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Anton Vidokle
Shot in Oliveto Lucano, a village in the south of Italy, AUTOTROFIA (meaning self-eating) by artist Anton Vidokle is a cinéma vérité style film that slides fictive characters into real situations, and vice-versa, to draw a prolonged meditation on the cycle of life, seasonal renewal, and ecological awareness. Combining fictional and non-fictional content, the film slips an interpretative script based on the writings of the painter Vassily Chekrygin, and the scientist Vladimir Vernadsky, within the context of an ancient pagan fertility ritual still practiced in the region. The film’s impressionistic plot revolves around the ecological dimensions of Russian Cosmism.
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Michel Auder
The Town consists of footage taken from Auder’s studio of the skyline of New York, tracking planes as they fly across the sky and pass tall buildings. At the time of recording, like all of this films, there was no particular intent. However, in the aftermath of 9/11, this film becomes prescient and ominously prophetic.
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Mary Reid Kelley
Kelley’s 2015 portrait of the poet Charles Baudelaire is one of a series of poets, rappers, and other thinkers who have influenced the artist’s ideas about beauty, creativity, and expression. As a challenging artist who marches to her own drum, Mary Reid Kelley is in the vanguard of a generation that blends the digital and the analog to dialogue with history. From 2009 to the present, she has made videos that fuse live performance, animation, drawing, sculpture, and digital design.
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Carolina Fusilier
Miercoles cerca de las 7 de la tarde by Caroline Fusilier portrays two quantum computers that are mobile, with human-esque legs, these are systems at the edge of biology. The floor is awash with fluid; perhaps a chemical resource consumed by the advanced computers or a heat-sink. Where their legs meet the fluid there’s a soft glow, less intense but related to the vibrant radiation on the wall above the figures.
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Shi Guowei
Through a hand-painting process, Shi Guowei created Manufactured Landscape . At first glance, the painting appears from afar as a landscape photograph. Yet, upon closer attention, the work reveals itself as a landscape painting thoroughly hand-colored by the artist onto a photograph.
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Rachel Foster
Rachel E. Foster uses printmaking, sculpture, and photography to illuminate the nearly invisible. For her source material she combs the digital world for bits of strange information that seep into our daily reality. These clues, be they coded sequences or simple phrases, become part of her puzzle; by reframing information she makes us reconsider it through a different lens.
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Wang Mowen
In Trinity , Wang Mowen uses video to tell the story of a young woman who wants to know the whereabouts of a person born sixty years ago. She visits three fortune tellers and provides the person’s birth date. Each psychic deliberates and comes to the correct conclusion that the woman in question is the seeker’s mother.
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Prajakta Potnis
he woke up with seeds in his lungs by Prajakta Potnis is a set of x-ray films presented through backlit light boxes of found objects constructed to evoke the body or organs that turns the host into a foreign element. The title of the work is inspired by a story the artist came across during her research, according to which a man had swallowed seeds that started to grow inside his organs. In the work, interior scapes of the body appear as radioactive rays pass through various materials.
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Igor Grubic
The installation “East Side Story” is based on events that took place in the streets of Belgrade in 2001 and Zagreb in 2002, during the Gay Pride demonstrations, where the participants were the victims of verbal and physical injury by neo-Nazi groups and other citizens. This work is composed of two projections: the first uses television images of the demonstrations while the second is the reconstitution of the events performed by dancers. This piece witnesses nationalism at work in society, aiming particularly at the “internal enemy that sexual minorities might represent”.
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Christian Jankowski
In New York City’s Chinatown, subject Suat Ling Chua’s morning exercise is to practice the hula hoop. When Christian Jankowski first saw this woman he immediately got the idea to shoot Rooftop Routine . In the short video, Chua leads the group and dictates the movements that each participant has to repeat.
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Félix González-Torres
Behind the simplicity and beauty of this untitled photograph of a brilliantly-colored flowerbed by Félix González-Torres are two remarkable stories of love, loss, and resilience. As with most of his works, the photograph is untitled followed by a parenthesis that provides some context clues. In this case, an inscription on the reverse of the photograph reads: For Laura (Alice B. Toklas + Gertrude Stein Flower Bed in Paris).
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Shen Yuan
Through a seemingly haphazard layering of glass and porcelain, Dérive is part of a larger installation series that address borders and displacement. Sheets of glass and porcelain, two transformational materials of alchemy, are stacked loosely in the shape of melting glaciers that places humans, animals, and nature in the same ecosystem. Migrations of one population into another and the subsequent displacement is emphasized in sharp, jagged edges of the transparent glass—phantasmagoric dreams of a distant place—the migration of not simply physical bodies but also that of political opinions and thoughts.
