White Corner (2006) is a video installation, projected on two protruding perpendicular walls. On one level the work constitutes a self-portrait of the artist, whose image is projected on both walls, separated by the corner. Yet while facing, they don’t quite confront each other.
“Product Recall” is a video perfomative pun on the action recalling memories in the form of a psychoanalytic session and the recall of faulty products from multinational corporations. Young enters a practicing psychoanalyst room and begins a session. Dressed in corporate business attire, Young encompasses both the corporation and individual.
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Report of the Legal Subcommittee is a print featuring a map of the stars, together with a found transcription of a recent United Nations meeting in which various international delegations declare frustration with their 40-year-old, ongoing efforts to devise a legal definition of outer space. This admission seems to hold a rich poetic potential, the human attempts to bureaucratize and control outer space seemingly frustrated by the sublime scale and mystery of its infinite depths.
In 1970, Ruscha began a series of paintings made from stains. He experimented with a variety of materials (gun powder, dust, blood, among many others) to leave surface traces of different objects. The resulting images are negative shapes amidst blurry environments like Splinters and Seconal in which a grey surface is imprinted with the materials mentioned in the title.
Meireles, whose work often involves sound, refers to Sal Sem Carne (Salt Without Meat) as a “sound sculpture.” The printed images and sounds recorded on this vinyl record and it’s lithographed sleeve describe the massacre of the Krahó people of Brazil. The piece draws on Meireles’s first-hand contact with many indigenous groups through his father’s work with the Indian Protection Service. The recordings on the LP contain narrative accounts of massacres of native peoples, as well as indigenous music and rituals.
This work is one of Koller’s many variations which he began to use from 1970 to describe the ‘cultural situations’ he created. His “Anti-Happenings” turned mundane events into ‘cultural’ and ‘subjective’ situations. He sought to create new cultural situations that weren’t new art, but rather new ways of living: a new creativity for a new humanistic culture.
16 films is a selection of David Haxton’s single-screen videos, which he began producing in the 1970s as a continuation of some of the conceptual underpinnings of his earlier film installations. As the described by Haxton, “[he] became interested in in examining the nature of the medium [of film] including light, movement, and the formation of a three-dimensional illusion of space in a flat surface.” This selection of films were produced in 16mm film between 1970 and 1982 and have been digitally mastered in high definition from the original 16mm films, which are preserved by the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles. Reminiscent of the paired back, low-fi quality of other conceptual video work from that period, Haxton abides to a certain criteria to restrict aspects of the medium: he does not do any editing, always fixes the camera onto a single position for the whole duration of the films, and he limits the actions of the performers.
Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City. Over two-and-a-half years, Antin photographed the boots against different backdrops across the U. S., and then turned the pictures into postcards, which she then mailed to approximately 1,000 people around the world. In conjunction with the boots’ “arrival” in New York City, the postcards were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Palabrarma (obreros palabreando) by Cecilia Vicuña is a series of works in which the artist blends poetry, political commentary and graphic design. The title itself is a portmanteau that unites the words palabra (word) and arma (weapon) that speaks literally of the power of words through their poetic potential. A poet herself, Vicuña developed a long series of palabrarmas on diverse media that were often used as slogans in political demonstrations.
Susan Sontag, the author of On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others, was captured through Hujar’s now-iconic photograph in a relaxed yet pensive pose. A friend and supporter of his work as well as his subject, Sontag wrote the introduction for Hujar’s only book published during his lifetime: Portraits in Life and Death.
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
For the collage U. S. Treasury Nose Segalove appropriated an image of a governmental-type agent inspecting an object on a table with a magnifying glass. By inserting written comments like “not a straw,” “not a spoon,” “not a razor blade,” the artist equates the inspector with a cocaine user. In this way, with keen, deadpan humor, the artist refers to all the stereotypes and social clichés associated with drug abuse particularly in the 1970s.
La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion. The subjects wear masks made of white cardboard. The series suggests the idea of a reality hidden under the appearances of the power in place that denies violence to citizens.
