Tomas Saraceno Tanya Bonakdar Gallery - New York June 2 - July 27, 2012 Coinciding with the artist's current major commission on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof, the gallery is pleased to present an important selection of sculpture and installation by Tomas Saraceno. Carefully installed throughout the downstairs gallery space, the artist's sprawling biospheres…
Tag: Modern Art
Anne Koch exhibit Allegra La Viola Gallery - New York June 5 - July 6, 2012 During the five week run of the exhibition, a performer will be in situ in the gallery, consuming food on a continuous basis. The foods change on a weekly basis. The performances are: eat (cheeseburger), eat (grapes), eat (spaghetti), eat (waffles), and…
David Altmejd Stuart Shave/Modern Art - London May 26 - June 23 David Altmejd’s work iterates fantastical ideas of spirited bodies. He taps into languages abstracted from architecture, ornament, and naturalistic figuration in the making of sculptures which are, for the artist, whole worlds in which he can lose himself in imaginative fantasises of making and open-ended…
Changing States of Matter ( Group exhibit ) Brand New Gallery - New York May 31 - July 28, 2012 Brand New Gallery is delighted to present the group exhibition Changing states of matter, a show that sets out to reveal the processes behind artistic creation, processes that involve a ‘hypothetical production’ of…
Susan Hiller Exhibit dOCUMENTA 13 June 9 - September 16 For dOCUMENTA 13 Hiller has devised a sculptural presentation of her personal collection of songs relating to political freedom, and the perennial human desire for justice and peace. Five Wurlitzer jukeboxes situated in different bars or cafes around the town of Kassel, and in a specially created…
Jannis Varelas Exhibition May 30 - September 3, 2012 CAC Cincinnati Jannis Varelas’ work explores the contrast between appearance and reality and exposes the increasingly theatrical nature of our lives. Sometimes ironic and caustic, sometimes purposefully saccharine, his depiction of the human condition and the construction of dystopias, critically comments on the changing relation of…
Felix Kiessling Alexander Levy - Berlin June 1 - July 14, 2012 With the exhibition Tür und Stern the artist Felix Kiessling uses two media to dissolve our habitual ways of seeing things. The work shown is from the Vektor: Fotografien series, which is ongoing since 2011 and focuses on the irritation of spatial perception. Using over-sized…
VERNISSAGE OPENING collection photo traverso Trois générations Three generations Avec la présence de Gilles Traverso With the presence of Gilles Traverso MONDAY, MAY 21,2012 – 1.00-3.00 PM Eternelle Marilyn Monroe, effigie du Festival de Cannes 2012, à l’affiche au cinéma avec My Week With Marilyn, icône sexy, pétillante et émouvante, célébrée dans tous les magazines…
Igor Eškinja Right Constructions May 25th to July 28 th , 2012 ANGgaleria Barcelona After Fugaz (2008) and Nowheristan (2010), Igor Eškinja will open on May 25th, 2012 his third personal exhibition at ADNGalería, Right Constructions. The photographic compositions and installations displayed in Right Constructions transversally address the notion of construction as a creative principle and,…
Barry McGee PRISM - Los Angeles May 11 – June 30, 2012 PRISM is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Barry McGee, opening Friday, May 11 from 6 -9 PM and on view through June 30. This will be McGee’s second exhibition at PRISM. Barry McGee integrates his visual language, with its striking geometric compositions, color fields and recurring…
House Project - Hreinn Fridfinnsson The Hafnarfjorour Centre of Culture & Fine Arts - Iceland May 12 - August 19 , 2012 House is an exhibition of new and older work by Icelandic artist Hreinn Friðfinnsson. The photographic series House Project, Second House andThird House are exhibited here together for the first time. The idea for the work House Project was…
Fine artist Jane McAdam Freud will present her latest body of work entitled Family Matters in a solo exhibition at Gazelli Art House. From 24 April – 29 May 2012, McAdam Freud will display an array of personal sculptures and drawings that focus on her familial relationships and the broader concept of family at the new Dover Street…
Port City - Hrafnkell Sigurðsson The Hafnarborg Centre for Culture & Fashion Films April 21 - May 28 , 2012 Exhibition of new work by Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, mostly from 2011 and 2012, displaying photography, video and wall mounted sculptures. Hrafnkell Sigurðsson (b. 1963) graduated from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in 1987 and studied at…
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE PHILLIP LAI EXHIBITION OPENING NIGHT After reading the vague press release for Philip Lai’s fourth show with Stuart Shave, I felt it necessary to see the work for myself. I entered the usual entrance on Eastcastle Street where I was told the exhibit was accessed by the rear of the building.…
THE FRIEZE ART FAIR LONDON 2009 Every year during the month of October Regent's Park, London becomes home to the Frieze Art Fair. Now in it's seventh year, the show featured 165 of the most prestigious contemporary art galleries from around the world. In addition to these exhibitors the Fair also includes specially commissioned artists'…