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Elisheva Biernoff
In her recent work, Biernoff is interested in investigating fictions and fantasies embedded in the remnants of consumer culture (for example magazines) or through ephemera such as postcards and old photographs. Although the imagery present in her work might seem nostalgic upon first encounter, Biernoff’s complex tableaux often reveal the artist’s skeptical look towards her subjects matters. They Were Here (2010), constitutes a clear example.
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Elisheva Biernoff
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Last Postcards is a series of three small double-sided paintings on plywood in which Biernoff imagines the last communications from explorers lost in the wilderness. Biernoff’s choice of Everett Ruess, Percy Fawcett, and the conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader is particularly telling. On one level, the Last Postcards analogize the nineteenth-century explorer with the contemporary artist who looks for purpose in their work.
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Nicolás Consuegra
Consuegra’s Colombia is a mirror made in the shape of the artist’s home country—a silhouette that has an important resonance for the artist. Consuegra’s mirrored Colombia is similar to an earlier version, made to be show opposite a mirror of the United States. Whether reflecting his two homes within one another (Consuegra studied in the US and has made several works about this experience of living in exile from his homeland), or simply reflecting its surroundings, Colombia is a simple yet evocative work about the identity of a nation, and the things that we project—really and metaphorically—onto its form.
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Ilana Bar
One of Ilana Bar’s best-known works is the series Transparências de lar (Home Transparencies) in which, for four years, the artist photographed her family’s rural home in Atibaia where her father lives with his two brothers and Ilana’s own brother, all three with Down Syndrome. Transparências de lar is the record of a serene, though certainly not a perfect, place. In this place Down Syndrome is not considered an alienable difference in the way that it is in Western culture, it is not problematic or a cause for social exclusion.
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Zanele Muholi
As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa. Members of the LBGTQI community who suffer from continuous attacks — “corrective” and “curative rapes”, physical and psychological assaults, and hate crimes — Muholi works from her own community to create strong and positive images of empowered individuals. As visual statements, her photographs seek to dignify the members of an often hidden, voiceless and marginalized community.
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Zanele Muholi
As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa. Members of the LBGTQI community who suffer from continuous attacks — “corrective” and “curative rapes”, physical and psychological assaults, and hate crimes — Muholi works from her own community to create strong and positive images of empowered individuals. As visual statements, her photographs seek to dignify the members of an often hidden, voiceless and marginalized community.
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Zanele Muholi
As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa. Members of the LBGTQI community who suffer from continuous attacks — “corrective” and “curative rapes”, physical and psychological assaults, and hate crimes — Muholi works from her own community to create strong and positive images of empowered individuals. As visual statements, her photographs seek to dignify the members of an often hidden, voiceless and marginalized community.
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Yuyan Wang
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Yuyan Wang reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro-events from ‘satisfying videos’ that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through layers of appropriation; referencing trance and minimal music in the process. The work addresses a desire for groundless waves, blended with today’s inexorable entropy of information societies.
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Chris Duncan
Taken from the title of the incredibly influential punk/hardcore record I AGAINST I by the Bad Brains, Untitled (blue) is an acrylic painting on reflective paper by Chris Duncan is part of a larger body of work titled EYE AGAINST I . This title references Duncan’s early artistic influences from the punk and hardcore music communities in tandem with his conceptual interest in perception and optics. This small painting features a glowing cluster of colorful dots on a bright blue background, also created from an accumulation of blue dots in varying tones.
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Leelee Chan
Blindfold Receptor (caterpillar-yellow) by Leelee Chan is inspired by the camouflaging nature of the peppered-moth caterpillar. In 1800s Europe, during the industrial revolution, light-colored moths evolved into a darker color after trees in their habitat darkened by the polluting soot. Today, due to rapid human changes to the environment, caterpillars can adapt even before they metamorphose into moths, mimicking the colour of the branches they inhabit.
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Little Warsaw
Jaali – Horizontal references religious practices in Hungary that were considered as a civil disobedience throughout the 1950s. In their text associated to the work the artists state: “My ancestors on my father’s side were rather elegant Hungarian noblemen—lots of churches, lots of religious education. My parents went to church as a form of civil resistance.
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Nandan Ghiya
The Chair (2012) foregrounds media-based tensions between analog and digital imaging technologies as a means of challenging the continued circulation of visual ephemera from India’s colonial past. A mix of found photographs and staged studio portraits deliberately made to look older, The Chair features multiple portraits of figures dressed in period costumes that reference the ornate fashions popular during Great Britain’s imperial rule of India. A hybrid frame wraps around this assemblage, a composite of variously ornate and simple wood finishes culled from disused and forgotten pictures.