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Yim Sui Fong
In the nine-channel video installation, Against Step by Yim Sui Fong, a phantasmagorical image of a male dancer appears on a large-scale video projected on a floating retro-projection screen. His cathartic sequence of movements is based on an index of the bodily behavior of random people previously recorded by the artist while observing thousands of Hong Kong citizens in public space. Some of this recorded footage, done in poor mobile video quality, is played on loop in a set of TV monitors placed below the large projection.
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Yan Xing
Sexy shows Yan Xing unsuccessfully trying to reach orgasm in freezing temperatures among the falling rocks and howling winds of a precarious canyon. His erotic failure leaves the voyeur-viewer unfulfilled and disappointed. The work explores notions of identity, masculinity, sexuality, voyeurism, and cultural taboos.
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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Rocket Society refers to a space project led by a group of Armenian researchers at the beginning of the 1960s. They created the first Middle Eastern rocket and carried out a dozen launches. Today, there is a kind of amnesia related to this space program while at that time the newspapers would talk about it frequently; a postal stamp was even issued for the occasion.
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Francis Alÿs
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
This series of small drawings is executed with varying materials—pen, ink, colored pencil, charcoal, and masking tape—on architect’s tracing paper. Alÿs often executes such sketches in preparation for his performances, videos, and larger two-dimensional bodies of work. As the first visual representations of his ideas, they capture his thinking processes at the raw conceptual stage and allow us to gain a deeper understanding of his larger works.
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Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Study of History IV by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949. Wentzel’s original color photographs document the transportation of a Mercedes Benz, carried on a wood armature by sixty porters, over a rocky trail from Bhimphedi to Kathmandu in Nepal. At the time of Wentzel’s photographs, paved roads in Nepal only existed within the Kathmandu Valley and cars had to be carried into the city from the surrounding hills on foot.
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Sabelo Mlangeni
The Royal House of Allure is a name of a safe house on mainland Lagos where members of the queer community in need of boarding, due to various circumstances, live together. These houses are more than just places of survival; they are a physical embodiment of radical queer expression that encourage solidarity. The Royal House of Allure was initially conceived following an investigation of how social media influences celebrity culture.
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Nick Mauss
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
As in other Mauss’ works that often look unfinished, the drawings in Untitled seem ever at the phase of the sketch, his segments as if they may uproot and reorient themselves at any moment. Caught in this perpetual sort of unresolved action, Mauss’ works revel in ambiguity and indeterminacy.
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Ed Ruscha
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.
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Clemens von Wedemeyer
Silberhöhe , directed at Halle, located in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), is the name of a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, which was built in the 70’s and could accommodate more 40,000 people. The opening of the film presents us with a dramatic process that transforms the documentary image. The lack of human presence makes creates a strange atmosphere in the film.
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Khvay Samnang
The video Rubber Man continues exploring issues related to land use, also noticeable in his Untitled series (2011). More specifically, Rubber Man addresses the French colonial legacy of land use for the exploitation of rubber –today exploited by multiple forces such as individuals, governments, multinationals and international banks– and its effects on Cambodia’s indigenous forests and culture today. The video takes place in Ratanakiri, an area in northeastern Cambodia increasingly known in local and international news for land grabs and protests, and where the artist frequently traveled to over two years.
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Mohamed Bourouissa
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
In his photographic series Périphérique (2005–2008), Mohamed Bourouissa used the composition of classical paintings to stage the portrait of friends and young people in the banlieue s (suburbs). He states “by deconstructing the clichés surrounding this subject, I deal with the problematic power struggle and its mechanics.” This series follows various themes explored throughout the work of Bourouissa. For Temps Morts, his first film, he depicted a yearlong series of mobile phone exchanges with someone in prison.
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Lin Yilin
Golden Bridge is part of “Golden Journey”, a series of site-specific performances and installations created during Lin’s residency at Kadist San Francisco. The photograph is a documentation of a Golden Gate Bridge performance that makes palpable the tensions between people and the military, the individual and the group, danger and ordinary life. Lin recalls: “Fighter planes repetitively flew over my head.
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
For this series, Philip-Lorca diCorcia walked along Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles in search of models who would be prepared to pose in hotel rooms according to pre- planned scenarios. The artist explained that: “I went back to the street just like the ordinary clients of these prostitutes. I went up to them and mentioned the following: ‘I would like to take a photo of you, I will pay you exactly what you are paid for a pass’”.
