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December 11, 2017
December 09, 2017
Nairy Baghramian | Déformation Professionnelle at Walker Art Center
Over the past two decades, Nairy Baghramian (Germany, b. Iran, 1971) has created sculptures, photographic works, and drawings that explore relationships between architecture, everyday objects, and the human body. Her works mark boundaries, transitions, and gaps in the museum, prompting us to consider form and meaning in the context of interior and exterior spaces. Drawing on a multiplicity of references—including dance, theater, design, and fashion—and producing unlikely juxtapositions in material and scale, Baghramian questions and challenges the definition of sculpture.
Déformation Professionnelle offers a new approach to the artist survey, an exhibition format that follows the development of an artist’s career over a period of time. Here, Baghramian has replaced the original invitation to do a retrospective and presents entirely new sculptures that reflect upon and alter her previous bodies of work from 1999 to 2016. Some pieces incorporate rejected ideas or materials, while others explore variations in form. Baghramian is, as she says, “surveying the survey,” pushing the sculptor’s task into new territory with her ever-evolving practice.
The exhibition takes its name from a French phrase often translated as “professional distortion” or “job conditioning,” referring to ways that a person’s worldview can be altered by their chosen vocation. The artist uses the exhibition as an opportunity to take apart her own profession and lay bare the sculptor’s method. In fact, the word “deformation” can also be applied to form, pointing to basic actions such as shaping, modeling, or casting. Through her playful yet critical take on the artist survey, Baghramian unpacks and interrogates the conceptual, physical, and social aspects of sculpture-making today.
At the Walker, Nairy Baghramian: Déformation Professionnelle was organized by curators Vincenzo de Bellis with Victoria Sung; at S.M.A.K., the exhibition was organized by curator Martin Germann.
via www.walkerart.org
via www.walkerart.org
December 07, 2017
December 06, 2017
Turner Prize 2017: Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid
b. 1954, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Lives and works in Preston
Himid makes paintings, prints, drawings and installations which celebrate Black creativity and the people of the African diaspora while challenging institutional invisibility. She references the slave industry and its legacies, and addresses the hidden and neglected cultural contribution made by real but forgotten people. In Naming the Money 2014, 100 cut-out life size figures depict Black servants and labourers who Himid individualises, giving each of them a name and story to work against the sense of the powerless mass. She often takes her paintings off the gallery wall so that her images become objects that surround the viewer. Whether working on Guardian newspapers or directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.
Himid repeatedly questions the historical role of portraiture, as in works such as A Fashionable Marriage 1987, recently exhibited in The Place is Here at Nottingham Contemporary (2017). Inspired by William Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode 4 (The Countess’s Morning Levee) 1743, this installation features a brightly coloured stage set with a cast of characters taken from Hogarth’s morality tale. Incorporating painting, drawing and collage on cut-outs, the installation relates its historical inspiration to our current climate by including contemporary newspaper headlines and images of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Himid’s satirical approach takes aim at the politics of the time as well as its legacy today. In works such as these, the artist appropriates and interrogates European painters and combines aspects of her African heritage to question the role of visual power.
via www.tate.org.uk
December 05, 2017
Rachel Whiteread | Untitled (One Hundred Spaces), 1995 at Tate Britain
One of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, Whiteread uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space. Her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental.
Born in London in 1963, Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. The same year she made House 1993–1994, a life-sized cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London’s East End, which existed for a few months before it was controversially demolished.
This momentous show tracks Whiteread’s career and brings together well-known works such as Untitled (100 Spaces) 1995 and Untitled (Staircase) 2001 alongside new pieces that have never been previously exhibited.
On the lawn outside Tate Britain a new concrete sculpture, Chicken Shed 2017, will sit during the exhibition.
This exhibition is co-organised by Tate and the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
via www.tate.org.uk
December 04, 2017
J u n e J o o n J a x x | Q&A with PETER WELZ
Where are you from
Bavaria.... ooops
Where do you live
Berlin - for almost 20 years
Listening to
Currently R.E.M., I love Michael, his thoughts and voice
What’s on your desk
Work work work
Can't live without
My son, my partner - and I really like my beard
Sunny or cloudy
Sunny - not enough of it here in Berlin
Currently reading
Exhibition catalogue of Douglas Gordon
Favorite writer
Samuel Beckett
Daily routine
Beard grooming
Guilty Pleasure
Panoramabar / Berghain
Magazine you can’t miss
Fantastic Mac
Can't travel without
My bloody phone
Written spoken or drawn
Intuition first, then all the rest
Favorite Drink
Gin'n tonic
Would like to meet
Michel Houellebecq
Perfect Sunday
By the sea
Sunrise or sunset
Actually both - depends
Morning or evening person
Evening - for sure
Current state of mind
Thinking sculpture and space
Role model
William Forsythe
Hobby
Hobby...? Call it culture
Favorite lyrics
Sweetness follows
Wish you had more time for
Everything
Most precious object
Art works of friends and my very old Mini Cooper
Store you could spend hours in
Panoramabar / Berghain
Inspiration comes from
Footnotes - they´re the best
Currently working on
A new portrait for a large installation
Biggest accomplishment
Exhibition at Musée Louvre being younger than Jesus
Biggest accomplishment
Exhibition at Musée Louvre being younger than Jesus
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J u n e J o o n J a x x | Q&A with YOAN BELIARD
Where are you from
West of France next to Atlantic Ocean
Where are you based
Paris
Listening to
Aphex Twin - Orphans
What’s on your desk
My hands
Can't live without
Air
Sunny or cloudy
Sunny
Currently reading
Jim Harrison - the road home
Favorite writer
J.G. Ballard
Daily routine
Sleeping
Guilty pleasure
Junk food
Magazine you can’t miss
XXI
Can't travel without
My notebook and a pen
Written spoken or drawn
Drawn of course
Favorite Drink
Water with a slice of cucumber
Perfect Sunday
Having time to be bored
Sunrise or sunset
Both at the same time
Dream Concert
In a few weeks Mount Kimbie: YEAH!
Morning or evening person
Morning person
Current state of mind
Happy
Hobby
Winter + sauna + being naked outside
Wish you had more time to
Looking at the sky
Most precious object
I don't like objects No idea, I´m not so materialistic
Store you could spend hours in
Construction stores and bookstores
Inspiration comes from
When I´m not sleeping completely
When I read/look at books without paying attention
When I walk aimlessly
Currently working on
New plaster stuff
Biggest accomplishment
My two kids
Biggest accomplishment
My two kids
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Damián Ortega | Expanded View, 2017 | Play Time at White Cube Bermondsey
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October 09, 2017
Matter / Non-Matter | M.A.H. Museum, Terceira Island, Azores
Antonio Bokel, Gabriela Maciel, Gioia di Girolamo, Maurizio Vicerè, Ivan Divanto, Patric Sandri, Paulo Arraiano, Paulo Ávila Sousa
Re_act Contemporary Art Laboratory
2017 Edition - Azores Islands - 19 Sept- 2 Oct
Co-Curated By no.stereo and TAL Projects
Commissioned By DRAC Azores
www.reactcontemporary.com
2017 Edition - Azores Islands - 19 Sept- 2 Oct
Co-Curated By no.stereo and TAL Projects
Commissioned By DRAC Azores
www.reactcontemporary.com
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