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Diego Bianchi
Diego Bianchi’s main concern is distorting straight lines, both literally and metaphorically. To him, deviation is the only feasible strategy to allow the unexpected to happen, making space for semantic turns, impossible encounters, and dissolving binaries. The bodily dimension appears in his art both as disturbance of the senses and perception, and as research into processes of consumerism, oppression, decomposition, and destruction.
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Uche Okpa-Iroha
In the fictional narrative Plantation Boy (2012), Irhoa places himself inside imagery from Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal The Godfather (1972). Inflected with humor, the series examines race in society. According to the artist, the 40 images collectively question structures of power and the hegemony of Western culture.
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Bjorn Copeland
Sign #1 , Sign #2 , Sign #3 were included in “Found Object Assembly”, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. These rather austere collages were created by simply cutting and inverting the text from existing information signs. In Sign #2 , for example, the original image that presumably carried the message “NO RIDERS” was placed upside down.
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Miljohn Ruperto
Miljohn Ruperto’s high-definition video Janus takes its name from the two-faced Roman god of duality and transitions, of beginnings and endings, gates and doorways. He is usually depicted with two faces as he looks both forward and backward, to the future and the past. The video, which is deftly animated in collaboration with Aimée de Jongh, presents a close-up of a dying “duck-rabbit,” a vivified version of an ambiguous illustration made popular by the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations .
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Rebecca Quaytman
R. H. Quaytman’s family on her father’s side is of Jewish heritage from Poland. In the summer of 2016, Quaytman traveled to Poland to research an upcoming retrospective exhibition taking place in Warsaw and ?ódz, the town from which her great-grandfather emigrated to the United States. Tracing her grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s origins, Phocis Pole is from a series of paintings that explores her paternal lineage.
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Maria Bussman
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
The drawing “Heidegger’s Cabin” (2005) is inspired by Martin Heidegger’s essay, “The Origin of the Work of Art.” During the artist’s stay in a high alpine area, near a lake reservoir, Bussmann related the landscape in her surroundings to her reading of Heidegger’s terms on the work of art and the meaning of a “thing.” In attempt to link spiritual heights to natural heights, Bussmann metaphorically relates the subjects of being and truth to a hiking path, and its different degrees of challenge and risk. In the drawings rather than finding the optimal path to reach ultimate meaning and materialization, Bussmann never arrives at “Heidegger’s Cabin,” and instead is led off the beaten track to areas she never discovered before. Upon her return from the mountains in 2004 and 2005, she continued to develop the series, leading up to 20 drawings on handmade paper that attempt to problematize Heidegger’s theory on artworks as “things” as bearers of traits, “things” confronting the world of perception, and “things” as formed matter.
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Guan Xiao
David is a five-minute pseudo music video that features an upbeat melodic soundtrack with a duet by the artist Guan Xiao and frequent collaborator (and KADIST collection) artist Yu Honglei. Three screens display a collection of home videos filmed and uploaded by tourists at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence capturing Michelangelo’s eponymous masterpiece. The mass popularity and commodification of this artwork is further exaggerated with the numerous forms that we encounter and consume the image or likeness of the sculpture in our daily lives.
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Harm van den Dorpel
Indiscreet Units by Harm van den Dorpel is a group of more than 266 hue-rotating flags, stored on the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. This is a project about the indeterminacy of color, and that variability as a metaphor for larger social and political forces. Each NFT in the series is the official flag design for nations (and related entities) around the world.
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Andrew Norman Wilson
In Andrew Norman Wilson’s work Kodak the artist uses computer-generated imagery to create narratives that question the reliability of images in the age of post-production. The artist creates disturbances in typical notions of time and space to highlight the existential terror of humans trying to make sense of their memories and perception in the 21st century. On its surface, Kodak questions how improvements in digital imagery have affected the analog film industry, but it also showcases the consequences for how humans relate to their memories.
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Nontawat Numbenchapol
The series of prints titled Mr. Shadow by Nontawat Numbenchapol engages with the history of and current state of militarization in Thailand. Each print features an invisible person, their silhouette only outlined by the military fatigues that they wear.
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Nontawat Numbenchapol
The series of prints titled Mr. Shadow by Nontawat Numbenchapol engages with the history of and current state of militarization in Thailand. Each print features an invisible person, their silhouette only outlined by the military fatigues that they wear.