Au bord du Fleuve Niger (1976) offers a unique insight into the lives of the 1970s in Bamako. The photograph provides a glimpse into the notoriously active and exciting life alongside the Niger River, where parties would often last until the early hours of the morning. The gaze of the teenage boys who pose for Sidibé bears witness to an intimate space between the lens of the camera, the artist, subjects and the viewer.
David Goldblatt’s “Boksburg series” is a telling portrait of the small town that became a notorious symbol of racism in South Africa. The photographic essay negotiates the troublesome landscape of the apartheid through capturing the intimate in-between moments that are seemingly inconsequential and visually inoffensive. However, it is in this series that Goldblatt provides a candid insight into the white communities during the apartheid.
In 1977, as an already-established artist best known for his films, Bruce Conner began to photograph punk rock shows at Mabuhay Gardens, a San Francisco club and music venue. 27 Punk Photos: 11. Dim Wanker: F Word, May, 1978 (1978) is representative of a series of photographs by Conner, whose subject became a fascination for the artist.
Untitled (City Limits) is a series of five black-and-white photographs of road signs, specifically the signs demarcating city limits of several small towns in California. Taken outside Palmdale, Littlerock, Pearlblossom, Victorville, and Barstow, towns where the population does not exceed 20,000, Ruppersberg’s trip follows the outskirts of Los Angeles. As with many of his other photographic series, the artist here inserted into each view a constant element that disturbs the otherwise quiet scenes: a hand holding an open magazine.
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
All Kovanda’s artistic practice poses the question of visibility. Having worked on actions and performance, the artist decided to ‘disappear’ from his artworks during twenty years; in 2007, his performance Kissing through glass in the institutional setting of Tate Modern was acclaimed by critics. Some works are only visible thirty years later via traces and archives; the artist’s rehabilitation by institutions and galleries offers a new critical reading of his practice which had until then remained rather confidential.
This ephemeral installation by Jirí Kovanda, documented in the same way as his performances with a photograph and a text, belongs to a body of works that took place in his apartment/studio. During an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artist highlighted that he had never had a studio and that this work space blended with his apartment. A piece of string cuts across the room in a diagonal; it functions as a scale to measure time and space.
Yael Bartana received great international attention for the trilogy series And Europe Will be Stunned (2007 – 2011). The series, which includes the films Mary Koszmary (Nightmare) (2007) , Mur i wieza (Wall and Tower) (2009), and Zamach (Assassination) (2011), centers on a young Polish politician’s call for the return of 3.3 million Jewish people who emigrated to Palestine. The films employ the same techniques of Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi propaganda films, combining fact and fiction with the past and the present.
Collectors’ Favorites is an episode of local cable program from the mid-1990s in which ordinary people were invited to present their personal collections—a concept that in many ways anticipates current reality TV shows and internet videos. When it comes her turn to “perform,” Bornstein displays mundane and disposable—but elaborately archived or framed—consumer objects such as coffee lids, plastic straws, candy wrappers, and product labels. Through the medium of public broadcasting, then, she makes visual the frequently overlooked but massive cultural penetration of advertising, and its proliferation of “throwaway culture” via images.
Canned Laughter was Okón’s response to an invitation from Ciudad Juárez , Mexico, where artists were asked to create works based on their experience of the city. Okón focuse d on Ciudad Juárez as a site for many ‘ maquiladoras ’ ( factories) and on its role within the global context. A mixed media and video installation , the work takes the form of a fictitious factory that produces canned laughter for sitcoms.
Gabriel Kuri has created a series of works in which he juxtaposes perennial and ephemeral materials. Untitled (Ticket Roll) belongs to this group of sculptures and consists of three smooth ornate marble elements and a roll of public transport tickets. The artist poetically associates finesse and fragility as in a number of these works.
This work, a large oil painting on canvas, shows a moment from Amorales’s eight-minute two-channel video projection Useless Wonder (2006). The video is based on Edgar Allen Poe’s 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket . The painting, derived from an image from a different, preexisting work, represents the artist’s continued interest in realizing particular subject matter in alternative forms, thereby imbuing it with new meanings and interpretations.
