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January 24~2015
Jamie Sneider
At the end of the 5 months, her studio was destroyed. It was usable, but the floorboards turned a bluish- green and the walls were stained with dye, coffee, urine, etc. I didn’t care. They kept leaving notes, “Whoever is throwing away so much trash in the bathroom! Stop!” It was never my studio, it was her studio, and neither of us were ever coming back.
January 24~2015
During the summer of 2014 English artist Phoebe Collings-James took part in Nuove//Residency, a residency program sited in the Bassano del Grappa region of Italy that teaches young international artists the skills to produce new work in the ceramic medium. On the occasion of “Choke On Your Tongue”, the Italian Cultural Institute and ARTUNER are delighted to present this new body of work for the first time in London. The title of the show expands on a series of drawings the artist conceived four years ago, a statement Collings-James has maintained to describe feelings of frustration in both her personal life and work as an artist at that time. “Choke On Your Tongue” exists as a proclamation, a suffocated desire of a kept expression. Through the presented new works the artist seeks to develop this feeling which is centred on her continued investigations into language, communication and sexuality.
January 23~2015
Following the exhibition at Museum de Hallen in Haarlem (NL), the Grazer Kunstverein presents the first solo show in Austria by artist Christian Friedrich. The exhibition entitled “On Something New / Dirt in a Hole” presents an array of works including a newly produced, large-scale sound and light work, an immersive, monumental video installation and a series of earlier sculptures. Friedrich’s artistic interest lies in the structure, manipulation and conditions of subject-object relationships. A common theme in the artist’s work is the subjugation of the human body, which he regularly presents as an object of desire in which power and submission collapse into the subliminal. His earlier drawings and sculptures are informed by cause-and-effect formulas, mining various Conceptual traditions and their quasi-rational methods, both strict and frivolous.
January 22~2015
The oeuvre by Chicago born artist Rashid Johnson is abundant in references to Afro-American culture: Shea butter, African animal skins, and/or icons of Afro-American literature and music are the subjects that appear in ever changing constellations. Over the years these references have developed into an individual iconography; they have emancipated from their origin, while retaining a strong connection to the place from which they were born.
January 21~2015
January 20~2015
Sturtevant “Double Trouble”
The Museum of Modern Art presents the first comprehensive survey in the U.S. of the 50-year career of Sturtevant (American, 1924–2014), and the only institutional presentation of her work organized in the U.S. since a solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in 1973. The exhibition is on view from November 9, 2014, to February 22, 2015. “Sturtevant: Double Trouble” brings together over 50 key artworks from all periods of Sturtevant’s career in almost every medium in which she worked—including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, film, and video—identifying her as a pioneering and pivotal figure in the history of modern and postmodern art. The exhibition is organized by Peter Eleey, Curator and Associate Director of Exhibitions and Programs, MoMA PS1, with Ingrid Langston, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA. The exhibition will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles where it will be on view from March 21 to July 27, 2015.
January 20~2015
Milano Art Bulletin is a platform for contemporary art made up of a website and a newsletter that keeps professionals and enthusiasts up to date about gallery and museum exhibitions in Milan.
The project identity and web design is handled by Mousse Art Agency, while the web interface is supported by Artshell.
Cover image by Giovanna Silva.
January 19~2015
In the manifestation of the sacred, an object, such as a stone or tree, turns into something else while remaining itself and continuing to be part of the cosmic order. A hierophany, to use Mircea Eliade’s term, determines the saturation of being in its fullness, is fulfilled in every gesture of everyday life, including physiological needs, inscribing humanity within a foundational logic that is capable of giving new meaning to the world in its phenomenological totality. Petra Feriancova is an artist capable of elaborating autobiographical elements in an authentic way, fusing them with other information coming from many different areas, translating them all into catalogues, intimate and universal at the same time, which have the inspiration of epic narratives, although they are fragments, fragile scores or situations that could be termed infra-ordinary. On this occasion she tells of myths and mysteries which, in their unutterability, relate the time of contemporary humanity to archaic humanity. A work that could be called civilizing through its relation with matter, with the natural elements and by means of the creative act, that of manual work as a foundational act.
January 18~2015
Peter Doig is one of the most fascinating artists of today. The Fondation Beyeler presents an exhibition of his most important oil paintings and experimental works on paper, as well as a monumental new mural.
