"He is one of the major artists in the world today. People compare him to Picasso, to DaVinci, in terms of his expertise, his inventiveness, his sense of humor," recounted John Shannon, an art collector and founder of Milwaukee's Warehouse Art Museum on the works of William Kentridge.
Read MoreThe show at Jameel Arts Centre commemorating the 75th anniversary of the partition of India goes as far as it can to question its own principles. What is the meaning of commemoration? Can we can consider the partition to be one event, instead of one, long extended cleaving, re-performed at every border crossing between India and Pakistan?
Read MoreManifesta 14, which recently opened in the Kosovo capital of Prishtina. Under the guidance of founding director Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen, Manifesta’s latest iteration aims to shine a light on Kosovo’s heterogenous and experimental art scene, not simply through temporary artist exhibitions but through long-term institutional and civic changes, made possible by years of cultural outreach and collaboration—a process Fijen calls one of “co-creation” between the biennial and the city’s residents.
Read MoreFor its third season in the Hamptons, Pace has staccatoed its programming into short ten-day sprints. For the dog days of August, a selection of mostly new bronze, aluminum, and silver sculptures by Kiki Smith will take center stage. Though Smith herself is a resident of the other creative enclave in the greater New York area (the Hudson Valley), the themes she often explores – fragility versus heaviness, stability versus ephemerality – are all filtered through the lens of the natural world, tying these works to point of place: the great outdoors. Sense a theme around these parts?
Read MoreSouth Africa’s leading contemporary artist offers a reflection on the limits of transitional justice in his country, which is also relevant for Taiwan and the Tai Ji Men case. A paper presented at the webinar “Tai Ji Men: The Road to Freedom,” co-organized by CESNUR and Human Rights Without Frontiers on July 18, 2022, United Nations Nelson Mandela Day.
Read MoreIn 2015 and 2020, the George Eastman Museum received two major donations of moving image works from South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955). Along with widely celebrated masterpieces, the collection contains a wealth of lesser-known material. This two-part program of short videos, screening on a loop in the Multipurpose Hall during museum hours, is full of wonderful surprises from Kentridge’s vast filmography.
Read MoreZu sehen sind Fotografien von Thomas Florschuetz, Candida Höfer und Katharina Sieverding, Strick- und Herdbilder von Rosemarie Trockel, Gemälde von Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Jörg Immendorff und Rissa sowie eine Rauminstallation von Bildhauer Stephan Balkenhol.
Read MoreThrough photography and filmmaking, Neshat critiques the authoritarian power of national governments, from Iran to the United States and beyond, particularly the way they label their residents in documents like passports and census records. “The Colony” (2019), exhibited at Istanbul’s Dirimart gallery as part of one of Neshat’s latest shows, Land of Dreams, explores a fictional, underground Iranian bureaucracy hidden in an American desert.
Read MoreThe investigation of the material, fabrics and new textiles is currently being conducted by artists of various generations and backgrounds from all continents. Curtains, tapestries and rugs are being rediscovered as the pictorial carriers of contemporary depictions. Fabrics, textile decor and clothing are giving rise to fresh narratives and elucidating the backgrounds of historical, pictorial and global interconnections. This rediscovery of traditional techniques is complemented by an enthusiasm for new digital technologies: in the current era, digital technology controls the looms or spins the threads in an expanded reality.
Read MoreKentridge’s work is vast. The collection features brass sculptures, taking shape from a certain perspective, drawings of human figures, colored block letters on found book pages, and interactive pieces that create a new way to view art. “Doing that in a way that is playful and thoughtful and engages people,” says Melanie Herzog, curator. “He comes at things sideways and invites us to really think about them.”
Read MoreCage 1-6 (P19), is the complete set of six prints published by Heni Editions, London, reproducing Gerhard Richter’s famous “Cage” series. The artist created the large, abstract paintings in 2006 for the next year’s Venice Biennale, and are named after the American minimalist composer John Cage, whose music Richter listened to continuously as he created these paintings. In the spring of 2021, Gagosian exhibited the full “Cage” series in its New York City gallery.
Read MoreST. LOUIS — “Burn this book after you read it,” implores the inside flap of Grapefruit, Yoko Ono’s 1964 collection of 150 prompts aiming to blur the boundary between artist and reader, imagination and reality. Across from the stately colophon, an ink doodle of a blank box flirts below an invitation to “write your own” synopsis, with “name, weight, sex, colour” scribbled in lower-case letters. On the black-and-white cover, Ono looks at us over her bare shoulder, whose rounded form visually mimics the volume’s title. With her untamed mane and oversized aviators, the conceptual artist seems to dare us to partake in something wild and delicious.
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