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Simon Fujiwara
Masks is a series of abstract paintings by Simon Fujiwara that together form a giant, fragmented portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s face. Masks (Merkel F6.1) was created in consultation with Merkel’s personal make-up artist; it features the special makeup that Merkel wears for HD cameras applied onto canvas. The image has been magnified to a near-microscopic level, rendering an ambiguous skin tone across which the makeup’s denser patches produce an abstract composition.
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Brian Bress
Blindseye Arranger (Max) (2013) features a greyscale arrangement of rudimentary shapes layered atop one another like a dense cluster of wood block prints, the juxtaposition of sharp lines and acute angles creating an abstracted field of rectangular and triangulated forms composed as if in a cubist landscape. As the video progresses, however, a disembodied hand begins to move these forms, animating a pictorial frame that was previously still. The hand – ostensibly the “arranger” of the works title – functions as a metonym of the artist’s hand, quite literally bringing a motionless work to life.
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Maria Taniguchi
Maria Taniguchi works across several media but is principally known for her long-running series of quasi-abstract paintings featuring a stylized brick wall device. Full of subtle gradations and low-key modulations, these are her trademark: a sustained, reiterative practice, steeped in repetition but carefully attuned to the economies and the sculptural presence of painting. Her approach to painting is conceptual.
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Eric Baudelaire
Baudelaire’s latest film, Also known as Jihadi (2017) tells the story of a young French boy from Parisian suburbs and his assumed journey to the Al-Nusra front in Syria to join ISIS and fight Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Employing the cinematographic approach known as ‘landscape theory’ — or fûkeiron — developed out of Marxist film criticism in the 1970s where the landscape of a film is read as an expression of the political climate, thus becoming a significant character, motivation or reasoning for the films development. The 101-minute follows Abdel Aziz from the socially and politically rife milieu of the Parisian suburbs, weighted by division, segregation, development and poverty to, what the viewer assumes, Syria.
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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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Hans-Peter Feldmann
The types of objects Feldmann is interested in collecting into serial photographic grids or artist’s books are often also found in three dimensional installations. Against authorship and the commodification of art, he never gives titles or dates to his works which have infinite edition possibilities. This mise en scène of found kitchenware also exists with a rounder and flatter plain modern white porcelain teapot.
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Arseny Zhilyaev
The Bolotnaya Battle Park Complex is the future home for the Museum of Russian History (M. I. R.). Located on the grounds of Bolotnaya square in Moscow, this park sits on top of what once was a swamp. Above the main building stand two bio-engineered ‘living sculptures’, which strike various poses to commemorate the brave acts of those defending the federation from foreign intervention during protests of May 6th, 2012.
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Andrew Norman Wilson
On the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown in New York, Andrew Norman Wilson was evicted from his sublet and decided to board a $30 flight to Los Angeles that evening. From a cottage that faces the Hollywood sign, he began to dwell on an encounter he had with a woman driving alongside him on the highway, emphatically singing along to the song he was listening to through the same radio station. That song was Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight.” For Wilson, the uncanny synchronicity of this encounter with a stranger tuned into the same frequency resonated with the inspiration for Phil’s song, which he first heard as a teenager while getting high in a friend’s basement.
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Dora Garcia
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Dora Garcia’s work is a result of institutional critique and more generally that of language, following the conceptual artists of the 1960s like Weiner and Kosuth and Fraser from the 1980s and 1990s. What a fucking wonderful audience (2008) is positioned conveniently at the crossroads of several trends identified in the work of the artist. The performance from which it is derived, was made at the Biennale of Sydney in 2008, taking the form of a guided tour at the Museum of Modern Art in Sydney and focuses on artworks that were not physically present.
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Sharon Lockhart
Lockhart’s film Lunch Break investigates the present state of American labor through a close look at the everyday life of the workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector of the U. S. naval shipbuilding company—in Maine. Gary Gilpatrick, Insulator (2008) belongs to a group of portrait-like photographs of the shipyard’s workers lunchboxes. Created over the period of a year, Lockhart’s film and accompanying still photographs are intended as an exploration of the social spaces inside this kind of workplace.