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Sabelo Mlangeni
The Royal House of Allure is a name of a safe house on mainland Lagos where members of the queer community in need of boarding, due to various circumstances, live together. These houses are more than just places of survival; they are a physical embodiment of radical queer expression that encourage solidarity. The Royal House of Allure was initially conceived following an investigation of how social media influences celebrity culture.
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Edgardo Aragón
In the agricultural areas of Mexico, Indigenous people use the mylar magnetic tape unspooled from VHS cassettes as an alternative to the scarecrow—the reflective tape flutters in the wind and does an excellent job scaring birds away from crops. This kind of creative reuse of materials (overproduced and devalued) that flow through the global trade of consumer goods, is especially rich in Mexico and other parts of Latin America. In 2020, during a period of isolation due to Covid-19, Edgardo Aragón unspooled a VHS tape and installed it in his father’s crop of corn for six months.
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Nalini Malani
Malani draws upon her personal experience of the violent legacy of colonialism and de-colonization in India in this personal narrative that was shown as a colossal six channel video installation at dOCUMENTA (13), but is here adapted to single channel. The video is largely silent until violent crashes and female voices overwhelm the viewer, portraying the inner voice of a woman who is brutally gang raped. Malani addresses the fatal place of women in Indian society and the geo-politics of national identity.
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Maria Taniguchi
Untitled (Celestial Motors) is a visual meditation on an icon of modern urban Philippine life—the jeepney. This ubiquitous form of public transportation, originally built from U. S. military jeeps left on the islands after World War II, is normally exuberantly painted and personalized. They are known for their crowded seating and kitsch decorations, which have become an omnipresent symbol of Philippine culture.
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George Pfau
This work exemplifies George Pfau’s interest in zombies and liminal embodiment. In different ways, zombies are present here as an icon of coming apart, yet they retain a persistent thereness.
Sabelo Mlangeni
Photographer Sabelo Mlangeni’s black and white images capture the intimate, everyday moments of communities in contemporary South Africa...
George Pfau
George Pfau’s work explores marginal and transitional states of being...
Mary Reid Kelley
Drawing from literature, plays, and historical events, Mary Reid Kelley makes rambunctious videos that explore the condition of women throughout history...
Carolina Fusilier
Caroline Fusilier’s paintings are dark, foreboding, and ominous...
Mohamed Bourouissa
Mohamed Bourouissa became known in the 2000s with a series of photographs on young people in the suburbs of Paris...
Andrew Grassie
- location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- year born: 1966
- gender: male
- nationality: British
Charles Lim
Charles Lim Yi Yong’s work encompasses film, installation, sound, recorded conversations, text, drawing, and photography...
Gregory Halpern
Gregory Halpern is an acclaimed American photographer whose practice is predicated on wandering...
Yang Guangnan
- location: New York City, United States
- year born: 1986
- home town: Inner Mongolia, China
LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania (USA)...
Polina Kanis
Polina Kanis (b...
Ed Ruscha
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1937
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Omaha, Nebraska
Arseny Zhilyaev
Arseny Zhilyaev is arguably one of the most influential contemporary Russian artists of his generation...
Kaoru Arima
Kaoru Arima experiments with painting in order to discover new expressive forms...
Sandra Monterroso
Sandra Monterroso is a Guatemalan artist of Maya Q’eqchi’ decent...
Paulo Nazareth
Born in 1977 in the city of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Paulo Nazareth now lives as a global nomad...
Anton Vidokle
- location: Moskva, Rossiya
- year born: 1965
- gender: male
- nationality: Russian
Wang Mowen
Trained as a photographer, artist Wang Mowen was born and raised in Dalian and she currently lives and works in Beijing...
Futurefarmers
Futurefarmers is an international, trans-disciplinary network...
Pablo Accinelli
- year born: 1983
- gender: male
- nationality: Argentinian
Igor Grubic
- location: Zagreb, Hrvatska
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: Croatian
Chen Shaoxiong
- location: Beijing
- location: Guangzhou, China
- year born: 1962
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Khvay Samnang
Khvay Samnang’s work critically examines the interlocking nature of ritual and politics, the humanitarian and ecological impacts of globalization, colonialism and migration, and the cultural-material histories of exchange that have shaped the Southeast Asia region...
Wang Tuo
Through film, performance, painting, and drawing, artist Wang Tuo interweaves disparate realities through archives, modern history, myth, and literature...