January 17~2015
Lulu is proud to present a solo exhibition of the US-born, Hopkinton-based artist Michael E. Smith. Detroit-native Michael E. Smith has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the most radical sculptors of his generation for his terse, aesthetic prognostications. An evoker of aftermath, human fragmentation, and urban desolation, he has a strong penchant for unusual materials ranging from everything to plastics, protective gear, automotive components, foams, animal parts, industrially produced comestibles, human bone, and perhaps most importantly, textiles.
January 16~2015
The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will present the 24th annual New York Jewish Film Festival at the Film Society’s Walter Reade Theater and Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, January 14-29, 2015. The festival’s 47 features and shorts from 11 countries—21 screening in their world, U.S., or New York premieres—provide a diverse global perspective on the Jewish experience.
January 15~2015
Jacqueline Bebb, Nina Beier, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Sol Calero, James Clarkson, Susan Collis, Gabriele De Santis, Jason Dodge, Sean Edwards, Tim Foxon, Ryan Gander, Ditte Gantriis, Mario Garcia Torres, Gareth Griffith, Brian Hubble, Dean Hughes, David Keating, Chosil Kil, Jonathan Monk, John Henry Newton, Alek O., Joe Orr, Wilfredo Prieto, Laura Reeves, Amanda Ross-Ho, Andreas Slominski, Mateo Tannatt, Mungo Thomson, Oliver Tirre, Santo Tolone, Brent Wadden, Bedwyr Williams, Jesse Wine. Curated by Adam Carr.
January 14~2015
Eric Baudelaire “FRMAWREOK FAMREWROK FRMAEOWRK FOMARERWK”
The films, photographs and installations by Eric Baudelaire investigate the very framing conditions of historiographical narration. How do the production processes underlying a film image, a story, a portrait or a document themselves shape the reality they depict? By mobilizing and using the hidden framework of media devices, templates and ideologies with which we construct history, present and future and in staging them within the frame, Baudelaire creates fictitious documentary and documentary fiction. Here, a document turns into a framed picture, a film improvisation collides with the exhibited film script, a documentary film portrayal does not show portrait images of those portrayed, an analytical diagram becomes an ornament on a wallpaper.
January 13~2015
Vikky Alexander, “The Temptation of St Anthony”
The Apartment is thrilled to present an exhibition of pivotal historic work by Vancouver photographer Vikky Alexander, all made in the 1980s. Appropriated from fashion photography, reshot and arranged as near religious diptychs and triptychs, the works in “The Temptation of St Anthony” are classic postmodern takes on objectification and temptation.
January 12~2015
Markus Schinwald is a versatile artist. In each of the consecutive rooms at M, he reveals a different facet of his recent oeuvre. The artist selects his medium based on his ideas or on the intensity he wants the artwork to exude. Sometimes they are paintings or sculptures, but at other times they might be films or performances. This exhibition features several new works that have never been shown before.
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January 11~2015
Joan Jonas “Light Time Tales”
“Light Time Tales” is the first anthological exhibition in Italy devoted to the art of Joan Jonas. Curated by Andrea Lissoni, the exhibition brings together–with both historic and recent works–ten installations and ten single-channel videos, among which a new video especially conceived for HangarBicocca.
January 10~2015
From 3 October 2014 to 11 January 2015, GAMeC’s SpazioZero is hosting the exhibition project “Mississippi” for the seventh Edition of Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize. Sam Korman has been proposed last year by Dominic Molon (at that time Chief Curator of Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and current Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island), and awarded in November 2013 from an international panel composed by Pierre Bal-Blanc (Director, CAC – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny), Mirjam Varadinis (Curator, Kunsthaus Zürich), Giacinto Di Pietrantonio (Director, GAMeC, Bergamo), Stefano Raimondi (Curator, GAMeC, Bergamo).
January 10~2015
“Konzentration der Kräfte” (Concentration of Forces), the title of the exhibition, identifies a central theme in Erkan’s art. A recent graduate of the Städelschule who is returning to Frankfurt for this show while living and working in Los Angeles on a Fulbright grant, Erkan presents new work. Two sculptures are the centerpieces of the show. The remains of two plaster-and- porcelain large-scale produced plates are the product of a process the artist has explored for quite some time, as her previous plate pieces illustrate.