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, this deck of cards is a selection of images from Carlos Amorales’s Liquid Archive. and abstract silhouetted motifs, in a black and white palette, are combined to create a world lodged between fantasy and reality typical of the tarot game. Airplanes, letters, naked women, Osama Bin Laden, Che Guevara, mythological figures, skulls, wrestlers’ masks are some of the visuals that populate this printed object.
Reeder’s works often start with language—and his Pasta Paintings are no different. After the phrase for the title came through his head, the artist set about trying to figure out how to make a mark with pasta. These paintings are the result, made using the pasta as something of a stencil, with the paint being applied after the noodles have been scattered on the painting’s blank surface.
Marepe (an acronym for Marcos Reis Peixoto) is from northeastern Brazil, and his sculptures and installations are steeped in its culture, traditions, festivals; his personal memories associated with his birthplace; and his interactions with European culture. Periquitos (Parakeets, 2005) is a cartoonlike giant television with a screen made of four vertical strips of blue, yellow, green, and red acetate. There is a recurring figure on the screen, which is taken from a photograph of the artist at age six.
This work, a large oil painting on canvas, shows a moment from Amorales’s eight-minute two-channel video projection Useless Wonder (2006). The video is based on Edgar Allen Poe’s 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The painting, derived from an image from a different, preexisting work, represents the artist’s continued interest in realizing particular subject matter in alternative forms, thereby imbuing it with new meanings and interpretations.
There are several elements to Subject, Silver, Prism . Silver ink is applied to blocks of black foam. A simple stand, reminiscent of cheap furniture, supports a drum constructed from deer hide stretched over plastic cooking bowls and held taut by the hide and twine.
Olaf Breuning’s photographs, videos, performances and installations play with codes of mass production with references to publicity, fashion and cinema and “high” and “low” art...
Working in photography, Dannielle Bowman’s photographs are multilayered, pushing a more nuanced understanding of American history and culture across various physical locations and time periods...
Gabriel Borba Filho is an important actor in the Brazilian art scene during the 1960s and ‘70s...
In line with the work of well-established West Coast conceptualists like John Baldessari, Ilene Segalove has been producing works in video, sculpture, photography, and mixed media for the past twenty-five years...
Although trained as a painter, David Haxton is known for his exploration of light through the mediums of photography and film...
Viktor Kochetov became engaged in photography in 1968 and was also a professional photographer in film and photo laboratories...
Before American photographer Peter Hujar passed away from AIDS in 1987, he was a part of a group of New York-based artists, writers, and musicians who defined the downtown scene in the 1970s...
Trained in large-scale painting, Nikita Kadan’s artistic practice encompasses installation, graphics, painting, wall drawing, and urban postering, sometimes in collaboration with architects, human rights activists, and sociologists...
Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin began their audio-visual and performative collaboration in 2007...
Late Painter Sarah Grilo’s Abstractions Are Finally Getting Their Due | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Late Painter Sarah Grilo’s Abstractions Are Finally Getting Their Due Annabel Keenan Feb 12, 2024 9:44AM Portrait of Sarah Grilo by Lisl Steiner...
Hans Ulrich Obrist Is Here to Save the Art of Handwriting | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Hans Ulrich Obrist Is Here to Save the Art of Handwriting Josie Thaddeus-Johns Feb 9, 2024 4:23PM Portrait of Hans Ulrich Obrist by Tyler Mitchell...
The Data Behind Artsy’s Online Art Fair, Foundations | Artsy Skip to Main Content Art Market The Data Behind Artsy’s Online Art Fair, Foundations Arun Kakar Feb 8, 2024 5:39PM Underway through February 14th, Artsy’s online art fair Foundations spotlights 130 tastemaking galleries from more than 35 countries worldwide, united by their ability to uncover fresh and underrecognized artists...
