Georg Schöllhammer and Hedwig Saxenhuber are the curators of the Second Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2014, as announced at Kiev’s Mystetskyi Arsenal Complex on November 26. ARSENALE 2014 will run from September through November 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine with the Mystetskyi Arsenal serving as the main venue. The curators will present the […]
#1: Cartagena is an issue-oriented project with works spread throughout the historic district. #1: Cartagena reflects on the cultural traditions of the people, the history and the deep connections to the colonial past, as well as encompassing literature, cinema, music, dance and crafts. The Biennial focuses on the idea of presence in its multitude of […]
In 2013 the Art Basel show in Miami Beach features 258 leading international galleries, drawn from 31 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In addition to showing artworks ranging from modern masters to the latest contemporary works, this year’s edition features an extensive program of outdoor art installations, film screenings, performances, […]
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents BEING on view through January 18, 2014 . BEING is a curatorial experiment in the construction of critical institutional histories through an exhibition that looks into Storefront’s 30 years of history of amplifying, questioning, unveiling, connecting, disrupting, dreaming, merging, reacting and experimenting in relation to individuals, ideas and spaces […]
The Canadian Cultural Centre presents Stan Douglas: Abandonment and Splendour an exhibition on view through January 17, 2014. A retrospective look at the photographic work produced by Stan Douglas in the last decade of the twentieth century, Abandonment and Splendour explores the ruins of certain great Western utopias in their paradoxical beauty. The exhibition focused […]
De Pont museum of contemporary art presents Philip-Lorca diCorcia Photographs 1975-2012 on view 5 October 2013 – 19 January 2014. Philip-Lorca diCorcia first came to prominence in the 1970s with photographs that defied definition, existing in the space between documentary fact and movie-style fiction. The meticulous staging of quotidian scenes of family and friends lent […]
Isabelle Habegger’s work draws its inspiration as much from her inner world as it does from her love of nature and her interest in what is happening around her. Those inner and outer worlds meet in paintings that combine a dreamlike aura with an intense color palette. Working in acrylics, pigment and resin, the artist […]
Whether stylized, abstract, or fully surreal, the work of Huguette Thiboutot is alive with movement and light. Thiboutot is a trained musician, and describes color as “the other side of sound.” Her palette is accordingly an intense and vital part of her work, with bright colors contrasted sharply against one another, light playing off dark, […]
Inspired by Abstract Impressionists, street artists, and Impressionists alike, Felix Semper uses his paintings to explore the joyful power of draftsmanship. The artist employs a restricted palette and often an absent or gestural background. The images do not exist in a recognizable environment or even within the laws of physics; every element of a picture […]
