Archives for posts tagged ‘conceptual’

Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace Work from Ian Wallace at Hauser & Wirth, London. “A poet of images, Ian Wallace explores the interplay between form and content, using photography as a vehicle for developing an avant-garde art that weds the strategies of conceptualism with the pictorial tropes of painting. In doing so since the late ’60s, he became […]

Idris Khan

Idris Khan Work from Overture at Sean Kelly, New York. “Overture will present over 25 new works exploring philosophical and theoretical ideas surrounding global displacement and conflict, demonstrating Khan’s profound interrogation into language and meaning over a wide array of media. Khan has developed a unique narrative drawing on diverse cultural sources including art, literature, […]

Shannon Ebner

Shannon Ebner Work from A Public Character at Sadie Coles HQ. “A PUBLIC CHARACTER is a newly commissioned work for ICA Miami, where Ebner’s solo exhibition of the same title is on view until 17 January. It centres on text culled by Ebner following research into Hudson Yard’s real estate project – a rezoning of […]

Nguyen Phuong Linh

Nguyen Phuong Linh Work from Sanctified Clouds. “Almost 200 small masses of Sanctified Clouds fly over the wall, foam beautifully and shine in a blue hue, the blue of peace, Oriental ceramics, and sacred mosaic paintings in Arabic temples. However, looking closely, we realize that these soft white are not clouds, but actually the masses […]

Naraphat Sakarthornsap

Naraphat Sakarthornsap Work from his oeuvre. “…In many of his works, Naraphat Sakarthornsap presents stories of inequality in the society and gender discrimination through photography and installation art, in which flowers play the leading roles. Many kinds of flowers that Naraphat uses usually comes with profound meanings. Those flowers have become the keys to finding […]

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Work from Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. @ Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. “Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s new body of work explores the image as a space of ellipsis, in which works’ affective and spatial intimacies exist on the threshold of the inexpressible. In these new photographs, images sometimes seem to separate out from […]

Anna Ostoya

Anna Ostoya Work from Autopis: Notes, Copies and Masterpieces. “The complexity of a lived historical reality inevitably gets simplified through representation. On this fulcrum, Ostoya’s art operates critically. She purposefully creates oppositional binaries from her source materials, manipulating history in order to show how malleable and complex (rather than predetermined and fixed) it is. This […]

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Joëlle Tuerlinckx Work from EL CASO DE L(A CASA) MUSEO(A). “The work of Joëlle Tuerlinckx (Brussels, Belgium, 1958) challenges us on such seemingly abstract issues as space and time, although translating these concerns into the viewer’s experience within the exhibition space and the temporalities it contains. By assuming and transforming the legacy of conceptual art, […]

Daniel Gustav Cramer

Daniel Gustav Cramer Work from 11 Works. ““A thing that we see at a certain point in time, a book that we read not only remains forever tied to whatever was around us, but also remains faithfully bound to the person we were at that time.” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time In his […]

Robert Morris

Robert Morris Work from his oeuvre. “Robert Morris (1931–2018) was one of the most influential figures in postwar American art. His extraordinarily versatile practice encompassed dance performance, minimalist sculpture, earthworks, drawing, painting, film, photography, collage, readymades and theoretical essays. Primarily based in New York City, the artist explored in his oeuvre the perception of objects, […]