Publication:
The Guardian, 13 March, 2009

Headline:
Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week

Selected editorial:

By Laura McLean-Ferris

In the west end, Haunch of Venison is apparently cackling in the face of the recession, having moved into the former Museum of Mankind in Burlington Gardens, thus becoming the largest commercial gallery in London. Their enormous inaugural show, Mythologies, features scores of international heavyweight artists, and gives a nod to the building's former incarnation. Matt Collishaw's large close-up photographs of feathery golden bugs that have been squished are as dramatic as baroque paintings, whilst Rina Banerjee makes the most of the building's cake-like cornicing and ceiling roses by creating a sculpture of glitter and feathers that spills from the ceiling. Heather and Ivan Morison are perfect artists for this show, well-known for weaving dream-like narratives and histories around their work. Their enormous sculptures of blockish, geometric meteorites, created from ripstop fabric and carbon-fibre poles, float over the building's grand staircase, accompanied by photographs of landscapes onto which they have drawn yet more meteorites.