Article and photos by AJ Kiyoizumi – in San Francisco; Monday, Sep. 30, 2014.
Ai Weiwei doesn’t get to see his own exhibits in person anymore. With selective enforcement and dubious claims, his passport was taken after he was under house arrest for evading taxes in Beijing. He is unable to attend openings or accept prestigious professorships, as we saw with his show at the…
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Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi, photos by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Saturday, Mar. 15, 2014.
The small space at
Emerson Gallery held an intimate performance on Friday. It was intimate in that the space was personal and sparsely populated, but the performance itself can better be described as explicit, drawing aggressive contrasts between two different
Secret Garden’s: one the classic…
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Blog post by AJ Kiyozumi & Photos by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.
Sofie Bird Møller mixes and matches body language in her new show at
Sassa Trülzsch. As with many of her previous street art “Intervention” pieces, the base layer for her art is found material like advertisements, and, as with some of her newer work, old clothes…
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Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Thursday, Feb. 06, 2014.
John von Bergen’s newest exhibition,
Prey Voidant, calls our assumptions about artistic material into doubt. Gallery walls yawn open, rusted metal transforms into putty, gravity seems irrelevant.
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Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Jan. 31, 2014.
At
carlier | gebauer, whimsy takes different paths in the two different exhibitions now open, one by
Mark Wallinger, and one by
Asta Gröting. The large space lends itself to both of the artists’ works….
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Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014.
The first instinct when seeing or describing
Tatiana Trouvé’s installation
SOMEWHERE, 18-12-95, AN UNKNOWN 1981 is to catalogue the items that make up the work. A wall, graying mattresses, a chair, plastic bags cast in bronze, a pole…
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