Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee, 3 February 2015 – 12 April 2015 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London The content of the exhibition focuses predominantly on a body of work that Sassen made in Pikin Slee, Suriname in 2013. Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname River, deep within the Surinamese rainforest. The… Continue reading Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee
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Discourse: A Hypersexual Society
Kenneth C.W. Kammeyer, A Hypersexual Society: Sexual Discourse, Erotica, and Pornography in America Today. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 America today is a hypersexual society. Sexual discourse, erotica, and pornography are pervasive in the culture. Sexual materials, many times extending into erotica and pornography, are found in the consumer world, academia, sex therapy, the publishing world, mass… Continue reading Discourse: A Hypersexual Society
Porn vs. Eroticism
In 1969, Susan Sontag had referred in her article “The Pornographic Imagination” to three domains of pornography: in social history, as a psychological phenomenon, and within the arts. She claims that from the social and psychological standpoint all pornographic texts have the same status – they are documents. As a psychological phenomenon, for example, pornography… Continue reading Porn vs. Eroticism
Galleries: Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned and directed by Larry Gagosian. There are eleven gallery spaces: three in New York; two in London; one in each of Beverly Hills, Rome, Athens, Paris, Geneva and Hong Kong. Gagosian Gallery began in 1979 in Los Angeles. In 1985, the business moved from Los Angeles to… Continue reading Galleries: Gagosian Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long track record for education… Continue reading Whitechapel Gallery, London
Artist: Mark Leckey
Mark Leckey, From the Exhibition, See We Assemble, 2013 Mark Leckeyis a British artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found art and found footage pieces span several videos, most notably Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Lights and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize. Through a multi-disciplinary practice… Continue reading Artist: Mark Leckey
Pierre Huyghe
Since the very idea of a ‘psychedelic art’ is tenuous, the exhibition does not propose a canonical presentation, but attempts to establish a series of artist experiments that relate to the many ‘plateaux’ of the psychedelic, and its multiple histories as they unfolded in particular cultural contexts in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Japan. Although the focus will be upon historical projects from the sixties and seventies, the exhibition will include work from the fifties until the present day.
Ari Benjamin Meyers
While primarily known for his work with the ground breaking dance club-orchestral mash-up, Redux Orchestra, he has also worked with many other artists most notably Einstürzende Neubauten. Other collaborators include Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal, La Fura dels Baus, The Residents, raumlabor.berlin, Ricardo Villalobos, Staatsoper Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, Morton Subotnick and The Orb.
Céline, Spring 2014, Ready-to-Wear
Céline, Spring 2014, Ready-to-Wear Back to the Tennis Club de Paris today to see what Phoebe Philo’s Céline woman has been up to. And, according to the mood book on each brightly colored, blocky seat, she has been looking at graffiti—not just any graffiti, but graffiti through the medium of Brassaï’s photographs, obviously. In the primal black… Continue reading Céline, Spring 2014, Ready-to-Wear
Oscar Tuazon
Installation view, Manual Labour, 2012 and Oscar Tuazon and Elias Hansen, Untitled (Kodiak Staircase), 2008 Born in 1975, Oscar Tuazon grew up outside Seattle, coming of age watching bands like Mudhoney and Nirvana. Having graduated from the elite Independent Study Program at New York’s Whitney Museum in 2003, he cut his teeth working for renowned extremist Vito Acconci, a performance artist… Continue reading Oscar Tuazon
Art: Slavs and Tatars
Reverse Joy, 2012 and Scenarios for Europe (III), 2012 Slavs and Tatars is an art collective and “a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia”. Founded in 2006, the group addresses a shared sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians.… Continue reading Art: Slavs and Tatars
Re-View: Onnasch Collection, Houser & Wirth London
David Smith, Seven Hours, 1961 (Pre-painted steel, 214.5 x 122 x 45.5 cm), Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1956 (Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 127 cm), Exhibition installation view Re-View: Onnasch Collection, 20 September – 14 December 2013 Hauser & Wirth London, Piccadilly and Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row Hauser & Wirth is devoting all three of its London… Continue reading Re-View: Onnasch Collection, Houser & Wirth London
ICA: The suiciders, Travis Jeppesen
The suiciders, Travis Jeppesen, 2013 In an endurance-based explosion of the typical ‘literary reading’, Jeppesen will perform the entire text of his new novel The Suiciders in a single marathon reading for the London launch. In Travis Jeppesen’s new novel, a group of friends occupies an indeterminate house in an unidentified American suburb and replays a continuous… Continue reading ICA: The suiciders, Travis Jeppesen
New York Fashion Week: Calvin Klein Collection, Spring / Summer 2014
Francisco Costa, Calvin Klein Collection, Spring 2014, New York Francisco Costa is celebrating his tenth anniversary at the helm of Calvin Klein this season. It’s a milestone, and the brand is doing it up: new Tribeca venue, A-list star power in the form of Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara (the face of the label’s just-launched… Continue reading New York Fashion Week: Calvin Klein Collection, Spring / Summer 2014
Artist: Ida Ekblad
Ida Ekblad, Untitled 2012, Untitled, 2011 and Installation View, Untitled, 2011 Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad just finished her solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo this week. In the official press release her work is referred to as being “frequently process oriented and her artistic practice is often described as spontaneous and chance-based. Items seemingly… Continue reading Artist: Ida Ekblad
Lynda Benglis
Lydia Benglis, Merak, Sinc and Copper, 1990 and Ghost Dance, Bronze and gold leaf, 1992 Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today. Benglis’ work is noted for an unusual blend of organic… Continue reading Lynda Benglis
Galleries: Giò Marconi, Milano
Installation view: John Bock, Barlach, 2010, Giò Marconi Gallery, Milano Gallery Giò Marconi, Milano started in 1990 under the initiative of Giò Marconi who created the Studio Marconi 17, an experimental space for young artists and art critics that he directed from 1986 to 1990. At the beginning, the new gallery was directed by Giò and… Continue reading Galleries: Giò Marconi, Milano
Artist: Nikolas Gambaroff
Nikolas Gambaroff, Untitled, 2011 and exhibition view of Tools for Living, 2012 Artist Nikolas Gambaroff work questions the process of painting and its support structures by deconstructing and re-evaluating traditional methods of production and display. As Gambaroff himself puts it, “In my work I try to dissect, deconstruct, and re-evaluate (mainly within the limits of… Continue reading Artist: Nikolas Gambaroff
R. H. Quaytman
Installation view, R.H Quaytman, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, 2009 and Chapter 12: iamb (checkered blue screen with edges), 2008, Oil, silkscreen, gesso on wood, 51 x 82.2 cm R. H. Quaytman is a contemporary artist, best known for paintings on wood panels, using abstract and photographic elements in site-specific “Chapters”, now numbering twenty-five. Each Chapter is… Continue reading R. H. Quaytman
Exhibition: John McCracken, Works from 1963-2011, David Zwirner, New York
McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and finish. He developed his early sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to produce objects made with industrial materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer, and pigmented resin, creating the highly reflective, smooth surfaces that he was to become known for.