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April 29~2011
Mixing objects pieced together in his studio, with cinematographic, Neïl Beloufaʼs work seems to happen “in between”, when we suspend disbelief: from a document to a fiction, from a functional object to a sculpture, from a work to another one or to its display context.
April 28~2011
Vilma Gold presents an exhibition of work of seven artists: Trisha Baga, Ann Craven, Michaela Eichwald, Helena Huneke, Hannah Sawtell, Katharina Sieverding and Julia Wachtel. The artists can loosely be linked by an awareness of their subjectivity; rather than work back from an existing or even vetted larger order, they look to themselves, their own system of being, as an individual in society, to build outwards in multiple directions and speak as they go.
April 27~2011
Featuring sculptural pieces by Simone Berti, Sergio Breviario, Samuele Menin and Alessandro Roma the exhibition, curated by Barbara Meneghel, borrows its title from the provocative statement of the 1945 essay by Arturo Martini “Scultura lingua morta” (Sculpture, a dead language). The artists direct a certain idea of sculpture, which looks to the coming back to the materiality and physicality of making art. The show is solely focusing on three-dimensional works, sharing a strong recalling to an imaginary related to the ground, to the sensuality of live material, to a certain primitivism of the sculptural gesture. Ceramics, plaster, metal, clay, resin play the main role of pieces with a high weight and tactile value, displayed through the spaces’ three floors.
April 27~2011
“The Swedenborg Room”, Pablo Sigg’s first solo exhibition in the United States, is a research of the cinematographic space as utopian space. This exhibition at ltd los angeles features four films, a cardboard model, a text and a neon light sculpture…
April 26~2011
Mousse has been commissioned to curate the Artist Projects for Art Brussels 2011.
Selected artists are Matthew Brannon, Claire Fontaine, Liam Gillick, Linder, Rob Pruitt and Nora Schultz. Each artist has been invited to take a closer look at the boundaries of the art fair’s structure, its identity and its institutional character and to fully explore the experience of a visit to Art Brussels. The interventions will be discovered and experienced by the visitors throughout the fair.
April 26~2011
e-flux presents an exhibition of works by Gustav Metzger conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Anton Vidokle, following the exhibition “Gustav Metzger: Decades 1959-2009,” curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Sophie O’Brien at the Serpentine Gallery in 2009.
April 23~2011
The fourth installment of “Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating” looks for an answer to the question “Why Mediate Art?”. Maria Lind examines the seeming paradoxes that revolve around art institutions: an overabundance of traditional educational activities, aimed at engaging an ever broader public; marketing departments and press offices that take on a strategic role; curators who have no real interest in making their project known outside the professional sphere. The Swedish curator explains the importance of weaving connections between works, curatorial projects and the public, for a new kind of artistic “mediation”.
April 22~2011
The solo exhibition, ‘In The Air’ by Olivia Flecha at Gallery Vela is a selection of works that explore the accumulation and dispersal of objects, architecture and materials. The show investigates a process of memorising, interpreting and invention, while a network of references and connotations are established for the work by the viewer.
April 21~2011
The three radical artistic positions of Olivier Mosset, Philippe Decrauzat and Paul Snowden are currently shown at Nymphius Projekte, Berlin.
April 20~2011
Since the late 1980s, Ben Kinmont has been interested in interpersonal communication as a means of addressing the problems of contemporary society. His sculptures and actions attempt to establish a direct, personal relationship between the artist and the viewer, using the work as a mediator.
“Prospectus: Paris” at Kadist Art Foundation is a traveling survey show in which a selection of works from the past twenty-two years are exhibited and (re)activated. For each location, Ben Kinmont has worked together with a different curator to conceptually develop the premise of the show. The source material includes project descriptions and archives, past curated projects, publications from the Antinomian Press, and various photographs and sculptural objects.
April 19~2011
Robert Barry, Stefan Brüggemann and David Lamelas are united by an artistic approach. Their individual handling of time and space, as well as their essential artistic statement operating between perception and idea, the non-material and materialization, have been the motives of this group exhibition. Combining between text and film, the exhibition “Lectura de una Realidad” – which translation from Spanish means Reading Reality – at Parra & Romero, Madrid, interrogates Time and Meaning in order to reflect what reality is. The entire artists’ work in this exhibition are exercises designed to test how meaning is constructed. All of them use especially cinema and text because those are the most practical mediums to communicate ideas.
April 18~2011
Grrr Jamming Squeak is a public artwork by Paola Pivi commissioned by the city of Rotterdam. It is a beautiful space open and free to everyone, it is a fully functional professional recording studio, it includes 20 musical instruments and a sound engineer ready on the spot, to create, compose, play, jam, record or make music with the animals.
April 15~2011
A rather unexpected book entitled Walker Evans & Dan Graham was published a few years back. A bridge over the decades of American art, with two quite different artists who have something in common.
I talked about it to Dan, a long-time friend of mine, who described the book as an editorial adventure independent of his will – the two never actually met. Yet the old master’s influence on the conceptual young man was clearly there. I recently came across a 1967 photo of Dan Graham that was very reminiscent of Evans’ style.
The idea was liked and I developed it with Maurizio Bortolotti. Together we came up with the idea of asking Dan to do a new publication containing new pictures with a living photographer with whom to dialogue. Portraying my home town, Brescia, and offering this parallel to Gabriele Basilico was one and the same thing.
April 14~2011
John McCracken died last Friday in New York at the age of 76. Among the leading historic exponents of the American Minimalism, the Californian artist viewed art as a means of aesthetic and spiritual emancipation and his works as prototypes for a world to come, one dominated by pure thought and an absolute form of beauty. Convinced that art can give form to a hidden dimension of matter and the universe, McCracken, through the uniqueness of his artistic vision, revealed the true complexity of what we generically call “Minimalism”.
After the jump, an overview of his current retrospective at Castello di Rivoli, Turin, curated by Andrea Bellini.
April 14~2011
“Carissimi, io ho in verità invitato mio marito Cesare Pietroiusti a partecipare come artista a dOCUMENTA (13). Che peccato che lui abbia rifiutato da tempo!”
April 13~2011
The South London Gallery presents a new collaborative project by New York-based artists Charles Atlas and Mika Tajima. This live art presentation – curated by Andrew Bonacina and Anne-Sophie Dinant – transforms the SLG’s main gallery space into a hybrid installation/film set to create a dynamic space for live performance, music, video and sculpture.
April 12~2011
Anthony Pearson and Jonas Wood work in seemingly divergent ways, the former having a heavily formatted and subdued non-representational practice born out of conceptual photography, the latter explosively employing painting and drawing in a deep articulation of personal narrative. But this differentiation rests at the surface as there are deep-rooted connections between them.
