CHICAGO, IL.- Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary art exhibition presented in the Art Institute of Chicago 's Modern Wing, Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black--on view November 20, 2009 through...
[ November 20, 2009 to January 24, 2010. ] Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black Art Institute of Chicago November 20, 2009 through January 24, 2010 [ad#lb] Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary...
This piece is one of Yona friedman 's most recent work created with the Photographer Jean-Baptiste Decavèle , It have been created as a memorial for Friedman's dog and it have been presented with some spacial installations at the great Art and Landscape center in Vassiviere (FR) . Before that a smaller show took place at the gallerie Anne Barrault . What is amazing in this series of drawing...
LONDON.- "The Hoerengracht" (1983–8), by American artists Ed Kienholz (1927–1994) and Nancy Reddin Kienholz (born 1943), will transform the National Gallery 's Sunley Room into a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam's Red Light District. It will be the first time an installation of this kind has been exhibited at the National Gallery. "The Hoerengracht" is one of the most...
DENVER, CO.- This November, the Denver Art Museum will present Embrace!, an exhibition of unique, site-specific installations in the Museum's Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Featuring 17 new works in a range of media, Embrace! marks one of the largest exhibitions of sitespecific commissions in a U.S. museum, including never-before-seen works from Katharina Grosse, El Anatsui,...
Xu Bing, "Ghosts Pounding the Wall" In the first of two CDN lectures this week, renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing will speak tomorrow on 30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art . "Ranging from monumental installations to handcrafted books, Xu's artistic practice is a playful and political exploration of the written word, usually in the form of the Chinese character. His work questions our...
[Image: London's Fourth Plinth , via Google Image search]. In an odd coincidence with the previous post , I actually saw a show at the American Museum of Natural History 's planetarium yesterday—an experience which reminded me not only how much I love planetaria, and that planetaria should be built all over the city, inside subway cars (and subway tunnels and subway stations), and inside children's...
The exhibition, located in the beautiful but cruelly un-heated Fondazione 107, uses photographic works, videos, installations and sculptures to document a moment of extraordinary transformation for an area that is five times bigger than Europe. The result is bold and exciting with its mix of "globalization", acceleration, pre-soviet and islamic traditions continue
NEW YORK, NY.- Jointly organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Tate Modern, Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, the most comprehensive overview of Roni Horn’s work to date, integrates three decades of the American artist’s sculpture, photography, installations, drawings, and books. Opening on November 6, 2009, the exhibition remains on view through January 24, 2010. Following the Whitney’s...
This arresting print by the young South African artist Nandipha Mntambo uses cowhide moulded to fit the human body to - 'Challenge and subvert preconceptions regarding representation of the female body ... to disrupt perceptions of attraction and repulsion'. Part of a diptych titled Mlwa ne Nkunzi, it is one of the exhibits in Life Less Ordinary at the Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham. This exhibition...
Ryan McGinness is interested in creating a new vocabulary for everyday symbols and icons through context and composition. Using layering, repetition, and juxtaposition, his complex pieces construct worlds within worlds. With his massively intricate silk-screened paintings, sculptures, and installations, hes able to blur the division between design, pop culture, and fine art. Ryan McGinnesss artwork...
A few more data captures from the scene in Athens: Sacred Place of the Muses The curator and the artist Immobilité SOS CHROMO HACK MPVAC Installing the OK Texts on the stairs between installations Rear view of Net art trilogy playing in the media lounge Sign of the times A blue sky as background Metadata: UNREALTIME , Mark Amerika , National Museum of Contemporary Art , exhibition , Athens
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- Simon Starling, a conceptual artist and winner of the Tate Gallery's 2005 Turner Prize for Contemporary Art, will discuss his work in a lecture on Friday, October 30. Free and open to the public, the program will begin at 5:30pm in Taylor Hall (Room 203). Starling is most famous for his installations, often made from wood, metal, and various flora and fauna. He is known for journeying...
Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters, The Independent and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Brazil and is represented by various galleries including Lazarides...
Peter Root - Low-Rise (2006) Staples and mirror (180x80cm) Peter Root - Untitled 2009 Peter Root - 463 (2009) "The Art that I create is the result of experimentation and play. These experiments can involve highly repetitive and mantra-like procedures or can be simple, spontaneous responses. These experiments include dense and garishly coloured drawings, ephemeral and architectonic installations,...
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