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Felipe Arturo
Primero estaba el mar ( First Was the Sea , 2012) is a system of equivalences between syllables and silhouettes of waveforms cast in cement. Each waveform represents a syllable of the sentence “Primero estaba el mar.” This sentence is the first verse of the Kogui poem of creation. For the Koguis, an indigenous community from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on the Colombian Caribbean coast, water was the absolute presence before the creation of the universe.
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Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory. The watercolor images on each note paper document the artist’s visits to various Chinese ‘New Villages’ in Malaysia. The studies, some in color and others in grey-scale, from this series include architectural ruins, portraits of people and animals, and groups of people in protest.
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Sun Xun
Sun Xun’s lushly illustrated, dynamic short film Mythological Time is a dreamy chronicle of rapacious industrial development, the mythical qualities of state propaganda, and the constancy of change, as experienced by an unnamed coal mining town. While it is not named in the film itself, the town at the center of Mythological Time is a re-imagined incarnation of Sun’s hometown of Fuxin, in the northern Chinese province of Liaoning. Sandwiched between North Korea and Inner Mongolia, Fuxin is a poor coal-mining region that used to contain one of China’s largest open-pit mines and has historically been the site of significant conflict, thanks to its rich mineral resources.
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Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
Wateoma husipe / Larvas de oruga / Caterpillar larvae by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe exemplify his most abstract work, where he choses particular elements of a living organism to create his renditions. During the process of depuration of forms he develops a series of translations whose inception is the daily life and culture of his community, deep in the Amazon rainforest. The works reveal structures rather than shapes, organization rather than form, exposing a way of seeing where nature and culture are not mutually exclusive but manifesting simultaneously.
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Nidhal Chamekh
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Nidhal Chamekh made the first drawings of the ongoing series Mémoire Promise in 2013. In the series, the artist persistently dissects, examines and describes his experiences and memories of his family and life in Tunis, Tunisia. As underlined by poet Arafat Sadallah, the artist draws eyes and gazes of unachieved portraits, hands and arms of a skeleton—figures disappear but they witness and testify.
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Otobong Nkanga
Tsumeb Fragments was produced for the exhibition at Kadist, “Comot Your Eyes Make I Borrow You Mine” in 2015. In Spring 2015, Nkanga travelled to Namibia, making her way along an almost entirely defunct railway line from Swakopmund to Tsumeb. The artist was intent on reaching The Green Hill in Tsumeb, an area renowned for its minerals, crystals and copper deposits.
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Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
A short video about Tate Modern by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa depicts just two shots, both featuring the artist. The first scene portrays Wolukau-Wanambwa in a close-up frontal view, dressed in black, standing silently against a worn white wall. Through subtitles, the artist recounts her experience of participating in a workshop on the top floor of the museum.
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Rometti Costales
Canción para un fósil canoro (Song for a chanting fossil) by Rometti Costales is inspired by the history of the building that currently hosts the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA) in Santiago, Chile. The duo associated the layers of the building’s history with the vestiges of life and the processes of fossilization that have taken place in areas of the Atacama Desert, a territory that has been the stage for several episodes in Chile’s tumultuous economic and political history. The work operates as a metaphor for the strata of historical memory, condensing different materials and operations.
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Maria Fernanda Plata
Unraveling, or “unweaving” sections of fabric, Maria Fernanda Plata arrived at delicate and tenuous-looking forms, both ghostly and gentle. Her careful meditations in fabric reflect Plata’s ongoing interest in the relationship between people and their environments, in fragility, systems, and destruction.
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Peter Robinson
Defunct Mnemonics (2012) plays off woodworking traditions found in indigenous art in order to create a body of formally minimal objects that are both beautiful in their restraint and profoundly moving in their associations with the totemic. Resembling large pick-up-sticks, the complete work is comprised of 126 vertical sculptures wrapped in fabric with alternately monochromatic and graphically patterned dyes and prints. Leaning against a wall and arranged side-by-side, they could be mistaken as highly decorated mallets for use in an undetermined ritual or game.
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Eileen Quinlan
Eileen Quinlan’s abstracted images, like Swipe , rely on the manipulation of photographic materials inside the studio itself, and reject the exterior world for complex interrogations of the medium.
