Q&A with Marek Wolfryd Where are you from? Mexico City Where are you based? Mexico City Listening to Reggaeton What’s on your desk? A TV, a plant, rings, pens, papers, bank receipts, books, two computers Can’t live without Food Sunny or cloudy Cloudy, no rain How many tattoos you-ve got? Fifteen Currently reading Bruno…
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*Scroll down for English Irak Morales ¿De dónde eres? Soy del Estado de México aunque nací en el DF. ¿De qué parte del Estado de México? Tlanepantla ¿En dónde vives? Ahorita en la Colonia Buenos Aires, Ciudad de México ¿Qué estás escuchando? Ultimamente he estado escuchando a un rockero mexicano que se llama Rodrigo González …
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Tomás recomienda / Tomás recommends Libros / Books The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, Franco Bifo Berardi The Violence of Financial Capitalism, Christian Marazzi The Soul at Work, From Alienation to Autonomy, Franco “Bifo” Berardi Language and Reality, Vilém Flusser Into the Universe of Technical Images, Vilém Flusser Tierras en trance, Jens Andermann Notas sobre…
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Q&A with Jorge Rosano Gamboa Where are you from? Mexico City but I grew up in Tepoztlán Where are you based? Mexico City Listening to Visible Cloaks What’s on your desk? A plant, ink, papers, photographies, laptop In-flight gadget iPad with previously downloaded series. Can’t live without Beer Sunny or cloudy Cloudy How many tattoos…
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CAN’T TRAVEL WITHOUT:
I wish I could travel without my iPhone but is 2018.
INSPIRATION COMES FROM:
Everywhere, everyone and everything
*Scroll down for English YH: ¿Cuál es tu museo preferido en Nueva York? ASB: El Museo de Arte Metropolitano YH: ¿Cuál es la parte que más te gusta? ASB: Artes de África, Oceanía y América. YH: ¿Qué influencia ha tenido sobre tu trabajo esta sección del museo? ASB: Me encuentro trabajando con ideas en relación…
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Monday, June 11, 2018 6:30 pm Midtown, Manhattan, NY Tomás Díaz Cedeño (Mexico City, 1983) shares his NY favorites while in Residency Unlimited and PEANA New York Residency Program Park: Calvary Cemetery Store: Printed Matter Building: Met Breuer Exhibition: Marlene Dumas, Myths & Mortals Museum: New Museum Ice cream: Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain Nightclub: H0L0…
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Talking about Instagram
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Monday, May 21, 2018 9:30 am Colonia Roma, Mexico City Moscow, Wuppertal, Kasel, Hamburg, Berlin, London, Mexico City Polina Stroganova was born in Russia and is now based in Mexico City, after having lived in seven other cities, including four different countries. She was a member of the documenta12 Educational Department, Director of Crone’s satellite…
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*Scroll down for English El Museo Universitario de Ciencia y Arte (MUCA) presenta la exposición de Abraham Cruzvillegas Autorreconstrucción: Detritus. Para este proyecto el artista hizo una invitación a académicos, artistas y diferentes actores culturales a ocupar el espacio del MUCA para convertirlo en un taller artístico vivo, que utilice el principio de la autorreconstrucción como concepto…
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*Scroll down for English Viernes 11 de abril de 2018 1:24 pm Punto de reunión: Plaza Giordano Bruno 2.92 km recorridos Aleph recomienda: Libros Locus, Aura Penélope Cordova Micromégas, Voltaire El libro de arena, Jorge Luis Borges Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson Breve historia del futuro, Jacques Attali Hyperobjects, Timothy Morton Antropología del cerebro, Roger…
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DAILY ROUTINE:
Lemon water, yogurt, shower, social media, studio time.
