Gallery Yvon Lambert, 5 rue Violette, Paris For over 45 years the Yvon Lambert Gallery, has played an important role in the representation and support of the most innovative artists of our time. Founded in 1966 by the art dealer and collector Yvon Lambert, the gallery has a strong tradition of presenting artists’ projects that… Continue reading Galleries: Yvon Lambert, Paris
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Exhibition: Takesada Matsutani, A Matrix
Takesada Matsutani, A Matrix, 2013 Takesada Matsutani A Matrix, 18 May – 27 July 2013 Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row This will be the gallery’s first solo show with Osaka-born, Paris-based artist, Takesada Matsutani and also marks the first time his works will be shown in the UK. ‘A Matrix’ features never before seen… Continue reading Exhibition: Takesada Matsutani, A Matrix
Capricious Magazine
Images from Capricious Magazine, Vol 2, Issue no. 11, Issue no. 13 and Issue no. 14 Swedish photographer Sophie Mörner founded Capricious Magazine in 2004. It is a biannual publication dedicated to showcasing emerging fine art photography. Its contributors and subject matter span the globe and is comprised almost entirely of images. Since Capricious collaborates… Continue reading Capricious Magazine
Documentary: Diana Vreeland, The eye has to travel
Still from the Documentary, Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has To Travel, 2012 Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has To Travel, Documentary, 2012 Directed By: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frédéric Tcheng and Lisa Immordino Vreeland 86 min. Biography, Documentary. “There’s only one very good life, and that’s the life you know you want and you make it yourself”. During Diana… Continue reading Documentary: Diana Vreeland, The eye has to travel
Photography: Marcelo Krasilcic, 1990s, 2013
Marcelo Krasilcic, Devra and Elaine, New York, 1996 and Untitled, From the book, 1990s, 2013 Part of a generation of photographers that includes Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson, Marcel Krasilcic (born 1969) moved to New York in 1990. He quickly became known for his spare but erotic photographs of liberated youth, artists, designers and musicians,… Continue reading Photography: Marcelo Krasilcic, 1990s, 2013
N° 5 Culture Chanel, Palais De Tokyo, Paris
From May 5th until June 5th, 2013 Palais de Tokyo in Paris will house the N° 5 Culture Chanel exhibition as part of its Guest Program. This exhibition has once again been entrusted to Jean-Louis Froment, the curator of the previous editions of Culture Chanel, held successively in Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum for Fine Arts,… Continue reading N° 5 Culture Chanel, Palais De Tokyo, Paris
Artist: Thea Djordjadze
Thea Djordjadze, The easy isn’t done easy, 2007, Coated steeland Installation view, Our full, Malmö Konsthall, 2012 It’s rare that art as apparently spartan as Thea Djordjadze’s can be so tantalising. The thin wooden or metal frames and glass vitrines that frequently star in her sculptural assemblages suggest a minimalist sensibility and evoke the pristine,… Continue reading Artist: Thea Djordjadze
Isa Genzken, Hauser & Wirth London, Sawille Row
Isa Genzken, 15 November 2012-12 January 2013, Hauser & Wirth London,Savile Row “I have always said that with any sculpture you have to be able to say, although this is not a ready-made, it could be one. That’s what a sculpture has to look like. It must have a certain relation to reality”. Isa Genzken in conversation… Continue reading Isa Genzken, Hauser & Wirth London, Sawille Row
Exhibition: Bjarne Melgaard, A House to Die In, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Bjarne Melgaard, From the Exhibition, A House to Die In, 2012 A House to Die In, 25 September – 18 November, 2012 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London A House to Die In is New York based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The Lower and Upper Galleries feature two of his collaborative projects, which investigate the dynamics… Continue reading Exhibition: Bjarne Melgaard, A House to Die In, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Jeff Koones: Metallic Venus
Jeff Koones, Metallic Venus, 2010-2012. Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating and live flowering plants Jeff Koons is reaching back into art history with his new series “Antiquity,” exploring the goddess of love in huge glossy metallic sculptures such as the turquoise Metallic Venus. Jeff Koons: The Painter and Sculptor was showing at two venues in Germany’s banking capital (20… Continue reading Jeff Koones: Metallic Venus
Lutz Becker, Cinema Notes, 1975
Lutz Becker, Installation view, Cinema Notes, 1975. 16mm Black and White, 45 mins For many years lost and recently found, Kino Beleške was produced in 1975 in collaboration with the group of artists, curators and critics gathered around the Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade. The film includes verbal statements and performative gestures of the numerous protagonists of the… Continue reading Lutz Becker, Cinema Notes, 1975
Online Resource: http://www.ubu.com/
Bruce Nauman, Good Boy Bad Boy,1985 and Video Against AIDS, Curated by John Greyson and Bill Horrigan, produced by Kate Horsefield, 1989 UbuWeb is an independent online resource educational resource for avant-garde material. UbuWeb does not distribute commercially viable works but rather resurrects avant-garde sound art, video and textual works through their translation into a digital art web environment, re-contextualising them with current academic commentary and contemporary practice… Continue reading Online Resource: http://www.ubu.com/
Exhibition: Image Counter Image
Radenko Milak, What Else Did You See? I Couldn’t See Everything! (No. 5), 2010–2012 and Installation view of the Exhibition Image Counter Image, 10 June – 16 September, 2012 Hause der Kunst,Prinzregentenstraße 1, Munich The exhibition Image Counter Image at Hause der Kunst, presents artistic positions that focus on the critical analysis of violent conflicts in… Continue reading Exhibition: Image Counter Image
Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955
Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955, 10 June 2012-13 January 2013 Hause der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, Munich “This year Haus der Kunst marks the 75th anniversary of its public opening. This anniversary gives us the opportunity to reflect on the historical legacy of the museum, especially on the building… Continue reading Histories in Conflict: Haus der Kunst and the Ideological Uses of Art, 1937-1955
Photography: Ahmed Kamel
Ahmed Kamel, From the Series, Dreamy Day, 2004 – 2008 Ahmed Kamel is interested in domestic and urban life. He uses photography, video and drawing to address social issues. He was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1981, where he studied painting and received his BFA in 2003. Kamel is the recipient of a number of… Continue reading Photography: Ahmed Kamel
Art: Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Poles
Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Poles, 2012 Gestures related to the body and the exhibition space feature prominently in the work of Los Angeles-based artist Chadwick Rantanen who creates among others anodized telescopic sculptures with tennis balls affixed to the bottom which are held up by their own internal pressure. Disseminated throughout a gallery space, and stretched from the floor to the ceiling,… Continue reading Art: Chadwick Rantanen, Telescopic Poles
Iman Issa
Iman Issa, Material for a sculpture representing a monument erected in the spirit of defiance of a larger power, 2010 and Making Places (c-print), Series of ten c-prints, 2007 Iman Issa, born 1979, Cairo, is an artist based in Cairo and New York. The cryptic work of Iman Issa rarely denotes its subject matter nor reveals the artist’s creative… Continue reading Iman Issa
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
Photography: Mårten Lange
Mårten Lange, From the Book, Another Language, 2012 “A physical delineation of nature terminates at the point where the sphere of intellect begins, and a new world of mind is opened to our view. It marks the limit, but does not pass it.” Alexander von Humboldt (1845) The aesthetics of science, nature and the materiality… Continue reading Photography: Mårten Lange
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