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Erick Beltran
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
In his posters, prints, and installations, Erick Beltrán employs the language and tools of graphic design, linguistics, typography, and variations in alphabetical forms across cultures; he is specifically interested in how language and meaning form structures that can be misconstrued as universal. In The Individual Is a Mirage (2010), Beltrán offers up a graphic chart mapping the myth of individual identity.
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Nazgol Ansarinia
In the early 2000s, as urban redevelopment accelerated and intense construction significantly diminished public space in Tehran, state-funded murals began to represent imaginary landscapes on building facades. The municipality of Tehran uses such pictorial representation to to exert influence over and come to terms with the flow of communal desire. The protrusion of the unreal onto the real interrupts the values, independence, and functionality of one over the other.
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Daniel Gustav Cramer
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
David Gustav Cramer’s are composed of simple, descriptive texts accompanied by found photographs, letters or other materials. The elements juxtaposed in each work operate like the lines of a Haiku. It is the tension between them that opens space for thought.
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James "Yaya" Hough
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
This untitled ink and pencil drawing by James “Yaya” Hough is made on what the artist calls “institutional paper”, or the state-issued forms that monitor the daily activities of prisoners, of which, each detainee is generally required to fill out in triplicate. The form used for this drawing details a weekly menu for the prisoners. Hough’s drawing depicts three grimacing figures, riding atop the back of a larger, female figure on all fours.
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Natsuko Uchino
Squid Currency is a series of 13 non-calibrated double-sided tin coins made using a casting technique dating back to Neolithic times where cuttlebones (squid bones) were carved by hand and then used as a mold. Natsuko Uchino draws on research into tin mining across the world, which takes place largely in China and Bangladesh as well as in Potosi, Bolivia where silver has been depleted due to the production of coins and other ornate riches during the 16th century Spanish Empire. Tin has a low melting point and is easily up-cycled from vessels such as measuring cups and kitchen utensils found at yard sales.
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Olga Grotova
Our Grandmothers’ Gardens by Olga Grotova is based on the history of Soviet allotment gardens, which were small plots of land distributed amongst the families of factory workers to compensate for poor food supply in a country that was over-producing weapons. Beginning in the 1960s, Grotova’s great grandmother and grandmother tended an allotment garden for three decades, after their release from an all-female gulag camp for “enemies of the people”. These camps detained wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters of men executed during Stalinist repressions.
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Marina Rosenfeld
The installation Music Stands: Free Exercise 7, 8, and 9 by Marina Rosenfeld consists of music stand-like structures and a corresponding set of panels and acoustic devices that direct, focus, obstruct, reflect and project sound in the gallery. Together the components play on the connection between aural and social relations signified by the music stands. An episodic score emanates from the work’s sound system, momentarily interrupting the atmosphere with brief eruptions of electronic sounds and vocality.
Gan Chin Lee
Gan Chin Lee is a Malaysian artist of Chinese descent known across Southeast Asia for his realist paintings that painstakingly register the ethnic and religious complexities of Malaysia...
Hank Willis Thomas
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1976
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Plainfield, New Jersey
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe is a Yanomami artist who lives and works in Upper Orinoco, at the Venezuelan side of the Amazon rainforest...
Nidhal Chamekh
Based between his native Tunis and Paris, Nidhal Chamekh’s work is an investigation into history as a point of access to our contemporary times...
John Baldessari
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1931
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: National City, California
Olga Grotova
Olga Grotova is an artist and poet whose practice involves collecting and mapping stories of Soviet and Eastern-European women that have been erased from established historical narratives...
Simon Fujiwara
- location: Berlin, Germany
- year born: 1982
- gender: male
- nationality: British
Eric Baudelaire
Currently based in Paris, Franco-American artist Eric Baudelaire has developed an oeuvre primarily composed of film, but which also includes photography, silkscreen prints, performance, publications and installations...
Jason Dodge
Jason Dodge extracts objects from everyday life – of which he adds minimal alterations by the way that he isolates and presents them...
Chloe Piene
- year born: 1972
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Stamford, Connecticut
Andrew Norman Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist, curator, and filmmaker whose practice is mostly based in research and documentary...
Otobong Nkanga
Visual artist and performer, Otobong Nkanga’s (b...
Meiro Koizumi
Meiro Koizumi is a Japanese video and performing artist, born in 1976...
