Architectural details become abstracted renderings in Chris Wiley’s inkjet prints 11 and 20 (both 2012). In photographing seemingly mundane images of doorways and walls, Wiley collapses the viewer’s experience of inhabiting space by foregrounding features that we all too often miss in our built environment: the peeling white paint on a Corinthian column or the rusty studs on a blue door.
Chris Wiley produces photographs that question how we experience our built environments. Trained in contemporary art theory, his practice interrogates notions of the real by subverting familiar tropes in architectural photography. His prints do not depict buildings and structures in their entirety. Instead, Wiley chooses to depict individual details and forms that are often lost in long-shot photography. His images deliberately flatten three-dimensional objects into dense composites of texture, color, and shape and heighten our attenuation to how we see the world around us, offering fragments of perceptual space that privilege sensory experience over narrative and form over content.
The two works in the Kadist collection, Observador Pasivo and 3600 besos por hora by Diaz are culled from a vast compilation of videos and performances for the camera...
Tom Nicholson’s Comparative Monument (Palestine) engages a peculiar Australian monumental tradition: war monuments that bear the name “Palestine”...
From dream to dystopia: The cultural critic in the age of pandemic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Ryuji Miyamoto May 21, 2020 By Katrina Stuart Santiago (1,000 words, 6-minute read) February 2020 seems like years ago, and it feels like escapism to even go back to that time...
Weekly Picks: Singapore (25 February – 3 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do February 25, 2019 Still Life by Checkpoint Theatre , opening 28 February, 72-13 Mohammed Sultan Road What happens when an artist picks up her paintbrush after a long hiatus? Does the body still remember what has been lived? Or are the senses dulled by time, the joints fused with experience? Still Life is an affecting look at life and art-making...
AIDS Ring by General Idea is a cast metal ring, which takes as its basis Robert Indiana’s iconic “LOVE” design, appropriating its pop aesthetic, and totalizing, simplistic universal messaging to instead emphasize the severity of the AIDS epidemic that occurred in the 1970s...
Press Release: Art21 Launches “Art21 for Everyone,” an Artist-Driven Campaign Committed to Expanding Access to Contemporary Art | Art21 Our Series Art in the Twenty-First Century Extended Play New York Close Up Artist to Artist William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible Specials Art21.live An always-on video channel featuring programming hand selected by Art21 Playlists Curated by Art21 staff, with guest contributions from artists, educators, and more Art21 Library Explore over 700 videos from Art21's television and digital series Latest Video 9:47 Add to watchlist "Now and Forever" Kerry James Marshall Extended Play December 6, 2023 Search Searching Art21… Welcome to your watchlist Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here...
Graffiti Tower Unleashed: An Overnight Sensation During Art Basel Miami | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY “So I count 17, 18, 19, 20 people that are not from Miami,” Alan Ket observes as he scans the office tower at Biscayne and 1st Street, now an outstanding crown jewel in Miami’s graffiti scene...
A Guide to Miami Art Week Satellite Fairs and Shows | Observer Art Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 are in full swing, with all the associated parties, pop-ups and sundry events, including everything from concerts by Diplo and Lil Wayne to the opening of a temporary Murakami x BLACKPINK collab shop to the “Patina Experience” (an exhibition of the world’s largest Mercedes collection)...
Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier settle nine-year legal feud Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art law news Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier settle nine-year legal feud The Russian oligarch had accused the Swiss businessman of swindling him out of €1.1bn by overcharging him on art Vincent Noce 8 December 2023 Share Yves Bouvier (left) and Dmitry Rybolovlev (right) Bouvier: Hpetit21; Rybolovlev: Francknataf An epic legal battle, which played out in courts around the world and mesmerised the art world for almost a decade, is finally over...