Suga Kishio Work from his oeuvre. “The term Mono-ha, which translates roughly as “school of things,” refers to a group of artists working in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s who developed a radically elemental language, combining natural and industrial materials in a manner that echoed aspects of Western Minimalism and Arte […]
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Carla Scott Fullerton
Monday, 18 November 2013
Carla Scott Fullerton Work from her oeuvre. “Carla Scott Fullerton is deeply engaged with sculpture, investigating materials process involved in construction and deconstruction, those being old and new. She questions how forms and formless structures sit together, juxtaposing material forms through processes and playing with shapes that relate to architecture. She works with heavy industrial […]
Hannah Levy
Monday, 11 November 2013
Hannah Levy Work from her oeuvre. “Artist Hannah Levy uses the term “design purgatory” to describe these overlooked objects, cursed to live below the radar and gaze of their human creators. Levy finds herself attracted to forms that, once removed from their intended environs and functions, begin to lose the human conditioning that initially defines […]
Laine Godsey
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Laine Godsey Work from Pruning Tips. “The pleasure in Godsey’s work lies in the sensation of losing my sense of the outer boundary of my body in relation to the figures she creates. It is like viewing my pink, internal ductwork in a sun-lit, public space. As I write this, I am embarrassed that I […]
Laurie Kang
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Laurie Kang Work from her oeuvre. “Laurie Kang works in photography, collage, sculpture and installation. Drawing from her personal female narrative, she uses sensitive materials to mine embedded social hierarchies and structures of power. ” – Laurie Kang
Ryan Gander
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Ryan Gander Work from “Make Every Show Like It’s Your Last” at Frac île-de-France / Le Plateau “The FRAC Ile-de-France/Le Plateau is presenting Make Every Show Like It’s Your Last, the first solo exhibition of the British artist Ryan Gander in a Paris institution. Making the most of an extremely effusive imagination, Ryan Gander does his […]
Quayola
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Quayola Work from Captives (1) “Captives is an ongoing series of digital and physical sculptures, a contemporary interpretation of Michelangelo’s unfinished series “Prigioni” (1513-1534) and his technique of “non-finito”. The work explores the tension and equilibrium between form and matter, man-made objects of perfection and complex, chaotic forms of nature. Whilst referencing Renaissance sculptures, the focus of this […]
Alex Fischer
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Alex Fischer Work from Dry Pixels and Wet Molecules at O’Born Contemporary. “Alex Fischer’s latest body of work counter-poses the primordial origins of biology against today’s dominant technology-based vernacular. In earnest, the artist acknowledges through his practice elements peculiar to the time of his being. Put in alternative terms, Fischer concedes that the acts of […]
Rana Begum
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Rana Begum Work from Manifold at Christian Lethert. “We are very delighted to present Manifold, Rana Begum’s first solo-exhibition in Cologne. The London-based artist is exhibiting a new body of work comprised solely of white folded steel sheets, which originate from studies in paper. The vivid colours that Begum applies on the back of the […]
Ryan Estep
Monday, 14 October 2013
Ryan Estep Work from his oeuvre. “Rooted in the latent content of materials, my current body of work examines the phenomena of touch and it’s diverse relationship between labor and value. Between the affect of construction work and art handling my practice explores various modes of touch through objects and audience. Materials such as heat […]