Billie Zangewa Work from her oeuvre. “Billie Zangewa’s background is as an engaged artist. A golden-fingered embroiderer, she has gradually garnered recognition on the African and international art scene. Her autobiographical works skilfully combine personal experience with universal subjects, from the hustle and bustle of urban megalopolises to ordinary activities in the life of a […]
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Amanda Curreri
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Amanda Curreri Work from COUNTRY HOUSE_ at Romer Young Gallery. “Curreri currently resides in a purple state in a city imprinted with the socio-geography of American racism. Cincinnati, OH is nestled along the Ohio River, which in antebellum times signified the dividing line between the North and South. Teaching and making art in this context […]
Safety Net
Friday, 18 December 2015
Safety Net @ Erratum Galerie. “‘Safety Net’ – a juxtaposed term hinting at feeling safe inside a net, waiting for those who hold the strings to play out their next moves – is the title of Erratum Galerie’s show. The term might apply to characters that make up this exhibition too; as they all come […]
Justin Morin
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Justin Morin Work from Q10 at Galerie Jeanrochdard. “What could these initials possibly stand for? Are they geographical coordinates? Is it a mobile phone model? Or a secret code? It is in fact a chemical term designating a coenzyme that acts like a vitamin inside an organism and activates the energy production on a cellular […]
Sonia Delaunay
Sunday, 11 August 2013
Sonia Delaunay From top to bottom: Blanket (1911), Solar Prism (1914), Electric Prisms (1914), Rhythm (1945) “A world of color would be ideal, where one could create emotions accordingly. We could live by impressions the way a blind man lives by touch. We could vivify or seduce, transmute or emote, the possibilities are endless. A world of color so fine and […]
Agostino Bonalumi
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Agostino Bonalumi Work from his oeuvre. “Agostino Bonalumi (1935) created works, which are strongly determined by geometrical shapes. His attempt at breaking up these stiff shapesled him to a freedom of movement of the included objects. Monochrome works appeared, whose ridges and troughs are marked by wires attached on the back. The compact structures of the […]
Olaf Nicolai
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Olaf Nicolai Work from his oeuvre. “Nicolai combines art with observations on markets and materialism, with memories and archive material, with relational aesthetics, and with scenes from everyday life. He creates artificial landscapes and urban scenes, augments consumer goods into gargantuan items, and works with distorted advertising art. Thus, familiar images are put in new […]
Nina Beier
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Nina Beier Work from her exhibition at Standard (Oslo). “STANDARD (OSLO) is proud to announce its frst solo exhibition with Berlin-based artist Nina Beier. Entitled “Bleeding Clothes, Drowning Coins”, the exhibition is comprised of framed works and sculptures from her recent series, “Portrait Mode” and “The Demonstrators”. Making the claim that one must kill an […]
Stéphanie Baechler
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Stéphanie Baechler Work from FABRIC Project. “Starting point for my project are formations, shapes and material combinations that result from the rather accidental than conscious every day actions of human life. I was inspired by curtains, fabric pleats, plastic bags, fabrics that happened to be spread on the floor, wrapped objects and creased blankets. The sheer […]
Erik Dalzen
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Erik Dalzen Work from Some Things. Dalzen has work from Some Things in a show at Guild Gallery II in NYC opening Thursday (6:00 – 7:30 @ 119 9th Avenue / NYC). “Photography often features the usage of an illusionary background creating a setting devoid of planar divisions manifest by a seamless background or skype. Comparable […]