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E-flux : Résister, encore.

Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA). February 18–May 15, 2022.

Artists: Miriam Cahn, Banu Cennetoğlu, Michel François, Philip Guston, Thomas Hirschhorn, Amar Kanwar, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Sigalit Landau, Nalini Malani, Teresa Margolles, Zanele Muholi, Félix Vallotton, Fabrice Gygi.

Withdrawal, silence, resilience, outcry, indignation, protestation, action, reflection, satire, humor...this collective show exemplifies the forms of resistance artists have developed when faced with the great challenges of our age—those forms amount to survival strategies.

gabriela ancoFebruary 18, 2022William Kentridge

The Art Newspaper: Gerhard's Geburtstag: Richter to mark 90th birthday by curating exhibition of his work in Dresden

Germany’s most famous living artist turns 90 on 9 February and he is mounting an exhibition to mark the occasion in Dresden, the city where he was born. Focusing on Gerhard Richter’s portraits, glass and abstract works, the exhibition will extend over three rooms at the Albertinum, where the artist’s work is already on permanent display. It opens on 5 February and runs until 1 May.

gabriela ancoFebruary 6, 2022Gerhard Richter

American songwriter : Yoko Ono is a Genius on Twitter

When Peter Jackson’s docu-series The Beatles: Get Back premiered in 2021 over Thanksgiving weekend on Disney+, the world got a new picture of Yoko Ono, the Japanese artist who married John Lennon and somehow earned a shoddy reputation thanks to many untruths about her relationship to the band.

Now, Ono is growing a new reputation. Recently Japanese Breakfast covered one of her songs (see below) and fans have commented how she has been treated poorly these past few decades.

But Ono probably doesn’t care much about all that. Because she didn’t care what anyone had to say prior, either. At least not in any way that deterred her art, her activism, or her work.

gabriela ancoFebruary 4, 2022Yoko Ono

FAD Magazine : What to See in February.

By Paul Carey-Kent • 2 February 2022

What to see in London in February? Here’s my pick of ten shows which are (a) free and (b) open through at least the first half of the month.

gabriela ancoFebruary 2, 2022Rosemarie Trockel

Euronews Culture : Swedish film festival experiments on audience members with hypnosis.

The largest film festival in Scandinavia is offering its spectators the opportunity to attend screenings under the influence of hypnosis.

Audience members spend 20 minutes in Gothenburg Film Festival's "hypnotic cinema" before observing a screening of 'Land of Dreams' by the Iranian-American director Shirin Neshat.

The session takes place under the supervision of hypnotist Fredrik Praesto, and sensations ranging from heightened concentration to a state of stupor have been reported.

The avant-garde move has proven popular with filmgoers.

gabriela ancoJanuary 31, 2022Shirin Neshat

Dallas Contemporary : Shilpa Gupta in conversation with curatorial associate Emily Edwards

Shilpa Gupta was born in 1976 in Mumbai, India. She studied sculpture at the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbia. Recent solo shows include the Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2019; Yarat Contemporary Art Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, 2018; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands, 2012; and Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, 2010. Gupta presented a solo project, ‘My East is Your West,’ at the Gujral Foundation in Venice, Italy, in 2015. Additionally, she participated in the 2019 58th Venice Biennale.

gabriela ancoJanuary 25, 2022Shilpa Gupta

Ocula : Dialogue of Slowness.

Anchored in an exploration of erasure and oppression, censorship and surveillance, Shilpa Gupta's art activates lived histories in material compositions that amplify the conditions in which freedom is tested.

gabriela ancoJanuary 19, 2022Shilpa Gupta

Financial Times : Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican — voices of persecuted poets.

“How bitter language has now become/and how narrow the door of the alphabet”. Those words, written by Adonis, the Syrian poet who was jailed in 1955 for his political activities, are especially poignant now. In 2020, according to campaigning organisation Freemuse, a record number of artists and writers found themselves in trouble with oppressive regimes. Those lines by Adonis are just one chord in an orchestra of voices that comprise “For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit”, a sound installation by Shilpa Gupta.

gabriela ancoJanuary 13, 2022Shilpa Gupta

The Week : The Week’s pick of the big exhibitions of 2022

And the Royal Academy will celebrate the South African artist William Kentridge (b.1955) with the largest exhibition of his work yet held in the UK. Widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today, Kentridge works in a broad range of media, including drawing, film, animation and dance, and often addresses his home country’s turbulent present and past.

gabriela ancoJanuary 7, 2022William Kentridge, box one

Pitchfork : David Byrne and Yo La Tengo Cover Yoko Ono’s “Who Has Seen the Wind”: Listen

David Byrne and Yo La Tengo have shared their cover of Yoko Ono’s “Who Has Seen the Wind.” It’s the first single from Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono, a tribute album curated by Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard.

gabriela ancoJanuary 5, 2022Yoko Ono, box one

The Guardian : Audiences to be put in hypnotic trance at Swedish film festival

The Göteborg film festival is no stranger to stunts. It has previously featured screenings for a single audience member at a North Sea lighthouse, as well as “coffin screenings” in which lucky viewers were interred inside a sarcophagus to enhance their sensory empathy.

gabriela ancoJanuary 5, 2022Shirin Neshat, box one

Hype Beast : Chiharu Shiota Presents Her Largest Solo Exhibition in Shanghai

The Long Museum, located on Shanghai’s West Bund, is currently hosting the largest exhibition devoted to the work of Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota.

gabriela ancoJanuary 4, 2022Chiharu Shiota, box one

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