L’artiste japonaise, célèbre dans le monde entier pour ses installations de fils rouges entrelacés, signe son grand retour dans la capitale avec cette exposition tentaculaire, intime et délicate, interrogeant les notions d’existence et de transcendance qui se cachent derrière chacun de nos artifices.
Read MoreIt is with great pleasure that the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art presents Before/After, a special exhibition commemorating the completion of a major renovation project at the museum that was conducted over a period of some two years and three months. […] Through the artists’ keen eyes and historical perspectives, this exhibition will examine the before and after as well as the in-between and overlapping elements in a variety of subjects. By inviting a group of artists whose practices seemed well suited to inquiries of this kind, we have arrived at an exhibition combining works that were selected from the museum collection with new works that the artists made specifically for this occasion.
Read MoreMarian Goodman Gallery presents William Kentridge UC Berkeley Residency and related events.
Read MoreThere is general consensus that South African multimedialist William Kentridge is one of the leading artists of our time. “Leading” can be one of those empty adjectives that seek to qualify art with quantified bluster; but not only does Kentridge in his intellectual, social, and technical ambition “lead” with aesthetic and extra-aesthetic substance, but he literally “leads” us into and through a world view of profound wonder and equally powerful witness.
Read MoreIn the early 2000s, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota shot to fame for the labyrinthine installations she produces with colored wool, rope, and thread. These supersized, tangled spider webs swallow whole rooms and hold objects captive in midair. Knotted and twisted over multiple days with a team of assistants, her webs are both hopeful hallucinations—inferring the invisible connectivity that pervades all life on earth—and insuperable, brutal obstacles that force audiences to renegotiate how they move through space.
Read MoreLAS CRUCES – The eighth annual Las Cruces International Film Festival will open with a screening of “Land of Dreams,” a New Mexico-filmed movie released in June 2022. “Land of Dreams” is a political satire and follows the story of an Iranian American woman discovering the meaning of being a free American. According to a news release, the story is set in a small town in a future where the country completely closes its borders.
Read MoreFaiz is one of the poets included in a new anthology For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: Encounters With Prison, edited by artist Shilpa Gupta and poet and journalist Salil Tripathi. The book is the textual avatar of an eponymous exhibition on which Gupta and Tripathi collaborated in 2017, in response to a growing atmosphere of intolerance in India, which, as we now know, was the first symptom of the country’s democratic backsliding.
Read MoreWith the espresso and cappuccino cups no Rules and Victoria, the internationally renowned artist Rosemarie Trockel has designed a series of porcelain cups especially for the Fridericianum. Visitors can enjoy various hot drinks from these in the kunsthalle’s café. Trockel’s multi-layered and experimental works often extend beyond the exhibition space into the private and public spheres.
Read MoreEach Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the first album Yoko Ono recorded after the death of her husband, a brittle and gorgeous capsule of hope triumphing over grief.
Read MoreAlla Galleria Raffaella Cortese, a Milano, da oggi le mostre personali di tre protagoniste della ricerca contemporanea: Joan Jonas (1936, New York) con “Drawn on the Wind”, Simone Forti (1935, Firenze) con “Distant Lands” e Kiki Smith (1954, Norimberga, Germania) con “The Cat Himself Knows” (tutte fino al 18 maggio). Quest’ultima in particolare, assieme a nctm e City Life, disegna una costellazione di luoghi in cui è possibile incontrare il lavoro di Kiki Smith nel capoluogo lombardo: la gallerista Raffaella Cortese, Gabi Scardi, curatrice di nctm per l’arte, e Roberto Pinto, curatore del parco delle sculture di City Life, ci accompagnano in un ideale percorso alla scoperta delle opere presenti in questi luoghi.
Read MoreMusique, danse, théâtre, littérature. Pour sa création qui réunit sur la scène du Châtelet de multiples formes d’art, William Kentridge a décidé de puiser dans la mythologie grecque et construit son œuvre autour de Sybille, réputée pour avoir le don de prophétie
Read MoreIn Signs of Life, a dense installation of knotted and wound string fills much of Galerie Templon’s New York space. The work of Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (previously), the solo show transforms the gallery into a monochromatic labyrinth of intricate mesh that ascends from floor to ceiling. Shiota considers the multivalent meaning of the web, from the structure of neural networks within the human brain to the digital realm today’s world relies on.
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