Arseny Zhilyaev
Arseny Zhilyaev is arguably one of the most influential contemporary Russian artists of his generation...
Hans-Peter Feldmann
- location: Düsseldorf, Germany
- year born: 1941
- gender: male
- nationality: German
- home town: Dusseldorf, Germany
Jennifer Bornstein
- location: United States
- year born: 1970
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Seattle, Washington
Elena Damiani
- location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- location: Lima, Peru
- year born: 1972
- gender: female
- nationality: Peruvian
- home town: Peru
Yung Jake
Yung Jake is a visual artist and YouTube rapper based in Los Angeles whose work fuses new media, music, and art...
Felipe Arturo
- year born: 1979
- gender: male
- nationality: Colombian
- home town: Bogota, Colombia
A.K. Burns
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Yin-Ju Chen
- year born: 2011
- gender: female
- nationality: American & Taiwanese
Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni
The collaborative work of Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni is part of a reflection on the history of cinema, science, and technology...
Gabriel Chaile
Gabriel Chaile’s work draws on references ranging from Pre-Columbian cultures to Conceptualism in often-usable sculptures involving bricks, adobe structures, and other found objects...
Milena Bonilla
Milena Bonilla’s discursive practice explores connections among economics, territory, transit, and politics through everyday interventions...
Zai Kuning
- year born: 1964
- gender: male
- nationality: Singaporean
- home town: Singapore
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa is an artist, researcher, and convenor of the collective the Africa Cluster of the Another Roadmap School, a project fostering conversations about art and education in Africa...
Charles Gaines
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1944
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Charleston, South Carolina
Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla comprise the artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla...
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about 11 months ago (02/08/2024)
National Academy of Design Presents “Sites of Impermanence” Skip to content Willie Cole, “Five Beauties Rising” (2012), suite of five prints, intaglio and relief (courtesy the artist) The National Academy of Design’s new exhibition , Sites of Impermanence , celebrates the contributions of the 2023 Class of National Academicians: Alice Adams, Sanford Biggers, Willie Cole, Torkwase Dyson, Richard Gluckman, Carlos Jiménez, Mel Kendrick, and Sarah Oppenheimer...
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All about washi: Japanese handmade paper’s ancient Chinese roots, its uses from writing to home decor, and why it can cost US$120 a sheet | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Asia travel + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Sheets of Hosokawa-shi, a type of Japanese washi recognised by Unesco as an item of intangible cultural heritage...
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buZ Blurr, One Telling of the “Origin Story” at Straat Museum Amsterdam | Brooklyn Street Art BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY In the shifting culturescapes of urban contemporary art, STRAAT Museum’s latest exhibition, “Moniker: An Origin Story,” emerges as a poignant narrative that bridges the transient heritage of hobo monikers with the vibrant pulse of today’s street art scene...
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Clémentine Adou — Xmas — Les Bains-Douches d'Alençon — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Clémentine Adou — Xmas — Les Bains-Douches d'Alençon — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Previous Next Clémentine Adou — Xmas Exhibition Installation, sound - music, mixed media, video Clémentine Adou, Red nose, red dot, 2023 Red nose, motor — 5 × 5 × 5 cm Clémentine Adou & Tonus, Paris Clémentine Adou Xmas Ends in 21 days: January 26 → March 3, 2024 “Movement is not material...
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To See or Not to See: Learning from the Late Robert Irwin and More Skip to main content By Janelle Zara Plus Icon Janelle Zara View All January 13, 2024 3:50pm Installation view of Robert Irwin's untitled (dawn to dusk) , 2016, at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas...
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Jean-Charles de Quillacq — Les poulains deviennent des chevaux — Galerie Marcelle Alix — Exposition — Slash Paris Connexion Newsletter Twitter Facebook Jean-Charles de Quillacq — Les poulains deviennent des chevaux — Galerie Marcelle Alix — Exposition — Slash Paris Français English Accueil Événements Artistes Lieux Magazine Vidéos Retour Précédent Suivant Jean-Charles de Quillacq — Les poulains deviennent des chevaux Exposition Techniques mixtes Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Ouverte (Discomfort), 2023 (Détail) Collage et acetone sur poster — 59,7 × 80 cm Courtesy de l’artiste et galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris Jean-Charles de Quillacq Les poulains deviennent des chevaux Encore 27 jours : 11 janvier → 9 mars 2024 « J’étais un morceau d’usine pour l’éternité...
