Since his artistic beginnings, Baselitz has concerned himself with his own person and physicality, in diverging degrees of abstraction and figuration. Notably, in recent years, the depictions of himself—sometimes alongside his wife, Elke—are influenced by the broader human experience of the body and its ephemeral nature. And yet, he has focused on no other aspect […]
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Skies Heavy by Vanessa Boni. Overlay, feminist art historian Lucy R. Lippard’s 1983 publication, excavates prehistoric stones, symbols, and their ritual significance. Lippard documents the reoccurrence of these objects in Land Art and Process Art, whose protagonists had sought to reconnect contemporary artistic practice—preoccupied as it was with conceptual approaches—to natural materials and their […]
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Angelika Loderer is a sculptor that bends figuration into the abstract. Her imagination is of wilderness itself. As it is in nature so it is in the human body, albeit unto its own material laws. To breathe life into a sculptural nomenclature one has to transform the embryo of a form, like a golem brought to […]
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Karma presents Skulls 2016–2023, the first exhibition of Mark Grotjahn’s Skull paintings, open from November 3 to December 20 at 188 and 172 East 2nd Street, New York. Perhaps it was inevitable that Grotjahn would arrive at the Skulls. After fifteen years of Face paintings and more than one hundred Mask sculptures, Grotjahn has stripped […]
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In a very interesting interview in one of the most traditional Greek newspapers, Kathimerini, Dakis Joannou refers to his collection, Jeff Koons and the island of Hydra. With each rotation, it multiplies the value of the island. The ten-meter kinetic sculpture “Apollo Wind Spinner” by Jeff Koons, which now belongs to the Municipality of Hydra […]
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For more than three decades, Stephen Bram has developed a body of work exploring the relationship between abstract painting and the representation of architectural space; Perspective Paintings 1987 – 2023 comprises works selected from this particular 35-year project. Geometric, abstract, and not overtly engaged with style, Bram’s Perspective Paintings pose vanishing points to reflect the […]
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The papal vehicle used by the last Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, was a modified Mercedes-Benz M-Class with a 272-horsepower engine with an automatic transmission, featuring a cabin fitted with bulletproof plexiglass and armor-plated side panels. Leaning on the back of his popemobile, Norbert Schwontkowski’s pope in Die Dunkelheit, is taking a break from what seems to […]
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rodolphe janssen is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition: ORDER & DISORDER -organised in collaboration with QG Gallery, Knokke from May 25 to July 8, 2023 with works by: Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Alighiero Boetti, Bram Bogart, Peter Dreher, Dan Graham, Al Held, Sergej Jensen, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, François Morellet, […]
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Combustion. Incineration. Dissolution. Liquification. Dispersion. Daniel Turner’s art lies as much in what we commonly think of as the creative act as it does in well-calibrated destruction. His first such undoing occurred about fifteen years ago, when he set ablaze the entirety of his artistic output: a series of large-scale paintings made between 1999 and […]
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The DESTE Foundation is pleased to present Jeff Koons: Apollo, a solo exhibition on view at DESTE’s Project Space at the old Slaughterhouse in Hydra from June 21 to October 31, 2022. The exhibition is an installation presenting new sculptures by Jeff Koons along with readymade objects selected by the artist to engage the viewer in […]
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