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Nontawat Numbenchapol
The series of prints titled Mr. Shadow by Nontawat Numbenchapol engages with the history of and current state of militarization in Thailand. Each print features an invisible person, their silhouette only outlined by the military fatigues that they wear.
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Melvin Moti
“The Prisoner’s Cinema” is a phenomenon described in neurology as a hallucination, that appears after a prolonged absence of visual sensations. A blind screen of hallucinations forms itself on the eyes cut off from visual stimuli. The subject can see this projection, but fails to register these mental images, transforming it into an intimate and personal experience.
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Maya Watanabe
In Escenarios (Sceneries) Maya Watanabe films forgotten wastelands through a series of 360° camera movements that highlight the dramatism and visual richness of terrain that would be otherwise forgotten. Her choice to depict these lands is a reference to the devastated geography that now grips her Peru after decades of destruction from a grueling Civil War—the second largest internal conflict in the history of Latin America. Through the videos of this post-conflict territory she alludes at once to the sombre episode in Peru’s recent history, as well as her memory of it: fragmented and contused.
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Guan Xiao
Mixed clips from her collection of thousands of images found online, the three-channel video Weather Forecast is an inquiry into the necessity of a physical movement (a travel) for our identity to transform or change. The question “Why can’t we view Europe from a chair?” periodically punctuates the video, suggesting that a similar personal transformation could occur by experiencing a place through the Internet and staying in the same place. Few episodes appear, each being a transformation process in itself, either by correlation, juxtaposition, combinations of specific matters such as iconography, texts, landscapes, events.
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Barbara Bloom
In the 1980’s, while browsing Parisian fleamarkets, Barbara Bloom stumbled into an anonymous watercolor (dating to around 1960) in one of Paris’ fleamarkets, probably a study made by an interior designer for a bedroom. The artist found the image to be typically Parisian. The watercolor, framed under a mat made of cardboard, had color tests on its margin, elements that Bloom discovered when she raised it.
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Miljohn Ruperto
Miljohn Ruperto’s silent video work Appearance of Isabel Rosario Cooper is an archive of ghosts. The video’s title figure, a Filipina actress, vaudeville dancer and singer who played racialized, peripheral roles in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, flits in and out of a montage of scenes. Ruperto digitally modified the 16mm film by blurring the background and all of the figures in each scene except for Cooper herself.
Miljohn Ruperto
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1973
- gender: male
- nationality: Filipino and Danish
- home town: Manila, Philippines
Zanele Muholi
- year born: 1972
- gender: female
- nationality: South African
- home town: Umlazi, Durban, South Africa
Nontawat Numbenchapol
Nontawat Numbenchapol is primarily known as a film director and television screenwriter, widely recognized for his documentary work...
Douglas Gordon
- location: Berlin, Germany
- year born: 1966
- gender: male
- nationality: Scottish
- home town: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Mona Marzouk
Mona Marzouk is an artist whose practice is deeply rooted in a keen sense for architecture...
Gao Mingyan
Gao Mingyan produces video based-works that examine the political and epistemological violence of our contemporary moment...
Nguyen Trinh Thi
Nguyen Trinh Thi is a moving image pioneer, not only within the landscape of contemporary art in Vietnam, but also broader South East Asia...
Chen Chieh-Jen
- location: Taipei, Taiwan
- year born: 1960
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Taoyuan, Taiwan
The Atlas Group
The Atlas Group is a research and artistic project founded by Lebanese artist Walid Raad in 1999...
Guan Xiao
Guan Xiao is known for her videos composed primarily of found images and videos and her sculptures that explore the logic by which things relate to one another...
Chen Shaoxiong
- location: Beijing
- location: Guangzhou, China
- year born: 1962
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Rebecca Quaytman
In her work, Rebecca Quaytman displays great interest in the dissolution of the image...
Li Gang
Li Gang’s practice creates a meticulous and poetic balance between materiality and conceptuality...
Angela Su
Angela Su’s practice is derived from her two divergent backgrounds–she received a degree in biochemistry in Canada before pursuing visual arts...
Eduardo Navarro
Eduardo Navarro explores possible points of convergence between art and science, allocating special attention to the possibility of dialogue between natural forces and species...
Leila Weefur
Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and curator whose practice considers the complexities of phenomenological Blackness through video, installation, printmaking, and lecture-performances...
Barbara Bloom
Collector Barbara Bloom mixes autobiographical details, fictional narratives, and literary quotes...
Cao Shu
Cao Shu’s works span three-dimensional digital moving images, sound installation, and interactive games...
