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October 2, 2014

South likes: Tino Sehgal at the Roman Agora, Athens

Tino Sehgal accepts NEON Foundation's invitation and comes to Greece, where, focusing on the ephemeral and dematerialisation of art object, he pushes once again the artistic disciplines' boundaries and creates art that has no physical form in a significant place, the Roman Agora of Athens. Sehgal was the youngest artist representing Germany at the Venice Biennale, won the Golden Lion and has exhibited his work at the world's most prestigious contemporary art events and museums. read more.

September 29, 2014

South likes: Allyson Vieira at The Breeder, Athens

Unlike many Athenians, Allyson Vieira doesn't mind spending a month in Athens during the summer. Having explored archeological sites all around Greece over the last seven years, this time she indulged in the making of three sculptures, which inquire into the architectonic qualities of antiquities as much as they elaborate on the material and immaterial features of modernist constructions. read more.

September 26, 2014

South likes: Armando Andrade Tudela at Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

For his second show at Fortes Vilaça, the Peruvian artist Armando Andrade Tudela elaborates on notions of contemporary nomadism and precarious architecture. The three presented works establish dialogue that engage both with references to Latin American culture and with global modernity. Metades XXL are big pieces of hanging fabric cut and shaped in the form of tunics. read more.

September 23, 2014

South likes: Giorgio Andreotta Calò at Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam

Inaugurating the new venue of Wilfired Lentz, Giorgio Andreotta Calò presents a series of sculptural pieces exploring the materiality of wood and clay. Produced in the clay artificial island of Vignole, Venice, these sculptures reflect on the use of materials that relate to notions of time, life and death.  read more.

September 19, 2014

South likes: Nevin Aladağ at Art Space Pythagorion, Samos

The title of the exhibition is flirting with the amphisemy of the word, both a state of mental illness and a geopolitical convention. Art Space Pythagorion, a former abandoned hotel on the coastline of the Greek island of Samos, chose to showcase the work of the Turkish-German artist Nevin Aladağ for its annual show, creating what seems to be an in-situ exhibition literally on the border of Greece and Turkey.  read more.

August 16, 2014

South likes: Forget Amnesia at Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli

The fourth edition of Volcano Extravaganza, curated by Haroon Mirza with Milovan Farronato, is inspired by the club Amnesia, opened in Ibiza in 1976, together with the kind of forgetfulness that in a small Mediterranean island makes the people oblivious of the rest of the world. In the suggestive landscape offered by the Sicilian island of Stromboli, due to the volcanic eruptions, to the seismic activity or to the intensity of the ten-day program, it might be justifiable if someone forgot to have forgotten. read more.

August 7, 2014

South likes: Tempus Ritualis at CACT, Thessaloniki

Comprehending the antithetical ideas of the present and the past in its title, the exhibition Tempus Ritualis attempts to explore the meaning of ritual practices in current circumstances and to show new ritual forms of making, through the different mediums and artistic perspectives of the ten Greek and German artists: Lena Athanassopoulou, Christina Dimitriadis, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Pia Greschner, Susanne Kriemann, Lia Nalbantidou, Christine Schulz, Eva Stefani, Evanthia Tsantila. read more.

August 2, 2014

South likes: Kiki Smith at Galeria Continua, San Gimignano

In 2007, German-born American artist Kiki Smith stated that she missed ‘radicality’. Classified as feminist, ex member of the artist group Colab and concerned with issues of gender and race, the notable artist seems to sigh for something vibrant that was probably in the air in the period of her early work.  read more.

July 28, 2014

South likes: Here and Elsewhere at New Museum, New York

Taking its title from a 1976 film by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Anne-Marie Miéville, the exhibition Here and Elsewhere, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell, is a survey on Arab contemporary art, which focuses on the tension between the avant-garde notion of the autonomy of art—regardless of social or geographical boundaries—and its origins in a specific cultural or political context. In this sense, Here and elsewhere is an attempt to look over the supposed universalism of Internationale-style, to inquire the work of artists whose networks extends beyond the specificity of their origins. read more.

July 25, 2014

South likes: Mariana Castillo Deball at Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

After her participation in the last dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and recently in the 8th Berlin Biennale, Mariana Castillo Deball returns to her birthplace for a first solo show under the title Vista de Ojos at Kurimanzutto. Inspired by Mexican history and culture, Deball acts, besides the artistic process, like an investigator, which follows a long process to collect essential data from ethnographic collections, libraries or historical archives. read more.

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