Blog Entry by Elizabeth Feder // March 30, 2011
You walk in, passed the proper galleries, through the narrow corridor until everything opens in an eruption…[view all images…]
Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Monday, March 28, 2011.
Throughout these paintings we see erasure, ruin, and mutilation. A structure is developed then knocked down. Something rises to importance, then erased away into the field. Through this process the surfaces become mutilated.
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Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Saturday, March 26, 2011.
Dahn Vo was born in Vietnam, grew up in Denmark, and is now based in Berlin. His photographs blend the everyday with the unusual, and the public with the private aspects of life.
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Blog Entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Sunday, March 20, 2011.
Based in Berlin, a temporary exhibition featuring Berlin artists, has ignited a furious debate about the promotion and funding of art in the city. The exhibition is slated for a June 2011 start, and über-curators Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, PS1), Christine Macel (Centre Pompidou) and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) will oversee it. An Open Call for participants was issued in October, and many artists chose to boycott it.
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Blog Entry by Adam Roche – in Berlin; Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
Examines the theme of love through the lenses of gender, probably as established and enforced since the 1979 islamic revolution in Iran. In her two- channel video work, Fervor, 2000, Neshat seems not only to highlight the frustration and helplessness of Iranian women in this paridigm, but also to demonstrate how the negative view of love within the revolutionary culture affects the natural human feelings.
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Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Monday, March 14, 2011.
“Chloe Piene touches the dimension of myth through a fascinated contemplation of the relationship between man and animal, or the existential questioning of the points where eroticism and apprehension of death meet.”
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