Vvzela Kook
Vvzela Kook works in multiple media, including AV, performance, theatre, computer graphics, 3D printing, and drawing, often combining recent technology with artistic imagination and skill to navigate and describe cityscapes, their memory, connections, and hidden cybernetic structures, playing both with human sensorial perception and narrative devices...
Andrew Norman Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist, curator, and filmmaker whose practice is mostly based in research and documentary...
Rudolf Polanszky
Rudolf Polanszky, who has been working since the 1980s, is a Viennese artist...
Kiran Subbaiah
Born in Sidpur and living in Bangalore, Kiran Subbaiah works in a variety of media that includes assemblage, video and internet art after initial training as a sculptor...
Thu Van Tran
Thu Van Tran grew up in the paradox of the dismantlement of the French colonial empire in Vietnam...
TU Pei-Shih
Taiwanese artist Pei-Shih Tu makes animated videos using stop motion, cutting, pasting, and collaging...
Leelee Chan
Working in sculpture, Leelee Chan’s visual vocabulary reflects her subjective experience of the extreme urbanization in Hong Kong by proposing a dialogue between concrete materiality, found in heavy industry, and poetics found in ceramics, and its cultural archaeology in millinery Chinese history...
Bady Dalloul
Bady Dalloul cunningly employs collage across various media: texts, drawings, video, and objects to produce powerful works commenting on the past and the present...
Andrew Ekins
Andrew Ekins’ work frequently deals with waste and recycling, using discarded materials to make something new...
Nicoline van Harskamp
The work of Nicoline van Harskamp addresses the function and power of the spoken word, and its ability to influence perception and shape thought, both of which are instrumental to politics...
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this quarter (04/04/2024)
© 2023 All rights reserved - The Eye of Photography Art Paris 2023 Champ-de-Mars © Marc Domage Art Paris 2023 - Almine Rech Art Paris 2023 - Galerie Dina Vierny Art Paris 2023 - Galerie Zlotowksi Art Paris 2023 - Vue École militaire 1 The 26th edition of Art Paris 2024 will be held from April 4 to 7 at the Grand Palais Éphémère...
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about 3 months ago (02/11/2024)
Streaming: the best films about artists | Movies | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation From left: Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli's ‘unabashedly gorgeous' Lust For Life (1956); ‘raw, restless' Jeffrey Wright in Julian Schnabel's Basquiat (1996); the Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint in Halina Ryschka's documentary Beyond the Visible (2019)...
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about 4 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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about 4 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 4 months ago (02/03/2024)
Ojuelegba Comes Alive in Emeka Ogboh's Multisensory Installation - Artcentron Home » Ojuelegba Comes Alive in Emeka Ogboh’s Multisensory Installation ART Feb 3, 2024 Ξ Leave a comment Ojuelegba Comes Alive in Emeka Ogboh’s Multisensory Installation posted by ARTCENTRON Emeka Ogboh, Ojuelegba 2023...
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about 4 months ago (01/23/2024)
United States Artists announces its 2024 fellows, including six for visual arts...
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about 5 months ago (01/04/2024)
Penn Hills artist takes top visual art spot in 'Envisioning a Just Pittsburgh' art contest | TribLIVE.com Art & Museums Penn Hills artist takes top visual art spot in 'Envisioning a Just Pittsburgh' art contest Patrick Varine Thursday, Jan...
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about 5 months ago (12/16/2023)
Aesthetica Magazine - Aesthetica Art Prize: Playing with Light Aesthetica Art Prize: Playing with Light In 1960s Los Angeles, members of the Light and Space movement – James Turrell, Mary Corse, Larry Bell, Helen Pashgian – were experimenting with how geometric space and radiant light could impact human perception...
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about 5 months ago (12/15/2023)
MAREUNROL’S solo exhibition “Fieldwork: Invisible exercises” at Riga Art Space – A Shaded View on Fashion Dear Shaded Viewers, In a celebration of sensory experiences and the undulating narrative of creation, the fashion and art duo MAREUNROL’S presents “Fieldwork: Invisible exercises” at Riga Art Space’s Grand Hall...
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about 6 months ago (12/12/2023)
Laura Lamiel — Ursule — Marcelle Alix Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Laura Lamiel — Ursule — Marcelle Alix Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Laura Lamiel — Ursule Exhibition Installation, sculpture Laura Lamiel, Ursule (2), 2023 — Vue de l’exposition Ursule, 2023...
