Archives for the Month of June, 2014

Paul Chan

Paul Chan “Selected Works” at Schaulager, Basel Work from , “For six months, Schaulager is presenting the art of Paul Chan, born in Hong Kong and based in New York. It is the most extensive exhibition ever of work by this artist, just 40 years old, who has already created a wide-ranging oeuvre that reveals […]

Fixed Variable

Fixed Variable at Hauser and Wirth. “Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present ‘Fixed Variable’, a group exhibition featuring works by Lucas Blalock, Ethan Greenbaum, John Houck, Matt Keegan, Josh Kolbo, Kate Steciw, Chris Wiley and Letha Wilson. ‘Fixed Variable’ looks at the work of eight artists who explore the tension between the photograph and […]

Daniel Everett

Daniel Everett Work from New Existence. “Daniel Everett embodies the current technological zeitgeist shared by post dot-com kids, the kids of the dot-com kids, and the relationship we have to our interconnectivity (the internet). His work is jaded, earnest, and self mocking at the same time.” – Beautiful/Decay

BIEN OU BIEN ?

BIEN OU BIEN ? at MonCHÉRI Featuring: Gabriele Beveridge, Aline Bouvy, Hamishi Farah, Mike Goldby, Manor Grunewald, Lucy Kim, Torben Ribe, Amanda Ross-Ho, Dominic Samsworth, and Michael Staniak. “Freedom – as defined by Max Stirner – to be truly such, cannot derive neither depend on a third-party concession. It should be solely the outcome of […]

DeWain Valentine

   DeWain Valentine Work from The Sensual Substance of the Sky “History is not a seamless string of dates that covers everything of significance that happens at a given date: there are plenty of holes and lacunae in the way history is written. From the mid-1940s to the 1970s, critical attention was mostly absorbed by what […]

Valentin Carron

Valentin Carron Work from his oeuvre. “Valentin Carron reproduced objects from his immediate surroundings: symbolically charged objects (sculptures, architectural fragments) taken from the reality of his region and its «landscape». Through the appropriation of cultural emblems or decorative ornaments from the vernacular culture, he questions the meaning of tradition and authenticity, the aesthetic concepts of […]

Federico Acal and Tom Volkaert

Federico Acal and Tom Volkaert Work from I sang, and thought I sang very well; but he just looked up into my face with a very quizzical expression at Hole Of The Fox. “We communicate, we navigate. We walk on the streets and see quizzical expressions. We smile back. We are just figures in the […]

Anne de Vries, Bastien Aubry, & Dimitri Broquard

Anne de Vries, Bastien Aubry, & Dimitri Broquard Work from FOLKLORE CONTEMPORAIN III @ SWG3 GALLERY “Folklore Contemporain III is an investigation into the folkloric heritages and the new folklores of the 2010’s, through the practices of Bastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard, based in Zurich and Anne de Vries, living in Berlin. This show addresses the works […]

Laura Owens

   Laura Owens Work from her oeuvre. “Laura Owens has worked in a dizzying array of styles—from crisp abstraction to moody landscape—delving enthusiastically into genre painting, vernacular pattern, and a kind of japonisme that is all the more potent in an age when decoration is often met with critical suspicion. Untitled shows Owens in full possession of […]

Nicolas Sassoon

Nicolas Sassoon Work from PANDORA. “Opening Times: Throughout your Opening Times residency, you’ll be creating new work under the title Pandora. Can you tell us what Pandora is or means to you? Nicolas Sassoon: Pandora is the name of the street where I’ve been living off and on for the last 4 years. When I […]