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Myritza Castillo, Out of Oil, Light and sound installation, 2010

In Out of Oil, a sound and light installation currently on view at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico (MAPR), Myritza Castillo addresses the pressing issue of the global dependance on fossil fuels. In it, Castillo delineates with LED lights the contours of a sugarcane plantation in Puerto Rico.[...]

Andy Hope 1930, Time Tubes. Installation View.

So who is Andy Hope 1930? Andreas Hofer’s alter-ego is at it again with a series of paintings and sculptures that “channel the evidence of art as a ghostly manifestation in a paranormal time and space.” The exhibition is comprised of paintings and three-dimensional works that once again place the artist’s work outside any type of definition or categorization.[...]

DAN COLEN: Poetry, Installation view. Photo by Rob McKeever

The most talked about and controversial show of the New York City Fall season: Dan Colen’s inaugural solo debut at Gagosian titled Poetry. Walking around Chelsea during the opening weeks of the season, it was hard to turn the other cheek to numerous conversations regarding Colen’s show. There was hype and tons of expectation.[...]

Gavin Brown just opened this past weekend a major large scale exhibition of new works by Rob Pruitt inaugurating a new exhibition space next door that expands the gallery to one entire city block. Titled Pattern and Degradation, the show comprises paintings, sculpture and installation.[...]

Omer Fast, Nostalgia, 2009. Video.

In an upcoming exhibition at GB Agency in Paris, Omer Fast will present two works; his video Nostalgia and the installation The Forlorn Lover’s Guide to the Underground and to Doubles. In these works, Fast continues his exploration of displacement and memory.[...]

Sue Williams has lived and worked in New York since the mid-1980s. In her early career, she became known to a wider audience with her highly narrative painting. In taboo-like visual stories that seem like comics and caricatures, scenes of domestic violence and sexual obscenity, the artist expresses her rage over the enduring acceptance of sexism in society.[...]

“Just a matter of time” – the sequence of individual actions results in a specific present time. Past actions are part of this present, which is itself merely a passage to the future. In different ways, the artists Barbara Kasten, Allan McCollum, Jimmy Robert, Katja Strunz, Wolfang Tillmanns and Jennifer West literally “pass through” several material and formal qualities in their works.[...]

Francis Alÿs in collaboration with Olivier Debroise and Rafael Ortega. A Story of Deception, Patagonia, 2006 still from 16mm film (4:20). Courtesy of Francis Alÿs and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich © Francis Alÿs.

A Story of Deception is the title of Francis Alÿs‘ current retrospective on view at the Tate Modern. The title of the exhibition, which spans the artist’s two-decade long career is borrowed from a work of the same name, and appropriately provides the exhibition’s subtitle and introduces the gallery visitor to Alÿs’ work.[...]

The word “temporal” is defined as “of or relating to the sequence of a particular time.” Laurent Grasso’s own work, such as the series of what appear to be 16th century paintings and drawings, Studies Into the Past, uses the conceptual notion of shifting temporalities and multiple temporalities existing simultaneously to create a surreal suspension in time.

Under the title Spagotzen, a neologism coined by the artist, Daniel Richter’s most recent exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac comprises fifteen works showing mysterious figures bathed in an artificial light typical of Richter, against a sometimes seismographically linear background.