Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.
Berlin based Dirk Bell’s latest exhibition at BQ, Schön und Gut features a motley collection of drawings, sculpture, painting, text, installation and found ready-made objects. The exhibition is a morass of romanticism and otherworldly mysticism; a fictional universe that revisits mythological creatures, symbolism, linguistic grid structures and gothic influences from Bell’s…[read on…]
Interview by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.
It’s that time again! The annual Berlin-based festival, the transmediale, is just around the corner! Focusing on presenting new media works that question the relations between technology, art, and society, the festival returns with the theme of Back When Pluto Was a Planet (BWPWAP)…[read on…]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jan. 08, 2013.
Appropriately, the old bell sits within a bell jar, muffled in glass, its ticking heard in a minute radius surrounding it. Taken outside of the body, here is the sound of the heart; here is the strange recollection of old school bells; the ringing of forgotten alarm clocks. The feelings are tender, the way memories are…[read on…]
Interview by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jan. 02, 2013.
The HomeBase project is an artist residency program based in Berlin, New York and Jerusalem. Siting itself in an “urban environment undergoing transitional changes” such as Pankow, the project aims to rise up to Modernism’s formative challenge of integrating art and life, utilizing the notion of ‘home’ and the domestic as a pivot to…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012.
Activating the gallery space with acrylic paint, cardboard, foil, plexiglass, paper, cellophane and enamel, Diana Sirianni’s exhibition at Figge von Rosen Galerie forms a vibrant aesthetic of abstract forms and shapes…[read on…]
Interview by Devon Caranicas – in Los Angeles; Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012.
Although currently based on the west coat, visual artist Cayetano Ferrer spent many of his formative years in Las Vegas, a metropolitan anomaly that continues to be a subject source for much of his work. Ferrer’s visual fascination with the city began as a teenager barring witness to the demolition of casinos along the…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012.
We all know that crowds spoil the viewing of art. Since the late 1960’s, we have see the various rises and falls of the blockbuster exhibition and there has been much debate in major…[read on…]
Interview by Elizabeth Feder – in San Francisco; Friday, Dec. 07, 2012.
As much art arguably should, Flemish artist Jan Van Oost’s work conjures up some complex and conflicting responses. Delicate and exquisite treatment of materiality used to render images and figures of morbidity draws one in with simultaneous curiosity and revulsion. Oost is speaking from another era, drawing his inspiration from the expressive energy of 19th century Belgian symbolists like Antoine Wiertz, Léon Spilliaert and…[read on…]
Article by Barbara Confino – in New York; Monday, Dec. 03, 2012.
Lee Friedlander’s double show at the Pace galleries offers an opportunity to look at his work from various viewpoints. His nudes, in particular, having been much commented upon by the critical community, seem to require less an appraisal of their merits qua photography and more an examination of their underlying sensibility and its implications for the wider culture. Unlike his European counterparts, Friedlander is at home with…[read on…]
Interview by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Monday, Nov. 26, 2012.
Obstacles stand in the way of sculptural production in India: lack of funding, class divisions in exhibition spaces, difficulties experienced by artists in obtaining documentation to go abroad. The Creative India Foundation, established in 2010 for the purpose of supporting art, artists, and the art scene in the country, is currently developing a large-scale sculpture park… [read on…]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012.
The washed out yellows and blues of barren deserts, the greying beige of airports and parking lots, electric spandex and torn cotton, empty streets and populated swimming pools. Linguistically, they are sentence fragments. Visually, they are photographs, spanning a time frame of almost four decades of America – America captured and portrayed in colour, in crime, in space, natural and built…[read on…]