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Fabienne Verdier — Horizons et Chênes-lièges — Lelong & Co Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Fabienne Verdier — Horizons et Chênes-lièges — Lelong & Co Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Previous Next Fabienne Verdier — Horizons et Chênes-lièges Exhibition Painting Fabienne Verdier, Chêne-liège #4, 2023 Pastel gras et pastel sec sur vélin d’Arches teinté — 49 × 28 cm Courtesy de l’artiste et galerie Lelong & Co...
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The Art of Fashion and Legacy: Carla Sozzani and Byronesque’s Unique Collaboration – A Shaded View on Fashion https://byronesque.com/fondazione_sozzani/ Dear Shaded Viewers, In a remarkable intersection of art and fashion, Carla Sozzani, the revered figure in the world of fashion, has embarked on a unique collaboration with Byronesque...
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James Ensor: series of anniversary shows to reveal ‘the man behind the mask’ Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Exhibitions news James Ensor: series of anniversary shows to reveal ‘the man behind the mask’ Belgium commemorates 75 years since the artist's death with a year-long season of exhibitions and events, often highlighting the lesser known aspects of his work Eddi Fiegel 15 December 2023 Share James Ensor, Pierrot and skeleton in a yellow robe (1893) Photo: Hugo Maertens The Belgian artist James Ensor may be easily recognisable for the macabre faces that so often feature in his works, but a major new season of exhibitions and events in his home country aims to reveal “the man behind the mask”...
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Another Man is relaunching for a new era of men’s fashion | Dazed â¬…ï¸ Left Arrow *ï¸âƒ£ Asterisk â Star Option Sliders âœ‰ï¸ Mail Exit Fashion News The cult menswear magazine will return next spring, with editor-in-chief Ellie Grace Cumming at the helm 12 December 2023 Text Dazed Digital AnOther Man Starring Robert Pattinson 6 Another Man is officially back...
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Artist Martin Grasser, who helped design Twitter's iconic bird logo, said the symbol "did so much" since it was launched in 2012....
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49/23 — Considering Technology, AI and Photography - Photographs by Gregory Eddi Jones | Interview by Liz Sales | LensCulture Feature 49/23 — Considering Technology, AI and Photography In his new thought-provoking series “49/23,” Gregory Eddi Jones considers the implications of rapidly advancing technology by intertwining vintage photography and AI-generated images...
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Release/Benefit: Banksy – ‘Fragile/Agile’ « Arrested Motion Continuing his support for humanitarian causes around the globe, Banksy is releasing a new screen print in partnership with Giles Duley ’s Legacy of War Foundation ...
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Fashion entrepreneur James Whitner spoke to us from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, about his art collection and his mission to support emerging artists....
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SDEA Theatre Arts Conference Keynote Interviews: Drama lessons in a pandemic (Part 1) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints May 2, 2021 By Sarah Tang SDEA is holding its first fully online Theatre Arts Conference this year from 22 to 30 May...
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Arts censorship: At the end of the day, this is not new | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 11, 2020 By Kathy Rowland (1400 words, 8 minute read) Balai Seni Visual Negara Malaysia (Balai) is once again accused of censoring artists’ work...
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Podcast 61: The Media Landscape in Thailand | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Asian Arts Media Roundtable July 11, 2019 Duration: 20 min In our latest podcast, Thai theatre critic Amitha Amranand gives a comprehensive overview of the media landscape in Thailand, discussing the impact of the political and legal system on the arts and the paradoxical freedom that arts journalists have in the country...
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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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Contemporary Muslim Fashions de Young Museum, San Francisco Opens September 22 On September 13, New York state will hold its primaries for the midterm elections, and on the Democratic ballot for governor is Cynthia Nixon: longtime activist, early supporter of mayor Bill de Blasio, and actor...
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Playwright and University of the Philippines faculty member Wilfrido Ma...
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1970-1979
Allen Ruppersberg
1970Untitled (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...
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1980-1989
Charles Gaines
1980To make his series Shadows (1980), Gaines subjected 20 potted plants to a uniform procedure...
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1990-1999
Jennifer Bornstein
1994Collectors’ 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...
