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Gomet' : Chiharu Shiota, artiste phare de la Biennale d’Aix, dévoile son parcours artistique dès le 18 mai (by Juliette Matilla)

Chiharu Shiota, a Japanese artist born in 1972 in Osaka (Japan), is known for her immersive installations using woven threads and personal objects. Her works explore themes such as memory, identity and human ties. After studying in Japan and Germany, she exhibited internationally, notably at the 56th Venice Biennale, where she represented her native Japan. Her artistic journey continues this May in Aix-en-Provence, where, in collaboration with the Tremplon gallery, she is taking part in the second edition of the Biennale d'art et de culture. From May 18 to October 6 (and until September 1 at the Chapelle de la Visitation), the “Beyond Consciousness” exhibition plunges visitors from Aix-en-Provence and beyond into Chiharu's world.

gabriela ancoMay 18, 2024Chiharu Shiota

TFA Museum : William Kerntridge

The William Kentridge's exhibition (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2024/05/04 - 2024/09/01) is a collaborative effort between the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London, showcasing Kentridge's draftsmanship as the curatorial focus. From his earliest charcoal drawing to the stop-motion short film series of drawing for the projections, and from film directing to stage performances, as well as his recent large-scale drawings of trees and flowers using ink and charcoal, the exhibition meticulously traces his creative trajectory and aesthetic dimensions. Over four decades of dedicated exploration in monochromatic expression, Kentridge has developed a fresh vocabulary of expanded translation from his drawings. In his works, the seemingly limitations of black and white breed boundless energy.

gabriela ancoMay 17, 2024William Kentridge

Transfuge : William Kentridge à la Fondation Cartier : une semaine de performances Expérimentations sud-africaines (by Aude de Bourbon Parme)

The Fondation Cartier is hosting an art center in residence unlike any other. Based in Johannesburg, The Centre for the Less Good Idea has been inviting local and international artists to create live performances collectively, in complete freedom, since 2016. It offers visual artists, writers, directors and dancers the framework to focus, together, on their creations. “We wanted to create interdisciplinary and collaborative opportunities, a place to play, experiment, take risks, doubt, fail and try again. A safe space where nothing is imposed, either in terms of form or content", explains Bronwyn Lace, visual artist, performer and co-founder of the project alongside renowned artist William Kentridge. The name of this artistic incubator sounds like a manifesto, “or more accurately, an anti-manifesto”, laughs Bronwyn Lace.

gabriela ancoMay 13, 2024William Kentridge

Ocula : Group Exhibition Inner Cosmos, Outer Universe

Spanning over eight decades of artmaking, the works in “Inner Cosmos, Outer Universe”, Pace Gallery, Geneva (15 March–4 May 2024), encompass a broad range of artistic responses to the celestial imagination over the past century, both literally and metaphorically. Recalling the polished chrome and sleek surfaces of space-age design, the exhibition will include sculptures by Alexander Calder, Jeff Koons, Alicja Kwade, and Leo Villareal. Chromatic eruptions course through works by Latifa Echakhch, Sonia Gomes, Hermann Nitsch, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Lucas Samaras, suggesting nebulae that refract spectrums of speckled colour. Other, more oblique references to the cosmos recur in works by Torkwase Dyson, Adolph Gottlieb, Matthew Day Jackson, Robert Longo, Robert Rauschenberg, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, and Mika Tajima, which will also be featured in the show.

gabriela ancoMay 10, 2024Kiki Smith

Variety : Kino Lorber Buys North American Rights to John Lennon and Yoko Doc ‘Daytime Revolution’ (EXCLUSIVE) (by Addie Morfoot)

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “Daytime Revolution,” a documentary about the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” in early 1972. Directed by Erik Nelson, with creative consultation from Ono and her son, Sean Ono Lennon, the doc uses archival footage from each of the five 70-minute shows as well as interviews with six surviving guests, including Ralph Nader, to tell the behind-the-scenes story of theses shows.

gabriela ancoMay 8, 2024Yoko Ono

AOL.com : Yoko Ono, Hugh Jackman help launch UNICEF's latest campaign (by Emily Cegielski)

UNICEF celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child with a concert, featuring performers from around the world, at the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Yoko Ono, Hugh Jackman, Steve Harvey and a slew of other celebrities were on hand for the musical celebration and to help launch the organization's new #IMAGINE campaign. [...] "All children everywhere have the same rights -- no matter where they or what they believe," Jackman remarked before bringing Yoko Ono on stage. Ono, who gave UNICEF the rights to use Lennon's song, seemed thrilled with the collaboration. Saying that the future was now, she urged everyone to "seek peace, act peace and spread peace."

