Marc Swanson Work from his oeuvre. “Drawing variously on the traditions of Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, Kenneth Anger and Bruce Connor, Swanson’s work is an elaborate marriage of diverse materials and ideas. Swanson identifies chiefly as a sculptor, but he also makes films, photographs and complex installations… …Despite its diversity, Swanson’s body of […]
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Michele Abeles
Thursday, 9 August 2012
Michele Abeles Work from her oeuvre. Interview via Rhizome “Your Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: series makes inventive use of the male nude. Many of the images seem to have a humorous consciousness of the history of the female nude in painting and photography. Can you talk a little bit about your use of the male nude and the context in which you […]
Antoine Lefebvre
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Antoine Lefebvre Work from Base Camp at Bielefeld Kunstverein. “Artists Unlimited is pleased with the first exhibition with the cooperation initiative Bielefeld subculture. Antoine Lefebvre, our 80th Guest artist shows his work in the new number to place. The New York artist Antoine Lefebvre plays with targeted media and materials. Raised in the South of France, he lived for a […]
Max Stolkin
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Max Stolkin Work from his oeuvre. “I appreciate when a simple maneuver can transform a material, and thereby open up a situation in which that material discloses that it was never solely about its initial conditions. Through research we can come to recognize and execute those interventions. I dont see it as much about re-contextualizing […]
Deliquesce
Sunday, 22 July 2012
“Deliquesce” at Jonathan Viner, London “To deliquesce is to transition between solid and liquid states. This exhibition considers dissolution and loss of physicality, presenting five artists whose practices’ explore malleable states of image, body and material. Deliquesce looks at the space between a world of solid objects and bodies and a more diffuse and amorphous […]
Aaron Hegert
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Aaron Hegert Work from his oeuvre. “In my recent work I have been using photography to create a different kind of document. The photographs all employ some level of digital manipulation–certain elements are obscured, exaggerated, or augmented by a variety of techniques that add to, invert, composite, or double the images back on themselves–in order […]
Rachel de Joode
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Rachel de Joode Work from her oeuvre. “Rachel de Joode is a multimedia artist interested in processes of deconstruction and the abstraction of banal paraphernalia. Using material representations to explore social and cultural structures, she investigates the relationship between man and object, the contemporary and the historical, with a playful anthropological bent. de Joode is […]
Yola Monakhov
Friday, 13 July 2012
Yola Monakhov Work from Living Pictures. “The work takes its name from 19th century tableaux vivants, which staged living scenes suspended in time. But rather than freezing life into image, I pursue the impossibility of unfrozen life. Through collaborations with scientists, ecologists, growers, and other naturalists, I bring studio setups into the living environment. I engage […]
Facundo Pires
Monday, 9 July 2012
Facundo Pires Work from Into the Conquer of Inner Space. “I watch plants as they grow thorugh the cracks in human buildings, some across the remains of a rusty wheel, some aerial ones lean over high voltage cables; mushrooms and biological systems lying underground, seeming to express their inner worlds in the taking over external […]
David Raymond Conroy
Friday, 6 July 2012
David Raymond Conroy Work from Construction and Modification. “David Raymond Conroy brings together three works that have loss, removal and absence at their heart. Through editing, removal and reduction the pieces meditate on the relationship between unperceived labour and actualized product. Conroy presents an attempt to share experience through, and in acknowledgement of, the artwork’s […]