Nina Beier, Shelving for Unlocked Matter and Open Problems, Detail, 2010 Of any artist working today, 35-year-old hyper-mixed-media artist Nina Beier is creating some of the boldest examples of the contemporary artwork in crisis mode. This has a lot to do with the unstable, in flux, usually-referencing-something-absent, often-crushed-or-pieced-together, and likely-to-change nature of her sculptural explorations. Take… Continue reading Sculpture: Nina Beier
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Artist: Dough Aitken
Dough Aitken, Now, 2010, Now, 2009 and Fountain (Earth Fountain), 2012 Central to Doug Aitken’s “100 YRS” exhibition is a new “Sonic Fountain,” in which water drips from 5 rods suspended from the ceiling, falling into a concrete crater dug out of the gallery floor. The flow of water itself is controlled so as to create… Continue reading Artist: Dough Aitken
Film: The Corporation, 2003
The documentary The Corporation, 2003 looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance. ‘Drawing the metaphor of the early attempts to fly. The man going off of a very high cliff in his airplane, with the wings flapping, and the guys flapping the wings and the wind is in… Continue reading Film: The Corporation, 2003
Magazine: Mono.Kultur #31. Michaël Borremans: Shades of Doubt.
Michaël Borremans, Shades of Doubt, It is not something of beauty underneath, 2012 When Belgian artist Michaël Borremans first presented his paintings to the world at the tender age of 37, he immediately caused a stir in the art scene. His realistic yet mysterious figurative images subtly draw one to the centre of a question… Continue reading Magazine: Mono.Kultur #31. Michaël Borremans: Shades of Doubt.
Saâdane Afif
Saâdane Afif, Blue Time vs. Suspense, 2007 Saâdane Afif plays with notions of displacement, collusion and contrast. He uses objects, scale models and installations, sounds and writing to mirror in the work of art itself the dialogue arising between the artist and the viewer. This dialogue makes allusions to psychological, historical, social and cultural elements. Thanks… Continue reading Saâdane Afif
Anselm Reyle
Untitled, 2008. Mixed media on canvas, acrylic glass Anselm Reyle was born in Tübingen, Germany in 1970. He currently lives and works in Berlin. Reyle’s stripe paintings are instantly recognizable as responses to the formalist vocabulary of Clement Greenberg that defined the art of the 1950s and 1960s. Reyle references iconic abstractionists ranging from Kenneth Noland to… Continue reading Anselm Reyle
Prada Marfa
Elmgreen and Dragset, Prada Marfa, 2005 Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated 2,3 km northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off U.S. Route 90, and about 60 km northwest of the city of Marfa. The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005. The artists called the work a pop… Continue reading Prada Marfa
Cindy Sherman: Retrospective
Cindy Sherman: “Untitled #465”, 2008, C-Print, 161,9 x 145,4 cm Cindy Sherman, Retrospective, February 26-June 11, 2012 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies,… Continue reading Cindy Sherman: Retrospective
Oliver Laric
Oliver Laric, Kopienkritik, 2011, Skulpturhalle Basel Oliver Laric’s work seeks to parse the productive potential of the copy, the bootleg, and the remix, and examine their role in the formation of both historic and contemporary image cultures. This process is intimately tied to his intuitive, idiosyncratic brand of scholarship, which he presents through an ongoing series of… Continue reading Oliver Laric
Bojan Šarčević, At Present, 2011
Bojan Šarčević, She, 2010, Onyx, 184 x 124 x 40 cm and installation view of the exhibition At Present, 2011 ‘Space is the remains, or corpse, of time; it has dimensions’, wrote Robert Smithson in 1969, a definition highly appropriate to the 76 small collages, arranged together in small groups, that made up this show by Bosnian… Continue reading Bojan Šarčević, At Present, 2011
Wade Guyton
Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2007 It’s amazing that you can become one of the leading artists of your generation by messing with the limits of a home-office printer. That’s what 37-year-old artist Wade Guyton has managed to do ink-wise in the past decade. Going from paper to linen, running, or rather, pulling, gigantic swathes of fabric through the… Continue reading Wade Guyton
Joan Mitchell, The last paintings
Then, Last Time IV, 1985, Oil on canvas, 259,1 x 200 cm Joan Mitchell, The Last Paintings, 3 February-28 April 2012 Hauser & Wirth London “My paintings aren’t about art issues. They’re about a feeling that comes to me from the outside, from landscape. […] Paintings aren’t about the person who makes them, either. My paintings have… Continue reading Joan Mitchell, The last paintings
Books: Housmans Bookshop
Housmans is London’s premier radical bookshop Housmans, Peace House, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1 9DX A not-for-profit bookshop, specialising in books, zines, and periodicals of radical interest and progressive politics who stock the largest range of radical newsletters, newspapers and art magazines of any shop in Britain. In the basment, a vast, diverse,… Continue reading Books: Housmans Bookshop
Dave Hullfish Bailey, Nils Norman, Surrounded by Squares
Nils Norman, Exhibition view, Surrounded by Squares, 2009 For ‘Surrounded by Squares’ Dave Hullfish Bailey and Nils Norman have each constructed elaborate sculptural installations. Both relate to education and ecology, design theory and the creative industries, as well as to the site of Raven Row. Dave Hullfish Bailey has generated polygonal sculptural forms by feeding… Continue reading Dave Hullfish Bailey, Nils Norman, Surrounded by Squares
Exhibition: In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artist Since 1955
In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artist Since 1955, 25 January -25 March 2012 ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 is a survey exhibition of the often-overlooked genre of serial publications produced by artists around the world from 1955 to the present day. From the rise of the… Continue reading Exhibition: In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artist Since 1955
“Looking at where figurative painting is today, there is more room for creativity and imagination.”
Go Figure, Curated by Eddie Martinez, 6 October – 13 November, 2011 Dodge Gallery, New York People say “painting is dead” and within that figure painting is mummified. Since painting began, we have used the figure to let people after us know that we existed before them. This is clear when we look at cave paintings… Continue reading “Looking at where figurative painting is today, there is more room for creativity and imagination.”
Post Internet Survival Guide, 2010
Katja Novitskova, Post Internet Survival Guide , 272 pages, 180 x 230 mm, Revolver Publishing, 2010 You are holding a guide to the ecology of a severe ongoing merging of matter, social and (visual) information in the present world. The shift to a multi-polar, mobile, post-democratic, gated, real-time set of conditions effectively redistributes the global balance… Continue reading Post Internet Survival Guide, 2010
Benjamin Valenza
Benjamin Valenza at Salon 94 Freemans, New York, 2009 and Residue 01, 2011 Art Since the Summer of ’69 is proud to present Twice upon a Time, Benjamin Valenza’s first solo show in New York City. A large L- shaped yellow metal plate, deeply corroded by acid at four points, performs as an abstract panther in the show, or… Continue reading Benjamin Valenza
Mark DeLong
Mark DeLong, Untitled, 2011 Mark DeLong, born 1978 in New Brunswick, is a self taught artist working in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture and video. His work has been displayed at Colette, Paris; Bee Studios, Tokyo; Spencer-Brownstone Gallery, New York; Abel Neue Kunst Gallery, Berlin; Perugi Art Contemporenea, Padova, Italy; Museum Of… Continue reading Mark DeLong
Dan Colen
Dan Colen, No Sex No War No Me, 2011 and Rama Lama Ding Dong, 2006 Dan Colen was born in New Jersey in 1979. Exhibitions include the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006); “USA Today,” Royal Academy, London (2006); “Defamation of Character,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New… Continue reading Dan Colen