George Condo by Alexei Hay, 2012 Alexei Hay spent his early years in Miami, Tehran and New York. After graduating from Brown University for literature, he moved back in with his mother and assisted a range of photographers. Drawing upon the catholic range of lighting techniques that he encountered as an apprentice, Alexei began to… Continue reading Fashion Photography: Alexei Hay
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Samuel Aranda, Yemen 15 October 2011
Samuel Aranda, Yemen 15 October 2011 The international jury of the 55th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a picture by Samuel Aranda from Spain as the World Press Photo of the Year 2011. The picture shows a woman holding her wounded son in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital… Continue reading Samuel Aranda, Yemen 15 October 2011
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
Photographer: Ed Panar
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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
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
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”