Paris Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris David Altmejd’s first major exhibition in France was stunning in scope. His strange and exotic forms offer myriad opportunities for viewer interaction, though the mirrors that were so prominent in his installation at the Canadian Pavilion (2007 Venice Biennale) seemed not as evident here.
Waterworks: Metabolic Studio and Watershed Sculpture Rebuild the Desert
In 2000, Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Laureate atmospheric chemist, declared that we were no longer living in the era of the Holocene, the Recent Era, but rather in the Anthropocene, an era that had started in the 1790s when a layer of carbon began to be laid down worldwide by humans burning coal.
Storytelling As Life Cycle: A Conversation with Keith Edmier
Born on the South Side of Chicago in 1967, Keith Edmier grew up in the suburb of Tinley Park, Illinois. At the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry creating make-up special effects.
Lost In Eden: A Conversation with Jean-Michel Othoniel
On May 12, 2015, French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel celebrated the official opening of his grand fountain sculptures at Versailles, the former home of Louis XIV. The three monumental glass sculptures are sited within the newly renovated Water Theatre Grove created by landscape designer Louis Benech.
Nobuho Nagasawa: The Poetics of Place and Time
Through sculpture, Nobuho Nagasawa expresses the concept of transporting the self, from pre-life to afterlife, on a vessel of light, bringing art into a realm where historical events, personal existence, and spiritual insights meet. Nagasawa was born in Japan, but she received her master’s degree in Berlin in 1985 and has been living in the
Wrong Way Time: Fiona Hall at the Australian Pavilion
The 56th edition of the Venice Biennale marks a watershed for Australia as it unveils a new pavilion designed by the studio Denton Corker Marshall, which replaces the temporary structure designed in 1988 by Philip Cox.
Shilpa Gupta: Finding Common Threads
24:00:01, 2012. Motion flapboard, 69.56 x 9.83 x 11 in. Interactive and engaging, Shilpa Gupta’s works draw viewers in, provoking them to think, take their experience with them, and act. Each object and installation picks up on thought-provoking issues—political, social, and economic concerns that are part of daily life.
Ariel Schlesinger and Wilfredo Prieto
Tel Aviv Center for Contemporary Art “Hiding Wood in Trees” was developed collaboratively by Ariel Schlesinger and Wilfredo Prieto, though most of the works were authored individually. The whimsical title calls attention to a quality shared by their post-Minimalist approach—a belief that art is all around us, and inspiration, or sources of humor, can be
Juan Batalla
Buenos Aires Centro Cultural San Martin Since 2001, Juan Batalla has been involved in the Argentine art scene as an artist and curator. Always concerned with the interdisciplinary, his work navigates religion, contemporary art, and the humanities, with a special interest in African artistic expressions.
Fran Bull
Rutland, Vermont Chaffee Downtown and Castleton Downtown Gallery “STATIONS,” Fran Bull’s recent, dual venue exhibition, featured gigantic, wall-hung tableaux of figures rendered in high relief, along with one floor piece. Her dreamers, wrapped in white Venetian plaster bedclothes, represent iconic expositions of ourselves, draped in mystery, with as much hidden as revealed.
