An impressively busy opening on Monday marked the start of the London art world’s most hectic calendar week, as the group show CrASH inaugurated a large new space at 110 Warner Road, SE5. Recently acquired by Damien Hirst with mysterious or perhaps unknown purpose, the gutted and repainted warehouse, a utilitarian chimera of office and industrial architecture, provided an apposite backdrop to the exhibition, curated by two of the directors of The Garage in Moscow. A loose examination of the sympathy between the work of JG Ballard and a selection of young emerging British artists, the show has its ups and downs, the most successful works being the two installation pieces, by Phillipa Horan and Cai Nyahoe respectively, which to my mind best captured Ballard’s interest in privileging an involving spectacle of sex and violence over nuanced structure and narrative. Definitely worth a look, especially if already travelling to Camberwell to visit/re-visit/re-re-visit the superb Omar Fast show at the South London Gallery.  Click “Read More” for more info.

CrASH

Nick Devereux
Dick Evans
Ben Jeans-Houghton
Phillipa Horan
Aki Ilomaki
Simon Mathers
Neil McNally
Rob McNally
Cai Nyahoe
Seth Pick

110 Warner Road
SE5 9HQ

Runs till the 6th of December.