ArtReview’s 9 Exhibitions to See in April 2026
ArtReview’s 9 Exhibitions to See in April 2026
April 2026
‘Contemporary art is into identity in a big way, and expressing one’s ‘lived experience’ – whether it’s the experience of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, nationality, culture – drives the work of many artists. So the life and art of British artist Marlow Moss presents an interesting historical counterpoint to our identitarian age. Born Marjorie Jewel Moss in London in 1889, Moss studied at the Slade, but after the First World War she moved to Cornwall, cutting her hair, adopting men’s attire and changing her name to Marlow. By the late 1920s she was in Paris, with a female lover, and part of the group ‘Abstraction-Creation’, whose leading figure was Piet Mondrian. Fleeing the Nazi persecution of Jews, Moss returned to England and died in 1958. For a long time she was forgotten, her geometric paintings dismissed as derivative of Mondrian’s by-then celebrated hard-edged abstraction. Recent scholarship suggests a more nuanced, two-way relationship of influences, and this retrospective puts her works in dialogue with that of artists including Leonor Antunes and Tacita Dean.’
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