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Heidrun Holzfeind

Heidrun Holzfeind, Carpet (after Erna Lederer) Wool, 230×420 cm, 2012 Created for Holzfeind solo show at BAWAG Contemporary in Vienna as part of a larger group of works about the Austrian architect and designer Ernst Schwadron (1896-1979). Schwadron’s penthouse apartment was located on the top floor of Franz Josefs Kai 3, in the building owned by his… Continue reading Heidrun Holzfeind

Artist: Pilvi Takala

Pilvi Takala, Welcome to Deloitte,  Letter and Key Card, The Trainee, 2008 Takala typically trespasses in smaller microcosms, using herself or hired actors and a hidden camera to document a single, subtle act of transgression of established social conduct. In doing so, she unsettles the unspoken rules of these ambiguous societies. Takala, with her unassuming… Continue reading Artist: Pilvi Takala

The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy

The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, 2010 Published by Lauren Monchar & The Institute of Social Hypocrisy. Edition of 1000 Edited by Victor Boullet, the resulting collection of essays, images and musings reveals the disparate perspectives of the various up and downloaders. It illustrates how the internet is… Continue reading The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy

Film: Ben Rivers, Slow Action, 2010

Still from Ben Rivers, Slow Action, 2010 Slow Action is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film that brings together a series of four 16mm works which exist somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. Continuing his exploration of curious and extraordinary environments, Slow Action applies the idea of island biogeography, the study of how species and… Continue reading Film: Ben Rivers, Slow Action, 2010

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Sculpture: Nina Beier

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

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

Thomas Ruff, Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street and Davies Street

  Thomas Ruff 3D_ma.r.s.04, 2012, Nudes, Installation view and jpeg tj01, 2007 Thomas Ruff, Ma.r.s., March 8-April 21, 2012 Gagosian GalleryBritannia Street and Nudes, Davies Street Gagosian Gallery presented two exhibitions of new and recent photographs by Thomas Ruff. This is his first exhibition with the gallery. “The difference between my predecessors and me is that they believed to have… Continue reading Thomas Ruff, Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street and Davies Street

Isa Genzken: Halleluja, Zurich

Isa Genzken, Halleluja, 14 April-19 May 2012, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Hubertus Exhibitions, Zurich Isa Genzken’s work is a cacophonous riot of colour, material and form. She pulls from the geometries of modernist architecture, the aesthetic of Robert Rauschenberg’s combines and the stark and severe ethos of minimalism and corrals these elements in to her own world,… Continue reading Isa Genzken: Halleluja, Zurich

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

Exhibition: Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller, Lehmann Maupin, New York 10 February -17 March 2012 201 Chrystie Street This exhibition highlighted three recent series, demonstrating Teller’s dynamic and diverse oeuvre. Featuring the controversial photographs of Kristen McMenamy, shot in the home of Carlo Mollino and seductive portraits of Vivienne Westwood, juxtaposed with intimate portraits of his family and close… Continue reading Exhibition: Juergen Teller

Renee So

Renee So, Bellarmine IX, Bellarmine X and Untitled, 2012 With their penchant for drunken acrobatics and big jolly beards, the characters Renee So brings to life are a lovely gang of odd bods. In the giant “knitted portraits” she creates on a 1970s pre-computerised machine, her figures – who wear ballooning Elizabethan trousers and top… Continue reading Renee So

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Photographer: Ed Panar

For the most part, his subtle color photography has mined the territory of what he calls “the edges or background of the human scene.” His 2007 book “Golden Palms,” a study of Los Angeles, exemplifies this approach: the photographs hone in on the patterns or textures of objects. For Panar’s photos, the light falling on… Continue reading Photographer: Ed Panar

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

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