Christian Jankowski
- location: Göttingen, Deutschland
- year born: 1968
- gender: male
- nationality: German
Lin Yilin
- location: Beijing & New York
- year born: 1964
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Guangzhou, China
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
What are the political implication of our sounds and voices? How is it heard and used for or against us? These are questions posed by Lawrence Abu Hamdan (b...
Binelde Hyrcan
Growing up during the Angolan Civil War, Binelde Hyrcan (b...
Anna-Bella Papp
Anna Bella-Papp recalls how intuitive it felt the first time she modelled something out of clay as a child...
Prajakta Potnis
Prajakta Potnis’s work dwells between the intimate world of an individual and the world outside, which is separated sometimes only by a wall...
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about 11 months ago (02/11/2024)
Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read...
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about 11 months ago (02/08/2024)
Art Basel reveals 287 galleries participating in its next Swiss fair, including 22 first-time exhibitors Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel news Art Basel reveals 287 galleries participating in its next Swiss fair, including 22 first-time exhibitors June's event will be the first edition of the world’s most important art fair under the direction of Maike Cruse Benjamin Sutton 8 February 2024 Share Visitors at the Marian Goodman Gallery stand in the main galleries sector at Art Basel 2023 Courtesy of Art Basel Art Basel’s hometown fair will return in June with 287 participating galleries, 22 of which will be taking part for the first time...
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about 11 months ago (02/07/2024)
Although we’re not the biggest fans of social media and prefer to connect with our lovely and talented audience directly on this website, via newsletters , or in person, we’ve discovered meaningful engagement in a few of the newer social platforms like Mastodon and Threads where we can reach readers with little or no algorithmic filters...
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about 11 months ago (02/02/2024)
A peek behind the many masks of James Ensor in new Brussels show Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Exhibitions preview A peek behind the many masks of James Ensor in new Brussels show A new exhibition will explore the Belgian artist’s later works, including his little-known ballet, as part of Belgium’s year-long commemoration of the 75th anniversary of his death J...
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about 12 months ago (01/01/2024)
Imago - Photographs by Mehrdad Mirzaie | Essay by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Award winner Imago Using alternative photographic processes, Mehrdad Mirzaie reinterprets archival images to question how photographs influence our perception of history and shape our vision of the future...
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about 12 months ago (12/29/2023)
Dutch Emerging: Ruben Janssen X GRA Fashion Bachelor 2023 – A Shaded View on Fashion From the back to the middle and around again — Ria’s wedding dress, Alan’s patterns and John’s model: ‘My project is an investigation into evolution, explored through prisms of biology, computation and a poetic personal narrative, shifting between timescales on an evolutionary timeline...
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about 13 months ago (12/18/2023)
The precious marble was brought home 50 years ago as a souvenir after a family vacation in Italy...
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about 13 months ago (12/18/2023)
Collectors Buy the Aura: Syd Krochmalny’s works at The Opening Gallery advertise donate post your art opening recent articles cities contact about article index podcast main December 2023 "The Best Art In The World" "The Best Art In The World" December 2023 Collectors Buy the Aura: Syd Krochmalny’s works at The Opening Gallery Syd Krochmalny, I Speak the Languages of the Stones, 2017...
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about 13 months ago (12/15/2023)
The Defining Art Events of 2023 – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By The Editors of ARTnews Plus Icon The Editors of ARTnews View All December 15, 2023 2:20pm Photo Illustration: Kat Brown/ARTnews If the art world in 2023 could be defined by one word, it would probably be scandal ...
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about 13 months ago (12/14/2023)
An Interview With the Artist Who Installs Underwater It’s Christmas time – do you have your underwater tree up yet? Gola Hundun...
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about 13 months ago (12/13/2023)
Books and Maps and Getting Lost: Doug Beube at The Argosy Bookstore – Two Coats of Paint Doug Beube, Fallen Borders Contributed by Rebecca Chace / There are two places you can still get lost if you choose to: the streets of New York City and the pages of a book...
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about 13 months ago (12/12/2023)
As Public Radio Fights For Local News, Total Sources Continue Their Decline...
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about 13 months ago (12/08/2023)
Météo des forêts — La MABA — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Météo des forêts — La MABA — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Météo des forêts Exhibition Film, installation, mixed media Upcoming Julien Prévieux et Virginie Yassef, L’Arbre, 2009 — Image : Élie Godard Film Super 8 transféré sur DVD — 7 min 18 — Ed 4 + 2 Courtesy des artistes Météo des forêts In about 1 month: January 18 → April 7, 2024 La MABA présente, du 18 janvier au 7 avril 2024, Météo des forêts : une exposition collective réunissant des travaux d’artistes de diverses générations travaillant différents médiums (dessin, photographie, vidéo, sculpture, installation…)...
