An almost unreachable point of reference. As difficult as trying to reach the horizon, that always distant line. Or as trying to decipher the thoughts of the other, from which surprisingly we will never get to know its unfathomable depth. The unknown to be revealed. How to decode the work of an artist who expresses […]
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“In his new exhibition at Scrap Metal in Toronto, his first in North America, the Tbilisi-based artist deconstructs the idea of home and belonging in various ways, going far beyond images of a literal house. They Kept Shadows Quiet (2018), the eponymous installation commissioned especially for this exhibition, consists of two “interrogation chambers” installed side […]
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On Black Friday, 2011, at the onset of the sales season, the outdoor brand Patagonia runs an advertisement in the New York Times that apparently discourages its potential customers with the slogan: Don’t buy this Jacket. Showing one of their best-selling jackets – cut out against a clean, white background – next to a text […]
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Ernesto Burgos’ practise in recent years has been sustained on the production of three-dimensional works exploiting the malleability of cardboard, later coated in fiberglass and then covered with charcoal, oil and wax. The sculptures presented at this third exhibition at The Goma open up a new path within the artist’s output insofar as they are […]
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In this project Javier Rodríguez Lozano explores the pictorial potentialities of the doormats from the building he has been living in for the last 8 years. Doormats, daily ill-fated objects normally ignored, have strong symbolic and form traits that interest me: their minimalistic designs, tied to the symbolic; the body-language closed in their use; as […]
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– A good pilot program provides a platform for the organization to test logistics, prove value and reveal deficiencies. Typically, a pilot program begins with a proposal that lists the objectives (…) and should also provide metrics for how success will be determined. – Serving as a prototype – This earlier sense pre-dated the concept […]
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Helen Marten works across sculpture, painting and writing to create a body of work that questions the stability of the material world and our place within it. Alluding to language, systems and intentionality, her work across all media sets out to imagine the miraculous substructure beneath the veneer of our habitual lives. The peculiar juxtapositions […]
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The exhibition title Out of Ousia sets the tone for the emerging contemporary artist Alicja Kwade’s (b. 1979) first institutional solo exhibition in Denmark: With her poetic minimalism and powerful sculptures, the Polish-born artist has created an exhibition that questions science and social conventions. A vase created by the dust from a blended PowerMac, surreal […]
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For his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Andrei Koschmieder presents a new series of sculptures of suitcases, specifically drawn from the iconic shape of Rimowa Luggage. Over the past several years, Koschmieder has developed his distinctive technique of sculptural painting hybrids, a peculiar liquefied amalgamation of paper, inkjet dye, spray paint, and epoxy resin. […]
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Modern Art is delighted to present an exhibition of works by Charlotte Posenenske for Condo London 2019 in association with Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske (b. Wiesbaden, 1930, d. Frankfurt, 1985) made pioneering contributions to Minimalist and Conceptual art during her short-lived artistic career. Rediscovered only posthumously, her predominantly sculptural output has influenced younger […]
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