Archives for the Month of January, 2012

Markéta Othová

Markéta Othová Work from her oeuvre. “Marketa Othova’s large-scale black-and-white photographs are exhibited as suites of images that create a lyrical narrative of nomadism, charting her travels between her native Prague and cities beyond. They are captured moments of transit: a glance from the window of a car or a train or a moment caught […]

Amalia Pica

Amalia Pica Work from her oeuvre “When the term “romantic conceptualism” reached its apotheosis several years ago, the touchstone appeared, almost unanimously, to be Bas Jan Ader’s I’m Too Sad to Tell You (1971). Gushing affect, it also self-reflexively performed the romantic artist’s predicament: the subjectivity romanticism gives license to profess proves, alas, incommunicable. Consistently […]

Eric Fleischauer

Eric Fleischauer Work from his oeuvre. “Working mainly in video and sculpture with drawings, photographs, websites, artist books, and curated projects surfacing from the concepts that guide his work, Eric Fleischauer uses these various forms to investigate the position(s) and influence(s) that technology holds in society on both the individual and cultural level. … Fleischauer […]

André Hemstedt & Tine Reimer

André Hemstedt & Tine Reimer Work from Konstruktion von Bewegung (Construction of Movement) “On the actions and perceptions of people in an equilibrium system Denotes the equilibrium state, the balance in the forces acting on a system with each other. This state remains stable as long as he is not disturbed by external influences. The […]

Sebastien Verdon

Sebastien Verdon Work from Out of Space @ Polyforum Siqueiros. “The artist draws on current expectations, general paralysis, creativity and inspiration from which a great instinct for transforming the contemporary melancholy humor singular, that is neither cynical nor just absurd. A job that tends to capture the indeterminate, an aesthetic that seeks ambiguity in games […]

Timur Si-Qin

Timur Si-Qin Work from Legend at Fluxia. “For the project presented at Fluxia, Si-Qin activates the narrative potential surrounding the gallery by traveling to Oria, the hometown of Valentina, one of the gallerists. There he meets her father, Ennio, a medieval reenactment hobbyist, and proceeds to shoot a video of the gallerists (Valentina and Angelica) […]

Simon Dybbroe Møller

Simon Dybbroe Møller From Hello at Fondazione Giuliani. Press release below. _________ Hello, has a certain non-word-ness about it. It feels more like sound and less like communication of meaning than most words. When Thomas Edison discovered the principle of recorded sound, the first word he yelled into the machine was ‘halloo’. Hello is the […]

Philippe Ramette

Phillipe Ramette Work from is oeuvre “Philippe Ramette has always appeared to me as a kind of flying saucer in the contested landscape of contemporary art. Just consider the generation of artists who began to show their work in the nineties: his remove is evident, both in terms of formal resources and in the nature of his […]

Mysterious Structures in China’s Gobi Desert

Mysterious Structures in China’s Gobi Desert “These images show mysterious compositions and structures which seem to be a kind of paintings (not sure if it’s painting), and installations over the Earth, they are exactly in the Gobi Desert, China. They were found the last month at Google Maps. See more; “It turns out that they […]

Julian Oliver

Julian Oliver work from Föhnseher “Föhnseher rises from the scrap heap of analog TV. Unlike other televisions, Föhnseher captures and displays images downloaded by people on surrounding local wireless networks. Other people’s phones, laptops and tablet computers all become broadcast stations for this device, replacing the forgotten television towers of old. The name föhnseher derives from fernseher, the German […]