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about 14 months ago (11/17/2023)
The Cosmic House: A Surreal Mansion You Can Visit In Kensington | Londonist The Cosmic House: A Surreal Mansion You Can Visit In Kensington By Momtaz Begum-Hossain Momtaz Begum-Hossain The Cosmic House: A Surreal Mansion You Can Visit In Kensington Bathtub goals...
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Alfred Courmes — Rétrospective — Divers lieux — Exposition — Slash Paris Connexion Newsletter Twitter Facebook Alfred Courmes — Rétrospective — Divers lieux — Exposition — Slash Paris Français English Accueil Événements Artistes Lieux Magazine Vidéos Retour Alfred Courmes — Rétrospective Exposition Installations, peinture Alfred Courmes © ADAGP, Paris...
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about 15 months ago (09/28/2023)
Turner Prize 2023 | Towner Eastbourne Towner Eastbourne will host one of the best-known prizes for contemporary visual art The 2023 Turner Prize will be hosted by Towner Eastbourne as the centrepiece of the gallery’s centenary programme...
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about 15 months ago (09/28/2023)
An newly attributed oil sketch by the renowned 19th-century English landscape painter John Constable has gone under the hammer in Guernsey...
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about 17 months ago (08/08/2023)
Articles of Virtu - Photographs by Bryan Birks | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture Award winner Articles of Virtu Prized old automobiles—that most American of obsessions—are the entry point to the surprising beauty and tenderness of their owners, the communities they belong to, and the aspirations they hold dear...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Christo and Jeanne-Claudeâs Art Collection Set for February Auction - via InsideHook...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
The collector behind Düsseldorf's Sammelung Philara shares insights into his shopping tastes and what artworks he is currently interested in....
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
The billionaire, patron and art collector Heidi Goëss-Horten has acquired a palace for the permanent presentation of her Heidi Horten Collection in downtown…...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Treasures From the Blue-Chip Art Collection of Texas Oil Heiress Anne Marion Could Fetch $150 Million at Sothebyâs - via artnet news...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Buyers of Maurizio Cattelanâs $120,000 Banana Defend the Work as âthe Unicorn of the Art World,â Comparing It to Warholâs Soup Cans - via artnet new...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
Author Lorena Junco Margain's Debut Memoir Sees Wide Release (ProNewsReport Editorial):- Austin, Texas Sep 3, 2021 (Issuewire.com) - Art Collector Lorena Junco Margain's USA Today bestsellin...
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about 44 months ago (05/28/2021)
AE x Goethe-Institut Critical Writing Micro-Residency: Meet the Writers (Part 2) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints May 28, 2021 We recently announced our selected resident writers for the inaugural AE x Goethe-Institut Critical Writing Micro-Residency, focusing on the development and promotion of critical writing about arts and culture in Southeast Asia...
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about 54 months ago (08/05/2020)
Orang Phebien: Telling the story of the Baweanese | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Illustration: Hadi Osni August 5, 2020 Lesser known narratives involving migration in Singapore are in the spotlight with The Arts House’ latest edition of LumiNation ...
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about 62 months ago (11/22/2019)
Kitt Bennett's "aerial mural work" was recently combined with satellite technology to craft the world's most massive independently created piece of "gif-iti" (or GIF-style graffiti) on 96,875-square-feet of waterfront space in Australia...
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about 73 months ago (01/10/2019)
ArtsEquator's Top 10 Picks at the Performing Arts Meeting 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles José Maceda, Cassettes 100, 1971, Photo by Nathaniel Gutierrez, Courtesy of UP Center for Ethnomusicology and Ringo Bunoan January 10, 2019 Established in 1995, the Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) was created to be a platform to network Japanese artists with producers and funders...
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about 76 months ago (10/17/2018)
In fall 2018 Even published Out of Practice, our 300-page anthology of our first ten issues...