Catherine Opie
1994Although best known as a provocateur and portraitist, Opie also photographs landscapes, cityscapes, and architecture...
Bruce Conner
Drawing & Print
1995(Drawing & Print) Bruce Conner is best known for his experimental films, but throughout his career he also worked with pen, ink, and paper to create drawings ranging from psychedelic patterns to repetitious inkblot compositions...
John Baldessari
1997In One Must , an image of a pair of scissors, accompanied by the words of work’s title, poses an ominous question about the relationship between the image and the text...
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2000-2009
John Isaacs
2004A child and dreamer my whole life long (broken tree) (2004) is a sculpture made of filler, wire, copper, oil paint, and wood depicting a tree just at it’s moment of breaking into half – one part alive with foliage and blooming branches and the other the crisp of the break exposed, with the trunk adhered solidly to a plinth...
Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa
2005A short video about Tate Modern by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa depicts just two shots, both featuring the artist...
Alain Séchas
2006Coué 1 is an animated sculpture that hypnotically highlights the self-motivating leitmotiv of the ‘Coué Method’: “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”This is the mantra that is repeated by different male and female voices in the soundtrack – first in an incomprehensible painfully slow slur, becoming clear and speeding up into a drilling hilarious sounding high pitching spin, as if helium had been inhaled...
Jason Dodge
2007In Algeria, Djidjiga Meffre has woven a fabric with a string, a length equal to the distance from the earth to troposphere...
Dora Garcia
Drawing & Print
2008(Drawing & Print) Dora Garcia’s work is a result of institutional critique and more generally that of language, following the conceptual artists of the 1960s like Weiner and Kosuth and Fraser from the 1980s and 1990s...
Sharon Lockhart
2008Lockhart’s film Lunch Break investigates the present state of American labor through a close look at the everyday life of the workers at the Bath Iron Works shipyard—a private sector of the U...
Cerith Wyn Evans
2008Untitled (Perfect Lovers + 1) by Cerith Wyn Evans takes as its starting point Felix Gonzales-Torres’s seminal work Untitled (Perfect Lovers) , in which two clocks were synchronized and left to run without interference, the implication being that one would stop before the other...
Kennedy Browne
2009Milton Friedman on the wonder of the free market pencil is an installation based on 42 blank pages...
Milena Bonilla
Drawing & Print
2009(Drawing & Print) Milena Bonilla’s discursive practice explores connections among economics, territory, and politics through everyday interventions...
Michelle Handelman
2009In Dorian, a cinematic perfume, video is used as a community gatherer, a tool to speak about particular subcultures, in this case the trans-gender drag queen New York community, past and present...
Jason Meadows
2009The Striation Scrap Lamps (vertical and horizontal) although functioning as utilitarian objects also represent Jason Meadows’s interest in a certain kind of crafted sculpture...
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2010-2019
Erick Beltran
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) In his posters, prints, and installations, Erick Beltrán employs the language and tools of graphic design, linguistics, typography, and variations in alphabetical forms across cultures; he is specifically interested in how language and meaning form structures that can be misconstrued as universal...
Colter Jacobsen
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) The title Untitled Passport II was first used by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in an unlimited edition of small booklets, each containing sequenced photographs of a soaring bird against an open sky...
Étienne Chambaud
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) In 2010, Kadist Art Foundation, David Roberts Foundation and Nomas Foundation successively presented an exhibition of the work of Etienne Chambaud in collaboration with Vincent Normand: The Siren’s Stage / Le Stade des Sirènes...
Andrea Bowers
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a political rally in downtown Los Angeles in which thousands of individuals demonstrated for immigrants’ rights...
Lydia Gifford
2011Lydia Gifford composes her work between pictorial expression and its inscription within an exhibition space...
Ho Tzu Nyen
2011The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...
Natasha Wheat
2011Wheat’s work is built on a strong conceptual framework that weaves together commentary on social and political issues and the radical potential for change...
Karl Haendel
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) Haendel’s series Knights (2011) is a set of impeccably drafted, nine-foot-tall pencil drawings depicting full suits of armor...
Pablo Rasgado
2011Pablo Rasgado’s paintings and installations serve as a visual record of contemporary urban human behavior...
