Haim Steinbach, Display #31G — An Offering: Collectibles of Ellen and Michael Ringier, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2014 Producing an extraordinary body of work throughout his impressive forty year career, Haim Steinbach has redefined the status of the object in art through his continued investigation into what constitutes art objects and the ways in which they are… Continue reading Haim Steinbach: Objects, Commodity Products, or Art Have Functions For Us That Are Not Unlike Words
Tag: Painting
Ida Ekblad, Diary of a Madam, Exhibition Kunsthaus Hamburg
Ida Ekblad, Installation view, Diary of a Madam, Kunsthaus Hamburg, 7 Februar – 26. March 2017 The Kunsthaus Hamburg is hosting Ida Ekblad’s first institutional solo-exhibition in Germany. The artist is showing large-format paintings created for the exhibition. New sculptures will be presented in the context of a performance by the singer Nils Bech at the opening reception.… Continue reading Ida Ekblad, Diary of a Madam, Exhibition Kunsthaus Hamburg
Painting: Max Schmidtlein
Max Schmidtlein, Hallo, 2014 and Head and Shoulders, 2015 Max Schmidtlein’s solo exhibition Detox Plus is a highly contemporary painting exhibition. ‘Not another “contemporary” painting show’, you might say. Yet more painting that wants to do everything differently. Painting that acts oh so aware of media issues and its own implication in the mechanisms of both on-… Continue reading Painting: Max Schmidtlein
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Penny’s Change, 2015
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Penny’s Change, 2015, What makes a painter paint? In her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani uses a digital projector to create surreal paintings and discusses the graphic source material that inspires her. Juliano-Villani’s Brooklyn studio is crowded with a wildly varied collection of books ranging from 70s-era fashion, to commercial illustration, to Scientific… Continue reading Jamian Juliano-Villani, Penny’s Change, 2015
Norwegian Painting: Christian Tony Norum
Christian Tony Norum, Installation view, Untitled, 2015 and Colours of All Time, 2015 A beautiful bird, a drum, the stars and the ancestors, a river, the sea, the wind and the sun. I am blinded by being a human being, searching wondering about everything and nothing. I am a universal human being that live and… Continue reading Norwegian Painting: Christian Tony Norum
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
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