ANNOUNCEMENTS
Perrotin
January 18, 2019
JR at Perrotin Seoul
Perrotin Seoul is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in South Korea by the artist JR (b. 1983). An autodidact, JR’s reputation has grown over the past fifteen years thanks to his monumental photographic collages which have filled urban and natural landscapes around the world. Through his work, the artist has turned the spotlight on places which we customarily ignore, paying attention to everyday people, those who live in the shadows,... continue reading
Quartz Studio
January 18, 2019
Astrid Svangren at Quartz Studio
Wednesday, January 23, 2019, at 6:30pm, Quartz Studio is pleased to present her spinning takes place near the mouth / I see what I eat / I eat what I see / It is an eating that is about risk, the first solo show in Italy by the Swedish artist Astrid Svangren (Göteborg, Sweden, 1972), drafted by the Danish curator Nina Wöhlk. The site-specific installation conceived for Quartz Studio will seek to think through colour as a living entity.... continue reading
TOTAH
January 17, 2019
TOTAH presents Archie Rand: Misfits
TOTAH presents Misfits, an exhibition of works by Archie Rand, on view January 18 through February 17, 2019. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The 36 works included in Misfits depict portraits and ambiguous scenarios in the midst of unfolding. Each painting reaches for something beyond what is visible to the naked eye—a world of empathic imagination, comprising wonderment and joy as much as confusion and melancholy.... continue reading
REVIEWS
![View of Dineo Seshee Bopape's "〰️ [when spirituality was a baby]" at Collective, Edinburgh, 2018.](http://www.art-agenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Collective-Gallery-Dineo-Seshee-Bopape-6-322x230.jpg "Collective Gallery - Dineo Seshee Bopape -6")
At once named and unnamable, Dineo Seshee Bopape’s installation 〰️ gathers myriad references (astrology, classical sculpture, Afrodiasporic spiritual practices, the Anthropocene) and materials (soil and rocks, satin and spices, glass and plastic, charcoal, jute, feathers, clay). It weaves them together thrillingly, with gold wire, cotton thread, and lines scraped into... continue reading
On a late November Saturday morning in Tensta, a suburb 10 miles northwest of downtown Stockholm, a double-decker bus idled in the plaza of a shopping mall. People stood around drinking coffee and chatting. A woman wearing glasses and a hijab informed them in Arabic to board because the bus... continue reading
Seclusion, misanthropy, and asceticism came to my mind when I first saw the title of curator Samuel Leuenberger’s group show at Galeria Vera Cortês, featuring the work of four international artists. Contrary to my initial belief, however, the hermit crab does not get its name from being a loner but... continue reading
