Martine Syms, Fact and Trouble, ICA London, Exhibition

Martine Syms, Fact and Trouble, Lessons I-XXX, 2014, Motivational Text Message and Installation View of Fact and Trouble, 2016 Fact & Trouble is an exhibition by American artist Martine Syms that examines the space between lived  experience and its representation. Syms’s video series Lessons (ongoing), on view at the ICA, is a long, incomplete poem in… Continue reading Martine Syms, Fact and Trouble, ICA London, Exhibition

Photography: John Divola

John Divola, Theodore Street, 2012, San Fernando Valley, 1973 and Zuma Beach (1978/2006), 1978 “Abandoned houses are one of the few places where you can go and paint anything you want and nobody is going to yell at you” says John Divola. Los Angeles–based photographer John Divola is perhaps best known for this series of… Continue reading Photography: John Divola

Gallery: Regen Projects, Los Angeles

“I knew about the gallery before I ever moved to the United States,” says Philippe Vergne, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art who first landed in the U.S. in 1990s. “If you look at the Los Angeles art scene, Regen Projects, together with a handful of galleries, was really the organization that promoted artists… Continue reading Gallery: Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Hauser & Wirth, Art Gallery

Hauser & Wirth is a gallery of contemporary art and modern masters, with locations in Zurich, London, New York, Somerset and Los Angeles. Hauser & Wirth was founded in Zurich in 1992 by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser. In 1996, the gallery’s first permanent location, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, opened in the former… Continue reading Hauser & Wirth, Art Gallery

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

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