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June 16, 2014

South likes: Issa Samb at Iniva, London

Issa Samb is for sure no ordinary artist. Someone might remember him hanging out next to his installation under a tree in last Documenta. Or someone else might recall a video by the German artist Antje Majewski, who met him in Dakar a few years ago and fell into a trance while talking about a shell. For his last show at Iniva Samb borrowed the title from a manifesto on acting produced by Laboratoire Agit'Art, which he co-founded back in 1974.  read more.

June 14, 2014

South likes: Nikos Sepetzoglou at Elika Gallery, Athens

For his second solo show at Elika Gallery, Nikos Sepetzoglou fantasise on the associations between nautical communication and financial markets. The abstraction of the flags used in the nautical communication code is employed by the artist to represent another kind of abstraction, which is the one of prices and values.  read more.

June 13, 2014

South likes: Ketty La Rocca at Galerie Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf

Back in the 1960s Ketty La Rocca repeatedly broke down language and approached each of its pieces as a different means of communication; speech, handwriting, typography and punctuation are transformed into an original, innovative code. La Rocca's handwritten works transform the formal values of photographs into text, bringing in mind Apollinaire's Calligrammes.  read more.

June 11, 2014

South likes: Ishmael Randall-Weeks at Arróniz, Mexico City

Questioning the bedrocks of our conventions, Peruvian artist Ishmael Randall-Weeks attempts a personal answer through his second solo exhibition at Arróniz gallery where he converts the space into a construction site of thoughts. The surroundings of the building are transferred inside, where a conceptual token of the construction process is on view. read more.

June 9, 2014

South likes: Invitation at Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva

The show at Ribordy Contemporary gather five different takes on painting with the pretext of an invitation—hence the title—extended to five very different artists. Alex Hubbard participates to the exhibition with an abstract black painting with the name Not Yet Titled. The inform red line he paints on a black background is reprised, in a wise juxtaposition, by Daniel Heidkamp's painting representing the action of a baseball payer.  read more.

June 7, 2014

South likes: 13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World at On Stellar Rays, New York

Titled after a video by Basim Magdy, showcased among other pieces, the exhibition on display at On Stallar Rays carries out a reflection on abstraction and absurdity through the work of four artists. Zipora Fried's paintings remain in balance between surrealist influences and a notion of sublime borrowed from German Romanticism. read more.

June 6, 2014

South likes: Antoine Catala at Peep-Hole, Milan

With the words Once upon a time… Antoine Catala begins a conceptual account on digital communications, linguistics, and augmented reality. The first of the three projects showcased in this show at Peep-Hole, curated by Florence Derieux, is presented as a rebus to compose the opening words of a tale (Il était une fois…). read more.

June 4, 2014

South likes: Yorgos Sapountzis at Eleni Koroneou, Athens

Once entered the show of Yorgos Sapountzis visitors have to deal with his universe. It is like the central public space of a utopian city. A big useless stair is there connecting the floor with the ceiling. This fragile construction is displayed like a supplement to the 3 steps leading to the entrance of the gallery space. read more.

June 2, 2014

South likes: The Registry of Promise at Fondazione Giuliani, Roma

The Promise of Melancholy and Ecology addresses issues related to ideas of future, promise, or anticipation, reassessing the modernist positivist notion of progress and acknowledging the polyvalence of such concepts in rather post-human times. Inaugurating a cycle of several exhibitions (this is the first of four "chapters"), the show curated by Chris Sharp investigates through the works of four artists our relationship with our living ecosystem, namely the melancholic response that these artists elaborate to the loss of nature, or our conception of it.  read more.

May 31, 2014

South likes: Bill Jenkins at Laurel Gitlen, New York

In a short essay written in 1933, In Praise of Shadows, writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki commended the use of light in Japanese traditional architecture as it differed from the Western style: "This was the genius of our ancestors," he wrote, "that by cutting off the light from this empty space they imparted to the world of shadows that formed there a quality of mystery and depth superior to that of any wall painting or ornament." In his second solo show at Laurel Gitlen, Bill Jenkins created a sculptural installation to funnel the light sources of the venue, piping it like water throughout the spaces of the gallery. read more.

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