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about 6 months ago (12/09/2023)
Aesthetica Magazine - Aesthetica Art Prize: Picturing the Landscape Aesthetica Art Prize: Picturing the Landscape Humans have been inspired by nature for millenia...
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about 6 months ago (12/07/2023)
Apply for 2024 Visual Arts Residencies at Banff Centre Skip to content Amber Müller St...
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about 6 months ago (11/27/2023)
Morvarid K — This too Shall Pass — Bigaignon Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Morvarid K — This too Shall Pass — Bigaignon Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Morvarid K — This too Shall Pass Exhibition Photography Vue de l’exposition Morvarid K, This too Shall Pass, 2023 © D...
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about 6 months ago (11/22/2023)
Craig Kucia: machines to solve unsolvable problems at SHRINE Gallery, NYC (Review) - ArteFuse Craig Kucia: machines to solve unsolvable problems at SHRINE Gallery, NYC, 2023...
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about 6 months ago (11/17/2023)
‘The more art I see, the broader my perspective gets’: a visual artist’s week with the National Art Pass | Me and my National Art Pass | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Paid content About Paid content is paid for and controlled by an advertiser and produced by the Guardian Labs team...
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about 9 months ago (09/07/2023)
In The Studio With Jakub Kubica: Between Minimalist Design And Sci-Fi Archeology - IGNANT Name Jakub Kubica Images Clemens Poloczek Words Marie-Louise Schmidlin With a portfolio that spans minimalist furniture, functional design objects, and futuristic artworks, the practice of Jakub Kubica meets at the intersection of various disciplines...
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about 12 months ago (06/12/2023)
Displacement, Disconnection & Disruption: Alternate Perceptions of the Diasporic Experiences – Art and Cake June 12, 2023 June 15, 2023 Author Displacement, Disconnection & Disruption: Alternate Perceptions of the Diasporic Experiences Fatemeh Burnes “Wonderland” Displacement, Disconnection & Disruption: Alternate Perceptions of the Diasporic Experiences By Betty Ann Brown We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction...
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about 12 months ago (06/12/2023)
Displacement, Disconnection & Disruption: Alternate Perceptions of the Diasporic Experiences – Art and Cake June 12, 2023 June 15, 2023 Author Displacement, Disconnection & Disruption: Alternate Perceptions of the Diasporic Experiences Fatemeh Burnes “Wonderland” Displacement, Disconnection & Disruption: Alternate Perceptions of the Diasporic Experiences By Betty Ann Brown We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction...
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about 18 months ago (12/16/2022)
Moving Chains Will Hibernate for Winter, Starting December 19, 2022, Reopening to the Public Spring 2023 - Creative Time Moving Chains Will Hibernate for Winter, Starting December 19, 2022, Reopening to the Public Spring 2023 December 16th, 2022 Tweet Email Creative Time, Governors Island Arts, and Times Square Arts announce the planned seasonal pause of Charles Gaines’s Moving Chains , starting December 19, 2022...
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about 20 months ago (10/05/2022)
Betting Big on Art: Can Las Vegas Philanthropists Succeed in Getting Their City a Museum? - via ARTNEWS...
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about 20 months ago (10/05/2022)
Art collector Anjali Jain feels a lot needs to be done in India for visual art...
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about 29 months ago (12/29/2021)
2021: Singapore Visual Arts at Year's End | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 29, 2021 By @sgmuseummemes (1,920 words, 5-minute read) Let’s face it, 2021 in Singapore sucked harder than 2020...
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about 47 months ago (07/30/2020)
Vietnam's visual arts and COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Nguyen Duc Phuong July 30, 2020 By Quyen Hoang (2,100 words, 8-minute read) On a rainy evening towards the end of May 2020, it seemed like Saigon’s most dapper guys and modish gals all flocked to Galerie Quynh...
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about 52 months ago (02/15/2020)
Leading art collectors put pressure on Balai Seni Visual Negara | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 15, 2020 by Kathy Rowland In a first for Malaysian art history, a Collectors’ Petition signed by 55 private art collectors have warned Balai Seni Visual Negara that they will no longer be lending works from their collection to Balai in future unless Balai reinstates pieces removed from Ahmad Fuad Osman’s exhibition immediately ...
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about 54 months ago (12/31/2019)
The top ArtsEquator articles of 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of Akanga Film Asia & Philipp Aldrup Photography December 31, 2019 Here’s a list of the top 10 ArtsEquator articles in 2019: Enter Stage Right: Tay Tong by Art sEquator “It is amazing how one’s identity is so associated with one’s job...
