Since the very idea of a ‘psychedelic art’ is tenuous, the exhibition does not propose a canonical presentation, but attempts to establish a series of artist experiments that relate to the many ‘plateaux’ of the psychedelic, and its multiple histories as they unfolded in particular cultural contexts in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Japan. Although the focus will be upon historical projects from the sixties and seventies, the exhibition will include work from the fifties until the present day.
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Ari Benjamin Meyers
While primarily known for his work with the ground breaking dance club-orchestral mash-up, Redux Orchestra, he has also worked with many other artists most notably Einstürzende Neubauten. Other collaborators include Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anri Sala, Tino Sehgal, La Fura dels Baus, The Residents, raumlabor.berlin, Ricardo Villalobos, Staatsoper Dresden, Staatskapelle Berlin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, Morton Subotnick and The Orb.
Céline, Spring 2014, Ready-to-Wear
Céline, Spring 2014, Ready-to-Wear Back to the Tennis Club de Paris today to see what Phoebe Philo’s Céline woman has been up to. And, according to the mood book on each brightly colored, blocky seat, she has been looking at graffiti—not just any graffiti, but graffiti through the medium of Brassaï’s photographs, obviously. In the primal black… Continue reading Céline, Spring 2014, Ready-to-Wear
Art: Slavs and Tatars
Reverse Joy, 2012 and Scenarios for Europe (III), 2012 Slavs and Tatars is an art collective and “a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia”. Founded in 2006, the group addresses a shared sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians.… Continue reading Art: Slavs and Tatars
Re-View: Onnasch Collection, Houser & Wirth London
David Smith, Seven Hours, 1961 (Pre-painted steel, 214.5 x 122 x 45.5 cm), Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1956 (Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 127 cm), Exhibition installation view Re-View: Onnasch Collection, 20 September – 14 December 2013 Hauser & Wirth London, Piccadilly and Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row Hauser & Wirth is devoting all three of its London… Continue reading Re-View: Onnasch Collection, Houser & Wirth London
Artist: Ida Ekblad
Ida Ekblad, Untitled 2012, Untitled, 2011 and Installation View, Untitled, 2011 Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad just finished her solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo this week. In the official press release her work is referred to as being “frequently process oriented and her artistic practice is often described as spontaneous and chance-based. Items seemingly… Continue reading Artist: Ida Ekblad
Lynda Benglis
Lydia Benglis, Merak, Sinc and Copper, 1990 and Ghost Dance, Bronze and gold leaf, 1992 Lynda Benglis (born October 25, 1941) is an American sculptor known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. After earning a BFA from Newcomb College in 1964, Benglis moved to New York, where she lives and works today. Benglis’ work is noted for an unusual blend of organic… Continue reading Lynda Benglis
Galleries: Giò Marconi, Milano
Installation view: John Bock, Barlach, 2010, Giò Marconi Gallery, Milano Gallery Giò Marconi, Milano started in 1990 under the initiative of Giò Marconi who created the Studio Marconi 17, an experimental space for young artists and art critics that he directed from 1986 to 1990. At the beginning, the new gallery was directed by Giò and… Continue reading Galleries: Giò Marconi, Milano
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
R. H. Quaytman
Installation view, R.H Quaytman, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, 2009 and Chapter 12: iamb (checkered blue screen with edges), 2008, Oil, silkscreen, gesso on wood, 51 x 82.2 cm R. H. Quaytman is a contemporary artist, best known for paintings on wood panels, using abstract and photographic elements in site-specific “Chapters”, now numbering twenty-five. Each Chapter is… Continue reading R. H. Quaytman
Exhibition: John McCracken, Works from 1963-2011, David Zwirner, New York
McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and finish. He developed his early sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to produce objects made with industrial materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer, and pigmented resin, creating the highly reflective, smooth surfaces that he was to become known for.
Art: Ed Atkins, A Tumour (In English), 2010
Ed Atkins, A Tumour (in English), video still, 2010 London-based artist Ed Atkins interest in high definition makes him a rarity in a landscape of video artists who work with antiquated 35mm and 16mm. Digital film is innately mysterious – it’s data in a box – but Atkins turns it into stuff you feel under… Continue reading Art: Ed Atkins, A Tumour (In English), 2010
Exhibition: Paul McCarthy, WS, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Paul McCarthy, WS, Exhibition View, 2013 Paul McCarthy, WS, 19 June – 4 August, 2013 Park Avenue Armory, New York McCarthy is using Disney’s Snow White, turning her into his White Snow, as a character she is readymade emotional architecture dressed as an impossibly beautiful group of images. The largest installation yet for the artist, WS took 72 semi-trucks to… Continue reading Exhibition: Paul McCarthy, WS, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Nina Beier “HEAVY HAND” 2013
Real Estate, view setup , 2013, Loulou , 2013 and Smokes , 2013 “Growing up in Los Angeles, I have spent a majority of my life in traffic, looking out the window watching disgruntled individuals make their way from point A to point B, then C, into eternity. You find yourself staring at your reflection… Continue reading Nina Beier “HEAVY HAND” 2013
Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Installation view: Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, geometrics, 2013 Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, June 18 – September 22, 2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The first major museum exhibition of Ken Price’s work in New York, will trace the development of his ceramic sculptures with approximately sixty-five examples from 1959 to 2012. The… Continue reading Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Artist: Josh Smith
Josh Smith, Untitled, 2008 and Untitled, 2010. Mixed media on canvas, acrylic glass Through paintings, collages, books, and ceramics, Josh Smith challenges the ideas of the artist. In forcing the painted image to be somewhat arbitrary, he has managed to take the act of painting beyond aesthetics. Smith’s early training in printmaking is often the… Continue reading Artist: Josh Smith
Bookshop: Librairie des Archives, Paris
Librairie des Archives Bookshop 83 rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris info@librairiedesarchives.com, +33 (0) 142 721 358 Librairie des Archives is an independent bookshop in Paris specialising in fine art, decorative arts and design, fashion and jewelry. The bookstore is located in the historic district of the Marais, close to Centre Pompidou, the Picasso museum (which is… Continue reading Bookshop: Librairie des Archives, Paris
Marfa Journal, Issue 1
Marfa Journal, Issue 1, 2013 Marfa Journal Issue 1 is a new publication created by artists for artists to connect contemporary high-end fashion and art. Marfa Journal‘s overriding concept is inspired by the small desert town of the same name in Texas, which has attracted the art world since the 1960s and continues to be a… Continue reading Marfa Journal, Issue 1
Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding
Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding, 2013 Self published book featuring works and words by : Rick Owens, Taro Hirano, Jean-Max Colard, Camille Vivier, Jérémie Egry & Aurélien Arbet, Eric Tabuchi, Audrey Corregan & Erik Haberfeld, Yann Gross, Andrew Phelps, Estelle Hanania, Jerry Hsu, Raphaël Zarka, Paul Virilio, and many more. 368… Continue reading Books: Neapolis, A poetic look at the world through prism of skateboarding
Publishing: Shelter Press
Shelter Press is a Paris / Brussels based independent publishing company founded in 2011 and run by the publisher / graphic designer Bartolomé Sanson and the artist / musician Felicia Atkinson, from the fundaments of Kaugummi Books (2005-2011). Their publishing program focuses on contemporary art, writings, and experimental music through art books, mutliples and records.… Continue reading Publishing: Shelter Press