Paul Berger, Whimac 1, 1994 and 750s-mc, 1999 Paul Berger have been working in the photographic medium since 1965, and in digital electronic media since 1981. He earned a BA degree in Art at UCLA in 1970, studying with Robert Heinecken and Robert Fichter. Berger completed MFA graduate work at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New… Continue reading Paul Berger
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Books: Thomas Demand, La Carte d’après Nature
Thomas Demand, La Carte d’après Nature, 2010 La Carte d’apres Nature, published to accompany an exhibition curated by Thomas Demand at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, takes its title from a short-lived art magazine created by René Magritte between 1951 and 1954. Magritte’s publication ran for just fourteen issues and each consisted of a postcard,… Continue reading Books: Thomas Demand, La Carte d’après Nature
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, From the Series, Contraband, 2010 Shot over five days for the book and exhibition, “Contraband” — of items detained or seized from passengers or express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport. The miscellany of prohibited objects — from the everyday to the illegal to the just plain odd —… Continue reading Taryn Simon
2000: David Askevold
David Askevold, Harbour Ghosts, HFX (detail), 1999 and Tourists Veiwing Pilescape, Inkjet on Canvas, 2000 David Askevold (30 March 1940 – 23 January 2008) was an experimental Canadian artist who lived in Nova Scotia. Askevold studied art and anthropology at the University of Montana. In 1963, he won a Max Beckmann Scholarship to study painting… Continue reading 2000: David Askevold
“Equally significant is the decline of the critic as a culture broker. Today that role is played by the curator. That, too, will change.”
In october 2005 Frieze asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists How has art changed? With the proliferation of museums, biennales and fairs, and the sheer amount of work now being made, shown, and sold, the art world has obviously changed substantially over the last 40 or so years. But what have been… Continue reading “Equally significant is the decline of the critic as a culture broker. Today that role is played by the curator. That, too, will change.”
Talks: The Trouble with Productivity, ICA
The Trouble with Productivity, 11 January 2012 Institute of Contemporary Arts Artists, writers and curators today, more than ever, take part in a time-pressured culture of high performance. Can you be productive by not being productive? Are there artistic possibilities in exhaustion, failure and laziness? Those were among the questions posed at the ICA last week during a… Continue reading Talks: The Trouble with Productivity, ICA
Egill Sæbjörnsson
Egill Sæbjörnsson in collaboration with Karolin Tampere, Installation view, 2008 Egill Sæbjörnsson (born 1973, Reykjavik / IS) graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts (now the Icelandic Academy of the Arts) in 1997 and studied at the University of Paris, St.Denis, from 1995 to 1996. Since 1999 he shares his time between Reykjavík and… Continue reading Egill Sæbjörnsson
Standard (Oslo) Gallery
Fredrik Værslev, Untitled, 2010. Spray paint, house paint and white spirit on canvas /wooden stretcher STANDARD (OSLO) Gallery was established in April 2005. Based in Oslo the gallery aims at promoting contemporary Norwegian artists in the international field, as well as introducing international artists to the Norwegian audience. Gallery artists have been included in a number of internationally… Continue reading Standard (Oslo) Gallery
Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall, Boxing and Boy Falls From Tree, 2010 Over the course of Jeff Wall’s career, his versatile and disciplined approach to the possibilities of the medium of photography to ‘paint modern life’ has resulted in a body of work notable in its attention to composition, scale, color and construction and for its hybrid integration of… Continue reading Jeff Wall
Exhibition: Lygia Pape, Magnetized Space
Lygia Pape, Magnetized Space, 7 December 2011 – 19 February 2012 Serpentine Gallery, London Pape was a founding member of the Neo-Concrete movement, which was dedicated to the inclusion of art into everyday life. Pape’s early work developed out of an interest in European abstraction, however she and her contemporaries went beyond simply adopting an international… Continue reading Exhibition: Lygia Pape, Magnetized Space
“There is a dialogue to be had about sex. All the information out there, whether it’s about sex parties, Internet sex, or pornography, is overwhelming. There is a real need for an edited voice.”
