The Brooklyn Rail | Alvaro Barrington with Alex Bacon
July 3, 2024
Alex Bacon
Read hereAlvaro Barrington recently welcomed me to his sprawling studio complex in London’s Whitechapel neighborhood. Fresh from the opening of his installation at Tate Britain, his most ambitious to date, we discussed a wide range of subjects, including his grounding in painting, his study of art history, and the inspiration he draws from hip hop culture. This allowed us to pull out some of the many threads present in the Tate project, both personal—such as his evocation of significant female friends and family—and formal, as in his particular approach to the structure of Tate’s Duveen hallway.
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