SHOWS
Kayne Griffin Corcoran
May 21, 2013
Photo courtesy of Kayne Griffin Corcoran.
James Turrell at Kayne Griffin Corcoran’s new Los Angeles space
Kayne Griffin Corcoran is pleased to announce the opening of its new space at 1201 South La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. In keeping with the partnership’s founding principle of collaboration, the building integrates major permanent elements conceived by acclaimed artist James Turrell including a "Skyspace," illumination of the skylights of the main galleries, and the courtyard environment. Turrell approached the project with the goal of... continue reading
TRIAD: Towards Regional Integration of Artistic Development
May 21, 2013
Marialuisa Tadei, Il Castello di Sole (detail, work in progress), 2013. Wood, silk, mosaics, polished steel panels, and sound, 280 x 280 x 470 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
TRIAD presents Marialuisa Tadei at the Venice Biennale
On the occasion of the 55th Venice Biennale, TRIAD is proud to support and present the works of the Italian artist Marialuisa Tadei at the Venice Pavilion, curated by Ewald Stastny. The combination of artists from the East and West invited to Stastny's Venice Pavilion responds in a contemporary language to the curator's concept of the pavilion housing works that are inspired by the Silk Map and concept of light and its historical and divine... continue reading
Cda-Projects
May 21, 2013
İpek Duben, LoveGame, 2001. Exhibition view, Retrospective: Artist's Books/ Installations: 1994-2008, Akbank Sanat. Courtesy of Cda-Projects and the artist.
Cda-Projects at Art Basel Hong Kong 2013
Cda-Projects is delighted to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong. İpek Duben, Zeren Göktan and Nazlı Eda Noyan are presenting works that invite the audience to actively engage with the facts and emotions surrounding domestic violence. With LoveBook (2001), İpek Duben bares witness to domestic violence by hand printing media representations of the crimes on stainless steel pages. LoveGame (2001) suggests an abandoned casino... continue reading
REVIEWS
The lust to be a “totalizing eye” immediately sprung to mind when walking into Gabriel Lester’s “The Secret Life of Cities.” It’s one of the key notions expressed in Michel de Certeau’s chapter “Walking in the City” that “the fiction of knowledge is related to [the] lust to be a... continue reading
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s and watched the Children’s Television Network/PBS educational series Sesame Street was subliminally prepared for the gamut of conceptualism in (contemporary) art. No character prepared one better than the “Mad Painter,” who popped up in the unlikeliest of places in his Chaplinesque bowler hat... continue reading
The traditional form of the novel, as we know it since the nineteenth century, seems oddly impervious to change. In comparison to the extraordinary evolutions undergone by art, very little has changed between today’s mainstream fiction and its Balzac, Austen, and James equivalents. Most of the novel’s purported evolutions have... continue reading
