SHOWS
Semiotext(e)
May 16, 2012
Animal Shelter Issue 2: Art, Sex, Literature
Semiotext(e) is pleased to announce Issue 2 of its occasional intellectual journal Animal Shelter, edited by Hedi El Kholti. Fleeting, ephemeral, nondigital, and nonhierarchical, Animal Shelter is, as Alex Gartenfeld wrote in Interview, "a loose collection of texts, sequenced like a mixtape"—focused yet eclectic. Gathered around a long conversation with philosopher Paul Virilio on "The Littoral as Final Frontier," conducted on the first day... continue reading
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
May 16, 2012
Michael Jones McKean, The Rainbow, 2011 (test).
Michael Jones McKean’s The Rainbow
Michael Jones McKean's The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms creates a simple but phenomenal visual event—a rainbow in the sky. The public artwork will produce temporary rainbows above the Bemis Center using the most elemental materials: sunlight and rainwater. Twice per day with clear sun, for 20 minutes each, a rainbow will appear above Bemis Center's downtown building. This commissioned artwork and exhibition... continue reading
Galeri Manâ
May 16, 2012
Taryn Simon, Exploding Warhead, Test Area C-80C, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 2007.
Taryn Simon
Galeri Manâ is pleased to announce Selections from Contraband and An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Taryn Simon's first solo exhibition in Istanbul between the dates 18 May to 30 June 2012. A selection of works from the artist's series Contraband and An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar will be on display. Taryn Simon is renowned internationally for her conceptual reach in photography that steps beyond simple... continue reading
REVIEWS
“Return to Noreturn” revisits Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s 2008 exhibition in the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern. The anterior references and influences that are often implicated in her works are therefore doubled here, incorporating not only the original exhibition, but also the triggers—personal, literary, historical, cultural—that informed it. Add to this... continue reading
Contingency and probability are long-standing conceptual interests for Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri. His 2011 exhibition at South London Gallery was titled “Before Contingency After the Fact,” for example. His current show at Sadie Coles is titled “Classical Symmetry, Historical Data, Subjective Judgement,” which, according to statistician David Spiegelhalter, are the... continue reading
Elad Lassry’s hometown exhibition on Smiley Drive, at David Kordansky’s warehouse gallery in Culver City, presents a spectrum of the artist’s rapidly diversifying practice. Most every component—from photos, to drawings, to sculptures, to architectural interventions—remains both cleverly engaged while also unreachably disjointed from each other. The overall effect is that... continue reading
