Posts Tagged ‘paintings’
The Week June 27–July 3, 2022
Openings and events at Ebensperger, Eigen + Art Berlin, Feldfünf, Fixotek—Videotek, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Galerie Judin, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Persons Projects, Sprüth Magers,…[read on]
Chinese Artist Cen Long Presents ‘Invisible Passages’ in Venice
Mar. 10, 2022
The upcoming exhibition of Chinese artist Cen Long at Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice, entitled ‘Invisible Passages’ will present the artist’s oil paintings in tandem with relics from the 15th and 16th century…[read on]
Fractured Narratives: Julie Mehretu at carlier | gebauer
by Alice Connolly O’Brien // Oct. 19, 2021
Colossal, layered and rich in meaning, ‘Metoikos (in between paintings)’ marks the third solo exhibition of Mehretu in this space and is contrastingly paired with a suite of her etchings…[read on]
The Uncomfortable Edges of Spectatorship: Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Short Story’
by Elizabeth Schippers // July 21, 2020
It is quiet in the gallery when I enter: As I walk around the ground floor, a cluster of paintings and sculptures by upcoming artists are mingled with impressive names, part of…[read on]
Exhibition // An Avowal of Anonymity: Melike Kara at Peres Projects
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Oct. 31, 2017
While so many artists address our current political and cultural moment with works drawn on their own identities, Melike Kara employs a radically different approach: anonymity…[read on]
Nasan Tur
by Rebecca Partridge // Feb. 21, 2017
For those who visited Nasan Tur’s recent solo show at Blain|Southern, ‘Funktionieren’, it would be easy to think that you have already been privy to the inner-workings of the artist’s studio…[read on]
Robert Lazzarini
by Lucia Love // Dec. 7, 2016
Robert Lazzarini’s Greenpoint studio is scenically located by the banks of the greasy Newtown Creek. In stark contrast to the superfund site, his…[read on]
Chiharu Shiota
by Louisa Elderton // Sept. 15, 2016
I first entered the Prenzlauer Berg studio of Chiharu Shiota one year ago. How quickly a year passes. I took off my shoes at her request: blue or grey slippers? Blue…[read on]
Review // Old Magic and New Futures; Artist Jeremy Deller at the British Pavilion
Article by Ally Bisshop – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2013.
You don’t need to have witnessed the immolation of Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man to appreciate the grand British shamanic histories alluded to in Jeremy Deller’s English Magic. But, rather than heralding any continuing tradition of mastery and conquest, Deller’s works point to the places where the idea of grandeur…[read on…]
EVIL DEAD 2: Matt Jones and Kadar Brock at Horton Gallery
Blog entry by Devon Elise Atkins – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011.
Everyone has different ideas about what happens when we die, every culture a different way of mourning or celebrating the life we have lived. A Wake opened to coincide with the Mexican tradition Lo Dia de los Muertos, or The Day of the Dead, and explores death and the afterlife from various perspectives in moving images.
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“You’re a dot. I’m a dot. We’re all dots”Yayoi Kusama at Centre Pompidou
Blog entry by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011.
Yayoi Kusama had a vision from early on, and expressed it using a lot of different mediums, from paintings, to sculptures, and then through live art…