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Exhibitions

Hugely pleasurable – a vision of summer: Jennifer Packer at the Serpentine Gallery reviewed

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

Jennifer Packer: The Eye is not Satisfied with Seeing

Serpentine South Gallery, until 22 August

James Barnor: Accra/London – a Retrospective

Serpentine North Gallery, until 22 October

Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Counterspace

Kensington Gardens, until 17 October

We need to talk about Eric. In Jennifer Packer’s portrait of her friend and fellow artist, Eric N. Mack sits on a yellow chair that might have been borrowed from Van Gogh’s bedroom. He’s wearing excellent odd socks, one pink to rhyme with his shoes, the other yellow matching his trousers and chair.

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