German artist Michael Sailstorfer’s We Love Them All tackles formalist concerns through amorphous ceramic masks mottled with glaze drips and marbling. A continuation of his 2015 metal mask series, the reductionist stylization nods towards Oceanic and African Art with slits to recall mouths, surface manipulations to indicate eyes, and pointed protrusions to suggest noses. The […]
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The Cistern in the park of Søndermarken – close to the zoo and just south of the palace of Frederiksberg – is a vast underground reservoir that was constructed in the middle of the 19th century to hold fresh drinking water for the city. Its use as a reservoir ceased in 1933 but it was […]
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I have no interest in people… says Lothar Götz. What he really means is he has no interest in making images of people. In reality his work is generous and humanist. He says it is incomplete without people, they are vital to its reading and success. The work is for and about people, their understanding of […]
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The Graham Foundation is pleased to present in the forest, a new commission by artist David Hartt. Borrowing its title from a chapter of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ 1955 memoir Tristes Tropiques, this multi-part installation continues Hartt’s investigation into the relationship between ideology, architecture, and the environment by revisiting architect Moshe Safdie’s unfinished 1968 Habitat Puerto Rico […]
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The enigmatic paintings of Miyoko Ito (1918–1983) are little known beyond Chicago, where the artist lived and worked for four decades. Her embrace of Surrealist and Pop-inflected iconography had a significant impact on younger practitioners, including the internationally recognized Chicago Imagists. Ito’s interest in art, however, began in Berkeley, where she was born and raised, […]
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garcía | galería celebrates its fifth anniversary with an exhibition by Karlos Gil, the artist who inaugurated the space in September of 2012. No Fish, Snake Scale is a sentence from the film “Blade Runner”. It also points to the themes that run through the work and which are of primary interest to the artist: […]
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Michael E. Smith was born in 1977 in Detroit, MI, USA. His objects and pictures as well as his videos seem like physical reconstructions of emotional disfigurement, his exhibitions like an archeology of humanity. He counters the ecological and economic disaster of our era with a materialism of basic needs, displayed as a layout of […]
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Ocaso is the last individual show of Nicolas Lama, Peruvian artist who lives in Belgium. For this new project, Lamas uses a series of meetings and unstable relationships between elements from different contexts, which interact within a space of a gallery under a not established parameters. Ocaso proposes an ontological review to our present under […]
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Every summer since 2009, DESTE has invited an artist or group of artists to develop an exhibition in the Foundation’s Project Space, a former slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra. This year, DESTE’s Project Space will feature a site-specific exhibition by Kara Walker, conceived in a dialogic relationship with both the original elements of this […]
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As an extension of Social Geometrism (presented during the Gallery Weekend 2017 Berlin at Reinbeckhallen), we introduce Thresholds, an exhibition hosting the work of Juan Varela and Gonzalo Reyes Araos. Thresholds displays a set of geometrical forms based on social phenomena. These artists investigate topics related to the body, – presence, distance, physical experience -, […]
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