SHOWS
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
The Third Line
June 19, 2013
Rana Begum, No.428, 2013. Paint on mirror-finish steel, 52 x 70 x 25 cm.
Rana Begum at The Third Line
The Third Line is pleased to present Rana Begum's third solo show in Dubai, No.10, exhibiting metal sculptures coated with vibrant colours that push the relationship between colour, form and three-dimensional space. Taking inspiration from urban order and disorder, Begum creates surfaces and planes that are luscious and seductive. The show includes wall-mounted folded metal works that vary in sizes. These are developed out of previous... continue reading
REVIEWS
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
Singing, dancing, crying, hugging—there has been much discussion over the past decade about how Jesper Just’s films critique codes of masculinity (particularly those established by Hollywood) by showing men doing “unmanly” things. In a hiatus from his androcentric—if critically so—worldview, the three films currently showing at Galerie Perrotin feature... continue reading
