Press release: Each evening was the same ritualistic encounter while Shaan Syed was growing up: a prayer and absolute silence throughout the house. His father wanted his only son to have something of the Islamic culture by making him perform just one of the five daily prayers. “Maghrib” performed after sunset when the sky is
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Theis Wendt at Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg
Press release: Theis Wendt (b. 1981) is an innovative visual artist, who works with a spatial and installatoric mode of expression in his artistic practice. He explores the image as space, surface, mirage, meaning and communication, and he uses todays digital stream of images in interaction with the analogue image to create abstract, spatial images
Kelly Mark and Ken Nicol at u’s, Calgary
Press release: One artwork by Kelly Mark and one artwork by Ken Nicol. An exhibition organized by Micah Lexier in response to an invitation by Sean MacAlister for u’s. vitrine: Ken Nicol The Button I Pressed One Million Times Steel, analogue counter, video game button 3.75 x 3.75 x 2 inches 2009 drawer: Kelly Mark
Jens Kothe at Berthold Pott, Cologne
Press release: The Shape of Things Carina Bukuts Many call the process of globalization levelling. A mode in which universality between different cultures can arise – for instance in the form of a standardized measure. While the majority of the world’s population oriented themselves to their own, national and regional units of measurement until the
Anne-Lise Coste at Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Press release: Pliny the Elder’s account of the origin of painting is narrated in his Natural History (circa 77-79AD) as a consequence of an absence. He tells the story of the potter Butades of Corinth and how his daughter Kora drew a charcoal silhouette of her lover’s head on the wall, following the shadow projected
“Crisis of Masculinity” at Kunsthal Gent, Ghent
Press release: Crisis Of Masculinity is an installation consisting of an almost exact replica of the striking blue steel fence at Muscle Beach Venice, Los Angeles (USA). The work was manually assembled and constructed by both artists. Based on photographs and with the help of a friend who took measurements at the location in California,
Milena Rossignoli at White Noise Gallery, Rome
Press release: The limit of curvature is the instant prior to the breakage; pure tension suspended between maximum potential and immediate tear, both physical and emotional. The creative process of Milena Rossignoli heavily relies on intuition, as an act of resistance to the logical filters generated by knowledge. An investigation on the contraction and expansion
Julian Charrière and Julius von Bismarck at Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Press release: “You know these stone bridges, which are under protection.” “Yes.” “Well. We thought one of them should be blown up.” Ten years ago, Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière met while studying under Olafur Eliasson at Universität der Künste, Berlin. Since then they have been friends, sharing a studio. Since then they have
“The body as a centerpiece” at Supplement Projects, Miami
Press release: The body as a centerpiece is an exhibition hosted in a shared home and backyard. This domestic, private space is used as a lens through which the intricacies of identity, memory, and tradition can be explored. The exhibition seeks to export and amplify messages communicated by our bodies and how they relate to
Nika Neelova at Noire Gallery, Turin
Press release: Element by Noire Gallery is delighted to announce “Glyphs”, Nika Neelova’s latest solo exhibition, curated by Domenico de Chirico. A “glyph”, deriving from the ancient Greek γλύφω (glýphō), is originally a sign, carved or depicted representing an architectural embellishment made of a round or angular hallow, a straight or curvilinear line and, in
Hannah Perry at Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Press release: The Kunstverein in Hamburg is pleased to present the first institutional solo exhibition by British artist Hannah Perry in Germany. Perry’s artistic practice encompasses sculptures, installations, videos, and performances and often draws on her own memories and experience. By layering and superimposing various materials and content, she presents multiperspectival works that dissect the
Javier Arbizu at Ángeles Baños, Badajoz
Press release: An almost unreachable point of reference. As difficult as trying to reach the horizon, that always distant line. Or as trying to decipher the thoughts of the other, from which surprisingly we will never get to know its unfathomable depth. The unknown to be revealed. How to decode the work of an artist
Gilles Furtwängler at Alpina Huus x Arsenic, Lausanne
Press release: The expression “Un Peu Squeeze” was used by Elise Lammer to suggest a lack of time before a deadline, a rather typical situation when working on an art exhibition. A clumsy “frenglism” or “franglais”, the title conveys a sense of general confusion, not only through the misuse of an English word by a
“Discoteca Analitica” at FRI ART, Fribourg
Press release: Discoteca Analitica reassesses the emergence of multimedia experiments in the Sixties based on the range of early varieties of discotheque. The exhibition offers an immersive experience bringing together Californian counter-culture, pop and psychedelic movements, and pioneers of radical Italian architecture. It is based on unpublished archives and original works. They reveal how music,
Kim Hiorthøy at STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
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
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