Felipe Arturo
2012Primero estaba el mar ( First Was the Sea , 2012) is a system of equivalences between syllables and silhouettes of waveforms cast in cement...
Peter Robinson
2012Defunct Mnemonics (2012) plays off woodworking traditions found in indigenous art in order to create a body of formally minimal objects that are both beautiful in their restraint and profoundly moving in their associations with the totemic...
Meiro Koizumi
2012This video installation was made for the exhibition “Journey to the West” held in January 2012 in New Delhi, where a group of curators invited six Japanese artists to produce a work to be made around the relationship between Japan and India...
Nicolás Paris
2012Nicolas Paris studied architecture and worked as an elementary school teacher before he decided to become an artist...
Charles Avery
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Since 2005, Charles Avery has devoted his practice to the perpetual description of a fictional island...
Brian Bress
2013Blindseye Arranger (Max) (2013) features a greyscale arrangement of rudimentary shapes layered atop one another like a dense cluster of wood block prints, the juxtaposition of sharp lines and acute angles creating an abstracted field of rectangular and triangulated forms composed as if in a cubist landscape...
Nazgol Ansarinia
2013In the early 2000s, as urban redevelopment accelerated and intense construction significantly diminished public space in Tehran, state-funded murals began to represent imaginary landscapes on building facades...
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) Fabiola Torres-Alzaga plays with magic, illusion, and sleight-of-hand, fabricating installations, drawings, and films that toy with our perceptions...
Arseny Zhilyaev
2014The Bolotnaya Battle Park Complex is the future home for the Museum of Russian History (M...
Zai Kuning
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Concerned with the early history of Singapore, Zai Kuning spent many years living with and researching the history of the Riau peoples who were the first inhabitants of Singapore...
Prabhakar Pachpute
2014“Dark Clouds Of The Future” is a cinematographic video animation of the abandoned gold mine in Brazil, Serra Pelada (“Naked Mountain”)...
Elena Damiani
2014In Fading Fields 7 by Elena Damiani, the unstable transparency of the print on silk chiffon is relative to the light and the viewer’s position, varying continually as one moves around the work...
Robert Zhao Renhui
2014Created during Zhao Renhui’s residency at Kadist SF in 2014, Zhao Renhui began observing and cataloguing insects inspired by the scientific impulse towards exhaustive taxonomy of Sacramento-based Dr...
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Shot in black and white and printed on a glittery carborundum surface, Black Hands, White Cotton both confronts and abstracts the subject of its title...
Maria Taniguchi
2015Maria Taniguchi works across several media but is principally known for her long-running series of quasi-abstract paintings featuring a stylized brick wall device...
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...
Otobong Nkanga
2015Tsumeb Fragments was produced for the exhibition at Kadist, “Comot Your Eyes Make I Borrow You Mine” in 2015...
Maria Fernanda Plata
2015Unraveling, or “unweaving” sections of fabric, Maria Fernanda Plata arrived at delicate and tenuous-looking forms, both ghostly and gentle...
Zach Reini
2015Particularly shaped by his own youth in the 1990s, his recent works have incorporated things like a marijuana leaf, a dragon-emblazoned chain wallet, metal grommets, and the ubiquitous (in the 90s) Stussy symbol...
Shahryar Nashat
2015Employing both the High Modernist technique of abstraction and monochronism, as in the work of Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, and bodily states of fetishization, Yea High (sweetpreparator) reworks the art historical canon of movement and the body to consider flesh as a physical construction of man-made matter...
Simon Fujiwara
2016Masks is a series of abstract paintings by Simon Fujiwara that together form a giant, fragmented portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s face...
Nidhal Chamekh
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Nidhal Chamekh made the first drawings of the ongoing series Mémoire Promise in 2013...
Eileen Quinlan
2016Eileen Quinlan’s abstracted images, like Swipe , rely on the manipulation of photographic materials inside the studio itself, and reject the exterior world for complex interrogations of the medium....
James "Yaya" Hough
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) This untitled ink and pencil drawing by James “Yaya” Hough is made on what the artist calls “institutional paper”, or the state-issued forms that monitor the daily activities of prisoners, of which, each detainee is generally required to fill out in triplicate...
Nidhal Chamekh
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Nidhal Chamekh made the first drawings of the ongoing series Mémoire Promise in 2013...