Anselm Kiefer’s Intimate Watercolors Reveal His Softer Side | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Anselm Kiefer’s Intimate Watercolors Reveal His Softer Side Katie Tobin Feb 2, 2024 4:07PM Anselm Kiefer, Für Adalbert Stifter: Waldsteig, 2015...
India’s Art Market Is Thriving—Here’s Why | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market India’s Art Market Is Thriving—Here’s Why Reena Devi Feb 1, 2024 3:18PM Installation view of India Art Fair, 2023...
How Small Galleries Are Evolving to Face the Challenges of 2024 | Artsy Skip to Main Content Art Market How Small Galleries Are Evolving to Face the Challenges of 2024 Maxwell Rabb Feb 1, 2024 6:39PM Small galleries form the bedrock of the contemporary art world...
How Berlin Gallerist Michael Janssen Is Committing to New Models of Collaboration | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market How Berlin Gallerist Michael Janssen Is Committing to New Models of Collaboration Maxwell Rabb Jan 31, 2024 6:46PM Gulnur Mukazhanova Untitled, from the series ‚Self Portaits‘ , 2023 Galerie Michael Janssen €9,000 Portrait of Michael Janssen...
Hyangro Yoon’s Paintings Are a Bold Take on Our Data-Obsessed Era | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Hyangro Yoon’s Paintings Are a Bold Take on Our Data-Obsessed Era Daehyung Lee Jan 30, 2024 10:55PM Hyangro Yoon, Tagging-H , 2022...
Jessie Homer French’s Paintings of Wildfires Reveal the Beauty in Destruction | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Jessie Homer French’s Paintings of Wildfires Reveal the Beauty in Destruction Tara Dalbow Jan 26, 2024 11:58PM Portrait of Jessie Homer French by Ryan Schude...
The Art We’re Obsessed with in January 2024 | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art The Art We’re Obsessed with in January 2024 Artsy Editorial Jan 24, 2024 4:23PM “The Art We’re Obsessed With” is a new monthly series paying homage to the artworks Artsy staff members can’t stop thinking about, and why...
How Jonathan LeVine Projects Embraces a Nimble Approach in a Hybrid Art World | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market How Jonathan LeVine Projects Embraces a Nimble Approach in a Hybrid Art World Maxwell Rabb Jan 23, 2024 10:06PM Portrait of Jonathan LeVine wearing a Fez by Dylan Egan...
Paulina Olowska’s Seductive Portraits of Women Rethink Eroticism | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Paulina Olowska’s Seductive Portraits of Women Rethink Eroticism Josie Thaddeus-Johns Dec 18, 2023 5:05PM Paulina Olowska, S eductress , 2020...
5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This December | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art 5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This December Maxwell Rabb Dec 15, 2023 2:00PM Andrea Respino Infastidite Acque #5 , 2023 Rolando Anselmi Price on request Adam Baker Sea snail , 2023 Schlomer Haus Gallery Sold In this monthly roundup, we shine the spotlight on five stellar exhibitions taking place at small and rising galleries worldwide...
In Taipei and Beijing, Asia Art Center Nurtures Diversity across Generations | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market In Taipei and Beijing, Asia Art Center Nurtures Diversity across Generations Maxwell Rabb Dec 8, 2023 6:26PM Portrait of Alan and Steven Lee...
4 Things That Happened in the Asian Art World This Fall | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market 4 Things That Happened in the Asian Art World This Fall Hilary Joo Dec 4, 2023 4:17PM In the first of a new quarterly series, we hear from Hilary Joo, a Seoul-based sales manager and gallery partnerships lead at Artsy, for her thoughts on what has happened in the Asian art market this quarter...
6 Artists to Watch during Miami Art Week according to Sarah Harrelson | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Sarah Harrelson’s Artists to Watch during Miami Art Week Sarah Harrelson Nov 28, 2023 10:35PM Sarah Harrelson at home in Beverly Hills standing next to a Pierre Chapo table with ceramics by Seth Bogart and Haas Brothers...