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about 59 months ago (08/01/2019)
"MAT" at Objectifs: Pluralisms, perceptions and podcast failings | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Zulkhairi's photo (right) by Racy Lim August 1, 2019 (3,747 words, 12 -minute read) Editor’s note: This is a transcript of a podcast recording which cannot be shared due to poor audio quality...
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about 62 months ago (04/23/2019)
The Beauty of Time and Image: “ST/LL” at SIFA 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles April 23, 2019 Seamlessly blending the digital image, live dance and a richly evocative music score, ST/LL is startlingly beautiful treat for the eyes and the ears...
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about 67 months ago (12/04/2018)
The following essay is the second in an occasional series featuring important but under-known writings by the painter Sargy Mann (1937- 2015)...
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about 69 months ago (10/09/2018)
the amana collection Exhibit 02: Asako Narahashi, Rika Noguchi, Tomoko Yoneda | Exhibition | IMA ONLINE the amana collection Exhibit 02: Asako Narahashi, Rika Noguchi, Tomoko Yoneda 9 October 2018 - 16 November 2018 IMA gallery TAGS Asako Narahashi Rika Noguchi Tomoko Yoneda IMA gallery Share Tomoko Yoneda, Gandhi’s Glasses - Viewing a note written on his “Day of silence” shortly before his death, 2003 On Seeing: A photograph does not show some thing...
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about 87 months ago (03/19/2017)
Dragoș Bădiță - Light Falls - The re:art Dragoș Bădiță – Light Falls From February 3rd to March 17th, 2017, Anca Poterașu Gallery presented the solo show Light Falls by Cluj-Napoca based artist Dragoș Bădiță, who is also co-coordinator of Lateral ArtSpace ...
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1980-1989
Ian Wallace
1986Wallace says of his Heroes in the Street series, “The street is the site, metaphorically as well as in actuality, of all the forces of society and economics imploded upon the individual, who, moving within the dense forest of symbols of the modern city, can achieve the status of the heroic.” The hero in Study for my Heroes in the Street (Stan) is the photoconceptual artist Stan Douglas, who is depicted here (and also included in the Kadist Collection) as an archetypal figure restlessly drifting the streets of the modern world...
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1990-1999
The Atlas Group
1991This image is an extract from a notebook in the archives of doctor Fakhouri that lists the cars that have been used for bombs between 1975 and 1991...
Douglas Gordon
1996In Monster (1996-97), the artist’s face becomes grotesque through the application of strips of transparent adhesive tape, typical of Gordon’s performance-based films that often depict his own body in action...
The Atlas Group
1996It is a little known fact that Lebanese historians were also gamblers during the war...
Barbara Bloom
1997In the 1980’s, while browsing Parisian fleamarkets, Barbara Bloom stumbled into an anonymous watercolor (dating to around 1960) in one of Paris’ fleamarkets, probably a study made by an interior designer for a bedroom...
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2000-2009
Douglas Gordon
2002Blind Spencer is part of the series “Blind Stars” including hundreds of works in which the artist cut out the eyes of Hollywood stars, in a symbolically violent manner...
Kiran Subbaiah
2003Flight Rehearsals focuses on Subbaiah’s desire to fly as a means to highlight the relationship between human ambition and limitations of the physical world...
Alain Séchas
2003A cat, standing like a human being, is looking at us with round and dazed eyes and holds a gun...
Douglas Gordon
2004Douglas Gordon’s single-channel video The Left Hand Can’t See That The Right Hand is Blind, captures an unfolding scene between two hands in leather gloves—at first seemingly comfortable to be entwined, and later, engaged in a struggle...
Michel François
Drawing & Print
2004(Drawing & Print) In Michel François’s work, « it is the real, physical and emotional experience that stimulates creation which is therefore highly charged with a vital force...
Maria Bussman
Drawing & Print
2005(Drawing & Print) The drawing “Heidegger’s Cabin” (2005) is inspired by Martin Heidegger’s essay, “The Origin of the Work of Art.” During the artist’s stay in a high alpine area, near a lake reservoir, Bussmann related the landscape in her surroundings to her reading of Heidegger’s terms on the work of art and the meaning of a “thing.” In attempt to link spiritual heights to natural heights, Bussmann metaphorically relates the subjects of being and truth to a hiking path, and its different degrees of challenge and risk...
Rudolf Polanszky
2005Polanszky’s sculpture is made from raw, found materials that have the patina of age...