Classy pervs, rejoice: The coffee-table sex magazine Richardson is back from the dead. British fashion stylist Andrew Richardson (no relation to the similarly licentious photographer Terry) put out three glossy issues featuring porn stars and pontification between 1998 and 2002 before going on hiatus amid the post-9/11 economic downturn. In the years since, Richardson refined his… Continue reading “There is a dialogue to be had about sex. All the information out there, whether it’s about sex parties, Internet sex, or pornography, is overwhelming. There is a real need for an edited voice.”
Sculpture: John Kleckner and Patrick Tuttofuoco, Those Ghosts, 2011
John Kleckner and Patrick Tuttofuoco, Those Ghosts, 2011 The works in this exhibition are about human figures dissipating into voids, into abstractions, and shape-shifting into solid structures. Transformation, transcendence, and transience are the core concepts fixed into 2- and 3-dimensional material permanence in each of the exhibited artworks. In his newest works one can see John… Continue reading Sculpture: John Kleckner and Patrick Tuttofuoco, Those Ghosts, 2011
Exhibitions: Paul McCarty
Paul McCarty, The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship, 16 November 2011 – 14 January 2012 Hauser & Wirth London and Hauser & Wirth London, Piccadilly Combining political figures and pop culture, ‘Pig Island’, on view at Savile Row, is a morally deviant world populated by pirates, cowboys, the likenesses of George W. Bush and Angelina… Continue reading Exhibitions: Paul McCarty
Exhibition: OMA/Progress
OMA/Progress, 6 October 2011 – 19 February 2012 Barbican Art Gallery This autumn, the Barbican Art Gallery is transformed by an exhibition on OMA, one of the most influential architecture practices working today. Celebrated as much for their daring and unconventional ideas as their inventive buildings, the work of OMA and its think tank AMO anticipates the architectural,… Continue reading Exhibition: OMA/Progress
Lernert & Sander
Lernert & Sander, Trampling, From the Series, Elektrotechnique, 2011 Dutch designers Lernert & Sander create pieces that reflect on the remarkable, often messy endeavor of art-making. In their surreal, Pantone world, the creative process is always beautifully exposed. Though not yet a household name, the Dutch duo have amassed a considerable body of work –… Continue reading Lernert & Sander
Gerhard Richter
Uebermalte fotografien, 5 october 1998, Uebermalte fotografien, 8 september 2004 and Uebermalte fotografien, 2 march 2005 Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist and one of the pioneers of the New European Painting that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs… Continue reading Gerhard Richter
Books: Oscar Tuazon
Oscar Tuazon, I Can’t See, 2010 Do.Pe. Press, Paraguay Press, Edition of 2.000. Silkscreen cover, color ill. This publication is the first monograph of American artist Oscar Tuazon. It accompanies the exhibition Bend It Till It Breaks, organized by Chiara Parisi and presented at Le Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière (Ciap), November 15, 2009-February 14,… Continue reading Books: Oscar Tuazon
Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick, German Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale, 2009 Born in England in 1964, Liam Gillick emphasizes his roots in postwar Europe and his consequent distrust of authority as major influences in his curatorial techniques and artistic practices. Currently working in London and New York, “engaged with the processes of the everyday,” he rejects the… Continue reading Liam Gillick
Liliane Lijn
Liliane Lijn, In The Valley of Darkness, 1973 Partly, perhaps as an act of mourning; more obviously as a reparative act, Lijn conceived of her manipulation of prisms as giving them a kind of restorative posthumous existence to remedy their mutilated identity: “A prism on its own is lost. It has no feet, no legs… Continue reading Liliane Lijn
Harm Van den Dorpel
Harm Van den Dorpel, Animal series, 2008 Harm van den Dorpel (born 1981 in Zaandam, The Netherlands) is a Berlin-based conceptual artist. With his work he investigates aesthetic hierarchies and cybernetic organisations of art and contemporary visual culture in general. He explores how intuitive associative expression, and algorithmically structured information systems can operate in hybrid. His… Continue reading Harm Van den Dorpel