Welcome to a future that has always been, where resurrected technology suggests everlasting life and highlights an end point. These are the possibilities and contradictions inhabiting Dean Kenning’s unique kinetic sculptures.
Sheilah ReStack
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA The Blue Building Gallery For ReStack, “control” is the chimera that we reach for in the face of uncertainty. As curator Emily Falencki writes, “ReStack explores the way her identities—mother, lover, artist, friend—are filled with the anxiety and wonder of being (and not being) in control of connection and outcome.”
Palabras Irreverentes: Una Conversación con Sebastian Andreatta
“Artista visual, productor musical, técnico de sonido y emprendedor. Interesado en ciencia, nuevas tecnologías, diseño y big data,” así se auto-define Sebastián Andreatta (alias BiH), quien apenas pasando los 30 años, desarrolla una obra preponderantemente urbana donde combina afiches, intervenciones e instalaciones sitio específico así como acciones y performance en la vía pública de carácter
Intense Reactions: A Conversation with Celeste Martínez Abburrá
The work of Argentinian artist Celeste Martínez Abburrá focuses on the body as social metaphor and fragile physical entity—an embodiment of identities, a container expressing thoughts and feelings, a structure for doing, and a host to disease.
I Am the Sculpture: A Conversation with John Court
Born in Bromley in southeastern Greater London, Court worked as a general laborer for several years before receiving a foundation diploma in art from London’s Camberwell School of Art and a BFA in sculpture from the Norwich School of Art and Design.
A Re-Enchanted 59th Venice Biennale, Part I: Top 10 Pavilions and Exhibitions
After a year’s delay, the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, “The Milk of Dreams,” curated by Italian-born, New York-based curator Cecilia Alemani, was overwhelmingly embraced—and deservedly so.
Hugh Hayden and Daniel S. Palmer in Conversation on “Black Atlantic”
“Black Atlantic,” presented by Public Art Fund and currently on view at Brooklyn Bridge Park, brings together newly commissioned works by five artists—Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams—sited across the waterfront park’s three piers, with views of New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty beyond.
Public Responsibility: A Conversation with Donald Lipski
Public art isn’t what it used to be. As we remove historical monuments associated with racism and ethnic disenfranchisement from the American landscape, we force ourselves to rethink the goals of public art and to reconsider who we are as a people.
Fragile and Beautiful Complexity: A Conversation with Masimba Hwati
Masimba Hwati, who was born and raised in Zimbabwe, constructs intriguing assemblages of objects that comment on the country’s contemporary landscape with a mixture of traditional, colonial, postcolonial, and imported pop culture imagery.
Katie Paterson
EDINBURGH Ingleby Gallery Requiem, as an artwork and as an idea, remains central to the exhibition, which Paterson calls a lament or elegy. It is deeply melancholic, a requiem mass for a dying world, but it is profoundly optimistic, too.
