The Overpainted Photographs are intimately linked to Richter’s artistic works. Every day, after working on his large-format paintings in his studio, Richter dragged the photographs through the wet paint left on his doctor blade. The result depended heavily on chance, and surprising new realities were formed. In 2017, Gerhard Richter announced his retirement from painting, and at the same time the end of his work on the Overpainted Photographs.
Read MoreWith the festival meeting point "BAW Garten," Berlin Art Week also attracts visitors to the countryside. Visitors can experience performances, talks, interventions, workshops and music at the Neue Nationalgalerie. A temporary artistic installation of trees along the iconic building provides the setting and puts the focus on sustainability. Artistically, director Klaus Biesenbach has another treat in store: with Yoko Ono's permission, the museum is allowed to show her 1964 performance "Cut Piece" every day.
Read MoreAt times, it becomes almost easy to view South African multidisciplinary artist William Kentridge as an uber-smart, omniscient god-like figure. But the truth is, he is much more down-to-Earth. Kentridge is also an artist with a deep conscience. Through his work, he offers critiques of colonialism, capitalism, whitewashed history and, in the case of South Africa, Apartheid regimes and practices. His 100-year-old father, retired attorney Sir Sydney Kentridge, defended Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chief Albert Luthuli and activist Steve Biko’s family.
Read More“I do not feel like a traditional artist, I have never been able to keep up with big events: I get bored quickly, I am afraid of repeating myself, I always feel the need to take on new challenges, even at the cost of failure. And in the end I always find my way.” Shirin Neshat is in Venice on the occasion of the Venice Film Festival to receive the film Life of Imagination. Visual Arts Award, a new recognition of cinema, Giornate degli Autori and NABA, an award from the New Academy of Fine Arts to those filmmakers who have distinguished themselves in other artistic practices of vision.
Read MoreEs war schon ein merkwürdiger Zufall. Ende März eröffnete die Gerhard-Richter-Dauerausstellung inklusive des »Birkenau«-Zyklus in der Berliner Neuen Nationalgalerie, nur wenige Wochen später eine Schau in der St.-Matthäus-Kirche gleich nebenan, die Gemälde zeigte, mit denen der Künstler Michael Müller Richters Werkreihe kritisch kommentiert. Davon, dass es zu dieser Zusammenführung kommen sollte, erfuhren Müller und wohl auch Richter erst im Vorbereitungsprozess.
Read MoreThis week, the foundation Faurschou New York made the decision to shutter an installation of Yoko Ono’s work Ex It—an indoor arboretum of dogwood and evergreen trees planted in coffins—after four of the trees included in the work died. The installation had opened in April as a major part of the three-artist exhibition “Embrace the World from Within,” which also included works by artists Miles Greenberg and Louise Bourgeois.
Read MoreLiverpool city centre’s oldest building will hold a talk on the artist, plus a series of behind the scenes building tours and open studios. This September the Bluecoat will celebrate Heritage Open Days, England’s largest festival of history and culture, with a talk on the arts centre’s long relationship with iconic artist Yoko Ono. Responding to this year’s Heritage Open Days theme of ‘Unwrapping Creativity’, the Bluecoat’s Director of Cultural Legacies, Bryan Biggs, will explore both these events in a fascinating free talk. This will be illustrated by archival material including some relating to other events at the arts centre associated with Ono, such as Bed-In at the Bluecoat, 2010.
Read MoreKicking off the events this autumn will be Frieze Sculpture, which runs in the park between September 20 and October 29 and is organised for the first time by the curator Fatos Üstek. She promises about 20 works in the park, mostly for sale, which will comprise “the monumental and the ephemeral”. These include large-scale pieces by Zac Ové (“The Mothership Connection”, 2021, Gallery 1957), which lights up, and Ayse Erkmen’s more muted “Model for Moss Column” (2023, Dirimart gallery)
Read MoreThe presence of renowned artist, photographer and filmmaker from Iran, Shirin Neshat, is a highlight of the upcoming Giornate degli Autori 2023. She will be on hand on September 5th to receive the award “Le vie dell’immagine”, assigned for the first time, by NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) and Cinematografo, in collaboration with Giornate degli Autori. The aim of the award is to spotlight a creative personality whose career in the visual arts goes above and beyond the traditional dictates of artistic genres, and Shirin Neshat epitomizes what it stands for, as reflected in the consistency of her goals and achievements celebrated the world over.
Read MoreThe prolific output of the artist William Kentridge is easy to admire. His confident hand abounds with life in his drawings, animations, and sculptural works. His expressionist tendencies are apparent in early large prints included in his retrospective exhibition, William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the trajectory from static drawings towards stop motion magic is explained in the astute curation of the show. It is one of the strongest displays of artistic vision on view in recent memory.
Read MoreDas Werk der japanischen Künstlerin Chiharu Shiota besteht aus Abertausenden von Fäden, wie eine Ausstellung im Haus Konstruktiv zeigt. Das erinnert an die Grande Dame der zeitgenössischen Kunst Louise Bourgeois und ihre riesigen Spinnen. Dem weiblich assoziierten Handwerk bedienen sich viele Künstlerinnen seit der Moderne.
Read MoreCrouching calligraphy, a radiant riposte, a 12-step interrogation of strangers… words take shape in myriad ways as 18 artists explore what happens when poetry and sculpture collide. [...] Including the Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s split-flap display board, suspended from the ceiling and constantly shifting like its real-life counterparts in stations and airports, upon which departure details are constantly updated. This one cannot quite spell, nor clearly enunciate, and yet it seems to want to speak. Its utterances are about words, their sounds and meanings, about those who control them, those who avoid them, about authority and fear, life and death.
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