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about 87 months ago (10/30/2017)
ACAW 2017 | Press Coverage - Asia Contemporary Art Week Asia Contemporary Art Week ABOUT Consortium Partners PRESENTED ARTISTS FIELD MEETING ABOUT FIELD MEETING TAKE 6: THINKING COLLECTIONS (2018) TAKE 5: THINKING PROJECTS (2017) TAKE 4: THINKING PRACTICE (2016) TAKE 3: THINKING PERFORMANCE (2015) TAKE 2: AN AFTERTHOUGHT (2015) TAKE 1: CRITICAL OF THE FUTURE (2014) FIELD REVIEW ABOUT FIELD REVIEW ISSUE 1: SOUTH ASIA ISSUE 2: MIDDLE EAST PAST EDITIONS ACAW 2002 – 2018 PRESENTED ARTISTS PRESS PRESS RELEASES PRESS COVERAGE Announcements ACAW 2017 | Press Coverage ACAW 2017 FIELD MEETING forum & ACAW THINKING PROJECTS Pop-up Exhibitions Coverage OCULA,”ACAW FIELD MEETING Take 5: Thinking Projects” Tianyuan Deng, Novmber 10, 2017 “While bringing Asian practitioners from the ‘periphery’ to the ‘centre’ remains a consistent feature of ACAW’s signature forum, this year’s iteration built upon its previous rejections of Euro-American-centric triumphalism.” > View as a PDF ArtAsiaPacific,”A Bite of Everywhere: Song Dong’s Eating The City” Mimi Wong, Novmber 8, 2017 “For Song, eating signifies life itself.” > View as a PDF Hyperallergic,”Mining Mineral Structures with Watercolor and Sediment” Barbara Pollack, Novmber 6, 2017 “Mineral geometries and natural forms inspire delicate artworks with fractal patterns and meticulous details.” > View as a PDF ArtAsiaPacific,”Yu Fan” Mimi Wong, 2017 “The ceramics on show were drawn from a set of 80 hand-sized sculptures, collectively known as Gifts, made during the artist’s month-long residency this year at the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in Boston.” > View as a PDF ArtAsiaPacific,”ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK FIELD MEETING: THINKING PROJECTS” Tausif Noor, November 3, 2017 “…Asia Contemporary Art Week’s Field Meeting convened to address the bounds and possibilities of the “project,” a concept that has become increasingly popular in artistic practice.” > View as a PDF China Daily USA,”Festival fosters youth cultural exchanges- food meets art” Zhang Ruian, October 24, 2017 “‘Eating is a very important part of Chinese culture,’ said Song.” > View as a PDF Arte Fuse, “Re-Thinking Home: ACAW’s THINKING PROJECTS Pop Up at C24 Gallery” Audra Lambert, October 23, 2017 “ Thinking Projects Pop Up at C24 gallery can seem at first glance to be an expedition: before you, wonders of the world are arrayed in complex congurations.” > View as a PDF Art Radar,”Highlights from Asia Contemporary Art Week 2017 in New York” Junni Chen, October 18, 2017 “Asia Contemporary Art Week pulls together some of New York’s biggest museums, galleries, and institutions to shine the spotlight on visual arts from Asia.” > View as a PDF BLOUIN ARTINFO, “Guo Hongwei & Judy Blum-Reddy at Chambers Fine Art, New York” BLOUIN ARTINFO, October 13, 2017 “It is basically a pop-up exhibition series presenting research-based, ongoing artistic endeavors by nine noted artists from China, Indonesia, Turkey, India, and the Us.” > View as a PDF Ocula, “An Introduction to FIELD MEETING Take 5: THINKING PROJECTS, New York” October 6, 2017 “…FIELD MEETING presentations traverse between disciplines of visual arts, art history, science, social history […] to relect on a variety of significant and timely topics.” >View as a PDF State of the Arts NYC, “Radio Interview with Leeza Ahmady” With host Savona Bailey-McClain, September 22, 2017 > View as a PDF Taipei Cultural Center, “Two Taiwan Artists to Present New Projects at ACAW FIELD MEETING Oct...
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Martin Kippenberger
Drawing & Print
1989(Drawing & Print) 7″ Single ‘Pop In’ by Martin Kippenbergher consisting of a vinyl record and a unique artwork drawn by the artist on the record’s sleeve...
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1990-1999
Félix González-Torres
1992Behind the simplicity and beauty of this untitled photograph of a brilliantly-colored flowerbed by Félix González-Torres are two remarkable stories of love, loss, and resilience...
Michel Auder
1999The Town consists of footage taken from Auder’s studio of the skyline of New York, tracking planes as they fly across the sky and pass tall buildings...
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2000-2009
Artur Zmijewski
2002Zeppelintribüne (2002) was shot near the Zepelintribune in Nuremberg, designed by Albert Speer, chief architect of the Third Reich...
