From his very first solo exhibition (41 years ago at Galleri 1 in Bergen) till today, Stein Rønning has developed a remarkably precise visual language, that brings together fundamental characteristics of sculpture and photography. Rønning addresses the interconnected relationship between what is seen and what is created. While his authorship is seemingly strict and minimal, […]
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We live in a world of things and objects. We often scold our everyday routine and complain about the absence of great events in our life perceiving ourselves as small and insignificant. We walk from one corner to another and curse a mediocre day we lived rapidly sinking to the bottom of our perception, depersonalizing […]
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Following the postponement of a special project by Jeff Koons commissioned for the DESTE Foundation’s Project Space at the old Slaughterhouse in Hydra, Greece, due to COVID-19, a group of artists and friends of Dakis Joannou and the Foundation have come together to swiftly organize a small group show. This presentation doubles as a portrait […]
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Several voluminous, organic figures occupy the first floor of Overgaden. With their rounded shapes in burned pastel colors, their crude surfaces, and seemingly massive weight they could resemble amputated body parts, oversized tools, or erotic fetish objects. This ambiguous mode of expression constitutes a balancing nerve in Danish artist Carl Emil Jacobsen’s work, and with Comb […]
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The curtain rises on yet another allegory to reveal a lifeworld beset with problems shocking in their undead, nearly non-invasive familiarity. Lipstick, tree moss, granite. Doses of things and doses of people – they are enshrined in self-same communities of sense; our shared viewpoint is our not knowing. Painting’s ponderous elisions: the conversion of objects […]
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Excepciones/Normal Exceptions is an exhibition of contemporary art in Mexico that takes a particular approach. Rather than aiming to write a history of what has been a particularly fecund time for creative practices in Mexico, Normal Exceptions brings together works by artists who are actively investigating and challenging how history itself is written, pictured and […]
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“… [B]efore the ‘body’ there is the ‘flesh,’ that zero degree of social conceptualization that does not escape concealment under the brush of discourse, or the reflexes of iconography.”1 — Hortense Spillers before the body there is the flesh, brings together Berenice Olmedo and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste to reflect upon what it means to disrupt normative […]
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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS FIRST US RETROSPECTIVE IN 30 YEARS DEDICATED TO DONALD JUDD The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions, Floor Six March 1–July 11, 2020 NEW YORK, February 4, 2020 —The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Judd, on view in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions […]
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Rolando Anselmi is delighted to announce the first chapter of the Berlin residency program. For a period of three months, the gallery will be transformed in a place for production, experimentation, critical discourse, and local participation. Residencies will be an integral part of the activities of gallery, resulting in public events such as open studios […]
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Daniel Marzona is pleased to present an exhibition with works by Reijiro Wada. The exhibition brings together works from three distinct, but related series which point to various philosophical, sociological, and art historical aspects of the “void”. The large, free standing sculpture Scarlet Portal is composed of a brass frame which holds two glass panels. The whole […]
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