Press release: Kim Hiorthøy is a man of principles. Kim reads. Kim has opinions. Kim thinks that contemporary art requires compromises to succeed. He might be right, but he may also opt out in favour of doing one or several other things instead. I can not. Kim is envious of me because I solely work
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Philip Seibel at Soyuz, Pescara
Press release: Objects from our daily lives, poor materials, objet trouvé, but also fetishes that, when contaminated with the cold rigor of artificial elements, lose their original functions to rediscover the generating power of their memory. Objects that become images, sculptures, experience, time and thus read in the present the signs of their own past.
David Casini at Car Drde, Bologna
Press release: On his second solo exhibition at the gallery, David Casini presents a series of unpublished sculptures on the theme of landscape. His native Tuscany is the centre of his world but instead of its panoramic views known all over the world he focuses on places where the gaze does not usually stop, the
“Tempo Elastico” at CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
Press release: Sunrays strain to pierce the thick layer of stratus covering the Swiss Plateau in these early weeks of the year. Soon it will be two o’clock in the afternoon and the large pic-ture window facing north lets in just enough light to make us hesitate about turning on the tubular lighting. At the
Vajiko Chachkhiani at Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto
“In his new exhibition at Scrap Metal in Toronto, his first in North America, the Tbilisi-based artist deconstructs the idea of home and belonging in various ways, going far beyond images of a literal house. They Kept Shadows Quiet (2018), the eponymous installation commissioned especially for this exhibition, consists of two “interrogation chambers” installed side
Guan Xiao at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Press release: Bonner Kunstverein announces a new exhibition by Guan Xiao. Working primarily in sculpture and video, Guan Xiao quotes from a broad range of cultural history that includes references to ancient Eastern and Western traditions as well as contemporary popular culture. Previous works have variously adopted The Statue of Liberty, Michelangelo’s ‘David’(c.1501) or the
Ernesto Burgos at The Goma, Madrid
Press release: Ernesto Burgos’ practise in recent years has been sustained on the production of three-dimensional works exploiting the malleability of cardboard, later coated in fiberglass and then covered with charcoal, oil and wax. The sculptures presented at this third exhibition at The Goma open up a new path within the artist’s output insofar as
Marco Maria Zanin at Marignana Arte, Venice
Press release: Arzanà is the name of a cultural Venetian association that for years has attended on the transmission of the nautical tradition in the lagoon and it is owner of a small museum into which numerous object are preserved, deposit of the past, shapes loaded with potential that staying in their magnificent disuse yearn
“appearing unannounced” at Rirkrit Tiravanija’s studio at Tambon Nam-bo-luang, Chiangmai
Opening : 17 November 2018, 3-6 pm / artists’ talk and barbecue. Book launch : ACS (Asian Culture Station) Chiangmai, Thailand date (TBC) Exhibition on view : 17 November 2018 – 17 March 2018 / 11am-5 pm or by appointment As a part of Painnale 2018, ‘appearing unannounced’ is a group exhibition based on the
“The Classics” at Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Press release: Galerie Fons Welters is known for programming young artists, often at the start of their career. In the meantime, the gallery has been around for almost 35 years. We have been working with several artists for more than 20 years, and in some cases even more than 25 years. These artists are embedded
Mercedes Azpilicueta at NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid
Press release: They say that History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The gestures we perform bear the echoes of histories, narratives and other expressions that precede us; we have to learn to read through their inner lignings to find traces of the past. That is what artist Lea Lublin proposed when she
Ricardo van Eyk at P/////AKT, Amsterdam
Press release: – A good pilot program provides a platform for the organization to test logistics, prove value and reveal deficiencies. Typically, a pilot program begins with a proposal that lists the objectives (…) and should also provide metrics for how success will be determined. – Serving as a prototype – This earlier sense pre-dated
Javier Rodríguez Lozano at Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
In this project Javier Rodríguez Lozano explores the pictorial potentialities of the doormats from the building he has been living in for the last 8 years. Doormats, daily ill-fated objects normally ignored, have strong symbolic and form traits that interest me: their minimalistic designs, tied to the symbolic; the body-language closed in their use; as
Jef Geys at NTU, Singapore
Press release: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore presents Quadra Medicinale Singapore, the late Belgian artist Jef Geys’s first institutional exhibition in Asia. Geys’s conceptual practice adopted an interdisciplinary and collaborative process of research and knowledge-formation, and was driven by his belief that art should be intertwined with the everyday. For Quadra Medicinale (2009), Geys
Michele Gabriele at Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence
Press release: The Eduardo Secci Gallery Project is pleased to inaugurate the artistic direction by Luca Pozzi and his itinerant platform SWAN STATION with the personal show featuring the works by Michele Gabriele titled “The Missing Link. On Every Point of a Sphere.” Michele Gabriele works in time, with time, and for time. He leads
Alicja Kwade at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Press release: The exhibition title Out of Ousia sets the tone for the emerging contemporary artist Alicja Kwade’s (b. 1979) first institutional solo exhibition in Denmark: With her poetic minimalism and powerful sculptures, the Polish-born artist has created an exhibition that questions science and social conventions. A vase created by the dust from a blended
Colin Penno & Raul Diaz Reyes at Osnova Gallery, Moscow
Press release: Etymological meaning of the word «Dapple» is «differing in color». Thus we should focus on the dialectic of the infinite visual work. What makes dapple a dapple is not a dapple itself, but it’s distinction from what surrounds it. From this point of view, art gesture (only exists as a result of other