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
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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
Aleksandra Domanović
Aleksandra Domanović, Portrait, 2011, 3d model, 50 x 70 cm, inkjet-print in frame
Bill Gaytten for Christian Dior, Fall 2012; New Look
Bill Gaytten for Christian Dior, Fall 2012, Paris, 2 March 2012 The Christian Dior show today was a frustrating experience. The dither that has surrounded Dior since John Galliano’s departure demands resolution, if only because you never again want to hear one single morsel of groundless speculation. With Dior’s couture collection in July, it felt… Continue reading Bill Gaytten for Christian Dior, Fall 2012; New Look
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
Everything leads to another: “Me, dead at 37”
Matthew Day Jackson, Me, dead at 37 and Domestic drawing (LIFE, December 12, 1969), 2011 “In my work there is no past. History is a part of everything. Everything leads to another. As the sum of history moves out in 360 degrees from its center, which does not exist, it envelops the present. Perhaps you… Continue reading Everything leads to another: “Me, dead at 37”
Cameron Platter: Black up that white ass II
Cameron Platter, Black up that white ass II, 2009 Cameron Platter, Black up that white ass II, is a 26 minute animated video work, is a good vs. evil story of contemporary life in South Africa weaved through erotic pornography, historic battle stories, biblical parables, and physcadelic dream sequences. Influenced by the tradition of storytelling… Continue reading Cameron Platter: Black up that white ass II
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
Katja Novitskova: Expo 2020 Gbadolite, 2001
Katja Novitskova, Cha City flag, Ba City flag, Tu City flag, 2010 Expo 2020 is a project by Femke Herregraven, Katja Novitskova, Matthias Schreiber, Chris Lee, Henrik van Leeuwen and Mikko Oustamanolakis. “Finding Your Place in the World The impact of global climate change is upsetting the balance of the world in a multitude of ways. Seasonal weather patterns have become… Continue reading Katja Novitskova: Expo 2020 Gbadolite, 2001
Tom Burr, Sentence
Tom Barr, Sentence, 2009 Tom Burr, Sentence, 10 September – 24 Oktober 2009 Bortolami, New York There was no single work in Tom Burr’s recent exhibition “sentence” that was truly emblematic of the whole, but one pair at least came close. The two sculptures his personal effects (White) and (Natural) (both 2009) demonstrate a bold… Continue reading Tom Burr, Sentence
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
Valentino, Menswear, Fall 2012
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli for Valentino, Menswear, Fall 2012 Once upon a time, women had a dressmaker; men had a tailor. The law of supply and demand elevated those services into haute couture and bespoke, which have, ever since, been the summit of human achievement when it comes to cut and cloth.… Continue reading Valentino, Menswear, Fall 2012
“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.”
Exhibition: Chris Moore, Catwalking
Chris Moore, Catwalking 2 December-10 February 2012 Kings Place Gallery Born in Newcastle, Chris Moore moved with the rest of his family to London when he was four years old. He entered the world of fashion at the age of 18 and became a Vogue photographer’s assistant, working with luminaries such as Henry Clarke, Norman Parkinson and Cecil Beaton. His early career was… Continue reading Exhibition: Chris Moore, Catwalking
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
Matthew Day Jackson, The Tomb, 2010
Matthew Day Jackson, The Tomb, 2010 The Tomb, a large-scale work derived from the Tomb of Philippe Pot. Attributed to Antoine LeMoiturier, in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Tomb of Philippe Pot is considered one of the masterpieces of the Burgundian style of the late 15th century. Jackson replaces the eight hooded monks who carry Pot’s… Continue reading Matthew Day Jackson, The Tomb, 2010