*Scroll down for English Lulu se complace en presentar una exposición dual de Ella Krugylanskaya y Matt Paweski. Puede no ser el emparejamiento más obvio. Lo que las representaciones gestualmente libres de mujeres voluptuosas de Ella Krugylanskaya tienen que ver con las esculturas abstractas prodigiosamente precisas de Matt Paweski puede no ser inmediatamente aparente. Pero…
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*Scroll down for English 26 de marzo de 2018 4:30 en punto Roma Sur Música de fondo: A Tribe Called Quest Ramiro Chaves (Córdoba, Argentina, 1979) Vive y trabaja en la Ciudad de México Ramiro es extremadamente puntual, colecciona cámaras antigüas de placa y análogas Escucha música mientras trabaja y en cualquier otro momento…
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*Scroll down for English LXS BRUTXS 2015 ESTO SIRVE PARA LA INMORTALIDAD ENTRE OTRAS COSAS dos huevos fritos sobre una cuchara “Las metáforas son nuestra manera de perdernos en las apariencias o de quedarnos inmóviles en el mar de las apariencias.” Roberto bolaño “Ser equis tiene su origen en ser x en el sentido algebraico:…
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*Scroll down for English version kurimanzutto se complace en anunciar el regreso de Sarah Lucas a México, quien presenta su primera exposición individual en la galería después de haber exhibido NUDS en el Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli en 2012. La artista británica se caracteriza por un humor irreverente y la expresión visual de albures y eufemismos relativos…
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Memories of Underdevelopment examines a major paradigm shift in culture and the visual arts, characterized by the articulation of a counter-narrative to the rhetoric of developmentalism that resulted in early instances of decolonial thought in the artistic practices produced in the region between the early 1960s and the mid-1980s. During this period intellectuals and artists throughout…
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WHAT´S ON YOUR DESK: Random tools, used disposable gloves, paint tubes, books, cutting mat, printed textiles, and in general an organized mess
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Daiga Grantina has created a vast sculpture from a range of materials with varying qualities: hard and soft, transparent and opaque. Blended together in a strange and colourful landscape, each one of these materials has a role of its own in this organism that is playful, furious, confused, and a little ‘toll’ (the German term…
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Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, and John Neff present newly-commissioned and existing artworks that destabilize conventional approaches to education, economics, and the labor of artmaking. A series of public programs and workshops provides a critical component to the exhibition. Artists Space is an organization whose name discloses its foundational mission and…
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The four-handed piano is a specific form of piano playing: two performers play on the same instrument. This is exactly what happens when Morgane Tschiember plays with John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, and Douglas Gordon… They play in the same register, the same chord, the same vocabulary… When these pianists are on two different pianos, this is…
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*Scroll down for English version 9 de marzo de 2018 11:00 am Colonia Doctores Música de fondo: Drab Majesty Tomás Díaz Cedeño (Ciudad de México, 1983) Toma todas las mañanas café y un licuado de jengibre, avena, plátano, aceite de coco, polen, miel y amaranto. Frecuentemente va por un café y a trabajar a Farmacia Internacional…
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*Scroll down for English version Fecha: 7 de marzo de 2018 Hora: 1:30 pm Lugar: ARRÓNIZ Arte Contemporáneo Dirección: Tabasco 198 Roma Norte 06700 Ciudad de México Gustavo Arróniz fundador y director de ARRÓNIZ Come queso todos los días Es apasionado de la gastronomía Ama las hamburguesas, un buen vino y la cocina de…
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Impressions of Time is based on a selection of artworks and actions that explore ideas and processes originating in audiovisual production. This project explores the technical nature of cinematographic phenomena as well as ties to other artistic practices through two exhibitions, guided visits, project presentations, workshops, a projection session, a roundtable discussion and the publication of…
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For her first exhibition at kurimanzutto, Nairy Baghramian will present recent sculptures collectively titledMaintainers. Each work consists of three interdependent elements – raw aluminium casts, colored wax forms and lacquer painted braces. While presented in a disparate composition within the gallery space, all of the elements resonate with a visible correlation and an inherent potential…
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This exhibition of new works by Camel Collective combines elements of sculpture, video, photography, and painting to elaborate on the ghostly hauntings of invisible labor in theater and, by extension, in cultural production at large. In this scenario the labor is gendered—there are a lot of feminine hands. Some are represented while others leave their…
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The exhibition Carlos Amorales: Axioms for Action is conceived as a script and a list of works such that each institution and curator who presents it can stage and execute it differently. In this way, each venue will present an interpretation of the matrix of Amorales’s work, as well as a compendium of his oeuvre.…
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20 de febrero de 2018 Narvarte Poniente Música de fondo: Blink de Bad Gyal Ling Sepúlveda (1982 | Culiacán de Rosales, Sinaloa, México) Se despierta a las 6 am Colecciona obras relativamente pequeñas que le han regalado mujeres artistas Ama comer, la comida y … Los Tomateros Modelo Especial en botella y si no es Grupo…
