In his first solo exhibit in the U.S., British sculptor Nick Hornby takes on the icons of his practice and pulls their works into the present with four new works. At the centre of Churner and Churner, New York, stands the outline of one of the most famous artworks in the world, Michelanglo’s David. The relaxed contrapposto of David – the apotheosis of the grand narrative of human perfectibility – moves to zero, having been extruded to a single point and balanced upright. Half a ton of 150 micron marble dust glued together balances on a tip that hovers just above the ground.
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Spaced In, Spaced Out
These artists are interested in the way their works inhabit the surrounding space, and the way their own bodies inform the dimensions and proportions of the sculpture.
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HE – Yap MAXXI 2013
He is a complex architectural garden made of a lawn, a big platform and a light volume suspended in front of the concrete walls of MAXXI’s galleries, created by the emerging architectures studio bam! from Turin, composed by Alberto Bottero, Valeria Bruni, Simona Della Rocca, Fabio Vignolo. The protagonist of the scene is the large suspended volume, which through its size, color, the recreational use of water and its shadow establishes an interaction with the museum outdoor spaces, receiving its resting places.
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Index – Art Basel
This week, the art world once again draws its attention to the Swiss Alps and gathers in beautiful Basel to find out what galleries from around the world have to offer, explore new talents at Satellite fairs such as Liste or Volta or even rediscover artists who might have faded away from the spotlight for a while.
Read moreEIGEN + ART Lab
The current exhibition at the EIGEN + ART Lab is showing different positions of three young international artists in the fields of painting, drawing, photography and installation. Isabelle Borges, featured in our current printed Issue, born in Brazil in 1966, describes in her abstract paintings the search after a space.
Read moreVenice, Biennale, Art!
As every second year, since 1895, the Venice Biennale reunites the art elite of the world and those who want to be part of it. Every time different, every time crazy, every time over-discussed, this 55th edition is a special one for many reasons. Starting with the climate that bummed everyone out, from the hostesses at the Giardini to the Sheik of Abu Dhabi, or the absolute record of participations, 138 artists from 38 countries.
Read moreTauba Auerbach – Tetrachroma
Tauba Auerbach is considered one of the most innovative painters of our time. Her work collapses traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content. Surface and the larger issues surrounding topology have been central concerns in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books.
Read moreDouble Effect?
In art class we learned a lot about artists. Gilbert and George inspired us to do our first stop trick video seven years ago. The work of directors like Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham and Spike Jones and the pleasure of experimenting with film inspired us to pursue the career that we are in right now.
Read moreCome and play with me
Today is the opening of the exhibition “Play – The Frivolous and the Serious“ at the me Collectors Room in Berlin. Curated by Philippa O’Driscoll and Anna-Antonia Stausberg. The exhibition is about the phenomenon of “playing” and is thus, the result of a collaboration between the Stiftung Olbricht and with two students of the MA programme Curating the Contemporary from the London Metropolitan University. Its the second time that the foundation invited young curators to let them curate a show with their works. This exhibition is part of Antonia Stausberg’s MA thesis. We interviewed her about the making of !
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In 9 TIMES PHILOSOPHY, Jorinde Voigt’s second solo exhibit at Klosterfelde, Berlin, the artist presents a new group of drawings based on philosophical and literary texts, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Prologue in Heaven” from Faust I, Epicurus’s “Letter to Menoeceus,” Wassily Kandinsky’s exchange of letters with Arnold Schönberg, works from Peter Sloterdijk, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Platon, Elias Canetti, and Paul Celan, and various “Haiku” from the most eminent Japanese poets.
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