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Gérard Traquandi
Comme beaucoup d’enfants j’aimais et j’aime encore après avoir regardé le soleil en face fermer les yeux très fort et laisser s’imprimer sur les paupières les couleurs qui subsistent suite à cet éblouissement. Faire remonter à la surface du tableau les sensations...
Gonzalo Lebrija
It’s not worth it, says Allen. And it might not be worth for Lebrija either, whose dark Mexican humour and metaphysical bent continues a great tradition of artists and writers. Bittersweet and lucid nihilists, who, despite the impending shadow of failure, never cease...
The Battle of the Trees
The Book of Taliesin VIII. From The Four Ancient Books of Wales I have been in a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.1 I have been a sword, narrow, variegated, I will believe when it is apparent. I have been a tear in the air, I have been the...
Forests & Boutonnières
Intense moments of perception with the subtleties and grandeur of nature—and they are often one and the same—are among the most potent and lasting archetypes of Beauty and Transcendence which we, citizens of the post-industrial world, still experience. These moments—a...
100 Years – 100 Artists
A l’occasion de la Commémoration du Centenaire du Génocide Arménien, la galerie Sobering organise la soirée exceptionnelle 100 YEARS - 100 ARTISTS le jeudi 29 octobre à 19h30 à l’Hôtel de l’Industrie à Paris, et propose une vente aux enchères d’œuvres d’art...
Rudolf Stingel
Rudolf Stingel has made a career dancing around the idea of painting. He skirts its authority by looking at its components, its physical identity, its visual language and its history. - Michelle Grabner See more artworks by Rudolf Stingel here.
Silke Otto-Knapp
From a distance the densely worked surfaces resemble the smoothness of enamel. Yet the painterly experiment of London-based German artist Silke Otto-Knapp could have taken quite a different turn: after all, it’s not so far from garden landscapes, atmospheric light,...
Robert Overby
In the early 80s, Rosalind Krauss launched a theory about 70s art that seemed to say it all: 70s art was built on the photographic model, she said, it was indexical, tracing a ground rather than representing it. Had the work of the late Californian artist Robert...
Dove Allouche
The messy but magical nature of early photography fascinates the French artist Dove Allouche, whose first American solo has been beautifully installed in this gently renovated former factory, on Grand - By Karen Rosenberg See more artworks by Dove Allouche here
Hasegawa Tōhaku
Tohaku Hasegawa is one of most important Japanese painters ever, and the most important painter of the country during the Azuchi-Momoyama period, along with Kanō Eitoku, with whom he developed an important artistic rivalry. He was the founder of the so-called Hasegawa...
Julie Mehretu
The large canvases by Ethiopian-born American artist, Julie Mehretu, for example, reveal a mesmerizing play of grey and black with a similar economy of means, smeared into a frenzied cursive of mark-making that refuses to congeal into sense or sign. - Laura Hoptman...
Elly Strik
Hay un poema del escritor nigeriano Ben Okri, titulado La entrada, que la artista holandesa Elly Strik (La Haya, 1961) pone como ejemplo para hablar del significado de su obra. En esos versos se habla de los objetos siniestros que germinan en nuestros sueños, del...
A arte de obliteração como possibilidade de evasão: a iconoclastia como agente utópico
Por Luciano Mattuella 1 Se o que somos está baseado nas experiências que vivemos e as memórias destas experiências se modificam no tempo, então nós não somos nada mais que uma metáfora de nós mesmos. - Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo Considerações iniciais Se a arte moderna, a...
Guccivuitton at ICA Miami
Guccivuitton On view May 14, 2015 – September 25, 2015 Over the past two years, Guccivuitton has staked out a unique position that meditates on the rich history of artist-run galleries while presenting content that reflects authentic regional material and vernacular...
Viviane Sassen
in Sassen’s exhibition, the interplay between style and genre becomes something both conceptual and downright physical. Thus the formal galleries help to immediately assert what the exhibition text refers to a ‘museuological touch’ to Sassen’s depiction of a ‘fleeting...
Hans Op de Beeck
One realizes that op De Beeck has something of his fictional characters within him and, under the auspices of fiction, is opening a discussion about the benefits of building a symbolic structure to inhabit, a latticed bulwark against life’s turmoil that is more...
Paul Merrick
I combine painting with sculpture, and the made with the ready-made. Investigating colour, form and architectural and special arrangements in relationship to painting as a subject and discipline in and of itself. My new work is the result of a sustained interrogation...
Victor Man
In an essay presented to the 16th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1949 the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan located the formation of the self in the mirror reflection. Identity, as Lacan understood it, arose in the recognition of the...
Jacob Kassay
Kassay's monochromes experiment with history. "I think that the work I'm doing could've been made sixty years ago. Everything I'm working with now was available then," - Aimee Walleston See more artworks by Jacob Kassay here.
David Claerbout
In a not-so-secluded, but unforgiving room on the fourth floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, three of David Claerbout’s videos formed a claustrophobic horseshoe of exuberance and brutality - Eugenia Bell See more artworks by David Claerbout here.