South likes: Brad Kahlhamer at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm The Four Hairs Gallery Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden February 20 – March 29, 2014 Born in Tucson, Arizona, Brad Kahlhamer combines a unique format of expressionist painting with the visionary tradition of Native American art. Drawing inspiration from country music and Native American rock scene, the artist’s visionary landscapes
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South likes: Peles Empire at GAK, Bremen Ever Build GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany 23 February – 8 June, 2014 The London-based artist duo Peles Empire, formed in 2005 by Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff, thinks of its practice as an ongoing experiment that stretches the boundaries of reproduction. The core subject matter
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South likes: Marinella Senatore at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
, Sankt Gallen Public Secrets Kunst Halle, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland 1 February – 13 April, 2014 Marinella Senatore’s work is based on the use of social processes as a medium. She initiates prodigious collaborative projects, recruiting thousands of people, who are assigned to various roles, corresponding to
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South likes: Andra Ursuta at Peep-Hole, Milan Fartchitectures Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy 30 January – 8 March, 2014 With subtle irony and a bunch of to-the-point sculptures, Andra Ursuta dedicates her show at Peephole to the deflation of the severe and rhetorical aesthetics of propaganda. The debunking of a serious and authoritative image of power begins
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South likes: Jose Dávila at Galería OMR, Mexico City State of Rest Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico 4 February – 22 March, 2014 In the works created for State of Rest, Jose Dávila works out a sculptural language for the politics of equilibrium: materializing forces, weights, and directions of the temporary stability of some big
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South likes: Phanos Kyriacou at Maccarone, New York View to River from North Maccarone, New York, U.S. January 11 – March 29, 2014 For his first exhibition at Maccarone, Phanos Kyriacou revamps the exhibition space with a site-specific intervention, presenting a series of sculptures and a multichannel video installation. Over the past decade, Kyriacou has
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South likes: EXODIC at metamatic:taf, Athens EXODIC metamatic:taf, Athens, Greece 6 February – 2 March, 2014 The title of the show, EXODIC, attempts to bring together the two different notions of exodus and exotic. The idea is to present exodus as an exotic experience in itself, as an unfamiliar process of exiting certain comfort zones.
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South likes: Helen Marten at Sadie Coles, London Oreo St. James Sadie Coles, London, United Kingdom 29 January – 15 March, 2014 With an innovative perspective on norms and boundaries set by the present-day idea of habitat, Helen Marten produces a series of assemblage sculptures that recall standardised domestic environments. The sculptures, balancing between the notions
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South likes: HIWAR | Conversations at Darat al Funun–The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman HIWAR | Conversations Headquarters of The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Beit al Beiruti, Blue House, Dar Khalid, Main Building, Ghorfa, Amman, Jordan November 9, 2013 – end of April, 2014 HIWAR (conversation in Arabic) is an exhibition, a residency program, and a talks
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South likes: Rita Ponce de León at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Endless openness produces circles Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2 February – 30 March, 2014 The title of the exhibition is a statement Endless openness produces circles sounds like a metaphorical statement that maintain its validity within different contexts of discourse, be it political, social, urban
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