Clemens von Wedemeyer
2003Silberhöhe , directed at Halle, located in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), is the name of a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, which was built in the 70’s and could accommodate more 40,000 people...
Elizabeth McAlpine
2005Elizabeth McAlpine’s work frequently deals with time based issues as well as the experience of watching...
Francis Alÿs
Drawing & Print
2006(Drawing & Print) This series of small drawings is executed with varying materials—pen, ink, colored pencil, charcoal, and masking tape—on architect’s tracing paper...
Chen Shaoxiong
2007After engaging primarily with video and photography for more than a decade, Chen turned to painting to explore the issue of urban change and memories—both personal and collective...
Christian Jankowski
2008In New York City’s Chinatown, subject Suat Ling Chua’s morning exercise is to practice the hula hoop...
Luke Butler
Drawing & Print
2008(Drawing & Print) In Captain X , Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, is limply draped over a large boulder in what looks like a hostile alien environment...
Julio Cesar Morales
2008The video Interrupted Passage presents a performance Morales staged in the former home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican general serving in California...
Andrew Grassie
2009In 2008, Grassie was invited by the Whitechapel Gallery to document the transformation of some of its spaces...
Oscar Munoz
2009In Ante la imagen (Before the Image, 2009) Muñoz continues to explore the power of a photograph to live up to the memory of a specific person...
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2010-2019
Mary Reid Kelley
2010Situated in German-occupied Belgium at the end of World War I, Y ou Make Me Iliad by Mary Reid Kelley focuses on the story of two...
Ha Tae-Bum
2010Ha Tae-Bum’s “White” series, started in 2008, begins with photographic images from the mainstream media depicting sites of conflict or crisis...
LaToya Ruby Frazier
2011LaToya Ruby Frazier is an artist and a militant; her photos combine intimate views of her relation with her parents and grandparents with the history of the Afro-American community of Braddock, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and where her family still live...
Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin
2011Part 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...
Polina Kanis
2011In the seminal video Workout , Kanis looks at the phenomenon of exercise in public space—specifically aerobics exercises in parks around Moscow today—as a broader lens for thinking about generational change...
Binelde Hyrcan
2011Binelde Hyrcan’s video “Cambeck” is a playful study of four boys on a beach in Angola playing in a chauffeured car made of sand...
Sharon Lockhart
2011Visalia Livestock Market, Visalia, California results from Lockhart’s prolonged investigation of an agricultural center and community...
Yang Guangnan
2011Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....
Pablo Accinelli
2011In Onde quer que voce esteja (2011) Accinelli sets up a row of cardboard shipping tubes of varying heights and inscribes on them in black ink the words of the title, which translates in English as “Wherever you may be.” The words, while legible, seem like fragmented lines and shapes—almost but not quite a deconstruction of the text...
Nalini Malani
2012Malani draws upon her personal experience of the violent legacy of colonialism and de-colonization in India in this personal narrative that was shown as a colossal six channel video installation at dOCUMENTA (13), but is here adapted to single channel...
Maria Taniguchi
2012Untitled (Celestial Motors) is a visual meditation on an icon of modern urban Philippine life—the jeepney...
James T. Hong
2012Taiwan WMD (Taiwan and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is part of a long-term research started in early 2010 on the history and aftermath effects of Japanese biological and chemical warfare in China during WWII, as well as the unknown history of Taiwan’s nuclear program...
Futurefarmers
2012In 2011-12 the San Francisco-based collective Futurefarmers staged a 10-part series of conversations and collaborations with scientists, theorist, and philosophers inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’s film, Powers of Ten (1977)...
Brody Condon
2012Future Gestalt re-imagines a large-scale sculpture “ Smoke” by Tony Smith as embodying a futuristic intelligence that communicates with a group of communitarians undergoing experimental psychotherapy...
Tony Oursler
2012Continuing Oursler’s broader exploration of the moving image, Absentia is one of three micro-scale installations that incorporate small objects and tiny video projections within a miniature active proscenium...
Igor Grubic
2013The installation “East Side Story” is based on events that took place in the streets of Belgrade in 2001 and Zagreb in 2002, during the Gay Pride demonstrations, where the participants were the victims of verbal and physical injury by neo-Nazi groups and other citizens...
Anna-Bella Papp
2013Untitled exemplifies the format that Anna Bella-Papp most commonly works in, using her hands to create delicate tablet-like reliefs within a rectangular form made out of clay...
Pascual Sisto
2013All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace takes its title from a 1967 poem by American writer Richard Brautigan, which describes a utopian future where computers are in harmony with and protective of mankind and nature, performing all the necessary work while we retreat back towards nature...