gabriela ancoMay 7, 2024Yoko Ono

Radio Taiwan INTL : William Kentridge - first-ever exhibition in Taiwan is on! ft. Adrian Locke

The exhibition, William Kentridge, is now open and will be on till September 1, 2024 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London and it is also William Kentridge’s first time showing in Taiwan. In this episode you’ll hear from the curator of the exhibition, Adrian Locke, of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

gabriela ancoMay 6, 2024William Kentridge

Louder Sound : In 1973 John Lennon and Yoko Ono launched an imaginary country, Nutopia, and you can now become a citizen (by Fraser Lewry)

Back in 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono founded an imaginary country, Nutopia. Launched to great fanfare at a press conference held at the New York City Bar Association in Midtown Manhattan, it was a reaction to Lennon's ongoing problems with the US immigration service, who were threatening to deport the former Beatles man back to the UK. […] "Anybody could be a citizen of this country," says Yoko Ono today. "Anybody could be a citizen of this country. Citizens were automatically the country’s ambassadors. The country’s body was the airfield of our joint thoughts. Its constitution was our love, and its spirit our dreams. We produced a white handkerchief from our pockets and said, “This is a flag to Surrender to Peace.” Not 'Fight for Peace’, but 'Surrender to Peace’ was the important bit." Well, now anyone can become a citizen of Nutopia. Last month the country was launched as a website, citizenofnutopia.com.

gabriela ancoMay 3, 2024Yoko Ono

Barron's : Installation Featuring Countless Red Threads Opens At Austrian Ex-Nazi Death Camp

Red ropes and larger-than-life dresses float in the tunnel of a former Nazi death camp in Ebensee, Austria, as the exhibition by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota "Where are we now?" opens to the public. More than 8,000 prisoners died at the Ebensee camp between 1943 and 1945, mostly of hunger and malnutrition as they were forced to work on the construction of a huge tunnel network. Opening her exhibition at the site, Shiota says the theme of her work is "absence in the existence".

gabriela ancoApril 30, 2024Chiharu Shiota

Nova : Center for the less good idea

From May 14 to 20, 2024, La Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain invites to Paris William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lane's Center for the less good idea, the art center which, in the sprawling and chaotic South African city of Johannesburg, welcomes, incubates and brings to life South African youth. Musicians, dancers, playwrights, choreographers, directors and composers, all working together to create something new, without limits of color, age, sex, gender or social status. And what if, on this side of the world, from the least good idea sometimes arose the best?

gabriela ancoApril 30, 2024William Kentridge

The Architect's Newspaper : STRIP-TOWER by Gerhard Richter debuts in Kensington Gardens at Serpentine South (by Daniel Roche)

This week, a sculpture by Gerhard Richter, STRIP-TOWER, opened to the public. The installation is sited on the plinth at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. STRIP-TOWER represents Richter’s second installation at Serpentine (and will be on view through October 27).[...] Richter completed STRIP-TOWER specifically for Kensington Gardens. The structure is cruciform-shaped, indirectly recalling structures by Ludwig Hilberseimer from the 1920s, and other high-modern edifices.

gabriela ancoApril 25, 2024Gerhard Richter

Village Voice : In London, Yoko Ono Gets a Museum Retrospective that Surprises a New Generation (by Duncan Wheeler)

Yoko Ono: "Music of the Mind" (until 1st September, at the Tate Modern), is the U.K.’s largest exhibition of the artist’s work and forms part of a trend, brewing since the late 1990s, of vindication of a woman long vilified as the witch-like destroyer of the Beatles. Peter Jackson’s 2021 docuseries, Get Back, coincided with this broader move questioning the ways that Asian women have been depicted. (The first Yoko Ono album I ever owned was a 2007 collection of her songs remixed and reimagined by young DJs.) Ono was the first female philosophy student at Tokyo’s Gakushuin University, then studied poetry and musical composition at Sarah Lawrence, after moving to New York in 1953. Years before the Fab Four debuted on Ed Sullivan, she was a leading figure in Manhattan’s burgeoning avant-garde art scene, with a debut exhibition in July 1961 at AG Gallery, run by seminal Fluxus artist George Maciunas and gallerist Almus Salcius.

gabriela ancoApril 25, 2024Yoko Ono

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