Rising Artist Emily Yong Beck’s Ceramics Tackle the Power of Cuteness | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Rising Artist Emily Yong Beck’s Ceramics Tackle the Power of Cuteness Harley Wong Nov 27, 2023 10:43PM Portrait of Emily Yong Beck...
HAIRandNAILS Is the Minneapolis Gallery for Artists, by Artists | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market HAIRandNAILS Is the Minneapolis Gallery for Artists, by Artists Maxwell Rabb Nov 27, 2023 5:27PM Portrait of Kristin Van Loon and Ryan Fontaine...
Kenwyn Crichlow’s Glowing Abstractions Reflect on 50 Years of Portraying Trinidad | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Kenwyn Crichlow’s Glowing Abstractions Reflect on 50 Years of Portraying Trinidad Vittoria Benzine Nov 22, 2023 7:20PM Kenwyn Crichlow, Light Dancing on the Borderline, 2019...
Exploring Canyon Road, Santa Fe’s Timeless Gallery District | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market Exploring Canyon Road, Santa Fe’s Timeless Gallery District Annie Lyall Slaughter Nov 22, 2023 4:49PM Installation view of “Transcendent” at Turner Carroll, 2023...
Amanda Baldwin’s Bold, Surreal Landscapes Transform the Way We See Nature | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Amanda Baldwin’s Bold, Surreal Landscapes Transform the Way We See Nature Bella Bonner-Evans Nov 21, 2023 3:27PM Amanda Baldwin Sweeping The Sea , 2023 Public Gallery Sold A considerable shift occurred in Amanda Baldwin ’s practice three years ago...
At sobering galerie, Trust in Emerging Talent Pays Off | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Market At sobering galerie, Trust in Emerging Talent Pays Off Maxwell Rabb Nov 21, 2023 6:38PM Exterior view of sobering galerie in Paris...
5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This November | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art 5 Standout Shows to See at Small Galleries This November Maxwell Rabb Nov 17, 2023 1:00PM Lesia Vasylchenko Tachyoness , 2022 Catinca Tabacaru Gallery Sold María Fragoso Jara Bébete mi amor , 2023 1969 Gallery Sold In this monthly roundup, we shine the spotlight on five stellar exhibitions taking place at small and rising galleries worldwide...
Diana Al-Hadid’s Monumental, Spiky Bronzes Examine Feminine Strength and Fragility | Artsy Skip to Main Content Advertisement Art Diana Al-Hadid’s Monumental, Spiky Bronzes Examine Feminine Strength and Fragility Rawaa Talass Nov 16, 2023 5:13PM Diana Al-Hadid The Bride in the Large Glass , 2023 Kasmin Price on request Portrait of Diana Al-Hadid by Diego Flores...
Women In Revolt! | Tate Britain Art, Activism and the Women’s movement in the UK 1970–1990 This exhibition will be the first of its kind – a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990...
Chagall à l’œuvre — Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exposition — Slash Paris Connexion Newsletter Twitter Facebook Chagall à l’œuvre — Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exposition — Slash Paris Français English Accueil Événements Artistes Lieux Magazine Vidéos Retour Chagall à l’œuvre — Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 Exposition Céramique, dessin, sculpture Marc Chagall, Maquette pour le plafond de l’Opéra Garnier, 1963 Encre de Chine, mine graphite et feutre sur papier découpé — Diamètre : 33,5 cm Don de Mme Meret Meyer, 2022 Chagall à l’œuvre Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 Encore 3 mois : 4 octobre 2023 → 26 février 2024 L’exposition réunit un ensemble d’œuvres entrées en collection en 2022 grâce à la générosité de Bella et Meret Meyer...
Chagall à l’œuvre — Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Chagall à l’œuvre — Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Chagall à l’œuvre — Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 Exhibition Ceramic, drawing, sculpture Marc Chagall, Maquette pour le plafond de l’Opéra Garnier, 1963 Encre de Chine, mine graphite et feutre sur papier découpé — Diamètre : 33,5 cm Don de Mme Meret Meyer, 2022 Chagall à l’œuvre Dessins, céramiques et sculptures 1945-1970 Ends in 3 months: October 4, 2023 → February 26, 2024 This exhibition brings together a set of works that entered the collection in 2022, thanks to the generosity of Bella and Meret Meyer...