Khvay Samnang
2014The video Rubber Man continues exploring issues related to land use, also noticeable in his Untitled series (2011)...
Charles Lim
2014In SEA STATE 6 Charles Lim takes the viewer down the Jurong Rock Caverns in Singapore, a massive underground infrastructure for oil and fuel storage, built to support the commercial operations of oil traders, petrochemical ventures and manufacturing industries in the area...
Mary Reid Kelley
2015Kelley’s 2015 portrait of the poet Charles Baudelaire is one of a series of poets, rappers, and other thinkers who have influenced the artist’s ideas about beauty, creativity, and expression...
Nick Mauss
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) As in other Mauss’ works that often look unfinished, the drawings in Untitled seem ever at the phase of the sketch, his segments as if they may uproot and reorient themselves at any moment...
Eddie Arroyo
20165901 NW 2nd Ave., Miami, FL 33127 (Botanica) is a series of paintings that artist Eddie Arroyo created over an extended period of time, depicting the same site as it appeared from 2016 to 2018...
Gregory Halpern
2016Gregory Halpern spent five years shooting ZZYZX , and another year editing the results, from an estimated thousand rolls of film, about half of which were shot in the final year after his Guggenheim Fellowship enabled him to live in California...
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
2016In May 2014, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two teenagers, Nadeem Nawara and Mohamad Abu Daher in occupied Palestine (West Bank)...
Mohamed Bourouissa
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) In his photographic series Périphérique (2005–2008), Mohamed Bourouissa used the composition of classical paintings to stage the portrait of friends and young people in the banlieue s (suburbs)...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History IV by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Abraham Oghobase
2018This series of photographs is inspired by the artist’s travels to Jos, Nigeria...
Wang Mowen
2019In Trinity , Wang Mowen uses video to tell the story of a young woman who wants to know the whereabouts of a person born sixty years ago...
Yim Sui Fong
2019In the nine-channel video installation, Against Step by Yim Sui Fong, a phantasmagorical image of a male dancer appears on a large-scale video projected on a floating retro-projection screen...
Sabelo Mlangeni
2019The Royal House of Allure is a name of a safe house on mainland Lagos where members of the queer community in need of boarding, due to various circumstances, live together...
Sabelo Mlangeni
2019The Royal House of Allure is a name of a safe house on mainland Lagos where members of the queer community in need of boarding, due to various circumstances, live together...
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2020-2029
Anton Vidokle
2020Shot in Oliveto Lucano, a village in the south of Italy, AUTOTROFIA (meaning self-eating) by artist Anton Vidokle is a cinéma vérité style film that slides fictive characters into real situations, and vice-versa, to draw a prolonged meditation on the cycle of life, seasonal renewal, and ecological awareness...
Prajakta Potnis
2020he woke up with seeds in his lungs by Prajakta Potnis is a set of x-ray films presented through backlit light boxes of found objects constructed to evoke the body or organs that turns the host into a foreign element...
Edgardo Aragón
2020In the agricultural areas of Mexico, Indigenous people use the mylar magnetic tape unspooled from VHS cassettes as an alternative to the scarecrow—the reflective tape flutters in the wind and does an excellent job scaring birds away from crops...
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2020The absurd condition of human survival under environmental degradation and geonational balkanization is taken as a starting point for WA’AD by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES...
Zhang Kechun
2020Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
Daniela Ortiz
2021The Rebellion of Roots by Daniela Ortiz depicts a series of situations in which tropical plants, held hostage in the botanical gardens and greenhouses of Europe, are protected and nurtured by the spirits of racialized people who died as a result of European racism...
Kelly Sinnapah Mary
2021Notebook 10 , l ‘enfance de sanbras (The Childhood of Sanbras) series by Kelly Sinnapah Mary is a sequel to an earlier series by the artist titled Cahier d’un non retour au pays natal (2015)...
Carolina Fusilier
2023Miercoles cerca de las 7 de la tarde by Caroline Fusilier portrays two quantum computers that are mobile, with human-esque legs, these are systems at the edge of biology...
Sandra Monterroso
Drawing & Print
2023(Drawing & Print) Presented as part of a recent group of works titled The Paradox of Healing, Rhombus for Healing No...
Juan Obando
2023They/Them by Juan Obando is a video essay and deepfake that uses Adobe Stock clips, maintaining their branded watermark, but animating the scenes underneath with a narrative of self-critical awareness...
