler Gallery, until 14 February

Michael Craig-Martin has had a paradoxical career. He is, I think, a disciple of Marcel Duchamp. But the latter famously gave up painting in favour of something more conceptual — ready-mades and whatnot — whereas Craig-Martin began with Duchampian concepts. He once exhibited a glass of water on a shelf together with a claim that he had mentally transformed these, by a kind of transubstantiation, into an oak tree.

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