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Curated by Andrew Berardini and Chris Sharp Artists: Yuji Agematsu, Kelly Akashi, Derya Akay, Nina Beier, Luis Miguel Bendaña,Meriem Bennani, Matthew Brannon, Donna Conlon & Jonathan Harker, Jef Geys, Rodrigo Hernandez, Allison Katz, Adriana Lara, Nancy Lupo, Nevine Mahmoud, Aliza Nisenbaum, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Shimabuku, Peter Shire, Gabriel Sierra, Erika Verzutti, Maja Vukoje & Amelie von Wulffen…
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Valentin Carron | b. 1977 in Martigny, Switzerland Valentin Carron is one of the important youngest-generation Swiss artists. In recent years Valentin Carron has emerged with an oeuvre that combines central traditions of contemporary art making and questions them in terms of their current meaning. In this way he includes approaches to appropriation in his work as…
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Vanessa Beecroft | b.1969 in Genoa, Italy Known mostly for the iconic assemblages of groups of women, for Pio Pico’s inaugural exhibition from 2nd December 2017 to 2nd March 2018, Vanessa Beecroft has been returning to the origins of her classical training, re-entering the studio and approaching the most traditional materials such as clay and plaster,…
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Regen Projects is pleased to debut The Modernist, Catherine Opie’s first film. This marks the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery. For over thirty years, Catherine Opie has captured often overlooked aspects of contemporary American life and culture. One of the most important photographers of her generation, her photographic subjects have included early seminal portraits…
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Carsten Nicolai | born 1965 in karl-marx-stadt, Germany he is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science. in his work he seeks to overcome the separation of the sensory perceptions of man by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequencies perceivable for both…
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The Mexico City-based poetry group Oa4s (shorthand for “On All Fours”) presents an exhibition of work on the spit-sharing spirit butterfly X, seen from the corner of one’s eye, the perceptual artifacts of imperceptible things, and cross-impregnation of essences. Text via My Art Guides Images: JuneJoonJaxx Lodos gallery Edificio Humboldt 116 Calle del Artículo 123 Int. 301 Colonia…
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Yoshua Okón: Colateral examines the video and multimedia work of Yoshua Okón, emphasizing how he has opened up various engagements with the social and political organization of groups active in a wide range of range of locations in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. If Okón’s earlier work emphasized certain stagings of the…
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Isa Melsheimer | born in Neuss 1968, Germany, lives and works in Berlin Known for her engagement with the history of architectural styles—especially the legacy of Modernism and 1950s–70s examples of concrete architecture—Isa Melsheimer’s works are expressions of her intense research as well as formal investigations. The artist acts as archeologist of often forgotten or…
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Manfred Pernice | b. 1963 in Hildesheim, Germany. Since the early 1990s, the Berlin-based artist has created sculptural vessels with scales, materials, and aesthetics derived from the worlds of architecture, shipping cargo, and mass packaging; these works serve as complex, open-ended meditations on the increased segmentation, containment, and, to use Pernice’s term, “canning” of…
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Isa Genzken | Born in 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Germany Isa Genzken’s works draw upon everyday material culture, including design, consumer goods, the media, architecture, and urban environments. Widely recognized for her significant, pioneering contribution to sculpture, Genzken’s prodigious oeuvre also includes paintings, collages, drawings, films, and photographs, and frequently incorporates seemingly disparate materials and imagery…
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Elizabeth Peyton | American, b. 1965, Danbury, Connecticut Elizabeth Peyton was a leader in contemporary painting’s return to figuration in the 1990s. Her modest-scale, jewel-like paintings show a deep knowledge of forebears from Édouard Manet and John Singer Sargent to Andy Warhol but are also intimately connected with the culture of late-20th-century America. Her portraits and drawings of friends, family, and personal…
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SQUASH VI: and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank Works and writing by: Iphgenia Baal, Joseph Grigely/Gregory Battcock, Caitlin Berrigan, Gerry Bibby, Chelsea Culprit, Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano, Kolbeinn Hugi, Dorothy Iannone, Frieda…
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Haegue Yang | 1971, Seoul In her work, Haegue Yang seeks to communicate without language, in a primordial and visual way. She often complements her vocabulary of visual abstraction with sensory experiences that include scent, sound, light and tactility. Combining industrial fabrication and folk craftsmanship, Yang explores the affective power of materials in destabilizing the distinction between the modern and pre-modern. Her practice extends…
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Tatiana Trouvé | b. 1968 in Cosenza, Italy. | Lives and works in Paris France. In disquieting, entropic mis–en–scenes, Tatiana Trouvé limns the boundaries between the mental and physical where material space and form converge with immaterial time and memory. Her situations combine intricate scenographic drawings, sculptures both linear and three–dimensional, and spaces that hint at…
