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…]
Article by Melissa King – in Berlin; Monday, Nov. 19, 2012.
Amongst the drizzle of a gray Saturday afternoon, a crowd gathers in anticipation of a public parade orchestrated by Italian artist Marinella Senatore. It begins with a handful of tap dancers taking their first percussive steps; and soon after, Auguststraße is alive with gypsy carnival music…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012.
As part of the European Month of Photography, Swedish Photography is exhibiting the work of Stockholm based photographer and photojournalist, Lars Tunbjörk. Exhibited over two adjoining spaces, his bleak documentary series Vinter was shot between 2004-07 and captures the bitter reality of the…[read on…]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 08, 2012.
The space is clean and white, minimally dressed. Seemingly empty frames hang on one of the walls. A black circle is drawn on each pane of glass. Initially, the purpose of the marking is unclear. Is it the price of the frame? A careless scribble? But at the center of the circle, rising to the surface of perception, is a miniscule speck…[read on…]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 01, 2012.
The vastness of space spills beyond the eye’s sight, beyond the photograph’s frame, beyond the body’s physical capacity for travel. Without a landmark, the space loses perspective meaning, expanding and contracting with no definite boundary points. There is nothing to suggest how large the given landscape is. Were you located in the space, you would find yourself…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Monday, Oct. 29, 2012.
Russian art collective AES+F is exhibiting for the first time in Germany their epic masterpiece The Trilogy at Martin Gropius Bau Gallery. Presented as an immersive large-scale installation over three rooms, Last Riot (2005-07), The Feast of Trimalchio (2009) and Allegoria Sacra (2011) are pictorial orgies that depict scenes of death, desire, catastrophe, consumption and international warfare…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Friday, Oct. 26, 2012.
Accessible to anyone with a computer and Internet connection, digital art has become a global experience, capable of liberating individuals from the elitist system of art production and consumption through its mass distribution and participatory models. Blurring the boundary between artist and viewer, collaboration and inclusive actions became key components at km temporaer last weekend, where curators…[read on…]
Article by Devon Caranicas – in Berlin; Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.
Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Grayson Cox draws on his printmaking background, two year sojourn in Tokyo and ergonomic design as inspiration for his sculptural and wall hanging work. Most recently, the artist’s solo The Water’s Fine at Gasser & Grunert in New York CIty embodied a more relational aesthetic through his inverted table top installation. Circular spaces of various sizes were removed from an installed wall-to-wall wooden form, forcing viewers to crouch…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill, photos by Jana Koschack – in Istanbul; Monday, Oct. 22, 2012.
The weekend of October 13th marked the opening of the first Istanbul Design Biennial in the Beyoğlu district of Turkey’s largest city. Working from the theme ‘Imperfection,’ the curators Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima developed two separate exhibitions highlighting over 100 projects by…[read on…]
Interview by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Friday, Oct. 19, 2012.
Sculptor Paolo Grassino (Turin, 1967) creates large-scale installations using industrial materials. Plastic piping, cargo pallets, latex and steel are marshalled to create landscapes and figures alluding to chaos and urban dystopia. Animals and humans are rendered in metal and black latex, robbed of their eyes, mouths and ears. Incorporating Arte Povera’s use of low or everyday materials and using a restricted monochromatic palette…[read on…]
Article by Adela Yawitz – in Berlin; Monday, Oct. 15, 2012.
Over the summer, the entrance level hall of KW Institute became a branch of the Occupy movement, getting dirtier, less museum-like and more Zuccoti-park-like as the Berlin Biennial went on. More confusing were the occupy Kassel tents, outside of the main hall of dOCUMENTA (13), where Wael Shawsky’s work was among the pieces on view. The visual effect of the two camps was almost identical, even…[read on…]