Carla Zaccagnini
2005This series of photographs, Sobre la igualdad y las diferencias: casas gemelas (On Equality and Differences: Twin Houses) , taken in Havana in 2005, belongs to a wider group of works that the artist has been developing over many years, generally titled Bifurcaciones y encrucijadas (Forking Paths and Crossroads) ...
Hiraki Sawa
2006Hako (2006) depicts a mysterious and dystopic landscape where the world becomes flat: distance between different spaces, depth of field and three-dimensional perceptions are canceled...
Chen Shaoxiong
2006After 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...
Tobias Rehberger
Drawing & Print
2007(Drawing & Print) 9’oclock (my time is not your time) pertains to a series consisting of three numbers: 5, 10 and 11 works were made for the exhibition “Signs and messages from modern life” at the Kate McGarry Gallery in 2007...
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...
Melvin Moti
2008“The Prisoner’s Cinema” is a phenomenon described in neurology as a hallucination, that appears after a prolonged absence of visual sensations...
Gao Mingyan
2008The television monitors utilized in the video installation Come On (2008) ostensibly serve as playback devices for a multi-channel installation of clips from blockbuster films as part of a larger commentary of mass entertainment and its relation to consumer cultures...
Nicoline van Harskamp
2008The work is a speech composed of excerpts from autobiographies of well-known political characters...
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...
Gao Mingyan
2008In City Golf (2008) the artist Gao Mingyan films himself playing 18 “holes” of golf throughout the mega-city of Shanghai...
Guillaume Leblon
2008Puits (“Wells”) is a circle made ??of raw earth elements, at the scale of Leblon’s hands...
Elisheva Biernoff
2009In her recent work, Biernoff is interested in investigating fictions and fantasies embedded in the remnants of consumer culture (for example magazines) or through ephemera such as postcards and old photographs...
Elisheva Biernoff
Drawing & Print
2009(Drawing & Print) Last Postcards is a series of three small double-sided paintings on plywood in which Biernoff imagines the last communications from explorers lost in the wilderness...
Bjorn Copeland
2009Sign #1 , Sign #2 , Sign #3 were included in “Found Object Assembly”, Copeland’s 2009 solo show at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco...
Miljohn Ruperto
2009Miljohn Ruperto’s silent video work Appearance of Isabel Rosario Cooper is an archive of ghosts...
Miljohn Ruperto
2009Acting Exercise: Demon Possession is a video by Miljohn Ruperto that addresses notions of performativity, the self, and collective truth...
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2010-2019
Chris Duncan
2010Taken from the title of the incredibly influential punk/hardcore record I AGAINST I by the Bad Brains, Untitled (blue) is an acrylic painting on reflective paper by Chris Duncan is part of a larger body of work titled EYE AGAINST I ...
Chen Chieh-Jen
2010Empire’s Borders II – Passage and Empire’s Borders II – Workers are from the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc...
Chen Chieh-Jen
2010Empire’s Borders II – Passage and Empire’s Borders II – Workers are from the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc...
Euan Macdonald
2010The video 9000 PIECES by Euan Macdonald was filmed at a musical instrument factory in Shanghai where 90 percent of the pianos that they manufacture are exported around the world, and only 10 percent are “finished” and can be labeled “Made in the US (or) Europe.” The video captures an intricate network of mechanisms as they interact with each other, their rhythmic movements resulting in an intense choreography and a cacophony of metallic sounds dramatized by Macdonald’s editing...
Laure Prouvost
2010In Stong Sory Vegetables , Laure Prouvost explains that she woke up one morning and that some vegetables had fallen from the sky on her bed, making a hole in her ceiling...
Angela Su
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) From afar, Chimeric Antibodies by Angela Su may look like scientific drawings or botanical illustrations...
Nandan Ghiya
2012The Chair (2012) foregrounds media-based tensions between analog and digital imaging technologies as a means of challenging the continued circulation of visual ephemera from India’s colonial past...
Uche Okpa-Iroha
2012In the fictional narrative Plantation Boy (2012), Irhoa places himself inside imagery from Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal The Godfather (1972)...
Miljohn Ruperto
2013Miljohn Ruperto’s high-definition video Janus takes its name from the two-faced Roman god of duality and transitions, of beginnings and endings, gates and doorways...
TU Pei-Shih
2013Making Fantasies animates scenes based upon photographs by Nan Goldin, Larry Sultan, Richard Billingham, Yasuyoshi Chiba and famous photojournalism images such as Jeff Widener’s photograph of Tiananmen Square and Kevin Carter’s photograph of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture...
