SHOWS
Madre Museum
June 20, 2013
Museo Madre presents summer programs and exhibitions
The exhibition, organized in collaboration with WIELS-Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, is the largest retrospective ever made, and the first in an Italian public institution, devoted to Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937), one of the pioneers and leading exponents of European Pop Art, whose artistic language combines Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Op Art, so offering a true epitome of the neo-avant-gardes of the second half of the 20th century.... continue reading
Faggionato
June 19, 2013
Suda Yoshihiro, Weeds, 2013. Painted on wood. © Yoshihiro Suda.
Suda Yoshihiro at Faggionato
The Faggionato Gallery is delighted to announce their forthcoming solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda. The exhibition, Suda Yoshihiro, showcases his hyperrealistic wooden sculptures of plants and flowers. The nature of the environment or gallery space is central to Suda’s creativity. For Suda, the sculptures are ‘interventions'; subtle additions to an existing space or display. Each sculpture is only half of the work of... continue reading
Art Paris Art Fair
June 19, 2013
Liu Bolin, Performance at Art Paris 2011. Courtesy Galerie Paris-Beijing.
Art Paris Art Fair 2014
From 27 to 30 March 2014, Art Paris Art Fair brings together some 144 international galleries at the Grand Palais, presenting a wide panorama of modern and contemporary art which also includes photography, design and art books. After Russia last year, China is guest of honour for the 2014 edition, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the recognition by France of the People's Republic of China.... continue reading
REVIEWS
A frustrated Berliner recently posited Wolfgang Tillmans to me as the only example of a truly successful youngish artist living and working in the city. This is, of course, ludicrously far from accurate, but as hyperbole it illustrates something telling about the aura of the young-at-heart photographer who has been... continue reading
Let me begin with a disclaimer and beg my readers to indulge the following attempt to parse the contents of my thoroughly art-addled skull. For the sheer quantity of said material that the brain within said skull has been exposed to over the past five days could and should starkly... continue reading
Art Basel is vast. It always is. But this year it’s larger than ever, with the site expanded by some 20%.(1) Consequently, Design Basel is now brought into the fold on Messeplatz and the Swiss Art Awards are around the corner but in an improved space. The Basel experience has... continue reading