Art Collector to Plant 299 Trees in a Stadium to Protest Inaction About Climate Change - via Hyperallergic...
16 films is a selection of David Haxton’s single-screen videos, which he began producing in the 1970s as a continuation of some of the conceptual underpinnings of his earlier film installations...
Untitled (City Limits) is a series of five black-and-white photographs of road signs, specifically the signs demarcating city limits of several small towns in California...
“People often asked if they could pose with the Kodak advertisement where a full scale woman is featured with a camera offering Kodak rolls...
La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion...
“The two men were relatives and both were in the Lebanese Army.” Hashem El Madani...
Carib Carnival illustrates Aubrey Willams’s unique artistic language, combining Pre-Columbian iconography with abstraction...
Comprised of fifty-one photographic postcards, Antin’s 100 Boots is an epic visual narrative in which 100 black rubber boots stand in for a fictional “hero” making a “trip” from California to New York City...
The film Line Describing a Cone was made in 1973 and it was projected for the first time at Fylkingen (Stockholm) on 30 August of the same year...
San Pedro is a seaside city, part of the Los Angeles Harbor, sitting on the edge of a channel...
Drawing & Print
This score is a graphic record of the detailed choreography of one of Anthony McCall’s Landscape for Fire performances...
Meireles, whose work often involves sound, refers to Sal Sem Carne (Salt Without Meat) as a “sound sculpture.” The printed images and sounds recorded on this vinyl record and it’s lithographed sleeve describe the massacre of the Krahó people of Brazil...
Susan Sontag, the author of On Photography and Regarding the Pain of Others, was captured through Hujar’s now-iconic photograph in a relaxed yet pensive pose...
Gabriel Borba Filho was aware of what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic, and Untitled (Nos) is linked to both the social and political climates in Brazil and Spain during the Franco period...
Au bord du Fleuve Niger (1976) offers a unique insight into the lives of the 1970s in Bamako...
Drawing & Print
Palabrarma (obreros palabreando) by Cecilia Vicuña is a series of works in which the artist blends poetry, political commentary and graphic design...
Drawing & Print
All Kovanda’s artistic practice poses the question of visibility...
This work is one of Koller’s many variations which he began to use from 1970 to describe the ‘cultural situations’ he created...
In 1977, as an already-established artist best known for his films, Bruce Conner began to photograph punk rock shows at Mabuhay Gardens, a San Francisco club and music venue...
Having a press card allowed Viktor Kochetov to photograph freely in public places, access to which was strictly regulated for amateurs...
Vallance’s Rocket is a vibrant picture in which masses of color and collage coalesce into a central vehicle, yet the whole surface seems lit with the roar of space travel...
For I use to eat lemon meringue pie till I overloaded on my pancreas with sugar and passed out; It seemed to be a natural response to a society of abundance (1978), also known as the Bodybuilder series, Martinez asked male bodybuilding competitors to pose in whatever position felt “most natural.” They are obviously trained in presenting their ambitiously carved physiques, but their facial expressions seem comparatively unstudied...
Antonio Ole’s Rhythm of N’gola Rhythms (1978), is a film about the struggle for Angolan political independence...
David Goldblatt’s “Boksburg series” is a telling portrait of the small town that became a notorious symbol of racism in South Africa...
This ephemeral installation by Jirí Kovanda, documented in the same way as his performances with a photograph and a text, belongs to a body of works that took place in his apartment/studio...
Drawing & Print
Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
Drawing & Print
Wordplay was a central focus of Koller’s work, in particular the acronym U...
Collectors’ Favorites is an episode of local cable program from the mid-1990s in which ordinary people were invited to present their personal collections—a concept that in many ways anticipates current reality TV shows and internet videos...