Lin Ke
Drawing & Print
2013(Drawing & Print) Jet Folder & Data Tree (2013) offers a humorous take on how computer and screen-based technologies affect our relationship to the natural world...
Yu Honglei
2013Yu Honglei’s video and mixed media works riff on familiar motifs from the Western art historical canon and reimagine them through a playful but subversive culture jamming of their original meaning...
Toyin Ojih Odutola
2013Ojih Odutola uses a distinctive visual style to capture members of her family, rendering them one pen stroke at a time, until their skin resembles ribbons woven into the contours of a face, neck, or hand...
Nicolás Consuegra
2014Consuegra’s Colombia is a mirror made in the shape of the artist’s home country—a silhouette that has an important resonance for the artist...
Zanele Muholi
2014As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa...
Zanele Muholi
2014As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa...
Zanele Muholi
2014As a visual activist for the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LBGTQI), Muholi’s photographs radically transgress the conventional perception of lesbian and transgender communities in South Africa...
Little Warsaw
2014Jaali – Horizontal references religious practices in Hungary that were considered as a civil disobedience throughout the 1950s...
Maya Watanabe
2014In Escenarios (Sceneries) Maya Watanabe films forgotten wastelands through a series of 360° camera movements that highlight the dramatism and visual richness of terrain that would be otherwise forgotten...
Tomoko Kikuchi
2014The series Funerals under Neon Lights by Tomoko Kikuchi focuses on how transgender people’s ritual became a vital part of funerals in rural China...
Mona Marzouk
2014Trayvon is a series of acrylic paintings by Mona Marzouk that engages the courtroom as its points of departure...
Mona Marzouk
2014Trayvon is a series of acrylic paintings by Mona Marzouk that engages the courtroom as its points of departure...
Thu Van Tran
2014From Green to Orange is a series of silver films immersed in a bath of dye and rust...
Korakrit Arunanondchai
2017His untitled paintings express his concern regarding perception in abstract form...
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Advanced Technology
2018(Advanced Technology) The virtual reality work Aquaphobia by Jakob Kudsk Steensen examines it’s title subject matter – the fear of water...
Leila Weefur
2018Leila Weefur’s two-channel video installation Between Beauty & Horror focuses on the sensorial and somatic experiences that give Blackness a distinct and inherently racialized materiality...
Andrew Ekins
2018Butter Mountain is part of an ongoing series of works that combines a sense of painterly mass and substance with sculptural language to examine the synergy between a topographical landscape and a landscape of the human condition...
Leelee Chan
2019Blindfold Receptor (caterpillar-yellow) by Leelee Chan is inspired by the camouflaging nature of the peppered-moth caterpillar...
Diego Bianchi
2019Diego Bianchi’s main concern is distorting straight lines, both literally and metaphorically...
Andrew Norman Wilson
2019In Andrew Norman Wilson’s work Kodak the artist uses computer-generated imagery to create narratives that question the reliability of images in the age of post-production...
Nidhal Chamekh
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) Nos visages ( Our Faces ) continues Nidhal Chamekh’s research around visual souvenirs of figures of the past and the light they might shed on our contemporary era...
Vvzela Kook
2019Columbus of Horticulture stems from Vvzela Kook’s ongoing research into the central and often-ignored role that botany played in the history of European imperialism...
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...
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2020-2029
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...
Eduardo Navarro
2020The installation Breathspace by Eduardo Navarro encompasses all the content presented at the artist’s first solo exhibition, of the same name, at Gasworks, UK...
Nguyen Trinh Thi
2021The essay film How to Improve the World by Nguyen Trinh Thi takes us into an indigenous village of the Jrai people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, in Gia Lai province...
Neïl Beloufa
2021The short video Inside the Studio by Neïl Beloufa follows a humorous Toy Story -esque conversation between the artworks inside the artist’s studio...
Leticia Ramos
2021Leticia Ramos’s film DROPSPIKE is the second of a five-part film project entitled STORIES OF THE END OF THE WORLD ...
Yuyan Wang
2022One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Yuyan Wang reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception...
Harm van den Dorpel
2022Indiscreet Units by Harm van den Dorpel is a group of more than 266 hue-rotating flags, stored on the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS...
Bady Dalloul
2022With Inner Child , Bady Dalloul continues his ongoing reflection on migration and belonging, putting in balance levantine and Japanese histories...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
Ahmet Ögüt
2022Monuments of the Disclosed by Ahmet Ögüt is an NFT series of digital monuments to whistleblowers...
