Renwick Gallery’s group show A Relative Expanse surveys some of the contradictions and collapses between visual and physical space. Artists in the show include Talia Chetrit, Robert Heinecken, Margarete Jakschik, Sean Raspet, Valerie Snobeck, Katja Strunz and Francesca Woodman.[...]
Comprised of five new sculptures and three new paintings, The Constant Now, Tony Matelli’s fifth exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, expands upon Matelli’s interest in the depiction of inner states of desolation, panic, ambivalence, despair and sometimes hope.[...]
Lady Macbeth: These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
Macbeth: Methought I heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more! Macbeth doth murder sleep,’ the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.[1][...]
In Untitled (Wollfilm) (1992), a female torso turns in a central window in a much larger and dark projection plane. With each movement, a thread, which is clearly being pulled from outside the frame, unravels another row of stitches in her woollen pullover.[...]
Kratos – About (Il)Legitimate(d) Power at Team Gallery, curated by Raphael Gygax, presents works in different mediums by artists Maja Bajević, Maria Eichhorn, Teresa Margolles, Gianni Motti and Artur Żmijewski.[...]
Optmismo Radical brings together twelve international artists to reflect upon two perhaps redundant or contradictory words. Is Radical Optimism the opposite of moderate optimism? Or the opposite of conservative pessimism?[...]
In 2006 Oscar Carrasco started to explore Europe, embarking on a disturbing initiation journey through the unusual beauty of decline and abandonment.[...]
If beauty can be found in any slight shift in the rhythms of the world, in temporal or functional disruptions, Ariel Schlesinger will be there to capture it – he might even have provoked it himself.[...]
We Care About You, Andy Coolquitt’s second solo exhibition at Lisa Cooley, presents abstract, linear sculptures made of joined pipes, broom handles, discarded lighters, beer bottles, light bulbs, straws, and crayons which are minimalist, ordered rearrangements of the raw world from which their components are sourced.[...]
Realized over the course of a year, Korean artist U-Ram Choe work is rooted in a journey to the American Southwest, where the artist encountered complete darkness for the first time. In this environment Choe observed the Milky Way, unpolluted by the atmospheric haze of artificial light.[...]
La que alumbra es la de alanteAriel Schlesinger at Galerija Gregor Podnar
Becket Bowes at Rachel Uffner
Josué Pellot: Colonialism and the Politics of Cultural Consumption
Li Wei
ARCO 2010: VIP Program in Murcia
Habacuc and the imperatives of beauty, kindness and truth
Loan Nguyen at Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
Michel Majerus
You Were There at Rachel Uffner