SHOWS
Federico Luger Gallery
May 22, 2013
Igor Eškinja, Somewhere in East Europe, 2010. Lambda print on plexiglas, 120 x 200 cm, edition of 3+AP.
Federico Luger presents The Immigrants in Venice
Very few words have the representative power and the semantic density of the word immigrant. The artistic project The Immigrants, created by Federico Luger, takes this word as a point of departure, it starts exactly in this universe of sense that in a few letters delimitates a territory—as a frontier—and at the same time, it suggests a world-other, like a dream.... continue reading
Galerie Ernst Hilger
May 22, 2013
Simón Vega, 3rd World Sputnik, 2013. Installation with metal, aluminum, cloth, objects, light and sound, 140 x 180 x 550 cm (work in progress). Courtesy Galerie Ernst Hilger. © Galerie Ernst Hilger and the
artist.
Gallery Ernst Hilger at the 2013 Venice Biennale
The installation simulates a crash landing by a shabby, third-world parody of the Soviet Space Program's Sputnik satellite. Elaborated with found and cheap materials and objects, it is a humorous and colorful recreation based on the Vostok program's Korabl-Sputnik 5. The capsule includes sound, which is composed of recordings made on a popular marketplace in El Salvador. The work deals with the effects of the Cold War in El Salvador and... continue reading
Fri Art
May 22, 2013
The Testo Junkie series, 2013. Text by Beatriz Preciado, design by Lili Reynaud-Dewar. Poster, 50x70 cm.
Petunia at Fri Art
Feminist art and entertainment magazine Petunia, founded in 2009 by Valérie Chartrain, Dorothée Dupuis and Lili Reynaud-Dewar, has been invited to curate an exhibition at Fri Art, Fribourg (CH). Pro-Choice stems from the biography of Mary Shelley, one of the most prominent inventors of modern science fiction. Her political activism, insights on sexual freedom, radical unsettlement and continuous support of her partners' and friends'... 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
