March 8, 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 swirl with an atavistic energy; the paintings seem pervaded by a sound that accompanies their visual rhythm. read more.
March 7, 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 of the duo derives, almost obsessively, from the photographic documentation of the rich decorative interiors of Peles Castle in Romania. read more.
March 5, 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 the work each has to carry out. The crucial part of her practice are the relationships evolving through the temporary community established during the development of the project. read more.
March 3, 2014
With subtle irony and a bunch of to-the-point sculptures, Andra Ursuta devotes 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 with the two large sculptures dominating Peep-Hole's exhibition space, Soft Power 1 and 2. read more.
March 2, 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 marble slabs held in place by coloured lines. The exercise comments on a moment of stillness, highlighting tensions among opposite forces and informing the precariousness of such balanced figures. read more.
March 1, 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 been exploring various media interventions within space, indulging into poetic manipulations of sculptural form and creating an unexpected dialogue with and about his environment. read more.
February 28, 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. As a result, the exhibition looks like an experiment, combining different realities in order to propose a new alternative one. read more.
February 26, 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 of familiar household objects and the physicality of human forms, challenge the viewer to re-think the idea of the model as an essential tool of organisation. read more.
February 24, 2014
HIWAR (conversation in Arabic) is an exhibition, a residency program, and a talks series with the aim to promote cultural exchanges between artists from the peripheral areas of the art world. Fourteen young artists from the Arab world, Africa, Asia, and Latin America were invited to Amman for a one-month-residency followed by an exhibition that is on view until the end of April 2014. read more.
February 23, 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 or visual. However, being it the title of Rita Ponce de León's exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, it produces an ambiguity that adds to the show a twist of mystery. read more.