In the work We only move wehen something changes !!!, Olaf Breuning composes a portrait of posed antiglobalization protesters, each wearing clown noses, inside of a scene reminiscent of an event...
For this image, Olaf Breuning invented a revised stone age corrected for the cinema in which dolmens and leather were replaced by surf boards and neoprene clothing...
Drawing & Print
Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, this deck of cards is a selection of images from Carlos Amorales’s Liquid Archive...
In this work, Saâdane Afif quotes André Cadere’s round wooden batons using the copy share and remix principles...
White Corner (2006) is a video installation, projected on two protruding perpendicular walls...
This work, a large oil painting on canvas, shows a moment from Amorales’s eight-minute two-channel video projection Useless Wonder (2006)...
Yael Bartana’s video work A Declaration was shot in southern Tel Aviv, on the visible border between that city and Jaffa...
“Product Recall” is a video perfomative pun on the action recalling memories in the form of a psychoanalytic session and the recall of faulty products from multinational corporations...
Yael Bartana received great international attention for the trilogy series And Europe Will be Stunned (2007 – 2011)...
This work, a large oil painting on canvas, shows a moment from Amorales’s eight-minute two-channel video projection Useless Wonder (2006)...
Drawing & Print
The White Album (2008) presents a compilation of one hundred issues of Artforum magazine released between 1970 and 1979...
Canned Laughter was Okón’s response to an invitation from Ciudad Juárez , Mexico, where artists were asked to create works based on their experience of the city...
Gabriel Kuri has created a series of works in which he juxtaposes perennial and ephemeral materials...
Part of a series entitled “Looking at Listening”, 2011, the piece invited the spectator to experiment and consider sound as a kinetic and synesthetic process, where multiple experiences and senses can cross...
Superb production values and special effects that in the hands of Miguel Angel Rios do not get in the way or distracts from the content and deep essay of this work...
Changi, Singapore, possibly 1970s is from the series “As We Walked on Water” (2010-2012), which looks into Singapore’s history around the phenomenon of land reclamation...
Reeder’s works often start with language—and his Pasta Paintings are no different...
LAB (2013) conjures the body as the trace of a sooty hand appears, spectrally, on a crumpled paper towel...
Carlos Amorales, based in Mexico City, works in many media and combinations thereof, including video, drawing, painting, photography, installation, animation, and performance...
For Piedras Blancas , arguably his most ambitious and visually arresting video to date, Miguel Angel Ríos made 3,000 “piedras” out of a concrete/stone composite...
Adjamé, Charbon reflects on both global environmental discourses and domestic impacts of the use and trade of coal...
Fridge-Freezer is a 2-channel video installation where Yoshua Okón explores the darker side of suburbia, d escribed by the artist as “ the ideal environment for a numb existence of passive consumerism and social a nd environmental disengagement...
In Centro Espacial Satelital de Colombia (Colombian Satellite Space Center) , Calderón & Piñeros (La Decanatura) play tribute to two “stunning” satellite antennas installed in the small municipality of Chocontá where, in 1970, the Space Communications Center of Colombia was inaugurated...
Drawing & Print
East of Ukraine became a place of armed conflict with Russia-backed separatists, who proclaimed parts of (the) Donetsk and Lughansk oblast (administrative region in Ukrainian) to be ‘People’s republics’...
Following Bruce Nauman’s seminal performance Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square (1967) – which sees the artist carefully trace a small delimited area of his studio exaggerating the movements of his hips as he places one foot in front of the other – Idir reproduces these performative gestures in Algiers, Algeria...
Vision (Bump’n’Curl) by Dannielle Bowman is from a series of photographs titled What Had Happened ...
Drawing & Print
In her new series titled Ninas Peruanas Cusquenas , Teresa Burga depicts young indigenous women from Peru’s Andean region, dressed in traditional garments...
Natura Negra , which translates to “Black Nature”, is a black-and-white photographic series by Chanell Stone that explores the connection between the Black body and nature within man-made environments...