Michael Schmidt, From the series, Lebensmittel, 2006 – 2010 Michael Schmidt is one of Germany’s most important social-documentary photographers. Although he works in series, each photograph stands as an autonomous work in its own right. When the photographs are seen together in a book or an exhibition, connections between two pictures give rise to a third,… Continue reading Michael Schmidt, Lebensmittel (Food)
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Isa Genzken, Hauser & Wirth London, Sawille Row
Isa Genzken, 15 November 2012-12 January 2013, Hauser & Wirth London,Savile Row “I have always said that with any sculpture you have to be able to say, although this is not a ready-made, it could be one. That’s what a sculpture has to look like. It must have a certain relation to reality”. Isa Genzken in conversation… Continue reading Isa Genzken, Hauser & Wirth London, Sawille Row
Christian Dior, Spring Summer 2013
Raf Simons for Christian Dior, Spring Summer 2013, Paris, 28 September 2012 The Schubert piece that was playing as invitees entered the huge, purpose-built salons where Raf Simons showed his first ready-to-wear collection for Dior today was familiar, especially to fans of The Hunger, David Bowie’s 1983 vampire movie. Simons is an ardent Bowie-phile, and… Continue reading Christian Dior, Spring Summer 2013
Exhibition: Bjarne Melgaard, A House to Die In, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Bjarne Melgaard, From the Exhibition, A House to Die In, 2012 A House to Die In, 25 September – 18 November, 2012 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London A House to Die In is New York based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The Lower and Upper Galleries feature two of his collaborative projects, which investigate the dynamics… Continue reading Exhibition: Bjarne Melgaard, A House to Die In, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Jeff Koones: Metallic Venus
Jeff Koones, Metallic Venus, 2010-2012. Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating and live flowering plants Jeff Koons is reaching back into art history with his new series “Antiquity,” exploring the goddess of love in huge glossy metallic sculptures such as the turquoise Metallic Venus. Jeff Koons: The Painter and Sculptor was showing at two venues in Germany’s banking capital (20… Continue reading Jeff Koones: Metallic Venus
Book: Dag Nordbrenden, Rub With Ashes
Dag Nordbrenden, Presentation of the book, Rub With Ashes, 2012 Dag Nordbrenden is a Norwegian artist working with photography. His work explores different concepts and genres of the medium. His book Rub with Ashes is a compilation of photographs of recent years, and reflects Nordbrenden’s nomadic lifestyle. The photographs are rooted in a documentary tradition, and… Continue reading Book: Dag Nordbrenden, Rub With Ashes
Lutz Becker, Cinema Notes, 1975
Lutz Becker, Installation view, Cinema Notes, 1975. 16mm Black and White, 45 mins For many years lost and recently found, Kino Beleške was produced in 1975 in collaboration with the group of artists, curators and critics gathered around the Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade. The film includes verbal statements and performative gestures of the numerous protagonists of the… Continue reading Lutz Becker, Cinema Notes, 1975
Online Resource: http://www.ubu.com/
Bruce Nauman, Good Boy Bad Boy,1985 and Video Against AIDS, Curated by John Greyson and Bill Horrigan, produced by Kate Horsefield, 1989 UbuWeb is an independent online resource educational resource for avant-garde material. UbuWeb does not distribute commercially viable works but rather resurrects avant-garde sound art, video and textual works through their translation into a digital art web environment, re-contextualising them with current academic commentary and contemporary practice… Continue reading Online Resource: http://www.ubu.com/
Exhibition: Image Counter Image
Radenko Milak, What Else Did You See? I Couldn’t See Everything! (No. 5), 2010–2012 and Installation view of the Exhibition Image Counter Image, 10 June – 16 September, 2012 Hause der Kunst,Prinzregentenstraße 1, Munich The exhibition Image Counter Image at Hause der Kunst, presents artistic positions that focus on the critical analysis of violent conflicts in… Continue reading Exhibition: Image Counter Image
Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955
Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955, 10 June 2012-13 January 2013 Hause der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, Munich “This year Haus der Kunst marks the 75th anniversary of its public opening. This anniversary gives us the opportunity to reflect on the historical legacy of the museum, especially on the building… Continue reading Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955
Photography: Ahmed Kamel
Ahmed Kamel, From the Series, Dreamy Day, 2004 – 2008 Ahmed Kamel is interested in domestic and urban life. He uses photography, video and drawing to address social issues. He was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1981, where he studied painting and received his BFA in 2003. Kamel is the recipient of a number of… Continue reading Photography: Ahmed Kamel
Film: Making Chinatown, 2012
For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of videos and scenic backdrops that reconsider the making of Roman Polanski’s seminal 1974 film Chinatown. Shot at Redcat, Wong’s reinterpretation, Making Chinatown, transforms the space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s construction of language, performance and identity. The… Continue reading Film: Making Chinatown, 2012
Brave new world, Mars, 6 August 2012
Curiosity’s first color image of the Martian landscape, August 6, 2012 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The overall objectives include investigating Mars’ habitability, studying its climate and geology,… Continue reading Brave new world, Mars, 6 August 2012
Artist: Wael Shawky
Wael Shawky’s work explores transitional events in society, politics, culture and religion in the Arab World. The films, installations, and performative works of the Egyptian artist explore the ways in which social and political systems have been restructured in Arab countries over the past several decades. Through restaging historical events with children and marionettes, Shawky turns… Continue reading Artist: Wael Shawky
Art: Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Poles
Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Poles, 2012 Gestures related to the body and the exhibition space feature prominently in the work of Los Angeles-based artist Chadwick Rantanen who creates among others anodized telescopic sculptures with tennis balls affixed to the bottom which are held up by their own internal pressure. Disseminated throughout a gallery space, and stretched from the floor to the ceiling,… Continue reading Art: Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Poles
Iman Issa
Iman Issa, Material for a sculpture representing a monument erected in the spirit of defiance of a larger power, 2010 and Making Places (c-print), Series of ten c-prints, 2007 Iman Issa, born 1979, Cairo, is an artist based in Cairo and New York. The cryptic work of Iman Issa rarely denotes its subject matter nor reveals the artist’s creative… Continue reading Iman Issa
Painting: Mathew Cerletty
Mathew Cerletty, The Economist, 2007, oil on linen, Yoplait, 2007, colored pencil and gouache on paper and Epson, 2009 graphite on paper Since the early 2000s, Mathew Cerletty has been earnestly stretching the possibilities of figurative painting while cleverly subverting much of what we have come to expect from both realism and hyperrealism. Transitioning from… Continue reading Painting: Mathew Cerletty
Anders Petersen Photography
Anders Petersen, Paris, 2006 and To Belong, 2012 Anders Petersen Photography, 1944, is a Swedish photographer, who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Petersen is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. In 1967, he started to photograph the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers, drug addicts) in a bar in Hamburg, named Café Lehmitz, and continued that project for… Continue reading Anders Petersen Photography
Photography: Mårten Lange
Mårten Lange, From the Book, Another Language, 2012 “A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.” Alexander von Humboldt (1845) The aesthetics of science, nature and the materiality… Continue reading Photography: Mårten Lange
Sanja Iveković
Sanja Iveković, Practice Makes a Master, Performance, 16:38 min, 1982/2009 Sanja Iveković, born 1949 in Zagreb, is a Croatian photographer, sculptor and installation artist. Considered to be one of the leading artists from the former Yugoslavia. Since the beginning of her artistic career, Iveković has always been interested in the representation of women in society.… Continue reading Sanja Iveković