July 23, 2014
Who better than Juergen Teller could undertake a restyling of the notion of macho? He knows well, as a talented artist and fashion photographer, the cliches that define and nurture the sentiment of masculine pride. He is a celebrity as well, and doesn't mind focusing the attention on himself with a series of self-portraits, in which he grants himself the freedom to define his persona regardless of normative gender roles. read more.
July 21, 2014
With the title To a certain degree, sacredness is in the eye of the beholder, old and new works by Greek artist Stefania Strouza find a new spatial and narrative arrangement inspired by the passional cinematography of Pasolini and by the formal rigour of Le Corbusier. This ongoing project, co-ventured by the artist together with curator Apostolos Vasilopoulos, questions the conflictual and yet coessential existence of two different regimes of thought: the mythical and the rational. read more.
July 18, 2014
Four solo exhibitions by international sculptors Adriano Costa, Sam Falls, Samara Scott and Michael E. Smith are presented this summer in the former Methodist Chapel, where Zabludowicz Collection houses its distinctive collection in North London. Despite their different artistic backgrounds and the disparate techniques and materials, all the four artists engage in a phenomenological approach of the human body and its fragility. read more.
July 16, 2014
In 1971 Richard Nixon suspended the direct convertibility of the dollar into gold (the "Nixon Shock"), initiating the dematerialisation of money, which hence slowly started to turn into a mere abstraction. In the same years, dematerialised and conceptual practices made their entrance into contemporary art. The exhibition of Lucie Fontaine at Eli Ping Frances Perkins, Soft Shock, rereads the coincidence of these two events under the circumstances that brought to the current development of both art and economy. read more.
July 14, 2014
The Idea of Fracture, to which the title of this show alludes, is a transversal one, or rather tangent to notions of violence, colonisation, exploitation, and class divide. It is in fact a relevant idea this one of fracture, as orchestrated by curator Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, to take look on Latin American contemporary art production. read more.
July 13, 2014
Artist Anna Blessmann and graphic designer Peter Saville (aka Anna + Peter) met each other in 2001 in Berlin, became a couple and have made art together ever since. This is usually one of the the first things that one hears about the couple’s practice. This is also undoubtedly a spot-on example of how the producer’s life is inextricably entwined with artistic production, i.e. the fact that they are a couple shapes their practice and defines it as collaborative. read more.
July 11, 2014
In 1904 a few light bulbs were lit in a pioneering experiment, using for the first time a geothermal generator powered by the hot steam coming from the volcanic ground of the region of Larderello, in Tuscany. The area where the world's first geothermal power plant was built in 1911 is named Devil's Valley because it was believed to have inspired Dante's Inferno. read more.
July 9, 2014
Always on the edge between abstract and figurative forms, the Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti exhibits at Galerie Peter Kilchmann for the first time in a solo show. Shaped in the organic forms of fruits or animals, her works display something of a totemic power. read more.
July 7, 2014
Accordion transforms Laura Bartlett Gallery into a space where inner images and memories of spaces, to which the artists have connected over the years, become a clear, tangible archive. Fragments of familiar domestic—yet not necessarily habitable—environments come together suggesting an investigation of the different surroundings defining each of us. read more.
July 6, 2014
Organised by the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, the Splendide Hotel realised by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster develops a scenario halfway between a large-scale installation and a narration of literary fiction. Taking advantage of the suggestive venue of the Palacio de Cristal, the French artist designed an environment charged with references from a forgotten past. read more.
