Image from the series Rapunzel, 2008. Still from 120 min. performance. Music by Alexander Puentes and Federico Nessi.
In the last year Agustina Woodgate has been developing a large body of work using human hair. Previous sculptural gestures using hair have since developed into more precise choices and decisions, for example the use for [...]
IT’S NOT OVER YET, 2008. Installation view.
IT’S NOT OVER YET, the adamantly titled inaugural exhibition at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, closed just four days ago (September 26 — November 2, 2008). The gallery’s insistent beginning brings to mind an incongruous confluence of Warhol’s abandoning “Art is dead” statement and the dedication of the beat generation; [...]
Mr. and Mrs. Candidate, 2008.
Before moving to the United States, Thomas Hollingworth paid particular attention to the last election. Mainly because he was interested to see if his own country was going to be led further down the garden path during another four years of ill advised action at the hands of an epsilon-minus [...]
Frances Trombly, Caution, 2008
Miami artists Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova and Frances Trombly returned to Miami recently having completed their unique sculptural contributions to OPEN SPACE, a forum for individual artists and collaborative projects at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island that run concurrently with the parks group exhibitions.
Socrates Sculpture Park was an [...]
Francesco Longenecker’s studio, Brooklyn.
The month of October has been nothing short of remarkable for Brooklyn based painter Francesco Longenecker. With a host of events including a large group exhibition in New Jersey and a solo exhibition in NYC, the emerging artist is happily among the more prolific of his piers so far this season.
This recent [...]
Installation view of Mark Koven’s A Stone’s Throw at Dorsch Gallery Oct. 11- Nov. 8, 2008.
The evening of October 11th was markedly rejuvenating. Of course it was Wynwood’s Second Saturday Gallery Walk which always gets the blood flowing but what made this night different, apart from the afore mentioned [...]
Brock Enright, Red White and Blue Basket Ball, 2008 & Pink Backpack, 2008. Photograph by Markus Haugg.
This month’s second Saturday gallery walk saw the attention drawn from the hubbub of the Wynwood Art District to the Design District, where artists Aiden Dillard and Daniel Newman combined forces to present a symbiotic gesture [...]
Tadaaki Kuwayama, Artist, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1998.
The current exhibition, Horst Wackerbarth: The Red Couch, at Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art (201 NE 39th St) charts the life work of German photographer, Horst Wackerbarth. Billed as a gallery of mankind, the project (which has been in development some thirty years) presents [...]
Daniel Arsham, “Double Door”, 2008. Mixed media. 92 1/2 x 73 x 10 inches.1/1. Photo by Mariano C. Peuser. Courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami/Paris.
The entry point to Daniel Arsham’s new show at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami is literally an entrance. In a Lewis Carol/Doors of perception-esq bid to engender a sense of his [...]
Members of Sweden’s Piratbyrån invade Tyrol’s Fortessa on the occasion of Manifesta 7.
This summer, file-sharing facilitator, political party and artist(s) The Pirate Bay made an appearance at this years Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary art. Piratbyrån, as they are known in their native Sweden, were invited to participate by RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE, a group of [...]