Archives for the Month of May, 2013

Love is Still Colder Than Capital

Nicolas Ceccaldi, Than Hussein Clark, Vernon Price, Ken Okiishi, Megan Francis Sullivan Work from “Love is Still Colder Than Capital” at Matthew, Berlin “Love is colder than capital said René six years ago. Love is colder than death said Rainer a few decades earlier. And Kai sang in the last century: “Ich möchte mich so […]

Robert Morris

Robert Morris Work from his oeuvre. “Morris’s early sculpture tended to emphasize a banal repertoire of form and subject-matter, while attempting to investigate the role of language in artistic representation. Metered Bulb (1963; Jasper Johns priv. col., see 1971 exh. cat., p. 57), in which a working lightbulb is displayed with an electric company meter monotonously recording […]

The Jogging

The Jogging Work from “Soon” at Still House, New York. “For most, the trip to the Still House is a lengthy one, poetically punctuated at the end of Brooklyn’s Van Brunt Street by a view of the Statue of Liberty standing in the Hudson River. Upon congratulating yourself for completing an hour-long MTA commute, one […]

Chris Wiley

Chris Wiley Work from his oeuvre. “When looking at Chris Wiley’s photographs, two main things come to mind. One is you feel like you’re walking along at a particularly quite time of day in a suburban/urban area, noticing all the odd, mundane, but strangely beautiful detritus around the streets. Second is the Japanese concept of […]

Fleming Ove Bech

Fleming Ove Bech Work from his oeuvre. “Danish photographer Flemming Ove Bech’s images are satisfyingly simple. Taking a straightforward, sculptural approach to image making, Bech’s work combines unremarkable everyday components in a playful manner. Shapes and tones are flattened by the photographic plane and rendered in an oscillating palate of delicately muted pastel hues, and […]

Pierre Schwerzmann

Pierre Schwerzmann Work from “Two” at Skopia, Geneva. “At first glance, then, the eye is attracted by the vibrations of the light well at the centre of the painting. The immediate effect of these vibrations is to prevent the gaze from settling and to incite the body itself to start moving in order to adjust. […]

Eloise Hawser

Eloise Hawser Work from her oeuvre. “The level of sophistication in security and anti-theft devices forms the image of a socio-economic bracket, and there exist disparities between these devices from inner city East to West. As such, a great number of metal roller doors exist along the high streets of London’s East End. At first […]

Morten Andenæs

Morten Andenæs Work from his oeuvre. “Galleri Riis is pleased to present enclosed circuit, Morten Andenæs¹ second show with the gallery. It consists of 35 new photographic works from his ongoing project Regarding the Middle Class and can be viewed in opposition to his exhibition observance in 2011. Up til now, the works in this project have been marked by […]

Adam McEwen

Adam McEwen Work from his oeuvre. “Adam McEwen wrote actual obituaries for The Daily Telegraph in London before he ever turned the genre into artwork, writing obituaries for still living and breathing celebrities like Kate Moss and Jeff Koons (he’s done nine in total and has three more on the way). Seeing news in an […]

Zak Kitnick

Zak Kitnick Work from his exhibition at Clifton Benevento, New York “Once he started using store-bought industrial shelving to create highly ordered Neo-Minimalist sculptures, Zak Kitnick came into his own as an artist. In his latest show, he takes these materials and his compulsion to organize to ingenious new levels, by basing his works on […]