David G. Tretiakoff
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Immolation I is taken from the four-part Immolation series which shows four Arab revolutionaries who publicly sacrificed themselves through self-immolation and in so doing heralded the beginning of the Arab Spring...
A.K. Burns
2016In a 2002 Pentagon press conference, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld addressed a question about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction with an unforgettable evasion: there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, the latter being the most precarious...
Uriel Orlow
2016The series The Memory of Trees is specifically about trees, and what trees have witnessed in South Africa: for example, trees that were used as locations for slave trading, or trees that was during the anti-Apartheid struggle as a kind of identifier for a safe house for activists who were fleeing from security forces...
Yin-Ju Chen
2016Through a semi-fictional approach, Extrastellar Evaluations envisions a version of history in which alien inhabitants, the Lemurians, lived among humans under the guise of various renowned conceptual and minimal artists in the 1960s (Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, and James Turrell to name a few)...
Eric Baudelaire
2017Baudelaire’s latest film, Also known as Jihadi (2017) tells the story of a young French boy from Parisian suburbs and his assumed journey to the Al-Nusra front in Syria to join ISIS and fight Bashar al-Assad’s regime...
Daniel Boccato
2017Birdstones is a series of flat concrete slabs made from moldings of different shapes, each with two small holes...
Matt Mullican
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Mullican’s Stick Figure Drawings depict characters reduced to their most basic graphic representation...
Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni
2018– In which an intelligence going back to its place of origin discovers the agony of gods on which it thrives – Seventh and last episode of The Unmanned , “a flood” is set in 1542 as the first conquistadors enter the land later to be known as the Silicon Valley...
Carole Douillard & Babette Mangolte
2018Following 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...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
2019Wateoma husipe / Larvas de oruga / Caterpillar larvae by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe exemplify his most abstract work, where he choses particular elements of a living organism to create his renditions...
Rometti Costales
2019Canción para un fósil canoro (Song for a chanting fossil) by Rometti Costales is inspired by the history of the building that currently hosts the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA) in Santiago, Chile...
Marina Rosenfeld
2019The installation Music Stands: Free Exercise 7, 8, and 9 by Marina Rosenfeld consists of music stand-like structures and a corresponding set of panels and acoustic devices that direct, focus, obstruct, reflect and project sound in the gallery...
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
2019Perawesi / Estómago de animal / Stomach of animal by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe exemplify his most abstract work, where he choses particular elements of a living organism to create his renditions...
Gabriel Chaile
2019For the project Aguas calientes Gabriel Chaile exchanged silverware from three popular soup kitchens (mutual aid organizations to provide food for people in need) in Buenos Aires to brand new cooking utensils to shape his project...
Gan Chin Lee
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In Studies of Chinese New Villages II Gan Chin Lee’s realism appears in the format of a fieldwork notebook; capturing present-day surroundings while unpacking their historical memory...
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2020-2029
Andrew Norman Wilson
2020On the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown in New York, Andrew Norman Wilson was evicted from his sublet and decided to board a $30 flight to Los Angeles that evening...
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) David Gustav Cramer’s are composed of simple, descriptive texts accompanied by found photographs, letters or other materials...
Natsuko Uchino
2020Squid Currency is a series of 13 non-calibrated double-sided tin coins made using a casting technique dating back to Neolithic times where cuttlebones (squid bones) were carved by hand and then used as a mold...
Duane Linklater
2020silentstar, delicacy by Duane Linklater is a replica of a baby pink hoodie that the artist wore as a teenager, embellished with hand-painted elements and band patches...
Oren Pinhassi
2020Oren Pinhassi’s work examines the relationship between the human figure and the built environment...
Asli Çavusoglu
2020In the exhibition Pink as a Cabbage / Green as an Onion / Blue as an Orange , Asli Çavusoglu pursues her work on color to delve into an investigation into alternative agricultural systems and natural dyes made with fruits, vegetables, and plants cultivated by the farming initiatives she has been in touch with...
Olga Grotova
2022Our Grandmothers’ Gardens by Olga Grotova is based on the history of Soviet allotment gardens, which were small plots of land distributed amongst the families of factory workers to compensate for poor food supply in a country that was over-producing weapons...
