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Officical Website: www.labiennale.org The title of the 54th Exhibition, ILLUMInations literally draws attention to the importance of such developments in a globalised world. I am particularly interested in the eagerness of many contemporary artists to establish an intense dialogue with the viewer, and to challenge the conventions through which contemporary art is viewed. The term [...]
Anton Ginzburg: At the Back of the North Wind is an exhibition of new works by Anton Ginzburg, which will open to the public from June 3 to November 27, 2011 during the 54th Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Bollani. The exhibition will encompass four rooms and two floors and includes three large-scale sculptural installations, [...]
Official Website: www.labiennale.org 4th June – 27th November 2011 The Puerto Rico–based multimedia duo Allora & Calzadilla has been announced as the United States’ representatives to the 2011 Venice Biennale, marking the first time that an artist pair or collective has been picked by the nation to fill the prestigious role. The selection was made [...]
São Paulo, Brazil : 25 September – 12 December 2010 Official Website: http://www.29bienal.org.br Title: Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar (There is always a cup of sea to sail in) The title “There is always a cup of sea to sail in” was inspired by a line by the poet Jorge [...]
In this year’s Biennial more than half the artists represented are women, a record for the Whitney’s exhibition. Has the Whitney achieved gender equality? What are female artists interested in?
Installation view of “Breath: The Vertical Works” at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy 2009 Anthony McCall is a key figure in the history of avant-garde cinema. He has carved a unique position in contemporary art by bridging the gaps between the cinematic, the sculptural and the pictorial by means of his extraordinary ‘solid light’ films, which [...]
Born 1961, Brussels, Belgium Lives and works in Fasta, Sweden www.airdeparis.com/holler.htm Upside Down Mushroom Room, 2000 Exhibited at Fondazione Prada Milan Carsten Höller holds a doctorate in biology, and he uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Viewer participation is the key [...]
Marie Sester ACCESS. 2008 Installation A ceiling-mounted camera robotically tracks human movement. A computer selects an individual and activates a spotlight that locks on and follows him or her. Sounds (whispered words) are directed only towards that person. Wit Pimkanchanapong Installation 2008 Google Earth image of Singapore on the floor of the historical Chambers of [...]
Shoot First Make Friends Later Shirin Aliabadi & Farhad Moshiri 2006 Iranian art couple Farhad Moshiri and Shirin Aliabadi created the project “Operation Supermarket”. It consists of a series of commodity advertisements and packages mixing “poetry with detergent” as the artists describe. The emphasis is on the commodification of mainstream media traits of the Middle [...]
Argentine video artist Mika Rottenberg is known for videos depicting women engaging in elaborate systems of production that often harvest their own body. Mika’s video installations envision the female body as a microcosm of larger societal issues such as labor and class inequities. In her short films, women cast for their notable physical features and [...]
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