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Bojan Šarčević | Bosnian-French, b. 1974, Belgrade, Serbia, based in Paris & Berlin Šarčević’s work reveals itself to be emphatically concerned with sculpture and space – their perception, as well as their social, political and poetic implications. Their alternating intense materiality or fragile ephemerality is presented alongside a number of his most recent films and…
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German, b. 1979, Velden, Germany, based in Berlin, Germany Michael Sailstorfer’s site-specific interventions emphasize transformation and challenge conventional rubrics of sculpture. He gives objects new meanings and functions by reconfiguring, though not deconstructing, them. Much of Sailstorfer’s work involves breaking down an object to reveal its physical components, as in the case of Zeit ist keine…
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Monica Bonvicini | Italian, b. 1965, Venice, Italy, based in Berlin, Germany Her multifaceted practice—which investigates the relationship between architecture, power, gender, space, surveillance and control—is translated into works that question the meaning of making art, the ambiguity of language, and the limits and possibilities attached to the ideal of freedom. Dry-humored, direct, and…
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/// WISH YOU HAD MORE TIME FOR: Everything
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/// IN-FLIGHT GADGET: Nicotine chewing gums
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A-Z West is located on over fifty acres in the California high desert next to Joshua Tree National Park. Since it’s inception A-Z West has functioned as an evolving testing grounds for living, in which spaces, objects and acts of living all intertwine as a single ongoing investigation into what it means to exist and…
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Photography by Nicolai Howalt (DK) Text by Torben Sangild Edited and designed by Études Studio Published by Études Books, Paris Image post production by Janvier First edition, 300 copies September 2012, printed in EU
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/// WHAT’S ON YOUR DESK: MacBook, iPhone, Fluticasonpropionat, a block of paper, tape-holder, scissors, pen, glue, and glasses.
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Alicja Kwade (b.1979, Poland) has long been engaged with value systems, and with attempting to examine (if not resolve) issues of inherently subjective concepts such as space and time. In her sculptures (as well as installations, photographs and films), Kwade occupies herself with the structural properties of everyday objects. Common materials of little to no…
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/// GUILTY PLEASURE: Junk food
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/// HOBBY: Composing perplexing status updates on Facebook
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Paperwork and the Will of Capital, 2015 In signings of political accords, contracts, treaties, and decrees, powerful men flank floral centerpieces curated to convey the importance of the signatories and the institutions they represent. The photographs and sculptures of Paperwork and the Will of Capital had twin points of departure: archival photographs of official signings; and George…
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Tauba Auerbach |American, b. 1981, San Francisco, California, based in New York, New York San Francisco-born, New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach has described her work as an attempt to reveal “new spectral and dimensional richness…both within and beyond the limits of perception.” Engaging a variety of media, ranging from painting and photography to book design…
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/// FAVORITE PLACE IN THE WORLD:
The first two weeks anywhere
Pamela Rosenkranz | Switzerland, 1979 Through painting, sculpture, and installation, informed by extensive research into fields ranging from marketing and medicine to philosophy and religion, Pamela Rosenkranz, a Swiss artist, addresses the fundamental questions about what it means to be human in today’s world. During the process of taking up the topics of contemporary issues and phenomena…
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Vitrine Objects | “Works by the artist are juxtaposed with items gathered from various sources, such as attics and thrift stores, or found on walks and travels. Fossils, a dental mold, a tin votive, buttons and shoe lasts are just some of the objects that belong to Whiteread’s collection of captured memories, and thus to…
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/// CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT:
Chocolate
Gabriel Kuri 1970, Mexico City Focusing on the objects and space that mediate human relationships, Gabriel Kuri explores the potential for transformation latent in all familiar things and situations when observed from an unconventional angle. Playing with the principles of minimalism and the history of consumption, he integrates elements of everyday life into sculptures and…
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/// CAN’T TRAVEL WITHOUT:
Not knowing where my family is
NICOLE WERMERS German, b. 1971, Emsdetten, Germany, based in London, United Kingdom Through elegant, evocative, and slyly humorous sculptures, installations, photographs, and collages, Nicole Wermers investigates the structure of our built environment and its effect on our lives. She concentrates primarily on public spaces—including restaurants, museums, shopping malls, and other urban locales—cleverly referencing the way…
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/// CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT:
The F@]*king iPhone
Sarah Oppenheimer American, b. 1972 Oppenheimer’s interventions disrupt the experience that we, the visitors, have of the succession of spaces within a building. Her work modifies the existing architectural elements of a building while simultaneously altering our perception of the overall building plan. This transformation varies further with changing light conditions at different times of…
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/// IN-FLIGHT GADGET:
iPod, also with the sound turned off.
