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July 4, 2014

South likes: This is Not My Beautiful House at Kunsthalle Athena, Athens

Walking around the debris of Anastasia Ax's installation, which dialogues with Matthieu Laurette's motto on the wall (“Opportunities, Let's Make Lots of Money” 2005), I can do nothing else but contemplate and feel the perdition and abandonment to the bone. This is Not My Beautiful House is a strong exhibition of four contemporary young artists who comment on the current reality in the heart of the crisis. read more.

July 2, 2014

South likes: Vegetation as a political agent at PAV, Turin

If one point clearly emerges from the exhibition Vegetation as a political agent, curated by Marco Scotini, is mainly the positioning of plants, and in particular the history of plants, at the centre of a discourse that defies the dichotomy between culture and nature. And in fact, if it is true that the domestication of plants was one of the most important stage of human evolution, vegetation and its history is a research subject that speaks about political and social aspects of our cultural life.  read more.

June 30, 2014

South likes: Supports/Surfaces at Canada, New York

Making a sudden landfall in a Lower East Side gallery in New York, the works of Supports/Surfaces showcased at Canada look like a radical marxist disguised as a hot buy-now super-young painter. It is a haunting appearance this one, because these paintings and sculptures might well look as if they were made today. And yet these works, produced between 1967 and 1983, seem to speak a different language read more.

June 28, 2014

South likes: Runo Lagomarsino at Umberto Di Marino, Naples

In the attempt to reread the past and imagine the future from different perspectives, Runo Lagomarsino created a series of handcrafted ceramic objects, inspired to some ceramic shards found by the artist on the beaches of Mauritius. With the title Ears go deeper than eyes can see, the show addresses issues of colonisation, knowledge circulation, and ideology of culture. read more.

June 27, 2014

South likes: Apostolos Georgiou at Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul

The new exhibition of Apostolos Georgiou Everyday a stage brings back the Shakespearean quote “all the world's a stage”. His paintings come as close-ups of the human fall and its drama, where common people, caught in ordinary environments and daily actions, embody all the fear, angst, loneliness and emptiness of life.  read more.

June 25, 2014

South likes: Under the Same Sun at Guggenheim Museum, New York

For the whole month of August, Alfredo Jaar's A Logo for America will be displayed just before midnight on digital screens in Times Square. As part of the exhibition Under the Same Sun, the logo shows the sentence "This Is Not America" written over the flag of the United States and then switches to a different images, with the word AMERICA written on a map including North, Central, and South America. An account on artistic practices from Latin America today must acknowledge a history of contrasts and extreme social unbalances as well as a sense of communion.  read more.

June 23, 2014

South likes: Power of Chi at SPREEZ, Munich

With the title Power of Chi, the exhibition on display at SPREEZ refers to a concept of traditional Chinese culture that can be explained as the energy flow that constitutes the active principle of life. A tight group of works responds with subtle irony to the impossibility to understand such a principle in terms of human language.  read more.

June 22, 2014

South likes: Annette Amberg at Istituto Svizzero, Rome

What is the function of cultural institutions? What kind of place are they? Invited to investigate these questions in the Swiss Institute of Rome, the Swiss artist Annette Amberg has carried out a peculiar research that is not limited to the physical space of the building. Amberg's research questions the nature of cultural institutions taking into account the intertwined alternation of historical present, institutional drives and personal stories.  read more.

June 20, 2014

South likes: 9 artists at MIT List, Cambridge, MA

“9 Artists” is the title of an exhibition that reflects on the role of the artist in the current global condition. The the nine participating artists are Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Renzo Martens, Bjarne Melgaard, Nástio Mosquito, Hito Steyerl, and Danh Vo. Little room for doubt here, that this is a bold endeavour on behalf of curator Ryan Bartholomew (assistant curator at the Walker Art Center). read more.

June 18, 2014

South likes: Basim Magdy at State of Concept, Athens

For his first solo show in Athens, the Egyptian artist Basim Magdy created the perfect atmosphere for an hypnotism séance: colourful images, silence, slight darkness… The three pieces on display make a triangle, a three dimensional representation of a non-exciting city. One of the showcased videos is about the story of a town, which is in the process of organising the Olympic games. read more.

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