/// DAILY ROUTINE:
Impossible to have one
Author: Mark Sheerin | Posted: October 9, 2015 | via Critisism Last night I dreamed about this, my least favourite piece of art from the 2015 Turner Prize exhibition in Glasgow. What you see, is what I thought I was getting: fur coats on chairs. The coats are actually sewn around the chairs. So this is…
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Virginia Overton | Nashville, Tennessee 1971 Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York Virginia Overton’s work comprises installation, sculpture and photography, often beginning intuitively as a direct response to her physical presence in a particular space. Through a process of trial and error, she creates sculpture that is performative, sometimes obstructing, bisecting, dividing or…
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/// WHAT’S ON YOUR DESK: My “desk” is my bedside table, which aside from my laptop & phone is covered in knick knacks. Such as: a mold of my mom’s teeth, a compact full of dirt from scotland, an eiffel tower snow globe, my grandfather’s cremation tag, an old broken alarm clock, 3 miniature white rabbits, 2 antique toy guns & photos/keepsake from the mid to late 1800’s. Clearly it’s less of a desk then a collection of interests, but it’s what’s surrounding me as I do the more business side of my work.
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Carol Bove | Born in 1971 in Geneva Carol Bove is known for her assemblages that combine found and made elements. Incorporating a wide range of domestic, industrial, and natural objects, her sculptures, paintings, and prints reveal the poetry of their materials. As the art historian Johanna Burton notes, “Bove brings things together not to nudge associative…
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Over the past two decades, Nairy Baghramian (Germany, b. Iran, 1971) has created sculptures, photographic works, and drawings that explore relationships between architecture, everyday objects, and the human body. Her works mark boundaries, transitions, and gaps in the museum, prompting us to consider form and meaning in the context of interior and exterior spaces. Drawing…
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Bad Dad & Beyond is an exhibition comprising a series of interactive telephone sculptures, drawings, a bronze ring and an animated three-dimensional zoetrope. Through these various media, Camille Henrot explored the archetype of the abusive father as a metaphor for any authority figure that abuses power—a parent, but also the government, the police or even an…
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/// LISTENING TO:
Hip-Hop
One of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, Whiteread uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space. Her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental. Born in London in 1963, Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. The same year she made House 1993–1994, a…
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/// MOST PRECIOUS OBJECT: Internet
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untitled 2002 (he promised) is a chrome and steel structure inspired by the modernist architect Rudolf M. Schindler’s iconic Kings Road House in West Hollywood. While the structure exemplifies the spatial fluidity of Schindler’s open-plan design, the reflective surfaces used to replace the wood and concrete of the original create what Tiravanija describes as “a multifaceted…
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/// PERFECT SUNDAY: Netflix and chill
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Leonor Antunes | 1972, Lisbon Engaging with the histories of 20th century architecture, design and art, the work of Leonor Antunes reflects on the functions of everyday objects, contemplating the potential of Modernist forms to be materialized as sculptures. Antunes investigates the coded values and invisible flow of ideas embedded within objects, transforming them into…
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Charlie Godet Thomas Where are you based Currently based in London, but I have been gazing across the North Atlantic (to Mexico City) longingly for some time Listening to The sound of traffic passing What’s on your desk A beautiful Polaroid taken by my late friend and brilliant artist Charlotte Horrillo, a plaque my dad had made…
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Isabelle Cornaro works with painting, sculpture, film and installation, to explore the influence of history and culture on our perception of reality. As a trained art historian specialising in 16th-century European Mannerism, her visual language draws on a wide array of references from the Baroque to modernist abstraction. In her work Cornaro uses found objects…
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Images via Contemporary Art Daily | (courtesy of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock; Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Copyright Jenny Holzer. Photos by Edd Horder.) Press Release: Blenheim Art Foundation is delighted to announce SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace. As one of America’s most loved living artists since the 1980s, Holzer’s practice circles around language in order to…
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Images via Contemporary Art Daily | (courtesy of the artist; kurimanzutto, Mexico City; and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York /Paris /London) Press Release: MOCA presents Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance, a site-specific installation inside The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA’s warehouse space. Villar Rojas (b. 1980, Rosario, Argentina) has built a singular practice by creating environments…
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‘Science aspires to know everything… art pursues exactly the opposite: the subjectivity, the single phenomenon, the analysis of particularities, the facts in their context, personal experiences. Art is un-learning process.’ Damián Ortega, 2016 ‘Play Time’, a major exhibition of new works by Damián Ortega at Bermondsey. Focusing on the themes of chance and game play,…
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JUNE JOON JAXX 